page_title: Nesjaja Hatali
hierarchical_section_title: Nesjaja Hatali
caption_attribution_description: English: Navajo medicine man - Nesjaja Hatali American Memory from the Library of Congress Nesjaja Hatali - Navaho (The North American Indian; v.01) CREATOR Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. SUMMARY Description by Edward S. Curtis: A well-known Navaho medicine-man. While in the Cañon de Chelly the writer witnessed a very interesting four days' ceremony given by the Wind Doctor. Nesjaja Hatali was also assistant medicine-man in two nine days' ceremonies studied - one in Cañon del Muerto and the other in this portfolio (No. 39) is reproduced from one made and used by this priest-doctor in the Mountain Chant. NOTES 1 photogravure&#160;: brown ink&#160;; 44 x 33 cm. Original photogravure produced in Boston by John Andrew &amp; Son, c1904. Original source: The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho [portfolio]&#160;; plate no. 31 Seattle&#160;: S.E. Curtis, 1907. OBJECT TYPE Photomechanical print Image REPOSITORY Northwestern University. Library., Evanston, Ill. DIGITAL ID http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/iencurt.cp01031
context_page_description: Nesjaja Hatali was a Navajo leader.
  Hatali was a medicine man in the Navajo tribe, but soon resisted US expansion into the southwest, alongside Manuelito. Alongside several other war chiefs such as Nova and Geronimo, he was able to use guerrilla tactics to defeat American columns of troops and harass supply lines until the Navajo nation surrendered in 1866. But in the wartime, he was a very successful war leader despite being more knowledgeable in the arts of medicine.
context_section_description: Nesjaja Hatali was a Navajo leader.
  Hatali was a medicine man in the Navajo tribe, but soon resisted US expansion into the southwest, alongside Manuelito. Alongside several other war chiefs such as Nova and Geronimo, he was able to use guerrilla tactics to defeat American columns of troops and harass supply lines until the Navajo nation surrendered in 1866. But in the wartime, he was a very successful war leader despite being more knowledgeable in the arts of medicine.
caption: Nesjaja Hatali, 1904
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