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    The Navajo Livestock Reduction was imposed by the United States government upon the Navajo Nation in the 1930s, during the Great Depression. The reduction...
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    (1973). Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press. Roessel, Ruth, ed. (1974). Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National...
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    Churro sheep line. In the 1930s, the US government implemented the Navajo Livestock Reduction, intended to reduce the amount of sheep and horses on Diné lands...
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    Navajo Livestock Reduction: A National Disgrace. Tsaile, Arizona: Navajo Community College Press. ISBN 0-912586-18-4. "Navajo Nation Code | Navajo Nation...
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    Snow was employed by the Navajo Service for this project after the impact of "John Collier's draconian Livestock Reduction Program of the 1930's and...
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    S. Route 66 – notable Dust Bowl migration route to California Navajo Livestock Reduction – simultaneous program to prevent overgrazing and erosion McLeman...
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    largest tribe, the Navajo, had been badly hurt by the federal Navajo Livestock Reduction Program, which took away half their livestock and jailed dissenters...
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    effective only in Minnesota. Collier's support of the Navajo Livestock Reduction program resulted in Navajo opposition to the Indian New Deal. The Indian Rights...
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    Thomas Dodge (category Chairpersons of the Navajo Tribe)
    1936. He presided over the council during introduction of the Navajo Livestock Reduction. Dodge respected the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, John Collier...
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    environmental damage to both the land and livestock inhibits the ability of the Navajo people to practice their culture. The Navajo Nation was affected by the United...
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    Collier's decision to impose the Navajo Livestock Reduction program resulted in the Navajo losing half their livestock. The Indian Rights Association denounced...
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    instance the Dineh (Navajo), who use it for diabetes. Juniper ash has also been historically consumed as a source of calcium by the Navajo people. Juniper...
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  • (1973). ISBN 0912586168. Ruth Roessel and Broderick H. Johnson. Navajo Livestock Reduction: a national disgrace. (1974). ISBN 0912586184. Ruth Roessel. The...
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    B., Ahasteen, J., & Chee, J. (2012). Nanise’: A Navajo herbal: One Hundred Plants from the Navajo Reservation. Chandler, AZ: Five Star Publications...
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    Colorado River (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
    Southern Paiutes that were slower to adopt horses. The Navajo also adopted a culture of livestock herding as they acquired sheep and goats from the Spanish...
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  • Williams v. Lee (category Navajo Nation)
    stock reduction program that reminded many Navajo of the imprisonment at the Bosque Redondo and was opposed by the tribe. At the same time, the Navajo began...
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    Grand Canyon (category Articles containing Navajo-language text)
    the Hualapai Indian Reservation, the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Navajo Nation. The surrounding area is contained within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah...
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    The Costanoan, or Ohlone, use(d) the hollow stems as drinking straws. The Navajo use(d) it as sheep and horse feed. Blue grama is the dominant species of...
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    though a different version has it being created in the Fourth World. The Navajo Coyote brings death into the world, explaining that without death, too many...
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    cultures and tribes of: many of the 21 distinct Puebloan groups; the Tiwa; the Navajo; and the Apache. The missions also aimed to pacify resistance to the European...
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  • Eric-Paul Riege (category Navajo male artists)
    Burntwater, Arizona who was affected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs "livestock reduction" program in the 1930s. He learned how to sew from his mother. His...
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    District of New Mexico, to kill Navajo men, destroy crops, wells, houses and livestock. These tactics forced 9000 Navajos to take the Long Walk to a reservation...
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    There was a rapid reduction of Mexican wolf populations in the Southwestern United States from 1915 to 1920; by the mid-1920s, livestock losses to Mexican...
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    Utes to aid them in conflicts with the Navajos, which the Ute saw as an economic need. In 1868 both the Navajo and Ute tribes were removed to reservations...
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    Bear Woman's children, in turn, killed Grizzly Bear Woman's children. The Navajo believed that the Big Black Bear was chief among the bears of the four directions...
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    stations. For all technologies, advances in efficiency, and therefore reductions in CO2e since the time of publication, have not been included. For example...
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  • Cocoliztli epidemics 1918 Spanish flu pandemic COVID-19 pandemic in the Navajo Nation Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Native American tribes and tribal...
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  • repealed the Bennett Freeze that barred development on parts of the Hopi and Navajo Indian Reservations 111-19 May 12, 2009 Civil Rights History Project Act...
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    northern half of the country vulnerable to attacks by Comanche, Apache, and Navajo Native Americans. The Comanche, in particular, took advantage of the weakness...
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  • 85%. Members of the Navajo tribe in particular were integral to the monument's passage. A tribal spokesperson stated that a reduction in the size of the...
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