The Sound of Navajo Country

The Sound of Navajo Country
Author: Kristina M. Jacobsen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469631873

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In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections to the Indigenous politics of language and belonging, examining through the lens of music both the politics of difference and many internal distinctions Diné make among themselves and their fellow Navajo citizens. As the second largest tribe in the United States, the Navajo have often been portrayed as a singular and monolithic entity. Using her experience as a singer, lap steel player, and Navajo language learner, Jacobsen challenges this notion, showing the ways Navajos distinguish themselves from one another through musical taste, linguistic abilities, geographic location, physical appearance, degree of Navajo or Indian blood, and class affiliations. By linking cultural anthropology to ethnomusicology, linguistic anthropology, and critical Indigenous studies, Jacobsen shows how Navajo poetics and politics offer important insights into the politics of Indigeneity in Native North America, highlighting the complex ways that identities are negotiated in multiple, often contradictory, spheres.

Navajo-English Dictionary

Navajo-English Dictionary
Author: C. Leon Wall
Publisher: [Phoenix, Ariz.] : United States Department of the Interior, Division of Education, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1958
Genre: Navajo language
ISBN:

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In response to a recent surge of interest in Native American history, culture, and lore, Hippocrene brings you a concise and straightforward dictionary of the Navajo tongue. The dictionary is designed to aid Navajos learning English as well as English speakers interested in acquiring knowledge of Navajo. The largest of all the Native American tribes, the Navajo number about 125,000 and live mostly on reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Over 9,000 entries; A detailed section on Navajo pronunciation; A comprehensive, modern vocabulary; Useful, everyday expressions.

Songs of the Navajo Country

Songs of the Navajo Country
Author: Orval Ricketts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1940
Genre: Navajo Indians
ISBN:

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Rez Metal

Rez Metal
Author: Ashkan Soltani Stone
Publisher: Bison Books
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2020
Genre: Music
ISBN: 149620509X

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Rez Metal showcases the sounds, images, and stories of Navajo heavy metal bands and Native heavy metalers while exploring the deep and life-affirming power of heavy metal music in Indian Country.

Landscapes of Power

Landscapes of Power
Author: Dana E. Powell
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-01-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822372290

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In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic account shows how the coal-fired power plant project's defeat provided the basis for redefining the legacies of colonialism, mineral extraction, and environmentalism. Examining the labor of activists, artists, politicians, elders, technicians, and others, Powell emphasizes the generative potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy in the face of twenty-first-century colonial conditions. Ultimately, Powell situates local Navajo struggles over energy technology and infrastructure within broader sociocultural life, debates over global climate change, and tribal, federal, and global politics of extraction.

Indians on the Move

Indians on the Move
Author: Douglas K. Miller
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2019-02-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469651394

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In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,000 Native American people from rural to urban areas. At the time the program ended, many groups--from government leaders to Red Power activists--had already classified it as a failure, and scholars have subsequently positioned the program as evidence of America's enduring settler-colonial project. But Douglas K. Miller here argues that a richer story should be told--one that recognizes Indigenous mobility in terms of its benefits and not merely its costs. In their collective refusal to accept marginality and destitution on reservations, Native Americans used the urban relocation program to take greater control of their socioeconomic circumstances. Indigenous migrants also used the financial, educational, and cultural resources they found in cities to feed new expressions of Indigenous sovereignty both off and on the reservation. The dynamic histories of everyday people at the heart of this book shed new light on the adaptability of mobile Native American communities. In the end, this is a story of shared experience across tribal lines, through which Indigenous people incorporated urban life into their ideas for Indigenous futures.

The Navajo Country

The Navajo Country
Author: Herbert E. Gregory
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 1915
Genre: Arizona
ISBN:

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Code Talker

Code Talker
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2006-07-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1101664800

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"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring. This deeply affecting novel honors all of those young men, like Ned, who dared to serve, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults "Nonsensational and accurate, Bruchac's tale is quietly inspiring..."—School Library Journal

The Names

The Names
Author: N. Scott Momaday
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1987-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780816510467

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist recalls the significant events and ventures of his own life, his own land, and his own people, recreating his experiences as an American Indian and those of his relatives

The Navajo Country

The Navajo Country
Author: Herbert Ernest Gregory
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1916
Genre: Arizona
ISBN:

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