ANTH 3110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Navajo Nation Council, Navajo, Cultural Landscape
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All things are sacred, the land, plants and animals. Black mesa mountains - body of female pollen range - navajo people told to leave it alone even though coal companies are breaking into it. Young navajos work in it, cancer from fumes. Immortals destroyed anasazis for not following holy laws (navajo headed in the same direction, becoming "crazy") 1986 - navajo nation govt - historic preservation department. 13 local communities (chapters), smallest unit of navajo govt. Contacted chapter officials, officers, navajo nation council delegates. Difference in chapters approaches does not reflect differences in their connections to the outside world. Usually main episodes of creation story entirely through allusion, so creation story becomes context from which places named gain importance. Another place consists of those where navajos have left evidence of customary navajo activities. Places with public functions (trading posts, missions, schools, govt buildings.
