HERE COME THE NAVAHO! A History of the Largest Indian Tribe in the United States [SOLD]

HERE COME THE NAVAHO! A History of the Largest Indian Tribe in the United States

By Ruth Underhill, Ph.D.

United States Department of the Interior, BIA, Branch of Education, 1953

Paperback, 285 pages, 24 chapters, 6 appendices, 163 extraordinary illustrations-- some by famous Native artists, second printing 1962.

PREFACE

“This history of the Navaho peoples was prepared especially for use in the Indian Service.  Its choice of detail is therefore regulated by the tastes and interests of those familiar with Indians and, above all, of the Indians themselves.  Its material was culled from a variety of sources, published, unpublished and oral.  The bibliography lists the principal works consulted on archaeology, ethnology, history and related subjects.  In addition to these, the files of the Indian Bureau and of the National Archives contain masses of instructive material, in the form of reports and letters, typewritten, mimeographed or in longhand.  Although the writer has tried to locate and consult all those which establish the main facts of the story there are many more which had to be passed by for lack of time.  Photographs and maps often gave as much information as the printed word.”

CONTENTS

1.     Earth People Make Their World

2.     Story in the Ruins

3.     How Navaho Came to the Southwest

4.     Homes of the Early People

5.     Plants, Wild and Cultivated

6.     Hunting Ways

7.     Magic Animals

8.     Apaches of Nabahu

9.     Neighbors in Tall Houses

10.    Navaho Go West

11.    Men of the Mountain

12.    White Americans Arrive

13.    Red Men and White Part Company

14.    Raiding Days

15.    Rope Thrower Rounds up the Navaho

16.    Fort on the Flat Land – Treaty with the Navaho

17.    Navaho and Washington Cooperate

18.    Don’t Eat Your Sheep!

19.    The Railroad Comes

20.    Weavers and Silversmiths

21.    The Grass Does Not Grow

22.    Sheep Going. Tractors Coming

23.    War Opens a New World

24.    Into the New World

Condition: very good condition within text.  Cover frayed at spine. Adobe Gallery Library emboss.