Download or read book The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trading post system. History ; The historical role of credit ; The modern trading post ; Legal status of the trader ; Multiple roles of the trader ; Geographical monopoly ; Credit -- Abusive trading practices -- Off-reservation problems -- Responsibility. Bureau of Indian Affairs ; The Navajo tribe ; State action -- Recommendations -- Appendices.
Download or read book Navajoland Trading Post Encyclopedia written by klara kelley and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trading post system. History ; The historical role of credit ; The modern trading post ; Legal status of the trader ; Multiple roles of the trader ; Geographical monopoly ; Credit -- Abusive trading practices -- Off-reservation problems -- Responsibility. Bureau of Indian Affairs ; The Navajo tribe ; State action -- Recommendations -- Appendices.
Download or read book The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation Staff Report Etc written by United States. Federal Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation written by Etats-Unis. Federal trade commission and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Trading Post System on the Navajo Reservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trading Post System on Navajo Reservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Both Sides of the Bullpen written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. In Both Sides of the Bullpen, Robert S. McPherson reveals the ways that Navajo tradition fundamentally reshaped and defined trading practices in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. Drawing on oral histories of Native peoples and traders collected over thirty years of research, McPherson explores these interactions from both perspectives, as wool, blankets, and silver crossed the counter in exchange for flour, coffee, and hardware. To succeed, traders had to meet the needs and expectations of their customers, often interpreted through Navajo cultural standards. From the organization of the post building to gift giving, health care and burial services, and a credit system tailored to the Navajo calendar, every feature of the trading post served trader and customer alike. Over time, these posts evolved from ad hoc business ventures or profitable cooperative stores into institutions with a clearly defined set of expectations that followed Navajo traditional practices. Traders spent their days evaluating craft work, learning the financial circumstances of each Native family, following economic trends in the wool and livestock industry back east, and avoiding conflict. In detail and depth, the many voices woven throughout Both Sides of the Bullpen restore an underappreciated era to the history of the American Southwest. They show us that for American Indians and white traders alike in the Four Corners region during the late 1800s and early 1900s, barter was as much a cultural expression as it was an economic necessity.
Download or read book Hubbell Trading Post written by Erica Cottam and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples—and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors and clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading. Drawing on extensive archival material and secondary literature, historian Erica Cottam begins with an account of John Lorenzo Hubbell, who was part Hispanic, part Anglo, and wholly brilliant and charismatic. She examines his trading practices and the strategies he used to meet the challenges of Navajo exchange customs and a seasonal trading cycle. Tracing the trading post’s affairs through the upheavals of the twentieth century, Cottam explores the growth of tourism, the development of Navajo weaving, the automobile’s advent, and the Hubbells’ relationship with the Fred Harvey Company. She also describes the Hubbell family’s role in providing Navajo and Hopi demonstrators for world’s fairs and other events and in supplying museums with Native artifacts. Acknowledging the criticism aimed at the Hubbell family for taking advantage of Navajo clients, Cottam shows the family’s strengths: their integrity as business operators and the warm friendships they developed with customers and with the artists, writers, archaeologists, politicians, and tourists attracted to Navajo country by its unparalleled landscapes and fascinating peoples. Cottam traces the preservation efforts of Hubbell’s daughter-in-law after the Great Depression and World War II fundamentally altered the trading post business, and concludes with the post’s transition to its present status as a National Park Service historic site.
Download or read book The trading post system on the navajo reservation staff report to the federal trade commission june 1973 written by Lewis A. Engman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jaa iiji Nida diyiilnih written by Terry J. Yazzie and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative study is seeks to establish a historical source for a relatively unknown Jeddito Trading Post in Jeddito, Arizona. The thesis started as a question: what kept the Jeddito Trading Post in business for seventy-one years? The trading post was established in 1901 and closed its doors in 1972. The post was part of a Navajo Reservation wide phenomenon which helped sustain the Jeddito community through good and lean years. This study analyzes the accounts and business ledgers of the trading post left behind by the Babbitt and Roberts Company which covered the years from 1919 to 1947. The analysis of Jeddito Trading Post accounts and ledgers revealed three themes. The first revealed how the post was affected by major national and international events such as the aftermath of World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The second revealed a cycle of interdependency where the Navajos depended on the trader for food and the trader depended on the Navajos for goods. The trader depended on a third party, such as the off-reservation merchants, to buy the Navajo goods. The third theme revealed that prices on inventory were hiked up. The trading post system on the Navajo Reservation was a system that allowed the Navajos to be self-sufficient and it is evident with the post at Jeddito, Arizona. The trader and the Navajo relation equated to a parental and child relationship. The trader was an authoritative figure and he dictated the business to his advantage. He was a link to the world outside the Jeddito community. The trader was the authoritative figure; however, analysis indicates the Navajos were the most important component in the cycle of interdependency. They produced the goods like textiles, pelts, jewelry, and sheep that were unique. Social events such as the World Wars and the Great Depression in the United States affected the business power of the Navajos. The Navajos were exploited when the trader hiked up prices on the inventory. Historically, American traders capitalized on the goods introduced to the Navajos during the Long Walk and during their imprisonment at Hwéeldi or Fort Sumner, New Mexico. American goods, such as flour, beef, and wheat, were introduced to the Navajos. This is what brought traders to the Navajo Reservation despite the isolation and the dangers. This is what brought the trader to Jeddito, Arizona.
Download or read book Navajo Trading written by Willow Roberts Powers and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This overview is the first to examine trading in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when changes in both Navajo and white cultures led to the investigation of trading practices by the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in the demise of most traditional trading posts.
Download or read book Wide Ruins written by Sallie R. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively memoir describes trading post life from 1938 to 1950 and the many changes experienced by Navajos and all Americans during and after World War II.
Download or read book Traders Agents and Weavers written by Robert S. McPherson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-12 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For travelers passing through northern Navajo country, the desert landscape appears desolate. The few remaining Navajo trading posts, once famous for their bustling commerce, seem unimpressive. Yet a closer look at the economic and creative activity in this region, which straddles northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southeastern Utah, belies a far more interesting picture. In Traders, Agents, and Weavers, Robert S. McPherson unveils the fascinating—and at times surprising—history of the merging of cultures and artistic innovation across this land. McPherson, the author of numerous books on Navajo and southwestern history, narrates here the story of Navajo economic and cultural development through the testimonies of traders, government agents, tribal leaders, and accomplished weavers. For the first half of the twentieth century, trading posts dominated the Navajo economy in northwestern New Mexico. McPherson highlights the Two Grey Hills post and its sister posts Toadlena and Newcomb, which encouraged excellence among weavers and sold high-quality rugs and blankets. Parallel to the success of the trading industry was the establishment of the Northern Navajo or Shiprock Agency and Boarding School. The author explains the pivotal influence on the area of the agency’s stern and controversial founder, William T. Shelton, known by Navajos as Tall Leader. Through cooperation with government agents, American settlers, and traders, Navajo weavers not only succeeded financially but also developed their own artistic crafts. Shunning the use of brightly dyed yarn and opting for the natural colors of sheep’s wool, these weavers, primarily women, developed an intricate style that has few rivals. Eventually, economic shifts, including oil drilling and livestock reduction, eroded the traditional Navajo way of life and led to the collapse of the trading post system. Nonetheless, as McPherson emphasizes, Navajo weavers have maintained their distinctive style and method of production to this day.
Download or read book The Case of the Indian Trader written by Paul D. Berkowitz and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Billy Gene Malone and the end of an era. Malone lived almost his entire life on the Navajo Reservation working as an Indian trader; the last real indian trader to operate historis Hubbell Trading Post. In 2004 the National Park Service (NPS) launched an investigation targeting Malone, alleging a long list of crimes that literally equated him with the likes of Al Capone. A thought-provoking story of the dark side of a respected branch of the American government, The Case of the Indian Trader will open the eyes of a wide audience.
Download or read book Hubbell Trading Post written by David M. Brugge and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of the Spanish missions in the San Antonio, Texas, area, now preserved as the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
