OCR Text |
Show SOURCES 183 of Lands North of the San Juan River in Present-Day Utah to 1935," unpublished MSS, Navajo Tribal Museum, Window Rock, Arizona; and M. A. Stokes and T. L. Smiley, "Tree-Ring Dates from the Navajo Land Claim: I. The Northern Sector," and "Tree-Ring Dates from the Navajo Land Claim: II. The Western Sector," Tree-Ring Bulletin 25 and 26 (June 1963 and June 1964). Chapter VII: The Fearing Much of the material mentioned in the preceding essay is also helpful for understanding the late Spanish and Mexican period of Navajo history. Two other articles add valuable information about the later years of Spanish rule: Frank D. Reeve, "Navaho-Spanish Diplomacy, 1770-1790," New Mexico Historical Review 35 (July 1960), and Joseph F. Park, "Spanish Indian Policy in Northern Mexico, 1765-1810," Arizona and the West 4 (Winter 1963). There are fewer works on the early nineteenth century than on other periods of Navajo history, but good information can be found in the secondary works cited in the last essay. Two small volumes published by the Navajo Tribe are also worthwhile: David M. Brugge, Long Ago in Navajoland, Navajoland Publications, No. 6 (July 1965); and J. Lee Correll, The Story of the Navajo Treaties (Window Rock, Arizona: Navajo Tribe, 1971). Primary source material can be found in the places cited in the last essay. In addition to those already cited, the following sources contain material about northern Navajos: Mary Shepardson and Blodwen Hammond, The Navajo Mountain Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970); the Duke American Indian Oral History Project, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period (Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press, 1973). Chapter VIII: The Coming of the Whitemen The twenty years of warfare following the United States' conquest of New Mexico is the most written-about era in Navajo history. The best secondary works on this period are L. R. Bailey, The Long Walk (Los Angeles: Western-Lore Press, 1964); Frank McNitt, The Navajo Wars: Military Campaigns, Slave Raids, and Reprisals (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1972); W. A. Keleher, Turmoil in New Mexico, 1846-1868 (Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1951); and two articles by Frank D. Reeve, "The Government and the Navajo, 1846-1858," New Mexico Historical Review 14 (1939), and "The Federal Indian Policy in New Mexico, 1858-1880," New Mexico Historical Review 12 (1937). Printed congressional documents found in the government serial set provide a wealth of primary source material on initial United States-Navajo relations. The most dependable sources of information are the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Annual Reports of the Secretary of War. Several other valuable collections of primary material have been published. J. Lee Correll, Through White Men's Eyes: A Contribution to Navajo History (Window Rock, Arizona: Navajo Heritage Center, 1976), contains a comprehensive synopsis of documentary information on the Navajos. David M. Brugge and J. Lee Correll, The Story of the Navajo Treaties (Window Rock, Arizona: Navajo Tribe, 1971), gives the texts of the many treaties negotiated with the Navajo nation. An excellent collection of oral tradition can be found in Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period (Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press, 1973). A number of journals, letters, and reports written by Americans who had dealings with the Navajos have been published. The most important volume is Annie Heloise Abel, ed., The Official Correspondence of fames S. Calhoun while Indian Agent at Santa Fe and Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New Mexico, Office of Indian Affairs (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1915). Works which provide information on the northern frontiers of Navajoland during the early American period are David M. Brugge, "Navajo Use and Occupation of Lands North of the San Juan River in Present-Day Utah to 1935," unpublished MSS, Navajo Tribal Museum, Window Rock, Arizona; J. Lee Correll, "Navajo Frontiers in Utah and Troublous Times in Monument Valley," Utah Historical Quarterly 39 (Spring 1971); Mary Shepardson and Blodwen Hammond, The Navajo Mountain Community (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970); and the Duke American Indian Oral History Project, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Chapter IX: The Long Walk and Peace Lawrence Kelly, Navajo Roundup: Selected Correspondence of Kit Carson's Expedition Against the Navajo, 1863-1865 (Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Publishing Co., 1970), is a particularly valuable study of the Long Walk period. Gerald E. Thompson, The Army and the Navajo: The Bosque Redondo Reservation Experiment (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1976), is also good, as is The Long Walk: A History of the Navajo Wars, 1846-1868 (Los Angeles: Western-Lore Press, 1964) by Lynn R. Bailey. |