Includes bibliographical references p. (205-225) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Navajo history and western capitalist development -- The Dine and the Dine Bikeyah : Navajo history and Navajoland -- Mining coal like herding sheep : Navajo coal operators in the mid-twentieth century -- Weaving a living : Navajo weavers and the trading post economy -- Working for wages the Navajo way : Navajo households and off-reservation wage work -- Navajo workers and white man's ways : race, sovereignty, and organized labor on the Navajo reservation -- Rethinking modernity and the discourse of development in American Indian history : a Navajo example.
