Working the Navajo way : labor and culture in the twentieth century /

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Gaspar Perez de Villagra AwardThe Diné have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline. Although they lost a great deal with the waning...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Neill, Colleen M., 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2005.
Temas:
Navajo Indians > Employment.
Navajo Indians > Social conditions.
Navajo Indians > Government relations.
Navajo > Travail.
Navajo > Conditions sociales.
Navajo > Relations avec l'État.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Navajo Indians > Employment
Navajo Indians > Government relations
Navajo Indians > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Navajo history and western capitalist development
  • The Diné and the Diné Bikéyah : Navajo history and Navajoland
  • Mining coal like herding sheep : Navajo coal operators in the mid-twentieth century
  • Weaving a living : Navajo weavers and the trading post economy
  • Working for wages the Navajo way : Navajo households and off-reservation wage work
  • Navajo workers and white man's ways : race, sovereignty, and organized labor on the Navajo reservation
  • Rethinking modernity and the discourse of development in American Indian history : a Navajo example.

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