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Working the Navajo way : labor and culture in the twentieth century
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- Creator
- Colleen O'Neill
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- English
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- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2005]
- ©2005
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780700613953, 0700613951
- OCLC
- ocm59818053
- "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University"--P. [ii].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.
- 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