Working the Navajo way
Subtitle: labor and culture in the twentieth century
By: Colleen O'Neill
Edition: Paperback edition
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kansas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780700618941
Subjects: Social conditions; Navajo Indians; Employment; Government relations
Notes: Originally published in hardback by the University Press of Kansas in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Navajo history and western capitalist development; title: The Diné and the Diné Bikéyah : Navajo history and Navajoland; title: Mining coal like herding sheep : Navajo coal operators in the mid-twentieth century; title: Weaving a living : Navajo weavers and the trading post economy; title: Working for wages the Navajo way : Navajo households and off-reservation wage work; title: Navajo workers and white man's ways : race, sovereignty, and organized labor on the Navajo reservation; title: Rethinking modernity and the discourse of development in American Indian history : a Navajo example.