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Along Navajo trails : recollections of a trader, 1898-1948 /
Will Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company in early 20th century New Mexico. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. He published in the local newspaper and other periodicals and compiled many of his pieces into a book manuscript....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Will Evans, trader to the Navajos
- Starting along the trail
- Views of history around the Four Corners
- Agapito remembers the old days
- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk
- The establishment of trading posts
- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post
- Redrock Trading Post
- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising
- Prosperity in reverse
- Oil and gas on Navajo land
- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land
- Navajos I have known
- Costiano
- Black Horse
- Bizhóshí
- Ugly Man
- Fat One and Son of Fat One
- Faith, an episode
- Tragedies in Navajo land
- Sandoval
- Slim policeman
- A dedicated medicine man
- Dan Pete
- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people
- Daily life in a hogan
- Navajo hospitality
- Trading with the Navajos
- Navajo blankets
- Silversmithing
- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners
- Hairstyles
- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality
- Navajo marriage customs and family life
- Divorce
- Tribal traditions and lore
- Sandpaintings
- My first fire dance
- Squaw dance (enemyway)
- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers
- Navajos and animals
- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.