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oapen-20.500.12657-456702023-06-05T13:09:01Z Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty Youngdahl, Jay History Navajo Navajo Nation "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. 2017-03-09 23:55 2020-03-31 03:00:26 2020-04-01T13:48:46Z 2020-04-01T13:48:46Z 2011 book 625269 OCN: 763205336 9780874218541;9781607327172 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/45670 eng application/pdf n/a 625269.pdf Utah State University Press 10.2307/j.ctt4cgs4h 100356 10.2307/j.ctt4cgs4h 92301f05-35f5-4e32-9d76-fce766468ffd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780874218541;9781607327172 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100356 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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"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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