The Northern Navajo Frontier, 1860-1900: Expansion Through Adversity

144 Pages·2001·9 MB·English

by  Robert McPherson

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ocusing on an important part of the Navajo borderlands—the n
northern frontier—this book shows how Navajos were able to defend N
and expand their territory, reservation, and population during a period a
when most Native Americans were losing their lands. They v
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“A work as unique and beautiful as a Navajo rug, one which should
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“Ethnohistorians will hail this book as a fine example of the kind of 0
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affirms what [Navajos] have been telling us all along . . . that the
Navajo played, and still play, an active role in determining their own
destiny.”
—Laura Graves, in Ethnohistory
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Cover illustration: Tracking, by Robert Becenti; used by permission. h
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ISBN 978-0-87421-671-4 (e-book)