Book
Mother Earth, Father Sky, and economic development: Navajo resources and their use
University of New Mexico Press • (3) • Published In 1981 • Pages: xvii, 183
By: Reno, Philip.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a good account of the Navajo land use and the development of nonrenewable resources on the Navajo reservation. Reno devotes separate chapters to Navajo livestock, water, lumber, coal, oil, and uranium. He discusses the different land tenure and use arrangements for each resource, and the history of business contracts, which have not favored the Navajo. Rather, the Navajo have been treated by large corporations much like any other colonial and third world country. Nevertheless the Navajo have learned from the past and in a recent ten-year plan of 1972, have negotiated more favorable terms with regard to ownership, income, and technology transfer.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mineral resources
- Economic planning and development
- Pastoral activities
- Land use
- Lumbering
- Oil and gas wells
- Mining and quarrying
- Production and supply
- Income and demand
- Chief executive
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Navajo Nation, southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Philip Reno
- Revision of the work first published in 1979 under title: Navajo resources and economic development
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-178) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80054859
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians