Navajo places : history, legend, landscape : a narrative of important places on and near the Navajo Reservation, with notes on their significance to Navajo culture and history / Laurance D. Linford

Author: Linford, Laurance D.
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2000]
Copyright Date: ©2000
Physical Description: xviii, 353 pages ; 27 cm

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Contents

Physiography -- The People -- Before the Navajos: 10,000 B.C.-A.D. 1600 -- The Navajos: Pre-1600 to Present -- The Archaeological/Historical Perspective -- The Traditional Navajo Perspective -- Intrusion of the Spaniards: A.D. 1541-1821 -- Explorations -- Colonization -- The Wars -- The Mexicans: 1821-1846 -- The Americans: 1846-Present -- The Early Years -- The Navajos Capitulate -- The Long Walk -- The Reservation Years: 1868-Present -- Navajo Social Organization -- Political Organization -- The Role of Mythology in Navajo Place Name Origins -- The Practice -- The Ceremonies -- Holyway Ceremonies -- Shooting Chant -- Mountain Chant -- God Impersonators -- Wind Chant -- Hand-Trembling Chant -- Eagle Trapping -- Uncertain Affiliation -- Evilway Ceremonies -- Lifeway Ceremonies -- Ceremonialism and Navajo Place Names -- The Trading Posts -- Arizona Locations -- Colorado Locations -- New Mexico Locations -- Utah Locations.

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0874806232 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780874806236 (cloth : alk. paper)
0874806240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780874806243 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index.

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