Working the Navajo way : labor and culture in the twentieth century / Colleen O'Neill.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	O'Neill, Colleen M., 1961-
Corporate Author:	William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Language:	English
Published:	Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2005], ©2005.
Subjects:	Navajo people > Employment. Navajo people > Social conditions. Navajo people > Government relations.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	xvii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction: Navajo history and western capitalist development
The Diné and the Diné Bikéyah : Navajo history and Navajoland
Mining coal like herding sheep : Navajo coal operators in the mid-twentieth century
Weaving a living : Navajo weavers and the trading post economy
Working for wages the Navajo way : Navajo households and off-reservation wage work
Navajo workers and white man's ways : race, sovereignty, and organized labor on the Navajo reservation
Rethinking modernity and the discourse of development in American Indian history : a Navajo example.