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Navajo women in the city: lessons from a quarter-century of relocation
American Indian quarterly • 6 (1 & 2) • Published In 1982 • Pages: 71-89
By: Metcalf, Ann.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the rural-urban shift among Navajo, beginning in the mid-1950s with the government's subsidized urbanization program, called 'Relocation,' which included job training and placement. Metcalf first discusses the impact of the program on all Native Americans and then looks at a sample of Navajo women living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She discusses their living conditions, income, mixed feelings about living in the city, and marital situation. She also discusses the findings of a Native American Research Group study, which measured degrees of urban adaptation and acculturation among urban Navajo. The study discovered that a combination of a strong Indian identity and attainment of job skills best insured success. Metcalf's own study revealed that positive self-image was related to a high regard for one's lifestyle, whether traditional or modern.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Urban and rural life
- Public welfare
- 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
- article
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1972
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1910-1980
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ann Metcalf
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-89)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74647596
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians