... Klara B. Kelley Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program, Box 689, Window Rock, AZ ... more ... Klara B. Kelley Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program, Box 689, Window Rock, AZ 86515 ... Archaeo-logical fieldwork on the Navajo sites was confined to the summer of 1979, while I conducted ethnographic fieldwork and ethnohistorical research between ...
The largest U.S. American Indian reservation is the Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Uta... more The largest U.S. American Indian reservation is the Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, in 10 the southwestern United States. Today, the Navajo land base is more than 65,700 km 2 (25,350 mi 2 ) 11 approximately the size of Iceland. People currently living on these Native lands are an exception in North 12 American society as their traditional lifestyle requires intimate knowledge of the ecosystem, knowledge 13 that has been passed on for generations through oral traditions. This remote and ecologically sensitive 14 semi-arid region has suffered prolonged drought combined with increasing temperatures. These 15 changes, in addition to challenging socioeconomic circumstances, are significantly altering the 16 habitability of a region already characterized by harsh living conditions. We present lifetime 17 observations of 73 Native American elders from the Navajo Nation that provide a record of ecosystem 18 change and changing landscape conditions. This information, which complements the scant long-term 19 meteorological records and historical documentation for the region, serves to further refine our 20 understanding of the historical trends and local impacts of climate change and drought. Among the most 21 cited changes was a long-term decrease in the amount of annual snowfall in the latter half of the 20 th 22 century, a transition from wet conditions to dry conditions in the 1940s, and a decline in surface water 23 features. Other noted changes include the disappearance of springs, and of plant and animal 24 populations (particularly medicinal plants, cottonwood trees, beavers, and eagles). The lack of available 25
This section is primarily for the use of AAA members for the purpose of addressing issues that re... more This section is primarily for the use of AAA members for the purpose of addressing issues that relate to the discipline and practice of anthropology. The Anthropology Newsletter reserves the right to select and edit letters, All Ieiters must be clearly marked for Anthropology Newsletter Correspondence, be typed double-spaced, not exceed 500 words and consist of a signed original plus an electronic copy whenever possible. Letters published reflect the views of the correspondents; their publication does not signify endorsement by the American Anthropological Association.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber an... more ... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber and other Franciscan fathers built a mission, Saint Michael's, ten miles south of the Navajo Agency headquarters at Fort Defiance and about thirty miles north of the Chambers ...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber an... more ... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber and other Franciscan fathers built a mission, Saint Michael's, ten miles south of the Navajo Agency headquarters at Fort Defiance and about thirty miles north of the Chambers ...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
... as late as 1878, on evidence of reports about local Navajos killing an accused witch in front... more ... as late as 1878, on evidence of reports about local Navajos killing an accused witch in front of Hardenson's house. Hardison files a ... brothers will soon follow him to the Chambers Checkerboard and one, Orville, will marry into a local Navajo family.23 Tanner, whose house is at ...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2005
... Along the horse route are water holes, trail shrines (cairns), and other shrines. The trail s... more ... Along the horse route are water holes, trail shrines (cairns), and other shrines. The trail shrines the couple mentioned include cairns at places 2 and 3 on the line itself.24 The horse trail that the Navajo couple described was used by many different peoples. ...
The Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the southwestern the United States, is an e... more The Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the southwestern the United States, is an ecologically sensitive semi-arid to arid area where rapid growth of the largest population of Native Americans is outstripping the capacity of the land to sustain them. Recent drought conditions, combined with increasing temperatures, are significantly altering the habitability of a region already characterized by harsh living conditions. In addition to altered landscape conditions due to climatic change, drought, and varying land use practices over the last 200 years, the Navajo people have been affected by land use policies and harsh economic conditions that weaken their cultural fabric. Increasing aridity combined with drought threaten the very existence of Navajo culture and the survival of traditional Navajo communities. People presently living on these Native lands are unique in American society as their traditional lifestyle requires intimate knowledge of the ecosystem, knowledge t...
Many archaeologists and other scholars with a complex relation to actual prehistoric have accepte... more Many archaeologists and other scholars with a complex relation to actual prehistoric have accepted the idea that the Navajo and interruptions of communication; they are used Apache (hereafter called the Apachean) by some comparative linguists to give rough migrated from the north into the southwestern estimates of linguistic prehistory." The rest of United States around A.D. 1500 (for example, this paper sketches some of the archaeological Wilcox 1981:213). This idea is based on ambiguities and how they relate to Navajo linguistic studies and on the supposed lack of tradition. We honor Dave Brugge for his any earlier archaeological sites with material insights. culture that archaeologists recognize as Apachean. To connect the archaeological and AMBIGUOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL
... Klara B. Kelley Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program, Box 689, Window Rock, AZ ... more ... Klara B. Kelley Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program, Box 689, Window Rock, AZ 86515 ... Archaeo-logical fieldwork on the Navajo sites was confined to the summer of 1979, while I conducted ethnographic fieldwork and ethnohistorical research between ...
The largest U.S. American Indian reservation is the Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Uta... more The largest U.S. American Indian reservation is the Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, in 10 the southwestern United States. Today, the Navajo land base is more than 65,700 km 2 (25,350 mi 2 ) 11 approximately the size of Iceland. People currently living on these Native lands are an exception in North 12 American society as their traditional lifestyle requires intimate knowledge of the ecosystem, knowledge 13 that has been passed on for generations through oral traditions. This remote and ecologically sensitive 14 semi-arid region has suffered prolonged drought combined with increasing temperatures. These 15 changes, in addition to challenging socioeconomic circumstances, are significantly altering the 16 habitability of a region already characterized by harsh living conditions. We present lifetime 17 observations of 73 Native American elders from the Navajo Nation that provide a record of ecosystem 18 change and changing landscape conditions. This information, which complements the scant long-term 19 meteorological records and historical documentation for the region, serves to further refine our 20 understanding of the historical trends and local impacts of climate change and drought. Among the most 21 cited changes was a long-term decrease in the amount of annual snowfall in the latter half of the 20 th 22 century, a transition from wet conditions to dry conditions in the 1940s, and a decline in surface water 23 features. Other noted changes include the disappearance of springs, and of plant and animal 24 populations (particularly medicinal plants, cottonwood trees, beavers, and eagles). The lack of available 25
This section is primarily for the use of AAA members for the purpose of addressing issues that re... more This section is primarily for the use of AAA members for the purpose of addressing issues that relate to the discipline and practice of anthropology. The Anthropology Newsletter reserves the right to select and edit letters, All Ieiters must be clearly marked for Anthropology Newsletter Correspondence, be typed double-spaced, not exceed 500 words and consist of a signed original plus an electronic copy whenever possible. Letters published reflect the views of the correspondents; their publication does not signify endorsement by the American Anthropological Association.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber an... more ... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber and other Franciscan fathers built a mission, Saint Michael's, ten miles south of the Navajo Agency headquarters at Fort Defiance and about thirty miles north of the Chambers ...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber an... more ... In 1898, with philanthropic assistance from Mother Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia, Weber and other Franciscan fathers built a mission, Saint Michael's, ten miles south of the Navajo Agency headquarters at Fort Defiance and about thirty miles north of the Chambers ...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001
... as late as 1878, on evidence of reports about local Navajos killing an accused witch in front... more ... as late as 1878, on evidence of reports about local Navajos killing an accused witch in front of Hardenson's house. Hardison files a ... brothers will soon follow him to the Chambers Checkerboard and one, Orville, will marry into a local Navajo family.23 Tanner, whose house is at ...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2005
... Along the horse route are water holes, trail shrines (cairns), and other shrines. The trail s... more ... Along the horse route are water holes, trail shrines (cairns), and other shrines. The trail shrines the couple mentioned include cairns at places 2 and 3 on the line itself.24 The horse trail that the Navajo couple described was used by many different peoples. ...
The Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the southwestern the United States, is an e... more The Navajo Nation of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the southwestern the United States, is an ecologically sensitive semi-arid to arid area where rapid growth of the largest population of Native Americans is outstripping the capacity of the land to sustain them. Recent drought conditions, combined with increasing temperatures, are significantly altering the habitability of a region already characterized by harsh living conditions. In addition to altered landscape conditions due to climatic change, drought, and varying land use practices over the last 200 years, the Navajo people have been affected by land use policies and harsh economic conditions that weaken their cultural fabric. Increasing aridity combined with drought threaten the very existence of Navajo culture and the survival of traditional Navajo communities. People presently living on these Native lands are unique in American society as their traditional lifestyle requires intimate knowledge of the ecosystem, knowledge t...
Many archaeologists and other scholars with a complex relation to actual prehistoric have accepte... more Many archaeologists and other scholars with a complex relation to actual prehistoric have accepted the idea that the Navajo and interruptions of communication; they are used Apache (hereafter called the Apachean) by some comparative linguists to give rough migrated from the north into the southwestern estimates of linguistic prehistory." The rest of United States around A.D. 1500 (for example, this paper sketches some of the archaeological Wilcox 1981:213). This idea is based on ambiguities and how they relate to Navajo linguistic studies and on the supposed lack of tradition. We honor Dave Brugge for his any earlier archaeological sites with material insights. culture that archaeologists recognize as Apachean. To connect the archaeological and AMBIGUOUS ARCHAEOLOGICAL
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