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The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy

Book by David M. Brugge; University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Subjects:

Hopi Indians--Land Tenure, Indian Land Transfers--Arizona, Indians Of North America--Land Tenure--Arizona, Navajo Indians--Land Tenure

Collections: History, Entire Library

...WHEN FIRST went to work for the Navajo Tribe in 1958 to assist in research...have consistently used the term Navajo Tribe for the political entity that...Littell, chief attorney for the Navajo Tribe, reported to the Navajo council...
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Navajo Ways in Government: A Study in Political Process

Book by Mary Shepardson; American Anthropological Association, 1963

Subjects:

Navajo Indians--Government Relations, Navajo Indians--Tribal Government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...government. The society is that of the Navajo 1 tribe; and the institutionalization...political developments in the Navajo tribe, and venture some predictions...oil leases in the name of the Navajo Tribe, thus establishing a right to...
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Chiefs, Agents & Soldiers: Conflict on the Navajo Frontier, 1868-1882

Book by William Haas Moore; University of New Mexico Press, 1994

Subjects:

Navajo Indians--Government Relations, Navajo Indians--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...worried even General Sherman. The Navajos were the largest tribe in the Southwest and the thought...target was the more populous Navajo tribe. Navajo leaders were aware...us by the First Woman of the Navajo Tribe. It was told to us by our forefathers...
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The Navajo Indian Problem: An Inquiry Sponsored by the Phelps-Stokes Fund

Book by Thomas Jesse Jones; Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1939

Subjects:

Navajo Indians

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and especially the people of the Navajo tribe, for their many fine qualities...work and a helpful member of the Navajo Tribe. For these reasons the Government...total income. The future of the Navajo tribe lies in the extension of the cropped...
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The Navajo Indians

Book by Dane Coolidge, Mary Roberts Coolidge; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930

Subjects:

Navajo Indians

Collections: History, Entire Library

...deer and other game, and the Navajos told the Apache branch of the tribe to take their pick, which...talking to each other in Navajo. What tribe do you belong to? he asked...say on this point: In the Navajo tribe restrictions upon achievement...

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Elle Meets the President: Weaving Navajo Culture and Commerce in the Southwestern Tourist Industry

Journal article by Laura Jane Moore; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 22, 2001

Subjects:

Art and society--United States, Artists, Navajo--Economic aspects, Southwestern United States--Social aspects, Travel industry--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...making a once self-sufficient tribe an unnecessary economic burden...eager to return home, a group of Navajo headmen signed a treaty establishing...reproduction of the homes of this tribe as they are found on their reservation...highlighted by the number of Navajos who enacted their artistic domestic...
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"It Is a Gift from the Creator to Keep Us in Harmony:" Original (vs. Alternative) Dispute Resolution on the Navajo Nation

Journal article by Jon'A F. Meyer; International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 25, 2002

Subjects:

Dispute resolution (Law), Native Americans, Navajo Nation, Restorative justice--History

Collections: Entire Library

...justice intervention for the second killer. 27 He also wrote of Navajos demanding financial payments from killers or their families...because he had already been "punished by the local law of the tribe." 29 If Congress wanted to control tribal justice, the Supreme...
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The Navajo Code Talkers

Journal article by Adam Jevec, Lee Ann Potter; Social Education, Vol. 65, 2001

Subjects:

Codes--Military aspects, Navajo language--Military aspects, World War, 1939-1945--Communications

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...were thought to possess a more than superficial knowledge of the language. In addition, Vogel noted that the Navajo was the only tribe, according to Johnston, that had not yet been infiltrated by Germans posing as students, art dealers, and anthropologists...
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Poverty, Politics, and Petroleum: the Utah Navajo and the Aneth Oil Field

Journal article by Robert S. McPherson, David A. Wolff; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, 1997

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America

Collections: Entire Library

...situation. In essence, the Utah Navajos believed that neither the tribe nor the state were helping...The petition also asked the Navajo tribe to extend more services to...discussions must be between the Navajo Tribe and the federal government...
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Places Important to Navajo People

Journal article by Klara Kelley, Harris Francis, Richard W. Stoffle, Michael J. Evans; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 17, 1993

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America

Collections: Entire Library

...Nation 1962 Proposed Findings of Fact in Behalf of the Navajo Tribe of Indians in Area of Havasupai Overlap . Docket No...n.d.b Proposed Findings of Fact on Behalf of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, Docket 229 before the Indian Claims Commission...

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Alexander Cockburn's America: The Navajo Indians Are Resisting Pressure to Capture Their Lands

Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 126, May 9, 1997

Subjects:

Hopis--Land tenure, Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974, Navajos--Land tenure

Collections: Entire Library

...tribes. Boydens strategy was successful. In 1974 Congress passed the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act, dividing 1.8 million acres between the two tribes. Any member of either tribe on the wrong side of the line was forced to up stakes and move across...
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Finding the Navajo a Place in the Sun

Magazine article by Shawn Miller; Insight on the News, Vol. 9, March 8, 1993

Subjects:

Arizona--Politics and government, Hopis--Land tenure, Native Americans--Reservations, Navajos--Land tenure

Collections: Entire Library

...Arizona between the Hopi and 250 Navajo families. But the proposal also has...outdoors enthusiasts and even some tribe members are balking. Stanley Bahnimptewa...land surrounding the area to the Navajo tribe. Rather than give the burgeoning...
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Navajo Relocation; Indian Land, White Greed

Magazine article by Trebbe Johnson; The Nation, Vol. 245, July 4, 1987

Subjects:

Hopis--Laws, regulations and rules, Land settlement--Case studies, Native American land tenure, Native Americans--Land tenure, Navajos--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Entire Library

...reservation, near Chambers, which the Navajo tribe had acquired by December 1985...Act of 1974 that entitled the Navajo tribe to select up to 250,000 acres...land that will belong to his tribe once the Navajos have been relocated. "Our ancestors...
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Woven Necklaces Inspired by Pueblo and Navajo Weaving

Magazine article by Berniece Patterson; School Arts, Vol. 96, November 1996

Subjects:

Arts education--Curricula, Native American art--Study and teaching, Weaving--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...borders since the Indians could buy manufactured blankets for less money than handwoven blankets. Navajo Indians, the largest Native American tribe, live in parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah and are famous for their tightly woven rugs. Famous...
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Southwest's "Navajo Flu" Deadly but Not Navajo

Magazine article by Katherine Saltzstein; American Journalism Review, Vol. 15, October 1993

Subjects:

Influenza--Media coverage, Navajos--Media coverage

Collections: Entire Library

...Adds Paul DeMain, a member of the Wisconsinbased Oneida tribe and president of the Native American Journalists Association...June 16 story that noted the mystery illness "has been dubbed Navajo flu." The Washington Post, which cited the "Navajo flu epidemic...

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Mystery Writer Goes Native in Niche of Navajo Culture: Hillerman's Plots Lure with Lore

Newspaper article by Julia Duin; The Washington Times, November 6, 1996

Subjects:

Hillerman, Tony

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...thoughts and conversations of the nations largest and poorest Indian tribe, which awarded him their "Special Friend of the Dineh" award in 1987 ("dineh" meaning "people" in Navajo). His 11 books on Indians - a 12th, "The Fallen Man," is due out...
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Navajo Code Talkers Honored with Medals

Newspaper article by Audrey Hudson; The Washington Times, July 27, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the Marine code was never cracked. "If it were not for the Navajos, the Marines would have never taken Iwo Jima. We all owe you...Campbell, Colorado Republican and a member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe. The code talkers successfully transmitted more than 800 error-free...
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Navajo Woman Vies for Political Distinction; Aims to Be First to Win Statewide Office

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 14, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...pride comes over their faces and then I know Ive got them." Some 255,543 people belong to the Navajo Nation, making it the countrys largest Indian tribe. But her race is an uphill battle against Democrat Rebecca Vigil-Giron, the countrys lone Hispanic...
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Playing and Being Navajo Code Talkers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 15, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...its very challenging." Mr. Beach, who belongs to the Soto tribe in Manitoba, allied with the Chippewa south of the border, says...words in order to sound more or less fluent in scenes depicting Navajo transmissions on the battlefield. "Its difficult," he says...
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New Mexico Radio Station Narrowcasts for Navajos: AM Signal Serves as Bulletin Board for Farflung Tribe

Newspaper article by Julia Duin; The Washington Times, August 21, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...station narrowcasts for Navajos: AM signal serves...board for farflung tribe by Julia...whose slogan is "All Navajo, All the Time...countrys largest Indian tribe belong to a culture...of country music, Navajo chants, and news...uniting the farflung tribe. The voice of one...

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Navajo , Indigenous People of North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...distinct social group. Way of Life The Navajo were formerly a nomadic tribe. In winter they lived in earth-covered lodges...they ranged far outside that territory. The Navajo were a predatory tribe who (often in alliance with their relatives...
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Native American Church

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Navajo Tribal Council, which saw it as a threat to Navajo culture and to Christianized Navajos. The church flourished underground, however, until 1967, when the tribe reversed its decision. By 1996, the church had 250,000 members in the United States...

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