book chapter
The crisis in colonial administration
Applied anthropology • 5 (2) • Published In 1946 • Pages: 8-16
By: Kimball, Solon Toothaker.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an excellent summary of the relationship between the government and the Navajo since John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, began his 'New Deal' policy toward administration of the tribe. In particular, Kimball recounts the history of the government's stock reduction program to check soil erosion. He believes that it has aroused such violent opposition because it threatens the tribe's entire economic, social, and religious life without giving the tribe itself a voice in the program. Kimball, an applied anthropologist, holds to the theory that the relations between a colonial administration (such as the U.S. government) and native peoples (such as the Navajo) will not improve until the administrators are willing to 'utilize more fully the knowledge of the students of the science of human relations and culture.' The beginning of this article dealing with French, Dutch, and British colonial relations with subject peoples has been omitted from this File.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Dependencies
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1942
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1942
- 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
- Solon Toothaker Kimball
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86655749
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians