Working the Navajo Way : Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century /
Gaspar Perez de Villagra AwardThe Dine 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 o...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence :
University Press of Kansas,
2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Navajo history and western capitalist development
- The Dine and the Dine Bikeyah : 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.