A History of the Chaco Navajos

Description

Author: Brugge, David M.  (1927-2013)

Publisher: National Park Service

Pub Date: 1980

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No folds.  Upper front cover corner has an approx. 1/8″ bend.  Lower front cover corner has an approx. 2″ bend.  Upper corner of the title page has been cut off (price? previous owner’s name?), handwritten date below the cut.   Light edge wear.

Notes: Reports of the Chaco Center Number Four.  I think “Chaco Navajos” is kind of a misnomer.  This is a history of the Navajos who live in the “Chaco Area.”  “Beginning with the earliest historical records of the Canyon, the reader is given a glimpse of Navajo culture as it confronts and tries to adapt to the intrusion of the white man in the San Juan Basin.  The chronologies of stockmen, Indian agents, homesteaders, land surveys, and archeologists are all carefully presented as they relate to the Chaco area.  The Wetherill era in Chaco Canyon, as well as its influence on the local people, is given extensive treatment.  The constant hardships encountered, including harsh winters, discrimination, stock reductions, flu epidemics, the whiskey problem, and the violence which sometimes resulted, are all carefully documented.”  (from the Foreword)