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Working on the railroad, walking in beauty: Navajos, Hózhq́, and track work

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dc.contributor.authorYoungdahl, Jay, author
dc.contributor.authorUtah State University Press, publisher
dc.date.accessioned2007-01-03T05:47:57Z
dc.date.available2007-01-03T05:47:57Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractFor over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives. Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.
dc.description.tableofcontentsLife on the tracks -- Religion on the Rez -- A visit with a medicine man -- Adversaries and advocates -- How did Navajo men come to work for the railroads? -- Railroads, trading posts, and a fatal challenge to the RRB's system -- In the workers' words.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/88100
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
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dc.subjectNavajo Indians -- Employment
dc.subjectNavajo Indians -- Social conditions
dc.subjectNavajo Indians -- Religion
dc.subjectRailroad construction workers -- Southwest, New -- History
dc.subjectRailroads -- Southwest, New -- Employees -- History
dc.subjectSouthwest, New -- Race relations
dc.subjectSouthwest, New -- Politics and government
dc.titleWorking on the railroad, walking in beauty: Navajos, Hózhq́, and track work
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