Navajo Sacred Places

KLARA BONSACK KELLEY is a consulting ethnologist who has lived and studied in Navajo communities for more than seventeen years. Her publications include Navajo Land Use: An Ethnoarchaeological Study and (with Peter Whiteley) Navajoland: Family Settlement and Land Use. HARRIS FRANCIS is a Navajo, Tachii'nii clan born for Tabaaha clan, who grew up on the Navajo Reservation speaking Navajo and observing traditions in daily use. He is an American Indian Cultural Rights Protection Consultant and co-author of several articles on Navajo cultural rights and sacred places.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart OnePlaces Important to Navajo People: A Survey of Thirteen Navajo Communities1. Background2. The Project to Consult Navajo Communities3. Interpretation of ResultsPart TwoPlaces Important to Navajo People: Other Studies4. Other Studies: What They Did and How They Did It5. Stories and Types of Placed in the Other Studies6. Perserving the Culture by Preserving the Land: The "Landscape" and "Piecemeal" Approaches7. The Hidden ReservoirPart ThreeNavajo Customary Landscapes and Development Landscapes8. What Navajos Say about Cultural Preservation9. Navajo Endangered Landscapes10. Endangered Landscapes outside Navajo JurisdictionPart FourHidden and Manifest Landscapes in Stories11. Analytical Framework12. Hidden and Manifest Landscapes in Two Stories13. A Story about "Where Whiteshell Woman Stopped for Lunch"14. The Land, the People, and Culture ChangeAppendixesNotesReferencesIndexIllustrations follow page 122

"Kelley and Francis clearly and comprehensivly address a timely topic, illuminating superbly the inexorable linkage between preserving American Indian cultures and protecting sites endowed with spiritual significance." - Choice "This is an exceptional ethnography of the Navajos' relationship to their land ... "- The Reader's Review "The authors succeed admirably in their goal to investigate Navajo oral traditions in relation to place." - Raymond J. DeMallie