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Indian Policies in the Americas
William Y. Adams
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Description for Indian Policies in the Americas
Paperback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178. .
William Y. Adams grew up in an Indian Service family in an Indian Service town in the 1930s. Window Rock, Arizona was the newly founded administrative capital for the vast Navajo reservation, and all 298 of its residents were Indian Bureau employees or their families. With the exception of a few low-level service personnel, none were Navajo, nor did they have any detailed familiarity with the world of hogans and corrals. They were technocrats, skilled in agriculture, range management, forestry, mining, education, public health, and law enforcement, among other things. Despite their varied backgrounds and skills, however, they shared a ... Read more
William Y. Adams grew up in an Indian Service family in an Indian Service town in the 1930s. Window Rock, Arizona was the newly founded administrative capital for the vast Navajo reservation, and all 298 of its residents were Indian Bureau employees or their families. With the exception of a few low-level service personnel, none were Navajo, nor did they have any detailed familiarity with the world of hogans and corrals. They were technocrats, skilled in agriculture, range management, forestry, mining, education, public health, and law enforcement, among other things. Despite their varied backgrounds and skills, however, they shared a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
SAR Press United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781934691922
SKU
V9781934691922
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Ref
99-1
About William Y. Adams
William Y. Adams grew up in an Indian Service family in an Indian Service town in the 1930s. In the years following World War II, Adams lived and worked among Navajos and Hopis in a number of different capacities. As an archaeological explorer, an ethnologist, an interviewer for the Arizona Bureau of Ethnic Research, a livestock drive foreman, and - ... Read more
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