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"Nearing graduation from Phoenix Indian School,Peterson Zah decided he wanted to attend college. He was refused the reference letters needed for college admission by teachers who told him he would fail and thus embarrass them. Several years later, these instructors would receive invitations from Zah to a party celebrating his graduation from Arizona State University. And so began a career that took Zah to the presidency of the Navajo Nation. His life...
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"This book demonstrates how Navajos seek to understand and cope with modern life and its problems through the moral force and sense of evolving identity their origin stories provide. With extensive interviews, Maureen Trudelle Schwarz allows Navajos to speak for themselves on the ways they find to respond to crises and chronic issues. In capturing what Navajos say and think about themselves Schwarz presents this southwestern people's perceptions,...
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Richard White's study of the collapse into `dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields-mainly anthropology, history, and ecology-are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems. ... A very sophisticated study, a `best read' in Indian history.-American Historical Review.
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