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Navajo Sacred Places

by Klara Bonsack Kelley and Harris Francis
Navajo Sacred Places

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ISBN13: 9780253208934
ISBN10: 0253208939
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The Navajo see even the most minute parts of their homelands and surrounding territory as infused with sacred significance. Places of special power are the most alive, and stories usually go with them. Navajos visit these places to connect with their power. The places anchor the ways of Navajo life as well as the stories about the origins and the correct pursuit of those ways. Navajos have responded to curiosity about these places and landscapes by trying to keep the locations and stories behind them secret - to save the sites from destruction and to keep their power from being sapped. In the face of unbridled land development, however, protecting the landscapes may mean telling the stories, and it is in that spirit that Kelley and Francis discuss the Navajo's sacred landscapes and the stories that go with them. Navajos tell many kinds of stories, both old and new, about these landscapes, and Kelley and Francis have included some of these stories in this book. The authors believe that in time more examples may be revealed with the blessing of the Navajos who care for them, but the day when Navajos willingly give many such stories to others will come only when the Navajo people themselves have gained control over the use of their land.

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"Kelley and Francis clearly and comprehensivly address a timely topic, illuminating superbly the inexorable linkage between preserving American Indian cultures and protecting sites endowed with spiritual significance." --Choice

"This is an exceptional ethnography of the Navajos' relationship to their land... "


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Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-252) and index.

About the Author

KLARA BONSACK KELLEY is a consulting ethnologist who has lived and studied in Navajo communities for more than seventeen years. Her publications include Navajo Land Use: An Ethnoarchaeological Study and (with Peter Whiteley) Navajoland: Family Settlement and Land Use.

HARRIS FRANCIS is a Navajo, Tachii'nii clan born for Tabaaha clan, who grew up on the Navajo Reservation speaking Navajo and observing traditions in daily use. He is an American Indian Cultural Rights Protection Consultant and co-author of several articles on Navajo cultural rights and sacred places.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One

Places Important to Navajo People: A Survey of Thirteen Navajo Communities

1. Background

2. The Project to Consult Navajo Communities

3. Interpretation of Results

Part Two

Places Important to Navajo People: Other Studies

4. Other Studies: What They Did and How They Did It

5. Stories and Types of Placed in the Other Studies

6. Perserving the Culture by Preserving the Land: The "Landscape" and "Piecemeal" Approaches

7. The Hidden Reservoir

Part Three

Navajo Customary Landscapes and Development Landscapes

8. What Navajos Say about Cultural Preservation

9. Navajo Endangered Landscapes

10. Endangered Landscapes outside Navajo Jurisdiction

Part Four

Hidden and Manifest Landscapes in Stories

11. Analytical Framework

12. Hidden and Manifest Landscapes in Two Stories

13. A Story about "Where Whiteshell Woman Stopped for Lunch"

14. The Land, the People, and Culture Change

Appendixes

Notes

References

Index

Illustrations follow page 122


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Product Details

ISBN:
9780253208934
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
11/22/1994
Publisher:
Indiana University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
272
Height:
.60IN
Width:
6.00IN
Thickness:
.76 in.
LCCN:
93049472
Number of Units:
1
Illustration:
Yes
Copyright Year:
1994
Series Volume:
1101
UPC Code:
2800253208936
Author:
Klara Bonsac Kelley
Author:
Harris Francis
Author:
Klara Bonsack Kelley
Author:
Francis Harris
Author:
Kelley Klara Bonsack
Subject:
Southwest, new
Subject:
History
Subject:
Antiquities
Subject:
Southwest, New Antiquities Collection and preservation.
Subject:
Navajo Indians -- Land tenure.
Subject:
Navajo Indians -- Religion.
Subject:
Navajo Indians -- Antiquities -- Collection and preservation.
Subject:
Collection and preservation
Subject:
Americana-General
Subject:
Sacred space
Subject:
Navajo Indians

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