The Navajo Makes His Living [1957] (Q6143)

This program focuses on the Navajo people and how they make a living.

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English	The Navajo Makes His Living [1957]	This program focuses on the Navajo people and how they make a living.

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Indian Country [1957]

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This is Indian country . Recorded educational radio presentation produced by the University of Denver. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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And the day when I drove clear across the Navajo reservation the car moved through a cloud of red brown dust so thick that I had to keep the headlights on this reservation you know occupy some northern parts of New Mexico . [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Still they were different from the warlike Indians we hear so much about because they kept their job as sheep breeders through all the troubles there was a time when their raids got so bad that they were rounded up and. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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The fact that I think they increased this fiscal year is almost double that last year. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Years ago they found out that 70 or 80 thousand people couldn't pester sheep on land meant for 8000 . [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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When they want to work in the outside jobs . [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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You know I think going off the reservation. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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When I asked Nelson of the reservation police boys how they were he hemmed and hawed a little. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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My statement was white people cannot hear and I don't think. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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We have quite a few of them who come in here during the latter part of the summer but they they are they usually go back at . [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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This is one official on the reservation reported standing up for a moment for a service to us. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Parts or items that go into these instrument assemblies with their naked eyes which most of us are leaving let alone maneuver into place necessary in the assembly of some mystery dexterity. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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we realize that we must show up for work every day and get there on time and to take absences only when they are ill or some emergency arises in their family which makes it necessary for them to be away from their work. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Of course we must recognize their own culture and their own ways of life on the reservation or a great deal about time . [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Being thrifty even advertising selling yourself well those are parts of our modern way of doing things and I suppose you have to teach them. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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But schools for Indians are just realizing that it has to be taught to boys wind up. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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All this applies to work for wages often off the reservation. When I asked about on the reservation I found that they had other difficulties. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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The skill and the craft production can really be developed the reason that there's just simply isn't enough of a market among the people who really appreciate the care products to sustain the volume. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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So that means a good deal of preparation even before the wedding begins. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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There was a good deal of discussion and not before the interpreter could report that she makes about six and how much is that one worth when it's done once and is it if you want only how much would you get for about $10. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Then main interest was sheep grazing. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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San Juan River which flows near the northern boundary of the Navajo reservation in New Mexico . [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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They tried to start something where the neighbor carried the Navajos have had no training in budgeting advertising and all the rest of that. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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The problem as you very well describe is gaining the experience and the understanding of the non-Indian way of doing things in a businesslike way. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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And some people are very capable at the present time but I'm usually exception. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Dr Boyce the school principal who is tremendously enthusiastic about Navajo possibilities told me about their plans. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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That's a sign of real common sense it seems to me. [IndianCountry/Navajo]

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Dr. Ruth Underhill

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00:29:01

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1/4 inch audio tape

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The Navajo Makes His Living [1957] (Q6143)

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