Before the Roads Were Paved: Living with the Navajos at Canyon De Chelly (1950-1952)

by Dorothy Cumming

It was on Columbus Day, October 12, 1950, that my husband and I joined the United States Indian Service and went to live with the Navajos in northern Arizona at Chinle, near the entrance to the famous Canyon de Chelly. We were just out of the University of Arizona, my husband with a degree in Range Ecology and I with a degree in Anthropology. And like Columbus, we sailed forth on uncharted seas to a new frontier and we arrived just in time because,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552126625
• ISBN13: 9781552126622
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"