essay
Navajo prehistory and history to 1850
Handbook of North American Indians. Southwest • 10 • Published In 1983 • Pages: 558-569
By: Brugge, David M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief source, written by a government archaeologist, on the general prehistory and history of the Navajo to 1850. Only highlights are touched on, including the history of the Spanish-Navajo contacts and the assimilation of refugee tribal elements by the Navajo. Also covered are the antecedents to modern Navajo culture. More useful than the text is the excellent section on the synonmy of Navajo autodenominations and names applied by other groups, an extensive bibliography, and a list of Navajo collections in U.S. museums. The bibliography, which covers all cultures detailed in Volume 10, is supplemented by a smaller annotated section on Navajo sources.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- Historical reconstruction
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Government Official
- 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
- Richard A. Wagner ; John Beierle ; 1985
- 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
- prehistory and history to 1850
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- David M. Brugge
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 780-839)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians