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Navajo sacred places / Klara Bonsack Kelley and Harris Francis.

Kelley, Klara B. (Author). Francis, Harris, 1954- (Added Author).

Summary:

The Navajo see even the most minute parts of their homelands and surrounding territory as infused with sacred significance. Places of special power are the most alive, and stories usually go with them. Navajos visit these places to connect with their power. The places anchor the ways of Navajo life as well as the stories about the origins and the correct pursuit of those ways. Navajos have responded to curiosity about these places and landscapes by trying to keep the locations and stories behind them secret - to save the sites from destruction and to keep their power from being sapped. In the face of unbridled land development, however, protecting the landscapes may mean telling the stories, and it is in that spirit that Kelley and Francis discuss the Navajo's sacred landscapes and the stories that go with them.
Navajos tell many kinds of stories, both old and new, about these landscapes, and Kelley and Francis have included some of these stories in this book. The authors believe that in time more examples may be revealed with the blessing of the Navajos who care for them, but the day when Navajos willingly give many such stories to others will come only when the Navajo people themselves have gained control over the use of their land.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0253331161
  • ISBN: 9780253331168
  • ISBN: 0253208939
  • ISBN: 9780253208934
  • Physical Description: vi, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1994.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. Places Important to Navajo People: A Survey of Thirteen Navajo Communities. 1. Background. 2. The Project to Consult Navajo Communities. 3. Interpretation of Results -- pt. 2. Places Important to Navajo People: Other Studies. 4. Other Studies: What They Did and How They Did It. 5. Stories and Types of Places in the Other Studies. 6. Preserving the Culture by Preserving the Land: The "Landscape" and "Piecemeal" Approaches. 7. The Hidden Reservoir -- pt. 3. Navajo Customary Landscapes and Development Landscapes. 8. What Navajos Say about Cultural Preservation. 9. Navajo Endangered Landscapes. 10. Endangered Landscapes outside Navajo Jurisdiction -- pt. 4. 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.
Subject:
Navajo Indians > Religion mythology.
Sacred space > Southwest, New.
Navajo Indians > Land tenure.
Navajo Indians > Antiquities > Collection and preservation.
Economic development > Southwes, New > Religious aspects.
Southwest, New Antiquities Collection and preservation

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Version of Resource: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780253208934.pdf

  • Table of contents


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520 . ‡aThe Navajo see even the most minute parts of their homelands and surrounding territory as infused with sacred significance. Places of special power are the most alive, and stories usually go with them. Navajos visit these places to connect with their power. The places anchor the ways of Navajo life as well as the stories about the origins and the correct pursuit of those ways. Navajos have responded to curiosity about these places and landscapes by trying to keep the locations and stories behind them secret - to save the sites from destruction and to keep their power from being sapped. In the face of unbridled land development, however, protecting the landscapes may mean telling the stories, and it is in that spirit that Kelley and Francis discuss the Navajo's sacred landscapes and the stories that go with them.
5208 . ‡aNavajos tell many kinds of stories, both old and new, about these landscapes, and Kelley and Francis have included some of these stories in this book. The authors believe that in time more examples may be revealed with the blessing of the Navajos who care for them, but the day when Navajos willingly give many such stories to others will come only when the Navajo people themselves have gained control over the use of their land.
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