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"In January of 1959 the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Williams v. Lee, reaffirmed the right of jurisdiction of tribal courts - as opposed to state courts - when civil or criminal actions are brought against reservation Indian defendants. The considerable interest and attention which this decision created has brought to light once more the general lack of understanding of the legal and political position of reservation Indians. The following...
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Challenges the notion that the introduction of market capitalism leads to the destruction of native cultural values. This book instead shows that contact with new markets provided the Navajos with ways to diversify their survival strategies. The author shows that Navajo cultural values were flexible enough to accommodate economic change.
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"This book tells of the booms and busts with coal in the Navajo Nation. It utilizes a documentation of indigenous contestation over extractive industries in a time of climate change, energy nationalism, and in a post-welfare economy. It is about tribal sovereignty and the meaning of work and cultural survival for the Navajo Nation in the twenty first century"--
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