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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

Navajo Indians - Employment. --- Navajo Indians - Religion. --- Navajo Indians - Social conditions. --- Railroad construction workers - Southwest, New - History. --- Railroads - Southwest, New - Employees - History. --- Southwest, New - Politics and government. --- Southwest, New - Race relations. --- Navajo Indians --- Railroad construction workers --- Southwest, New --- Railroad workers --- Diné Indians (Navajo) --- Navaho Indians --- Railroads --- Employees --- History. --- Religion. --- Social conditions. --- Employment. --- Race relations. --- Politics and government. --- Iron horses (Railroads) --- Lines, Railroad --- Rail industry --- Rail lines --- Rail transportation --- Railroad industry --- Railroad lines --- Railroad transportation --- Railway industry --- Railways --- Communication and traffic --- Concessions --- Public utilities --- Transportation --- Trusts, Industrial --- Construction workers --- Athapascan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Sunbelt States