General Note:
Informants who assisted Ruth M. Underhill: Arny (Crystal) -- Athlnaba (Shiprock) -- Etsidi Nez Begay (Chinle Valley) -- Steve Brody (Mariano Lake) -- Sybyl Begay (Chinle Indian School) -- Arthur Chester (Tanner's Spring) -- Chee Dodge (Crystal) -- John Gorman, Ruth Gorman (Many Farms) -- Mary Funston and sister (Shiprock) -- Hosteen Hardy (Chinle Valley) -- Hosteen Joe (Shiprock) -- Ilthnahabad (Chinle) -- Black Moustache (Fort Wingate) -- Frank Mitchell (Chinle) -- Jake Morgan (Farmington) -- Billy Pete [Hasteen bichitoa] (Steamboat Canyon) -- Natani (Toadlena) -- Sallao tsosi [Slim policeman] (Shiprock) -- Pete Price (Defiance) -- Zhealy So (Canyon de Chelly) -- Tletxlani (Lukachukai) --Whitesinger (Chinle Valley) --Widefoot (Pinyon) -- Yellowhair, Yellowshirt (Klagetoh) -- Luke Evans (Hunter's Point) -- Manuelito Begay (Tohachi) -- Frank Damon (Fort Defiance) -- Andrew Tsihnahjinnie (Chinle) -- Jimmy Benally (Farmington) -- Bitter Water Woman (Farmington) -- Wilsie Bitsie (Window Rock) -- Ambrose Roanhorse (Fort Wingate School).
"Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Branch of Education"--Page 2 of cover.
"January, 1953"--Page 2 of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-285).
Formatted Contents Note:
Earth people make their world -- Story in the ruins -- How Navaho came to the Southwest -- Homes of the early people -- Plants, wild and cultivated -- Hunting ways -- Magic animals -- Apaches of Nabahu -- Neighbors in tall houses -- Navaho go est -- Men of the mountain -- White Americans arrive -- Red men and white part company -- Raiding days -- Rope thrower rounds up the Navaho -- Fort on the flat land ; Treaty with the Navaho -- Navaho and Washington Cooperate -- Don't eat your sheep! -- The railroad comes -- Weavers and silversmiths -- The grass does not grow -- Sheep going, tractors coming -- War opens a new world -- Into the new world.
Source of Description Note:
Subtitle from half title page.
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