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Working the Navajo Way
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Colleen M. O'Neill
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:

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"O'Neill chronicles a history of Navajo labor that illuminates how cultural practices and values influenced what it meant to work for wages or to produce commod
Working the Navajo Way
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Colleen O'Neill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-10-20 - Publisher: University Press of Kansas

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The Dine have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some
Weaving a World
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Roseann Sandoval Willink
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher:

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Profiles a West Bengali caste specializing in producing painted narrative scrolls and performing songs to accompany their unrolling.
Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Jay Youngdahl
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-23 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado

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For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring
Native Students at Work
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Kevin Whalen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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Native Students at Work tells the stories of Native people from around the American Southwest who participated in labor programs at Sherman Institute, a federal