Along Navajo Trails Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948 / by Will Evans ; edited by Susan E. Woods and Robert S. McPherson ; foreword by Charles S. Peterson.
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TextPublisher: Utah State University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (xv, 263 p.) : ill., mapISBN: 9780874215236Subject(s): Indian traders -- New Mexico -- Shiprock Region -- History | Trading posts -- New Mexico -- Shiprock Region -- History | Navajo weavers -- New Mexico -- Shiprock Region -- History | Navajo Indians -- New Mexico -- Shiprock Region -- Social life and customs | Navajo Indians -- New Mexico -- Shiprock Region -- History | Shiprock Region (N.M.) -- Social life and customs | Shiprock Region (N.M.) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 979.1004/9726 LOC classification: E99.N3 | E93 2005Online resources: Full text available: | Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]-[258]) and index.
Will Evans, trader to the Navajos -- Starting along the trail -- Views of history around the Four Corners -- Agapito remembers the old days -- Yellow Horse and the Long Walk -- The establishment of trading posts -- Harry Baldwin and the Hogback Post -- Redrock Trading Post -- Little Singer and the beautiful mountain uprising -- Prosperity in reverse -- Oil and gas on Navajo land -- A Christmas Eve in Navajo land -- Navajos I have known -- Costiano -- Black Horse -- Bizhóshí -- Ugly Man -- Fat One and Son of Fat One -- Faith, an episode -- Tragedies in Navajo land -- Sandoval -- Slim policeman -- A dedicated medicine man -- Dan Pete -- Daily life and customs of the Navajo people -- Daily life in a hogan -- Navajo hospitality -- Trading with the Navajos -- Navajo blankets -- Silversmithing -- Cleanliness, clothes, and manners -- Hairstyles -- Tobacco, alcohol, and morality -- Navajo marriage customs and family life -- Divorce -- Tribal traditions and lore -- Sandpaintings -- My first fire dance -- Squaw dance (enemyway) -- Death, witchcraft, and skinwalkers -- Navajos and animals -- Postscript: The death of a man, the end of an era.
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