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Learning Navaho…book chapter 1941 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This book contains mainly linguistic information and consists of excerpts....Starlore among the Navahobook chapter 1947 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an interesting account of Navajo starlore with considerable information on ceremonial connections....Origin legend of the Navaho Enemy Waybook chapter 1938 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The bulk of this source is text and translation but there are 70 pages of introduction and explanatory notes which are very informative. This explanatory section has been included in entirety, but only the first four legends in the succeeding pages h...Origin legend of the Navaho Flintwaybook chapter 1943 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is text and translation of an account of a ceremony with lengthy informative notes by the author....A manual of Navaho grammarbook chapter 1926 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
The author attempts to 'present a fair idea of the structure of the Navajo language.' Only the foreword has been included....[Review of] Gladys A. Reichard, Social life of the Navaho Indiansbook chapter 1932 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is a review of 'Social Life of the Navajo Indian,' by Gladys Reichard (4: Reichard, this file) by Father Berard Haile. The latter was head of the Franciscan Mission at St. Michael's, Arizona, and was known as an outstanding authority on Navajo c...Navaho games of chance and taboobook chapter 1933 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This article, tracing the history of various Navajo sports through myth and the recent past, supplements source 154: Reagan in this file. Father Berard discusses sports which have become obsolete and evaluates the role of religious taboos as possible...Soul concepts of the Navahobook chapter 1943 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an enlightening article by a missionary who has devoted the majority of his near eighty years to the study of the Navajo. Father Berard goes a long way toward clarifying the complex problem of the Navajo concept of anthropomorphism, the soul ...Why the Navaho hogan?article 1942 • Haile, Berard
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this paper, Father Haile examines the Navajo hogan through its myths, songs, and ceremonies. He discusses its relation to cosmology and it various uses. The important ceremonial function of hogans has preserved their use into modern times....