...Kimberly Jenkins Marshall Christianity has experienced dramatic growth among Navajos since 1950, and the exclusive practice of neo-Pentecostal Christianity can now, by some estimates, claim up to 20 percent of the Navajo population. The popularity of neo-Pentecostalism among Navajos has been...

...Miranda Warburton; Richard M. Begay Through a rich body of traditional Navajo narrative, poetry, and song we examine the relationship of Navajo people to the Anasazi. This corpus includes descriptions of initial interactions and of intermarriage between ancestral Navajos and Anasazis and...

.... Healing Ways: Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century. By Wade Davies. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, xv + pp., maps, tables, halftones, notes, references, index. cloth.) Sarah Strauss, University of...

... further serious discussion of Jaime de Angulo, his work, and his milieu. Reference de Angulo, Gui 1995 The Old Coyote of Big Sur: The Life of Jaime de Angulo. Berkeley, CA: Stonegarden. Swept under the Rug: A Hidden History of Navajo Weaving. By Kathy M’Closkey. (Albuquerque...

... encounters. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2010-075 Patterns of Exchange: Navajo Weavers and Traders. By Teresa J. Wilkins. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xiv +248 pp., illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95 cloth.) Jennifer Denetdale, University of New Mexico In...

...Eric V. Meeks Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country . By Weisiger Marsha . ( Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2009 . xxvi + 391 pp., forward by William Cronon, preface, acknowledgments, prologue, illustrations, maps, notes, glossary, bibliography, index . $35.00 cloth...

... Navajo Nation, the largest Native American nation in the United States, was one of the last holdouts against gaming until quite recently. Some Navajos voiced concerns over the danger of compromising sovereignty through state gaming compacts. Others feared that gaming would attract social ills to their...

... court dismissed the 1979 class-action suit Peshlakai v. Duncan calling Navajos irrational and with no sense of their own economic best interest, Navajos gathered Native and non-Native activists into a coalition of the willing. Afterward Navajos created Diné Citizens Against Ruining our Environment...

...Colleen O’Neill Abstract Closely examining the experiences of mostly female Navajo students, this article demonstrates that the Intermountain Indian School played a pivotal role in carrying out postwar Indian Policy. Like Progressive Era Indian boarding schools, its gendered curriculum prepared...

..., Lakota, Navajo, Apache, Tlingit, and Inuit. Far from conquered, these religious traditions flourished in the twentieth century, demonstrat- ing the vitality and perseverance of Indian spirituality despite centuries of...

...William C. Meadows While formally recruited groups of Native American code talkers used in World War II, such as the Navajo, Comanche, and later the Meskwaki and Hopi, are well known, this article focuses on the incidental use of Native Americans in U.S. Armed Forces communications in both world...

... communities to live with white Mormon foster families while attending school. In the 1940s, the Mormon Church’s renascent interest in proselytizing American Indians coincided with a rising desire among many Native people, especially Navajos, for better childhood education. By the 1960s, the ISPP had evolved...

... Essay Linking Native American Health, Religion, and Culture Mary-Ellen Kelm, Simon Fraser University “I Choose Life”: Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World. By Maureen Trudelle Schwartz. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xi + 380 pp...

... . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 With this excellent book, historian David Wallace Adams invites us to join him on a journey to the “three roads”—one Navajo, one Hispanic, and one Anglo—that lead to the story of the small town of Magdalena in west-central...

... further serious discussion of Jaime de Angulo, his work, and his milieu. Reference de Angulo, Gui 1995 The Old Coyote of Big Sur: The Life of Jaime de Angulo. Berkeley, CA: Stonegarden. Swept under the Rug: A Hidden History of Navajo Weaving. By Kathy M’Closkey. (Albuquerque...

... History of Navajo Weaving. By Kathy M’Closkey. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 336 pages. $32.95 cloth.) Maureen Trudelle Schwarz, Syracuse University Although Kathy M’Closkey claims her work on Navajo weaving to be an attempt to write the women who wove these world-famous...

... History of Navajo Weaving. By Kathy M’Closkey. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 336 pages. $32.95 cloth.) Maureen Trudelle Schwarz, Syracuse University Although Kathy M’Closkey claims her work on Navajo weaving to be an attempt to write the women who wove these world-famous...

... further serious discussion of Jaime de Angulo, his work, and his milieu. Reference de Angulo, Gui 1995 The Old Coyote of Big Sur: The Life of Jaime de Angulo. Berkeley, CA: Stonegarden. Swept under the Rug: A Hidden History of Navajo Weaving. By Kathy M’Closkey. (Albuquerque...