The Navajo as seen by the Franciscans, 1920-1950 : a sourcebook
Continuing where Howard Bahr's previous volume left off, The.Navajo as Seen by the Franciscans, 1920-1950: A Sourcebook picks up the story of one of the great! cultural confluences in American history. Told from the standpoint of the Franciscan missionaries, Bahr's work opens a window onto the intersection of two starkly different ways of life. The years 1920 to 1950 were not tame times for the Navajo. They were faced with epidemics, a federal education policy that sometimes fostered "child stealing," the era of stock-reduction, arid the attendant impoverishment of the entire tribe. There were also several phases of Navajo j political reorganization, a failed mid-1950s attempt to shift Navajo education from boarding, schools to day schools, and continued deep underfunding of Navajo programs until 1950 when the U.S. Congress, spurred by unprecedented media attention to Navajo poverty, passed the INavajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Bill
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