Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
Places Important to Navajo People: A Survey of Thirteen Navajo
Communities
1. Background
2. The Project to Consult Navajo Communities
3. Interpretation of Results
Part Two
Places Important to Navajo People: Other Studies
4. Other Studies: What They Did and How They Did It
5. Stories and Types of Placed in the Other Studies
6. Perserving the Culture by Preserving the Land: The "Landscape"
and "Piecemeal" Approaches
7. The Hidden Reservoir
Part Three
Navajo Customary Landscapes and Development Landscapes
8. What Navajos Say about Cultural Preservation
9. Navajo Endangered Landscapes
10. Endangered Landscapes outside Navajo Jurisdiction
Part Four
Hidden and Manifest Landscapes in Stories
11. Analytical Framework
12. Hidden and Manifest Landscapes in Two Stories
13. A Story about "Where Whiteshell Woman Stopped for Lunch"
14. The Land, the People, and Culture Change
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
Illustrations follow page 122
An engaging blend of anthropological study and firsthand account takes readers into the heart of the Navajo's struggle to protect their sacred places.
KLARA BONSACK KELLEY is a consulting ethnologist who has lived
and studied in Navajo communities for more than seventeen years.
Her publications include Navajo Land Use: An Ethnoarchaeological
Study and (with Peter Whiteley) Navajoland: Family Settlement and
Land Use.
HARRIS FRANCIS is a Navajo, Tachii'nii clan born for Tabaaha clan,
who grew up on the Navajo Reservation speaking Navajo and observing
traditions in daily use. He is an American Indian Cultural Rights
Protection Consultant and co-author of several articles on Navajo
cultural rights and sacred places.
"Kelley and Francis clearly and comprehensivly address a timely topic, illuminating superbly the inexorable linkage between preserving American Indian cultures and protecting sites endowed with spiritual significance." - Choice "This is an exceptional ethnography of the Navajos' relationship to their land ... "- The Reader's Review "The authors succeed admirably in their goal to investigate Navajo oral traditions in relation to place." - Raymond J. DeMallie
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