Working the Navajo Way

November 03, 2005

Traditionally pastoralists, many Navajo people were forced into the labor market due to livestock reductions during the New Deal era. Despite dramatic transformation of their economy, the tribe's unique culture survived, says USU historian Colleen O'Neill, because Navajo families found ways to participate in a modern workplace while staying connected to their community.

For more information, contact Colleen O'Neill, author of Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century, (University Press of Kansas , October 2005) , associate professor, History Department and associate editor, Western Historical Quarterly, College of HASS, Utah State University, 435-797-1297.

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