book chapter
A Navaho autobiography
[s.n.] • (8) • Published In 1947 • Pages: 5-218
By: Old Mexican, Navaho Indian, Dyk, Walter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a narrative life history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- William P. Mangin ; 1950-1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1871-1919
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [recorded by] Walter Dyk
- This document consists of excerpts
- This is a narrative life history. Life history (159) has been used sparingly.
- The story is full of ethnographic information. Most of the story occurs in the Four Courners region, especially on the Utah and Arizona side, with occasional trips to Shiprock in New Mexico. The farm near Aneth, on the McElmo River, a tributary of the San Juan, may be in Colorado.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47006601
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians