INDEX 



327 



Singing, value of, 97, 112-113 (table), 



126 

 Sings, 74, 85 

 Skeleton Mesa, Navaho Reseryation, 32, 



33, 39 

 Skillets, 82 

 Skirts, full, 80 

 Slaughtering, 118 

 Slaves, 302, 306 

 Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Ed, 28 

 Soap, commercial, 82, 300 

 Social Science Research Council, 10, 11, 



12, 242 

 Social Security, 133 



See also Federal Social Security 



Administration. 

 Social structure, 13, 54-65, 72, 234 

 Social units, 98 

 Socks, bobby, 80, 92 

 Soda pop, popularity of, 205, 206, 210, 



289 

 Soil and water development, 45, 224 

 Solomon Islands, 301, 304 

 South, Jack, 28 

 Spaniards, trade with. 150 

 Spanish invaders, 39, 40, 149 

 Spanish language, 130 

 Spicer, Edward H., 5, S, 29, 239. 244. 284 

 Squash, 82, 99, 123 

 Squaw belts, see Sashes. 

 Squaw dances, 70, 203 

 State Department of Public Welfare, 



15. 89, 218. 224. 226, 228. 274, 276 

 State Employment Service, 280 



See also Employment. 

 Status, definition of, 268, 269 

 Stock reduction plan, 239, 240, 241, 242, 



257, 284 

 Storekeeper, company, 302 

 Stover & Coddington, store at Fort 



Wingate, 151 

 Stoves, 78 



Subsistence activities, control of, 105 

 Sugar, 181, 199, 207 

 Summer Seminar on Acculturation, 11. 



214, 215, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235. 



236, 237. 241, 242, 244. 254, 259, 



268, 269, 282, 290, 293, 294, 295, 



297, 304, 305, 306 

 Sunshine Trading Post, 157 

 Superintendent and family, 53 

 Supermarkets, 270 

 "Suttlers," Army traders, 151 

 Sweat house, 78 



Tachi'ini Clan, 62 



Talker, .Janet, informant, 28 



Tallsalt, Bert, informant, 28 



Tanner, Clara Lee, 29 



Tax, Sol. 299, 301, 302, 305 



Tea, 81 



Teamster, .Jim. informer, 28 



Telephone facility, 223, 224, 228, 253 



magneto system, 45 

 Television, 247 

 Thanksgiving, 73 

 Theft, see Law. 



The Gap Trading Post, 30, 155 



Thieves, 274 



Thompson, Eddie, 28, 59, 104, 105, 108 



Timber rights, 96 



Tobacco, 149 



chewing, medical use of, 74 

 Tonalea Post Office, 223 

 Tools, 79 



Topography, 33-34 

 Tourist development, 43-44 



See also Navaho. 

 Tow cards, commercial, 84 

 Tractor, 224 



Trade, 186 (table), 187 (table), 

 language, 212-213, 262, 263 



See also "Trader Navaho." 

 money, 152 

 Navaho retail, 22, 171, 175, 184-214, 



215, 216, 255, 261 

 patterns of, 201-212 

 types of, 186 

 Trader, as a general factotum, 227 



behavior of, 210-212, 254, 267, 287 

 early Army, 151 

 European, 299, 301 

 free, 302, 303, 305 

 hired, 17, IS 

 in literature. 5-8, 297 

 in relation to Euro-American co- 

 lonial expansion, 297 

 policy of handling checks, 189, 190 

 relationship with Navaho, 290 

 resident, 164, 166, 167, 256, 261, 262 

 role of the, 8, 22-25, 269-270, 305 

 vital statistics kept by, 227, 228 

 Trader-Native contact, hypothetical reg- 

 ularities in, 305-307 

 Trader-Navaho relations, 8, 10, 23, 25, 



93, 208, 211, 212, 263, 264 

 "Trader Navaho," trade language, 4, 17, 



23, 213, 214, 277 

 Trading, 42-43, 84 

 etiquette, 205 

 experience, 4-5, 25 

 in Northwestern Navaho area, 

 154—156 

 Trading post, 149-230, 247, 248, 253, 258 

 (chart), 259, 260, 284 

 American-operated, 2, 7, 8, 10, 150, 



245 

 as a protective agency, 225-227 

 as a social center, 300 

 clientele of, 184-185 (table), 186, 

 202, 203 (table), 204, 213, 216, 

 225, 227, 231, 264, 269, 270, 271, 

 273, 376, 280, 287, 290, 293, 295, 

 296, 303 

 comparable with general store, 169, 



171, 181, 216 

 customer area in, 205 

 dependence on, 278-281 

 early, 150-154, 238 

 economics, 19, 21-22, 108-109, 167- 



184 

 hired hands, information from, 16- 

 17, 18 



