Native American Life-History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography

by Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez

Book Overview

p>Since the arrival of Europeans on American shores, Native peoples have recounted stories about their encounters with the invading and colonizing outsiders. Nevertheless, the vast majority of the published narratives about the colonization of Indian peoples and lands have been framed and controlled by European and, later, Euroamerican chroniclers.

After historical overviews of the early years of Native American and, specifically, Navajo ethnography,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826338976
• ISBN13: 9780826338976
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.2"