Front matter
Navajo Religion, by Douglas Johnson, 2006.
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Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty Navajos, Hózhó, and Track Work
Contents
Foreword, Michael D. Jackson viii Preface xi Introduction l An introduction to the Navajo Nation 2 Navajo railroad work 6 The legal background of Navajo railroad work 9 Language, space, and time 13 “Pastoral life” and “modern civilization” 18 The fixed and the fluid 22 The meaning and importance of Navajo strategies 24 One: Life on the Tracks 27 Meeting Jerry Sandoval 27 Wage labor and the Navajo 30 The work of railroad trackmen 33 Jerry Sandoval 5 experience 39 Two: Religion on the Rez 44 A Pentecostal family 44 Religious practices on the Navajo Nation 45 Traditional Navajo religion 46 The Native American Church 53 Christianity on the rez 56 A short discussion with Harry Walters 62
The centrality of hózhó 65 vi
David Sangster—A conversation about the interplay of religious traditions
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