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Navajo Trading

The End of an Era

Navajo Trading( )
Author: Powers, Willow Roberts
ISBN:978-0-8263-2321-7
Publication Date:Aug 2001
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $32.95
Book Description:

Beginning in the 1870s peddlers began to travel by wagon onto the Navajo Reservation to barter their wares for wool, a few sheep, a rug, or a piece of silver jewellery. This overview of Navajo trading is the first to examine trading in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when changes in both cultures led to the investigation of trading practices by the Federal Trade Commission, ultimately resulting in the demise of most traditional trading posts. Based on archival research and...
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Book Details
Pages:296
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Native American Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:0.999 Pounds



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