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Navajo Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell, 1881-1967

Navajo Blessingway Singer: The Autobiography of Frank Mitchell, 1881-1967

Frisbie, Charlotte J.
McAllester, David P.

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ISBN10: 0826331815
ISBN13: 9780826331816
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: Apr 1 2003
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.44
Height: 1.29 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

This life history of a Navajo leader, recorded in the 1960s and first published in 1977, is a classic work in the study of Navajo history and religious traditions.

A skillful, meticulous, and altogether praiseworthy contribution to Navajo studies. . . . Although the focus of Mitchell's autobiography is upon his role as a Blessingway singer, there is much material here on Navajo history and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mitchell attended the government school at Fort Defiance, worked on the railroad in Arizona, served as a handyman and interpreter at several trading posts and the Franciscan missions, and later served as a tribal councilman in the 1930s and as a judge in the 1940s and 1950s. His observations on these experiences are relevant to our understanding of contemporary Navajo life.--Lawrence C. Kelly, Western Historical Quarterly

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