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Author : Willow Roberts Powers
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826323224
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Navajo Trading written by Willow Roberts Powers and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview is the first to examine trading in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when changes in both Navajo and white cultures led to the investigation of trading practices by the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in the demise of most traditional trading posts.

Author : Erika Marie Bsumek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian-made written by Erika Marie Bsumek and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In works of silver and wool, the Navajos have established a unique brand of American craft. And when their artisans were integrated into the American economy during the late nineteenth century, they became part of a complex cultural and economic framework in which their handmade crafts conveyed meanings beyond simple adornment." "Bsumek unravels the layers of meaning that surround the branding of "Indian-made." When Navajo artisans produced their goods, collaborating traders, tourist industry personnel, and even ethnologists created a vision of Navajo culture that had little to do with Navajos themselves. And as Anglos consumed Navajo crafts, they also consumed the romantic notion of Navajos as "primitives" perpetuated by the marketplace. These processes of production and consumption reinforced each other, creating a symbiotic relationship and influencing both mutual Anglo-Navajo perceptions and the ways in which Navajos participated in the modern marketplace." "Ultimately, Bsumek shows that the sale of Indian-made goods cannot be explained solely through supply and demand. It must also reckon with the multiple images and narratives that grew up around the goods themselves, integrating consumer culture, tourism, and history to open new perspectives on our understanding of American Indian material culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anthony Samuel Policastro
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 055703292X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Absence of Faith written by Anthony Samuel Policastro and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this medical mystery thriller, Doctor Carson Hyll falls asleep and drives into a river and experiences one of the worst nightmares of his life. The young intern is knocked unconscious and has a negative near death experience so real, so frightening that he thinks he died and went to hell. When others in the highly-religious small town of Ocean Village have similar negative near death experiences and wake up with burnt skin, they believe God has abandoned them. Matters get worse when a Satanic cult emerges begins to win over the town residents. Will the heroine, Chantress, stop cult leader Kyle Mabus or will he destroy all known religions in the world? Bestselling author and psychic Sylvia Browne writes in her book, Prophecy, that, ..".our beliefs are the driving force behind our behavior, our opinions, our actions. Without faith, without our beliefs, we're lost." Get a FREE printed version. Post a review and I'll send you a free copy.

Author : Laura Graves
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080617868X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Varker Keam written by Laura Graves and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Varker Keam owned and operated a trading post in Keams Canyon, Arizona Territory, from 1874 to 1902. He was the first trader to develop American Indian arts and crafts as part of his business and the first to suggest that Native artists modify their techniques to increase sales. Keam had a major impact on the evolution of Hopi pottery. Involved in early archaeological work in the Southwest, Keam was the first trader to develop lucrative contacts with museum curators and anthropologists. He sold enormous collections to the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum, and the Peabody Museum, as well as several European institutions. An advocate for the Indians, Keam represented the Hopis and Navajos in confrontations with the U.S. government over “civilizing” programs between 1869 and 1902, when the Indians tried to maintain their political and cultural independence. Thomas Varker Keam revised Indian trading so that he and American Indian artists profited.

Author : Willow Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stokes Carson written by Willow Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Debra Webb
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312942243
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faceless written by Debra Webb and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghosts of the past come back to haunt Deputy District Attorney Carson Tanner when, 15 years after the murder of his entire family, the case is reopened. Original.

Author : Robert S. McPherson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166673
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traders, Agents, and Weavers written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For travelers passing through northern Navajo country, the desert landscape appears desolate. The few remaining Navajo trading posts, once famous for their bustling commerce, seem unimpressive. Yet a closer look at the economic and creative activity in this region, which straddles northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah, belies a far more interesting picture. In Traders, Agents, and Weavers, Robert S. McPherson unveils the fascinating—and at times surprising—history of the merging of cultures and artistic innovation across this land. McPherson, the author of numerous books on Navajo and southwestern history, narrates here the story of Navajo economic and cultural development through the testimonies of traders, government agents, tribal leaders, and accomplished weavers. For the first half of the twentieth century, trading posts dominated the Navajo economy in northwestern New Mexico. McPherson highlights the Two Grey Hills post and its sister posts Toadlena and Newcomb, which encouraged excellence among weavers and sold high-quality rugs and blankets. Parallel to the success of the trading industry was the establishment of the Northern Navajo or Shiprock Agency and Boarding School. The author explains the pivotal influence on the area of the agency’s stern and controversial founder, William T. Shelton, known by Navajos as Tall Leader. Through cooperation with government agents, American settlers, and traders, Navajo weavers not only succeeded financially but also developed their own artistic crafts. Shunning the use of brightly dyed yarn and opting for the natural colors of sheep’s wool, these weavers, primarily women, developed an intricate style that has few rivals. Eventually, economic shifts, including oil drilling and livestock reduction, eroded the traditional Navajo way of life and led to the collapse of the trading post system. Nonetheless, as McPherson emphasizes, Navajo weavers have maintained their distinctive style and method of production to this day.

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Total Pages : 2309 pages
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Author : Robert Julyan
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082635114X
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book The Place Names of New Mexico written by Robert Julyan and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1996-08-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Place Names of New Mexico is an invaluable guide to the state's geography and history. It explains more than 7,000 names of features large and small throughout the state--towns, mountains, rivers, canyons, counties, post offices, and even abandoned settlements--as well as providing relevant information about location, history, and current status. The revised edition contains more than fifty expanded and updated entries. The accounts are also journeys into New Mexico's past, offering glimpses of the lives and values of the people who named the place. Humor, tragedy, mystery, and daily life--they can all be found in this book.