book chapter
The government of the Navajos
Arizona quarterly • 1 (4) • Published In 1945 • Pages: 63-73
By: Van Valkenburgh, Richard F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a short but informative history tracing the development of leadership and tribal assembly patterns from their first mention in the Origin Legend down to mid-1940s government policies. The author, a specialist in the study of Navajo legal forms, believed that the ineffectiveness of government-imposed organization is because it is fundamentally different from Navajo traditional and historic forms of political mechanics.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Community heads
- Community councils
- Districts
- 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.
- Historian
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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 ; 1951-1952
- 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
- 1500-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard F. Van Valkenburgh
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 47003188
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians