A useful, easily read description of Navajo peoples! This case study of the people of Nez Ch'ii--a significant Navajo community and one that still holds to a pastoral herding ecology that has characterized some of the Navajo for at least 250 years--offers the right blend of description and theory. In addition to describing the important themes of this culture (including the importance of females, the inviolability of the individual, the prestige of age, and the reciprocity principle), Downs discusses, in detail, the relationships between the Nez Ch'ii families and their herds as well as their relationship to the dominant culture surrounding them.
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Title of related interest also from Waveland Press: Simonelli, Crossing between Worlds: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577665472).
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SPRAWLING OVER the northeastern corner of Arizona and into the neighboring states of Utah and New Mexico, the Navajo Indian Reservation covers sixteen million acres, an area the size of West Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
homestead group, grazing committee, squaw dances, sheep dipping, wolf men, dominant woman, sheep herd Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nez Ch'ii, Squaw Dance, New Mexico, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States, Fort Sumner, Holy People, New World, Nez Ch'ü, World War, North America, Changing Woman, Eddie Yazzie, Great Basin, Navajo Apaches, Old World, Grand Canyon, Roan Horse New!
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SPRAWLING OVER the northeastern corner of Arizona and into the neighboring states of Utah and New Mexico, the Navajo Indian Reservation covers sixteen million acres, an area the size of West Virginia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
homestead group, grazing committee, squaw dances, sheep dipping, wolf men, dominant woman, sheep herd Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nez Ch'ii, Squaw Dance, New Mexico, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States, Fort Sumner, Holy People, New World, Nez Ch'ü, World War, North America, Changing Woman, Eddie Yazzie, Great Basin, Navajo Apaches, Old World, Grand Canyon, Roan Horse New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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