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200 10$aWorking on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty$eNavajos, Hózhó, and Track Work /$fJay Youngdahl
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aLogan, UT :$cUtah State University Press,$d2011.
210  4$d©2011.
215   $a1 online resource (209 p.)
300   $aIncludes index.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; One: Life on the Tracks; Two: Religion on the Rez; Three: A Visit with a Medicine Man; Four: Adversaries and Advocates; Five: How Did Navajo Men Come to Work for the Railroads?; Six: Railroads, Trading Posts, and a Fatal Challenge to the RRB's System; Seven: In the Workers' Words; Eight: Anchoring and Adaptability, Fixed yet Fluid; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index
330   $aFor over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant  numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of  laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to  anchor their lives.Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in  claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently  earned a master's in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and  archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the  railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of  ha
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