Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty : Navajos, Hózhó, and Track Work /

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Author / Creator:	Youngdahl, Jay., author.
Imprint:	Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, [2011] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description:	1 online resource (208 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Navajo Indians -- Employment. Navajo Indians -- Social conditions. Navajo Indians -- Religion. Railroad construction workers -- Southwest, New -- History. Railroads -- Southwest, New -- Employees -- History. Navajo Indians -- Employment. Navajo Indians -- Religion. Navajo Indians -- Social conditions. Politics and government. Race relations. Railroad construction workers. Railroads -- Employees. Southwest, New -- Race relations. Southwest, New -- Politics and government. New Southwest. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13419939

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Other authors / contributors:	Project Muse.
ISBN:	9780874218589 0874218586 9780874218534 0874218535 9780874218541 0874218543
Notes:	Includes index. Print version record.
Summary:	"A valuable account of how the Navajo involvement in railroad labor and underlying cultural values interface. It is the sensitivity to that cultural identity that gives the work a special edge and at the same time a broad appeal. It is extremely well written and well organized. Jay Youngdahl tells a good story while applying high standards of scholarship along with an underlying humanism." Paul Zolbrod, author/translator of Din Bahan: The Navajo Creation Story. For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives. Jay Youngdahl has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.

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