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Adams, William Y. Religion and Adaptation. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2004.

———. Shonto: A Study of the Role of the Trader in a Modern Navajo Community. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 188. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1963.

Allen, Paula Gunn. Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting, Border-Crossing Loose Canons. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.

Appadurai, Arjun. “Global Ethnoscapes.” In Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present, edited by R. J. Fox. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1991.

Bahr, Howard M. Diné Bibliography to the 1990s: A Companion to the Navajo Bibliography of 1969. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999.

Bailey, Garrick, and Roberta Glenn Bailey. A History of the Navajos: The Reservation Years. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1986.

Bauer, William J. “We Were All Migrant Workers.” Western Historical Quarterly 37, no. (2006): 43–63.

Bell, Daniel. The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Berger, Peter L. The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion. New York: Anchor Books, 1969.

Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Penguin Press, 1988.

Berry Brill de Ramirez, Susan. Native American Life-History Narratives: Colonial and Postcolonial Navajo Ethnography. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.

Blanchard, Kendall A. The Economics of Sainthood: Religious Change among the Redrock Navajos. London: Associated University Press, 1977.

Bodo, Father Murray, ed. Tales of an Endishodi: Father Berard Haile and the Navajos, 1900-1961. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Brugge, David M. The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: An American Tragedy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

———. Navajo Pottery and Ethnohistory. Window Rock, AZ: Navajo Tribal Museum, 1963.

———. Navajos in the Catholic Church Records of New Mexico 1694–1875. Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College Press, 1985.

Brugge, David M., and Charlotte J. Frisbee, eds. Navajo Religion and Culture: Selected Views; Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1982.

Brugge, Doug, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis. The Navajo People and Uranium Mining. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Bryant, Keith L. Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, and the People. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001.

Capps, Walter Holden, ed. Seeing with a Native Eye: Essays on Native American Religion. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

Coolidge, Dana, and Mary Roberts Coolidge. The Navajo Indians. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930.

Cooper, Guy H. Development and Stress in Navajo Religion. Stockholm, Sweden: Almquist and Wiksell International, 1984.

Correll, J. Lee, Editha L. Watson, and David M. Brugge, eds. Navajo Bibliography with Subject Index. Vols. 1 and 2. Research report, Navajo Parks and Recreation. Window Rock, AZ: Navajo Tribe, 1969.

Csordas, Thomas J. “Ritual Healing and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Navajo Society.” American Ethnologist 26, no. 1 (1999): 3–23.

———, ed. “Ritual Healing in Navajo Society.” Theme issue, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14 (2000): 3.

Curley, Jerry. “Navajo Railroad Worker, My Father’s Quest for the American Dream.” Labor’s Heritage 8, no. 4 (Spring 1997): 4–13.

Deloria, Vine, Jr. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, CO: North American Press, 1992.

———. The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006.

Denetdale, Jennifer Nez. Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Denzin, Norma K., Yvonna S. Lincoln, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds. Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. Los Angeles: Sage Publishing, 2008.

Doyel, David E. “Medicine Men, Ethnic Significance, and Cultural Resource Management.” American Antiquity 47, no. 3 (1982): 634–42.

Drudi, Dino. “Railroad-Related Work Injury Fatalities.” Monthly Labor Review, July/August 2007: 17.

Ducker, James H. Men of the Steel Rails: Workers on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad 1869–1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

Erdrich, Heid E., and Laura Tohe, eds. Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2002.

Evans, Will. Along Navajo Trails: Recollections of a Trader, 1898–1948. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005.

Farella, John R. The Main Stalk: A Synthesis of Navajo Philosophy. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1984.

Feld, Steven, and Keith H. Basso, eds. Senses of Place. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 1996.

Field, Margaret C. “Changing Navajo Language Ideologies and Changing Language Use.” In Native American Language Ideologies: Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country, edited by Paul V. Kroskrity and Margaret C. Field. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.

Frisbie, Charlotte. Navajo Medicine Bundles or Jish: Acquisition, Transmission, and Disposition in the Past and Present. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method, 2nd rev. ed. New York: Crossroad Publishers, 1989.

Gill, Sam D. Beyond Primitive: The Religions of Nonliterate Peoples. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982.

———. Native American Religion: A Performance Approach to Religion. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1987.

———. Sacred Words: A Study of Navajo Religion and Prayer. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

———. Songs of Life: An Introduction to Navajo Religious Culture. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1979.

Givens, Douglas R. An Analysis of Navajo Temporality. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1977.

Gold, Peter. Navajo and Tibetan Sacred Wisdom: The Circle of the Spirit. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1994.

Goodman, James Marion. The Navajo Atlas: Environments, Resources, People, and History of the Dine Bikeyah. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982.

Griffen, Joyce J., ed. Lucky the Navajo Singer. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.

Haber, William, John J. Carroll, Mark L. Kahn, and Merton J. Peck. Maintenance of Way Employment on U.S. Railroads. Detroit: Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, 1957.

Hertel, Denver Willard. History of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees. Washington, DC: Ransdell Publishers, 1955.

Hodge, William H. “Navajo Pentecostalism.” Anthropological Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1964): 73–93.

Holiday, John, and Robert S. McPherson. A Navajo Legacy: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.

Hosmer, Brian, and Colleen O’Neill, eds. Navajo Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2004.

House, Deborah. Language Shift among the Navajos: Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Howard, Cheryl. Navajo Tribal Demography 1983–1986. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.

Iverson, Peter. Diné: A History of the Navajos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Jackson, Michael. Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies and Effects. New York: Berghan Books, 2005.

James, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1958.

———. On Some of Life’s Ideals: On a Certain Blindness in Human Bings; What Makes a Life Significant. New York: Henry Holt, 1912.

Johnson, Broderick H., ed. Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period. Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College Press, 1973.

Jorgensen, Miriam. Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Kelley, Klara, and Harris Francis. “Indian Giving: Allotments on the Arizona Navajo Railroad Frontier 1904–1937.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 25, no. 3 (2001): 63–92.

Kluckhohn, Clyde, and Dorothea Leighton. The Navajo, rev. ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974.

Koenig, Seymour H., and Harriet Koenig. Acculturation in the Navajo Eden: New Mexico, 1550–1750. New York: YBK Publishers, 2005.

Kurtz, Ronald J. “Headmen and War Chanters: Role Theory and the Early Canyoncito Navajo.” Ethnohistory 16, no. 1 (Winter 1969): 83–111.

La Farge, Oliver. Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First published 1929.

Littlefield, Alice, and Hill Gates, eds. Marxist Approaches in Economic Anthropology. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991.

Littlefield, Alice, and Martha C. Knack, eds. Native Americans and Wage Labor: Ethnohistorical Perspectives. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Lyon, William H. “Gladys Reichard at the Frontiers of Navajo Culture.” American Indian Quarterly 13, no. 2 (1989): 137–63.

Malinowski, Bronislaw. Argonauts of the Western Pacific. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1984.

Maxwell, Gilbert S. Navajo Rugs: Past, Present and Future. Palm Desert, CA: Desert Southwest, 1963.

Mayes, Vernon O., and Barbara Bayless Lacy. Nanise’: A Navajo Herbal; One Hundred Plants from the Navajo Reservation. Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College Press, 1989.

McLaughlin, Daniel. “Critical Literacy for Navajo and Other American Indian Learners.” Journal of American Indian Education 33, no. 3 (1994).

McLuhan, T. C. Dream Tracks: The Railroad and the American Indian 1890–1930. New York: Abrams, 1985.

McNeley, James Kale. Holy Wind in Navajo Philosophy. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981.

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———. Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Meeks, Eric V. Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007.

Mitchell, Frank. Navajo Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell, 1881–1967. Edited by Charlotte J. Frisbie and David P. McAllester. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978.

Mitchell, Marie. The Navajo Peace Treaty of 1868. New York: Mason and Lipscomb, 1973.

Mitchell, Rose. Tall Woman: The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874–1977. Edited by Charlotte J. Frisbie. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.

Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper and Row, 1968.

Moon, Samuel. Tall Sheep: Harry Goulding, Monument Valley Trader. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

Moore, Lucy. Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Niemann, Linda G. Boomer: Railroad Memoirs. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.

———. Railroad Noir: The American West at the End of the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

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O’Bryan, Aileen. Navajo Indian Myths. New York: Dover Publications, 1993.

O’Neill, Colleen. “The Making of the Navajo Worker: Navajo Households, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Off-Reservation Wage Work, 1948–1960.” New Mexico Historical Review 74, no. 4 (1999).

———. Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.

Page, Jake, and Susanne Page. Navajo. Tucson, AZ: Rio Nuevo, 2010.

Parkhill, Thomas C. Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, “Indians,” and the Study of Native American Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977.

Parman, Donald L. The Navajos and the New Deal. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1976.

Pasternak, Judy. Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed. New York: Free Press, 2010.

Patin, Thomas. “White Mischief: Metaphor and Desire in a Misreading of Navajo Culture.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15, no. 4 (1991): 75–90.

Pavlik, Steve. “Navajo Christianity: Historical Origins and Modern Trends.” Wicazo Sa Review 12, no. 2 (1997): 43–58.

———. “Of Saints and Lamanites: An Analysis of Navajo Mormonism.” Wicazo Sa Review 8, no. 1 (1992): 21–30.

Peters, Kurt. “Santa Fe Indian Camp, House 21, Richmond, California: Persistence of Identity among Laguna Pueblo Railroad Laborers, 1945–1982.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 19, no. 3 (1995): 33–70.

Pfister, Joel. Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.

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Reichard, Gladys A. Navajo Religion: A Study of Symbolism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1950.

Richardson, Gladwell. Navajo Trader. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986.

Roessel, Ruth. Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National Disgrace. Chinle, AZ: Navajo Community College Press, 1974.

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Schwarz, Maureen Trudelle. Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003.

———. I Choose Life: Contemporary Medical and Religious Practices in the Navajo World. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

———. Molded in the Image of Changing Woman: Navajo Views on the Human Body and Personhood. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

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———. Navajo Kinship and Marriage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

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