The Navajos and the Indian Bureau

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Stone Structures of Navajos

Stone Structures of Navajos

Collection area: Arizona and Southwest

Collection dates: circa 1950

About this collection

Original typescript with holograph corrections, written about 1950, chiefly concerning education on the Navajo Indian Reservation during the 1930s and early 1940s. Includes 7 photographs of chapter houses and Navajo in western New Mexico and east central Arizona taken in the 1930s.

Historical background

Supervisor of Indian Education, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1928-1943.

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