Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country

by Marsha L. Weisiger

Book Overview

Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Din ) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds of thousands of sheep, goats, and horses were killed -- was an ambitious attempt by the federal government to eliminate overgrazing on an arid landscape and to better the lives of the people who lived there. Instead, the policy was a disaster,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991410
• ISBN13: 9780295991412
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher