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This document is a three page list of Navajo Clans along with English translations. Includes some handwritten notes, including the name Dennis Parker at the head of the first page. This collection pertains to Public Health Nursing among Native American people, with emphasis on the Navajo Tribe. This collection consists of correspondence, a manuscript, a questionnaire and responses, personal reminiscences, articles, essays, government documents and pamphlets, as well as photographs (see Photographic Collection), which depict Reservation life through the eyes of Public Health nurses, Native Americans, and government officials, and includes a wealth of statistical material and government data.

Navajo Material: Navajo games and sports. This appears to be a journal entry describing two games, the moccasin game and the jar game. It details all rules and reasons and goals of each game. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The Day Family were anglo Indian traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); and of their children, Charles L. Day (1879-1918), Samuel Day, Jr. (1889-1944), United States deputy Marshall. The collection includes information on Navajo culture, stories and legends; the looting of Canyon del Muerta, and the Frank Dugan murder. The collection also contains 91 photographs depicting trading posts and eastern Arizona scenes.

CONTENT: Document listing delegates and alternates to the Navajo Tribal council from of the Navajo Nation, covering parts of Arizona and New Mexico. BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY: The Day Family were anglo Indian traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); and of their children, Charles L. Day (1879-1918), Samuel Day, Jr. (1889-1944), United States deputy Marshall. The collection includes information on Navajo culture, stories and legends; the looting of Canyon del Muerta, and the Frank Dugan murder.

Grouping of Navajo Clan Names according to the concensus of opinion of six employees of the Section of Human Dependence Surveys, including Reichard, Matthews, Bourke, and the Franciscan Fathers. Phillip Emerson's name is written on the upper left hand corner of the second page.BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The Day Family were anglo Indian traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); and of their children, Charles L. Day (1879-1918), Samuel Day, Jr. (1889-1944), United States deputy Marshall. The collection includes information on Navajo culture, stories and legends; the looting of Canyon del Muerta, and the Frank Dugan murder. The collection also contains 91 photographs depicting trading posts and eastern Arizona scenes.

Treaty between the United States of America and the Navajo Tribe, signed at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, June 1, 1869. Ratified by the U.S. Senate, July 25, 1868 and signed by President Andrew Johnson, August 12, 1868.

This is a lease agreement between Peabody Coal, the Navajo Generation Station, Salt River Project, Tucson Gas & Electric, Nevada Power Company, Department of Water & Power of the City of Los Angeles and the Navajo Tribe. The lease outlines all major components to be fulfilled by Peabody Coal regarding general business operations, the environmental controls and royalties to the Navajo Nation. Also included in this agreement is testimony signed by the United States Department of the Interior. Documents are signed by Raymond Nakai, Navajo Chairman in 1969, Nelson Damon, Navajo Vice Chairman in 1969, and Walter J. Hickel, Secretary of the Interior in 1969. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Raymond Nakai, a Navajo Indian, was born in 1918 in Lukachukai, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai is noted as being the first modern Navajo political leader serving as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963-1971. As chairman, the issues most important during his tenure were self determination in Navajo Education, reservation unemployment, developing Navajo economy, further development of the tribal government and improving relations with the federal government and surrounding states. Nakai had much unprecedented success as Navajo Tribal Chairman: In 1967 the Navajo Nation Bill of Rights was created, in 1968 Navajo Community College opened being the first tribally controlled community college, the Tribal Scholarship Trust was developed, relations with off reservation natural resource companies began, he was supportive of religious freedom of the Native American Church on the Navajo Reservation. Raymond Nakai led an active personal and political life and was an innovative leader for the Navajo People. The Raymond Nakai Collection contains material documenting his activities as Chairman of the Navajo Nation from 1963 - 1971.