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Navajo trading : the end of an era / Willow Roberts Powers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powers, Willow Roberts, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navajo Indians--Commerce.
- Navajo Indians.
- Trading posts--Southwest, New--History.
- Trading posts.
- History.
- New Southwest.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 282 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part I The Way Trading Was
- Chapter 1 Traders 3
- Chapter 2 Navajos 23
- Chapter 3 The Way Trading Was 43
- Chapter 4 Trading in Arts and Crafts 62
- Chapter 5 The War Years on the Reservation 101
- Part II The End of an Era
- Chapter 6 Cash Money 125
- Chapter 7 Radical Change on the Reservation 149
- Chapter 8 Target
- Traders 173
- Chapter 9 The Dust Settles 194
- Chapter 10 Trading at the End of the Twentieth Century 216
- Chapter 11 A Few Final Words 236.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826323219
- OCLC:
- 46683933
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