Dreaming of sheep in Navajo country
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Dreaming of sheep in Navajo country
(Weyerhaeuser environmental books)
University of Washington Press, c2009
- : hardback
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注記
Bibliography: p. 341-376
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
2011 Winner of the Hal K. Rothman Award for the Best Book on Western Environmental History
2010 Winner of the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize and the Caroline Bancroft Honor Prize
2009 Winner of the Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award sponsored by the Historical Society of New Mexico
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Dine) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds of thousands of sheep, goats, and horses were killed -- was an ambitious attempt by the federal government to eliminate overgrazing on an arid landscape and to better the lives of the people who lived there. Instead, the policy was a disaster, resulting in the loss of livelihood for Navajos -- especially women, the primary owners and tenders of the animals -- without significant improvement of the grazing lands.
Livestock on the reservation increased exponentially after the late 1860s as more and more people and animals, hemmed in on all sides by Anglo and Hispanic ranchers, tried to feed themselves on an increasingly barren landscape. At the beginning of the twentieth century, grazing lands were showing signs of distress. As soil conditions worsened, weeds unpalatable for livestock pushed out nutritious native grasses, until by the 1930s federal officials believed conditions had reached a critical point. Well-intentioned New Dealers made serious errors in anticipating the human and environmental consequences of removing or killing tens of thousands of animals.
Environmental historian Marsha Weisiger examines the factors that led to the poor condition of the range and explains how the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Navajos, and climate change contributed to it. Using archival sources and oral accounts, she describes the importance of land and stock animals in Navajo culture. By positioning women at the center of the story, she demonstrates the place they hold as significant actors in Native American and environmental history.
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country is a compelling and important story that looks at the people and conditions that contributed to a botched policy whose legacy is still felt by the Navajos and their lands today.
目次
FOREWORD: Sheep Are Good to Think With / William Cronon
Preface
Acknowledgments
PROLOGUE: A View from Sheep Springs
PART 1: FAULT LINES
1. Counting Sheep
2. Range Wars
PART 2: BEDROCK
3. With Our Sheep We Were Created
4. A Woman's Place
PART 3: TERRA FIRMA
5. Herding Sheep
6. Hoofed Locusts
PART 4: EROSION
7. Mourning Livestock
8. Drawing Lines on a Map
9. Making Memories
EPILOGUE: A View from the Defiance Plateau
Notes
Glossary
Plants
Bibliography
Index
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