HIS148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Navajo Nation
Document Summary
The 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s were an exceptional time in the history of navajo. An era marked by hope and uncertainty, unity, and debate. Through all of this, the navajos clearly emerged as significant players in. Southwestern culture and in american indian national history. The navajo population doubled between 1960 and 1990. By 1990, the tribe was the largest in the u. s. Occupying over 25,000 square miles of land. Many ancient cultural practices remained vibrant in areas such as legal aid, health care, and industry. Alarming concerns remained about the future of the navajos. Education in navajo was one area that had seen huge growth. By the mid-1960s in navajo nation four types of schools existed: The last of these were run by workers employed by locally elected school boards who were given at least partial funding through contracts with the bia for these institutions. Primary involvement of the bia in navajo education declined during the 1960s.
