Working on the Railroad Walking in Beauty Navajos Hozho and Track Work 1st Edition by Jay Youngdahl 0874218535 9780874218534

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ISBN 10: 0874218535 

ISBN 13: 9780874218534

Author: Jay Youngdahl

For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives. Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master’s in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos’ work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.

Table of contents:

One: Life on the Tracks

Two: Religion on the Rez

Three: A Visit with a Medicine Man

Four: Adversaries and Advocates

Five: How Did Navajo Men Come to Work for the Railroads?

Six: Railroads, Trading Posts, and a Fatal Challenge to the RRB’s System

Seven: In the Workers’ Words

Eight: Anchoring and Adaptability, Fixed yet Fluid

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