Southwestern Navajo Reservation trade relationships: the Navajo perspective oral history collection, 1994.

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Southwestern Navajo Reservation trade relationships: the Navajo perspective oral history collection, 1994.

NAU.OH.63


Descriptive Summary

Creator: Arizona Humanities Council.
Collection Name Southwestern Navajo Reservation trade relationships: the Navajo perspective oral history collection,
Inclusive Dates: 1994.
Physical Description9 folders.
Description Southwestern Navajo Reservation trade relationships: the Navajo perspective oral history collection includes video tapes and transcripts, both in english and Navajo, from interviews of residents on the reservation that remember the days of the trading post. Interviewer not specified.
Collection NumberNAU.OH.63
Language English.
Repository Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department.
Northern Arizona University
Box 6022
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6022
Phone: 928 523 5551
Fax: 928 523 3770
Email: Special.Collections@nau.edu

Historical Note

This project was undertaken by NAU Special Collections Department in an attempt to capture the voice and feelings of Navajos about their experience with Indian Traders. These interviews were conducted as part of a project funded by the Arizona Humanities Council.

Scope and Content Note

The NAU/Special Collections oral history project on trading posts includes transcripts from interviews of residents on the reservation that remember the days of the trading post. Participants discuss the following topics: early trading posts where Navajos interacted with the non-Navajo world and the observed changes in Navajo society as impacted by the trading posts; replacement of trading post by stores/off-reservation towns; Navajo and American teachings and education; American/Navajo medicine; family background; wage work; and Navajo-Hopi relations. Interviews conducted by Louise Yazzie and Robert Coody. Interviews consist of a video recording and Navajo transcript with English translation.

Organization

Organized in one series.

Restrictions

Restrictions

None.

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs,legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for Northern Arizona University, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Related Material

United Indian Traders Association Collection, 1931-2002 [manuscript, photgraphs and oral history]; located at Cline Library Special Collections and Archives Dept. (NAU.MS.299, NAU.PH.99.53 and NAU.OH.75).
Veronica Evaneshko collection, 1950-1996 [manuscript]; located at Cline Library Special Collections and Archives Dept. (NAU.MS.344).

Access Points

Geographic Name(s)
Navajo Indian Reservation--Economic aspects.

Subject(s)
Navajo Indians--Education--Arizona.
Indian traders--Arizona--Interviews.
Navajo Indians--Arizona--Economic aspects.
Navajo Indians--Arizona--Social life and customs.
Navajo Indians--Cultural assimilation.
Navajo Indians--Employment--Arizona.
Navajo Indians--Medicine.
Navajo Indians--Southwest, New--Ethnic identity.
Trading posts--Arizona.

Genre Form(s)
Oral histories.
Transcripts.

Administrative Information

Credit Line

Southwestern Navajo Reservation trade relationships: the Navajo perspective oral history collection, NAU.OH. 63, Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Dept.

Container List

Series one, Navajo Trade Relations Oral History Collection, 1994.
Box-folder
63.1 Henry Billy, July 7, 1994.
Henry Billy talks about stories of early trading posts, family background, wage work, school experiences, and his views of American/Navajo medicine.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, and transcript available.
Box-folder
63.2 Ace Charles, July 22, 1994.
Ace Charles talks about stories of his experiences with the trading posts, personal history, changes in Navajo-trader relationships, and a little bit of Navajo humor.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, and transcript available.
Box-folder
63.3 Silas Claw, July 8, 1994.
Silas claw recalls early trading posts, observes changes in the Navajo society as a result of the trading posts and American education.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, and transcript available.
Box-folder
63.4 Leona Cody, December 20, 1994.
Leona Cody talks about early years when trading posts were the places where Navajos interacted with the non-Navajo world. She also mentions her observations on the changes that have taken place because of American education and the trading post.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, and transcript avaiable.
Box-folder
63.5 Lorraine Kerley, November 4, 1994.
Lorraine Kerley talks about her first experience with the trading posts, stories of her family, trading post items, and Navajo teachings/education.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, and transcript available.
Box-folder
63.6 Katherine Molten, July 5, 1994
Katherine Molten talks about trading posts, Navajo creation stories, Navajo-Hopi relations, her personal family background, present condition, and childhood memories.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, and transcript available.
Box-folder
63.7 Calvin Singer, July 5, 1994.
Calvin Singer talks about his experiences working at the trading posts on the Navajo reservation, changes that have occurred in the post system and reflections on the Navajo society.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, and transcript available.
Box-folder
63.8 Virginia Toehe, December 20, 1994.
Virginia Toehe talks about trading posts in the Navajo past, personal family background, items and changes in the trading post.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital video, audio, transcript available.
Box-folder
63.9 Louise Yazzie, November 4, 1994.
Louise Yazzie talks about early days of the trading post where Navajos would interact with non-Navajos, relates changes of the replacement of trading post by stores/off-reservation towns.
1 videotape and transcript available. Digital audio and transcript available.