Research Catalog

Title

The Navajos and the New Deal / Donald L. Parman.

Author

Parman, Donald Lee, 1932-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1976.

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Details

Description

xiii, 316 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Yale Western Americana ; 27

Uniform Title

Yale Western Americana series ; 27.

Subject

• 1933-1939
• Navajo Indians > Government relations
• New Deal, 1933-1939
• New Deal
• New Deal, 1933-1939
• Indians of North America > Arizona
• Navajo Indians
• Indians of North America > New Mexico
• United States, Arizona > Native races
• United States, New Mexico > Native races

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 297-303.

Contents

By way of background -- The New Deal comes to the Navajos -- The second herd reduction and the Wheeler-Howard referendum -- Early land management operations and the Faris administration -- The creation of the Navajo service -- Senator Chavez and the New Mexico boundary bill -- The "Headmen's Council" and the new grazing program -- John Dewey among the Navajos -- The Blind and the sick -- Morgan's reconciliation with the government -- The Navajo new deal becomes a casualty of war -- An assessment of New Deal policies.

ISBN

• 0300018320
• 9780300018325

LCCN

74029733

OCLC

• ocm02054678
• 2054678
• SCSB-176626

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library