Author: HYDE, PHILIP & JETT, STEPHEN
Title: Navajo Wildlands: "As long as the rivers shall run"
Description: Sierra Club / Ballantine, 1969.. First Editiion. 159 p. ,plates with full-color photographs SOFTCOVER: Orig. .paperback, w/faint dogear to upper front corners. Title page missing? Dedication f.e.p. Interior VERY GOOD) ) ¶ Vintage monograph of Navajo Country. "As long as the rivers shall run and the grass shall grow," is a common phrase used in many Indian treaties conveying the concept of "forever" in a manner both conquered tribes and the U.S. Gov't understood. This volume, with words voiced by Willa Cather, Oliver la Farge and others, as well as from Navajo legends & songs, is illustrated with color photos by Philip Hyde. A book about Navajo land, of what man has done to it & for it, and, what it has meant & can yet mean.

Keywords: North America Ethnography Anthropology North American Indians landscape Navajo


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