San Antonio College Library

Looks at the Navajo culture and the sources, techniques, and history of Navajo blanket weaving and the blankets' links with Navajo beliefs, traditions, and experience...

"This book is an ethnohistory of the changes wrought by oil. The economic development spurred by oil leases is a cautionary tale in the transition from a subsistence to a capitalist economy. The federal stock reduction program imposed in the 1930s and 1940s devastated the Navajo agricultural economy and altered family structure. Women had owned and cared for sheep and goat herds which were now reduced in number by hundreds of thousands. Oil did offer...

A collection of seventeen Coyote tales collected over fifty years ago with the Coyote as a warrior, a shaman, a trickster, a lecher, a thief, and other characters.

Explores the history and evolution of Navajo and Pueblo fabric arts, with 250-plus color illustrations of examples from the Southwest Museum's collection, 57 details of the works, and 49 historical photographs. Includes accounts of the early collectors and some of the colorful people who were involved in the founding of the museum and the shaping of its collection.

Celebrates the natural wonders of the Arizona and New Mexico wilderness encompassed by the Navajo Indian reservation, in a volume containing numerous color photographs and excerpts from noted authors and Navajo creation myths and chants.

During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Indian Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptogram. Recruited from the vast reaches of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, from solitary and traditional lives, the young Navajo men who made up the code talkers were present at some of the Pacific Theatre?s bloodiest battles. They spoke...

An account by a white couple serving as caretakers of a vacated outstation in the Ganado Mission in Apache County, Arizona, details their deepening appreciation of the Navajo people's traditions and culture.