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The Navajo as seen by the Franciscans, 1898-1921 : a sourcebook

Bahr, Howard M. (Added Author).

Summary:

In their efforts to convert the Navajo to Catholicism, the Franciscans at the St. Michael mission in Arizona, lived among the Navajo to study their language and culture. This sourcebook collects the friars' observations from the early period of the mission, 1898 to 1921, as recorded in their correspondence, journal entries and administrative reports.

Record details

ISBN: 0810849623
ISBN: 9780810849624
Physical Description: xxxvii, 606 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-590) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Birth of Navajo missions / Emanuel Trockur, O.F.M. -- Beginnings of St. Michael's mission and school / Anselm Weer, O.F.M. -- First Christmases / Anslem Weber, O.F.M -- Suspicion is almost a virtue here / Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- Father Anselm's 1899 San Juan Exploration / Emanuel Trockur, O.F.M -- First impressions and councils with headmen, 1900 / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Fall 1900: students to Santa Fe, headmen to Cienega / Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- Mission to San Juan, 1904 / Berard Haile, O.F.M. and Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- Federal policy and Indian missions, 1869-1916 / Emanuel Trockur, O.F.M. -- What are we doing for the Indians? / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Neighbors / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Chin Lee in retrospect / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Time in the saddle, students, and sacraments / Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- Law and order, American style / Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- The Navajo trouble of 1905 / Anselm Weber, O.F.M., and Henry "Chee" Dodge -- The case of Des Chee Nee / Des Chee Nee, Anselm Weber, O.F.M., and others -- The last warrios / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Land claims: learning and using the law / Emanuel Trockur, O.F.M. -- White profits from Navajo lands / Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- The Navajo Indians: a statement of facts / Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- My work of Navajo land problems / Anselm Weber, O.F.M.

The faith for one and all / Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- Shortcoats and Longgowns / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Tales of Lukachukai / Marcellus Troester, O.F.M. -- A sick call to crystal / Egbert Fischer, O.F.M. -- Navajo on the warpath? / Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- St. Isabel's: the missing pages / Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- You ministers seem to make trouble for us wherever you are / Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- Life at Chin Lee Mission, 1917-1918: contrasting views / Fidelis Koper, O.F.M., and Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- The struggle for Chin Lee / Anselm Weber, O.F.M., Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M., and others -- Influenza Epidemic / Berard Haile, O.F.M., and Anselm Weber, O.F.M. -- Priorities / Anselm Weber, O.F.M., Egbert Fischer, O.F.M., and others -- Navajo land and people / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- The character of the Navajo / J.B. Moore -- Navajo names / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M., Anselm Weber, O.F.M., and Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- Family love and family work / Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- The Navajo woman and her home / Gertrude Honaghani -- Mealtimes with the Navajo / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Pawn, Games, Gambling / Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- Navajo ethics / Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- Prayer and sacrifice in Navajo perspective / Berard Haile, O.F.M. -- The natural and the supernatural / Anselm Weber, O.F.M., and Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- The Navajo and Christianity / Leopold Ostermann, O.F.M. -- Appendix: Franciscan friars of the province of St. John Baptist serving the Navajo missions, 1898-1921.