THE NAVAJO INDIANS with illustrations [SOLD]

THE NAVAJO INDIANS with illustrations

By Dane Coolidge and Mary Roberts Coolidge

First edition published by Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge 1930

This AMS first edition published in 1979.

Hardback, first AMS edition, 1979.  316 pages.  Illustrated in black and white

Condition: as new condition

From the PREFACE

“The material in this book is derived almost wholly from the Navajo Indians themselves, although all the available literature has been consulted and every stray reference run down.  But the bulk of Navajo literature, scientific or otherwise, was written over forty years ago and is now either out of print or buried in the archives of libraries.  It was therefore a matter of necessity, as well as of preference on the part of the authors, that the subject should be taken up anew, and our final authority has been the Indian himself.”

CONTENTS

            Part I – Legend and History

The Coming of the Dineȟ

The Wild Dineȟ

The Navajo Story of the Treaties

The Big Walk to Hwalte

            Part II – Navajo Life and Custom

Family and Property Usages

Navajo Girls and Women

Marriage Customs

From Birth to Old Age

Navajo Men and Navajo Sheep

Indian Traders and Indian Incomes

Customs and Character

            Part III – Navajo Arts and Crafts

Navajo Houses

The First Blankets

Blanket Craft and Color

Historic Blankets

Silver-work and Symbolism

            Part IV – Mythology and Ceremony

The Creation of the Dineȟ

Navajo Clans and Their Origin

The Three Kinds of Medicine

Navajo Medicine-Men

The Devil-Chasing Chant

The War Dance or Squaw Dance

The Night Chant

The Mountain Chant

Sand-Paintings and Kaytahns

            Part V – The Navajos and the Government

The White Man’s Ways

Waiting on Congress

The Indian Bureau and the System

Health, Education, and Progress