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Sacred words : a study of Navajo religion and prayer
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ISBN: 0313221650 9780313221651 Year: 1981 Volume: 4 Publisher: Westport (Conn.): Greenwood

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Working on the railroad, walking in beauty
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ISBN: 9781607327172 1283341484 9786613341488 0874218543 1607327171 0874218586 0874218535 9780874218541 9780874218534 9780874218589 6613341487 9781283341486 Year: 2011 Publisher: Logan Utah State University Press

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For over one hundred years, Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks, they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives.Jay Youngdahl, an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in divinity from Harvard, has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of ha

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