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- catalog abstract ""This book is an ethnohistory of the changes wrought by oil. The economic development spurred by oil leases is a cautionary tale in the transition from a subsistence to a capitalist economy. The federal stock reduction program imposed in the 1930s and 1940s devastated the Navajo agricultural economy and altered family structure. Women had owned and cared for sheep and goat herds which were now reduced in number by hundreds of thousands. Oil did offer some wage work, but only for men who dug trenches, laid pipe, or drove trucks. Following the end of World War II as the millions of dollars generated annually from oil and gas leases became available to the impoverished Navajo Nation, inter-clan squabbles erupted over uses for the money. Navajo was set against Navajo in disputes over lifeways and identity of the Dine people. This book is also an assessment of the price the land and culture of the Navajo ultimately paid for oil. Sadly, greater involvement in Anglo society meant less reverence for the land and sacred sites of the Dine."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11860200.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""This book is an ethnohistory of the changes wrought by oil. The economic development spurred by oil leases is a cautionary tale in the transition from a subsistence to a capitalist economy. The federal stock reduction program imposed in the 1930s and 1940s devastated the Navajo agricultural economy and altered family structure. Women had owned and cared for sheep and goat herds which were now reduced in number by hundreds of thousands. Oil did offer some wage work, but only for men who dug trenches, laid pipe, or drove trucks. Following the end of World War II as the millions of dollars generated annually from oil and gas leases became available to the impoverished Navajo Nation, inter-clan squabbles erupted over uses for the money.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-169) and index.".
- catalog description "Navajo was set against Navajo in disputes over lifeways and identity of the Dine people. This book is also an assessment of the price the land and culture of the Navajo ultimately paid for oil. Sadly, greater involvement in Anglo society meant less reverence for the land and sacred sites of the Dine."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "The Navajo world before 1922 -- The quest for leases, 1921-1923 -- The first Navajo oil boom, 1923-1927 -- Transition and turmoil, 1927-1932 -- Depression and despair, 1932-1949 -- New discoveries, 1950-1959 -- Navajo solutions, 1960-1982.".
- catalog extent "xii, 177 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Under sacred ground.".
- catalog identifier "0826320430 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Under sacred ground.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press,".
- catalog relation "Under sacred ground.".
- catalog spatial "Navajo Indian Reservation".
- catalog subject "338.2/7282/097898 21".
- catalog subject "E99.N3 C45 2000".
- catalog subject "Navajo Indians Economic conditions.".
- catalog subject "Navajo Indians Politics and government.".
- catalog subject "Petroleum industry and trade Navajo Indian Reservation History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Navajo world before 1922 -- The quest for leases, 1921-1923 -- The first Navajo oil boom, 1923-1927 -- Transition and turmoil, 1927-1932 -- Depression and despair, 1932-1949 -- New discoveries, 1950-1959 -- Navajo solutions, 1960-1982.".
- catalog title "Under sacred ground : a history of Navajo oil, 1922-1982 / Kathleen P. Chamberlain.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".