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Navajo places : history, legend, landscape : a narrative of important places on and near the Navajo Reservation, with notes on their significance to Navajo culture and history / Laurance D. Linford.
Penn Museum Library E99.N3 L645 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linford, Laurance D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Names, Navajo--Guidebooks.
- Names, Navajo.
- Names, Geographical--Southwest, New--Guidebooks.
- Names, Geographical.
- Navajo mythology.
- Navajo Indians--History.
- Navajo Indians.
- History.
- New Southwest.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 353 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Navajoland is the heart and soul of the American Southwest. Today the Navajo Reservation incorporates portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, but it is only about half the size of the traditional homeland of the Dine, the People. Nearly all of it is sacred. Before Spaniards and Americans affixed their own names to the land, every topographic feature had at least one Navajo name, many of which made their way onto maps or are still in use among Navajo speakers.
- Navajo Places is an ambitious effort to preserve this rich legacy. It is a place-name guide that goes beyond reservation boundaries to include the entirety of the traditional Navajo homeland. Based on years of research and consultation with Navajo authorities, Navajo Places contains over 1,200 entries plus a pronunciation guide and sections on history and the relation of ritual and sacred legend to landscape, making it a must-have for anyone living or traveling in the Four Corners.
- Contents:
- Physiography 1
- The People 3
- Before the Navajos: 10,000 B.C.
- A.D. 1600 3
- The Navajos: Pre-1600 to Present 3
- The Archacological/Historical Perspective 3
- The Traditional Navajo Perspective 4
- Intrusion of the Spaniards: A.D. 1541-1821 4
- Explorations 4
- Colonization 5
- The Wars 5
- The Mexicans: 1821-1846 6
- The Americans: 1846-Present 7
- The Early Years 7
- The Navajos Capitulate 12
- The Long Walk 12
- The Reservation Years: 1868-Present 13
- Navajo Social Organization 13
- Political Organization 14
- Chapters 15
- 2. The Role of Mythology in Navajo Place Name Origins 17
- The Practice 18
- The Ceremonies 18
- Holyway Ceremonies 19
- Shooting Chant 19
- Mountain Chant 19
- God Impersonators 19
- Wind Chant 20
- Hand-Trembling Chant 20
- Eagle Trapping 20
- Uncertain Affiliation 20
- Evilway Ceremonies 20
- Lifeway Ceremonies 20
- Ceremonialism and Navajo Place Names 21
- 3. The Trading Posts 23
- 4. Arizona Locations 33
- 5. Colorado Locations 153
- 6. New Mexico Locations 169
- 7. Utah Locations 285.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874806232
- 0874806240
- OCLC:
- 42680576
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