Political Endeavors of the Navajo Indians
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Authors
Scott, Jon
Issue Date
1973
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
The fundamental directive of this paper is to
hopefully supply the sufficient background which is needed in
this country to deal with the Navajos and their problems on a
humanistic level. It attempts (ideologically) to suggest partial
answers to some questions which are vital in dealing with
any minority group. How can knowledge of a peoples' history and
politics, of their hopes and fears, of their unspoken assumptions
about the nature of human life and experience, give a
reasonable administrator some idea of what to expect from a
particular policy and how to present that policy in a manner
which evokes trust and cooperation? To keep the Navajo from
being neither dehumanized nor from being forced to assimilate
into the white world? For Navajos are human beings. They too
have had to face all the perennial problems with which mankind
must somehow deal, and this study reveals one particular
process - politics - through which The People have coped with
some of these problems.
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iv, 100 p.
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