Cemeteries GravemarkersRichard Meyer Utah State University Press, 1992 - 347 pages Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large. |
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Richard Meyer. 8 Navajo , Mormon , Zuni Graves : Navajo , Mormon , Zuni Ways Keith Cunningham The Navajo have a phrase they use frequently , which they translate into English as " the Navajo Way , " and they say it in English as in Navajo ...
Richard Meyer. 8 Navajo , Mormon , Zuni Graves : Navajo , Mormon , Zuni Ways Keith Cunningham The Navajo have a phrase they use frequently , which they translate into English as " the Navajo Way , " and they say it in English as in Navajo ...
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... Navajo Nation and the Navajo culture . The vast majority of the Ramah Navajo are the descendants of seven families who separated from the main group returning to the Navajo lands from their captivity and imprisonment by the federal ...
... Navajo Nation and the Navajo culture . The vast majority of the Ramah Navajo are the descendants of seven families who separated from the main group returning to the Navajo lands from their captivity and imprisonment by the federal ...
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... Navajo burials could face any of the traditional six directions except down ( though there was some statistically discernible preference for having the head point to the North ) . Death for the Navajo involves a cause . The cause is ...
... Navajo burials could face any of the traditional six directions except down ( though there was some statistically discernible preference for having the head point to the North ) . Death for the Navajo involves a cause . The cause is ...
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Images of Logging on Contemporary Pacific Northwest | 61 |
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