Navajo ways in government
Book 1963 • Shepardson, Mary

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is a study of the process of '… the institutionalization of a modern political system in a society that traditionally lacked centralized authority and concrete units of government' (p. 3), i.e., it is the study of the Navajo Tribal Counci...

Development of Navajo tribal government
essay 1983 • Shepardson, Mary

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is concerned with the origin and the development of the Navajo Tribal Council from its earliest days until the early 1970's, a period in which the Navajo collectively pressed land claims through formal suits and witnessed the granting of ...

The status of Navajo women
article 1982 • Shepardson, Mary

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
Shepardson examines how acculturation and social change has affected the status of Navajo women. She looks at three periods: i) before stock reduction (1868-1933), ii) during and after stock reduction (1933-1950s), iii) and the present day (1980s). I...

Changes in Navajo mortuary practices and beliefs
article 1978 • Shepardson, Mary

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a discussion of changes in Navajo mortuary practices and beliefs (also see document no. 309.) Shepardson first discusses Navajo beliefs about death, ghosts and the afterlife; then traditional burial practices. She next discusses several types...

The Navajo Mountain community
Book 1970 • Shepardson, Mary & Hammond, Blodwen

Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This study examines Navajo cultural flexibility and persistence as expressed by kinship terminology and social organization. Focus is on the community of Navajo Mountain, Utah, with supplementary data from Inscription House and Oljeto, Arizona. Field...