Navaho Life Of Yesterday And Today

Author : Katharine Luomala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navaho Life of Yesterday and Today written by Katharine Luomala and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a summary of some of the essential features of the prehistory, history, and customs of the Navaho Indians of Arizona and New Mexico."--preface.

Author : Katharine Luomala
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494019341
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navaho Life of Yesterday and Today written by Katharine Luomala and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1938 edition.

Author : Hildegard Thompson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497581456
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Life written by Hildegard Thompson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of a Navajo girl named Bah and her brother Kee, beautifully illustrated by Navajo artist Andrew Tsihnijinnie. First published in 1946, it was used in schools and to teach literacy to adult Navajos. It is dedicated to all children, Navajo and non-Navajo alike. The bold and graphic illustrations by Andrew Tsinajinnie reflect Navajo Life of that era. He was already making a living as an artist at the time and was named an Arizona Living Treasure in 1991 . Native Child Dinetah has colorized the illustrations to introduce a new generation of readers to this great artist and children's book. Starting in the 1930s, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs began publishing many collaborations illustrated by Native Americans and largely penned by Anglo writers as bilingual textbooks . They were the first bilingual materials published on any large scale in this country. This was a time of change. The BIA was just beginning to allow Native Americans to speak their own languages, because until then Congress had mandated total assimilation. So the BIA's bilingual textbooks, published under the rubric of Indian Life Readers, was considered revolutionary. This is such a book.

Author : United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Life and Customs written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ruth Underhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here Come the Navaho! written by Ruth Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Adair
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806122151
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths written by John Adair and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1944 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably no Native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book, which is now in its third large printing, contains the most important and complete account of Indian jewelry fashioned by the Navajo, the Zuni, the Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. "With the care of a meticulous and thorough scholar, the author has told the story of his several years' investigation of jewelry making among the Southwestern Indians," says The Dallas Times Herald. "So richly decorative are the plates he uses ... that the conscientious narrative is surrounded by an atmosphere of genuinely exciting visual experience." John Adair is a trained ethnologist who has lived and worked among these Indians. To prepare his book, Mr. Adair made an exhaustive examination of the principal museum collections of Navajo and Pueblo silver work, both early and modem, in Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia. He visited trading posts in the Indian country and examined and photographed silver on the pawn racks and in important private collections. He lived for a time among the Navajo, watched them make their jewelry, and actually learned to work silver himself in the hogan of one of the leading artisans, Tom Burnsides. Many of the photographs he made at the time are used as illustrations in this book. He spent months among the Indians in New Mexico and Arizona and became personally acquainted with many of their silversmiths. Later, as field worker for the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, he studied the economics of Navajo and Pueblo silversmithing; and still later he became manager of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Guild, a tribal enterprise. The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths provides a full history of the craft and the actual names and localities of the pioneer craftsmen who introduced the art of the silversmith to their people. Despite its present high stage of development, with its many subtle and often exquisite designs, the art of working silver is not an ancient one among the Navajo and Pueblo Indians. There are men still living today who remember the very first silversmiths. Mr. Adair gives full details, as he observed them, of the methods and techniques of manufacture over a primitive forge with homemade tools. He tells both of the fine pieces made for trade among the Indians themselves and of the newer, cheaper types of jewelry produced for sale to tourists. He discusses standards and qualities of Indian silver and describes the work of the Indian schools in helping preserve traditional design in the fine silver of today. His excellent photographs of some of the most notable pieces, old and new, provide examples for evaluation. This volume, therefore, will serve the layman, the ethnologist, and the dealer alike as a guide to proper values in Indian silver jewelry, and will provide the basis for authoritative knowledge and appreciation of a highly skilled creative art.

Author : Peter Iverson
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826327168
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diné written by Peter Iverson and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002-08-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive archival research, traditional accounts, interviews, historic and contemporary photographs, and firsthand observation, it provides a detailed, up-to-date portrait of the Diné past and present that will be essential for scholars, students, and interested general readers, both Navajo and non-Navajo. As Iverson points out, Navajo identity is rooted in the land bordered by the four sacred mountains. At the same time, the Navajos have always incorporated new elements, new peoples, and new ways of doing things. The author explains how the Diné remember past promises, recall past sacrifices, and continue to build upon past achievements to construct and sustain North America's largest native community. Provided is a concise and provocative analysis of Navajo origins and their relations with the Spanish, with other Indian communities, and with the first Anglo-Americans in the Southwest. Following an insightful account of the traumatic Long Walk era and of key developments following the return from exile at Fort Sumner, the author considers the major themes and events of the twentieth century, including political leadership, livestock reduction, the Code Talkers, schools, health care, government, economic development, the arts, and athletics. Monty Roessel (Navajo), an outstanding photographer, is Executive Director of the Rough Rock Community School. He has written and provided photographs for award-winning books for young people.

Author : Ruth Murray Underhill
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806118161
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Navajos written by Ruth Murray Underhill and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1956 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history and culture of the southwestern Indian tribe

Author : Tiana Bighorse
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816514441
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bighorse the Warrior written by Tiana Bighorse and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Bighorse's life recalled by his daughter Tiana, providing glimpses into Navajo life and values of a century ago.

Author : Ruth Underhill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book HERE COME THE NAVAHO ! written by Ruth Underhill and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: