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Working on the railroad, walking in beauty : Navajos, Hózhq, and track work
Author
Title
Working on the railroad, walking in beauty : Navajos, Hózhq, and track work / Jay Youngdahl.
ISBN
9780874218541
0874218543
9781607327172
1607327171
9780874218534
0874218535
9780874218589
0874218586
9786613341488
6613341487
1283341484
9781283341486
Published
Logan : Utah State University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
English.
Summary
For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives. Jay Youngdahl has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.
Variant and related titles
KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Youngdahl, Jay. Working on the railroad, walking in beauty. Logan : Utah State University Press, 2011
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Life on the tracks
Religion on the Rez
A visit with a medicine man
Adversaries and advocates
How did Navajo men come to work for the railroads?
Railroads, trading posts, and a fatal challenge to the RRB's system
In the workers' words
Anchoring and adaptability, fixed yet fluid.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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