Klara B Kelley
Biographic Data
| ID | 226112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Klara B Kelley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Klara B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelley |
| SIGNATURE | KELLEY K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Navajo Nation Division of Health |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Asdzáán Náhodidáhí (Lady Picker-Up) at Fajada Butte: Astronomy, Landscape, and the Basketmaker III Origins of Chacoan Ceremonialism
In this paper, we combine evidence from archaeology, landscape, astronomy, and Indigenous oral traditions to propose that Chaco Canyon was established as a regionally influential sun-moon-rain shrine beginning in the Basketmaker III period. We review the Basketmaker III archaeological record of Chaco Canyon with emphasis on Shábik'e'eshchί (29 SJ 1659), Woodpecker (29 SJ 423), and Coyote Point (29 SJ 299), a site near Fajada Butte. We suggest Shá…
Downy Home Man and Chacoan Macaws: How Diné Oral Tradition Can Enhance Archaeology
Four recent archaeological studies suggest that macaws came to Chaco Canyon and Mimbres, New Mexico, from Mesoamerica and that the Mayan epic of the hero twins accompanied them to Mimbres. An episode from a narrative about the origins of a Diné (Navajo) ceremonial repertoire is analyzed here to suggest avenues for future archaeological research. The Diné narrative presumably has come from one or more of the many southwestern US and other groups t…
Diné Clans and Climate Change: A Historical Lesson for Land Use Today
This paper presents the history of the Diné (Navajo) system of kinship and clanship as a response to environmental and political instability. We describe the Diné traditional system of k'éí, kinship and clanship, held together by k'é, the ethic of universal relatedness, and how, after 1930, the system has fared under conquest, settler colonialism, climate change, and replacement with a government-administered grazing-permit system. As long recogn…
A Diné History of Navajoland
Traditional Navajo Maps and Wayfinding
All theories of the "peopling" of the Western Hemisphere acknowledge the abundant evidence, from remotest pre-Columbian times to the present, that American Indians have traveled long distances for direct subsistence, trade, and other purposes. 1 Yet most Indian societies have not produced "maps" in the familiar sense of "a representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens." 2 Outside the influence of European coloniz…
Indian Giving: Allotments on the Arizona Navajo Railroad Frontier, 1904-1937
This article seeks to deepen our understanding of an all-too-recurrent process: Washington, D.C.'s eviction of Indians from lands that the American government itself had previously "secured" for them. The intricacies of this process appear in a little-known story that precedes the Navajo-Hopi land dispute. It is the story of how Navajo families lost lands, which we call the Chambers Checkerboard (see fig
Many Generations, Few Improvements: "Americans" Challenge Navajos on the Transcontinental Railroad Grant, Arizona, 1881-1887
Between 1863 and 1868, the US Army waged a war on the Navajo people that ended in the Army holding perhaps half of all Navajos at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The Navajo homelands before this time extended from southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado across northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. Fort Sumner was hundreds of miles to the east. In 1868, a dozen Navajo headmen inscribed their Xes on a treaty with the US Army, which set asi…
Whose Relevance Problem
Navajo Sacred Places
An engaging blend of anthropological study and firsthand account takes readers into the heart of the Navajo's struggle to protect their sacred places
Navajoland: Family and Settlement and Land Use
Places Important to Navajo People
Navajo Land Use: An Ethnoarchaeological Study
Navajo Land Use: An Ethno-Archaeological Study
Ethnoarchaeology of Navajo Trading Posts
Trading posts have existed in the Navajo country since 1851. Their history has been a popular subject for both scholarly and popular books and articles. Yet recent archaeological work and the ethnohistorical research that has accompanied it are beginning to show heretofore unrecognized aspects of trading-post history. In contrast to the long-lived trading post operated by a full-time, non-Navajo owner or manager, most trading posts documented in …
Yet Another Reanalysis of the Navajo Outfit: New Evidence from Historical Documents
In an effort to find order in the apparent "amorphousness" of Navajo kinship organization above the level of the homesite, Aberle (1981) has defined a larger social group, the "coresident kin group," to which he ascribes six characteristics. This paper offers a limited test of Aberle's formulation with historical data on Navajo families near Window Rock, Arizona. The main sources of information are several sets of documents from around 1940 and t…
Ethnoarchaeology of the Black Hat Navajos: Historical and Ahistorical Determinants of Site Features
This paper reports some results of an ethnoarchaeological study of Navajo sites on a coal mine lease near Black Hat, in northwestern New Mexico. Before the 1950s, features on Black Hat Navajo archaeological sites mainly reflect three ahistorical factors: the physical attributes of a site's occupants; responses of the occupants to weather; and how much of the year the occupants used a site. Historical changes in Navajo political economy interacted…
Navajo Political Economy before Fort Sumner
Navajo Sacred Places
An engaging blend of anthropological study and firsthand account takes readers into the heart of the Navajo's struggle to protect their sacred places
A Diné History of Navajoland
Places Important to Navajo People
Downy Home Man and Chacoan Macaws: How Diné Oral Tradition Can Enhance Archaeology
Four recent archaeological studies suggest that macaws came to Chaco Canyon and Mimbres, New Mexico, from Mesoamerica and that the Mayan epic of the hero twins accompanied them to Mimbres. An episode from a narrative about the origins of a Diné (Navajo) ceremonial repertoire is analyzed here to suggest avenues for future archaeological research. The Diné narrative presumably has come from one or more of the many southwestern US and other groups t…
Traditional Navajo Maps and Wayfinding
All theories of the "peopling" of the Western Hemisphere acknowledge the abundant evidence, from remotest pre-Columbian times to the present, that American Indians have traveled long distances for direct subsistence, trade, and other purposes. 1 Yet most Indian societies have not produced "maps" in the familiar sense of "a representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens." 2 Outside the influence of European coloniz…
Ethnoarchaeology of the Black Hat Navajos: Historical and Ahistorical Determinants of Site Features
This paper reports some results of an ethnoarchaeological study of Navajo sites on a coal mine lease near Black Hat, in northwestern New Mexico. Before the 1950s, features on Black Hat Navajo archaeological sites mainly reflect three ahistorical factors: the physical attributes of a site's occupants; responses of the occupants to weather; and how much of the year the occupants used a site. Historical changes in Navajo political economy interacted…
Navajo Land Use: An Ethno-Archaeological Study
Asdzáán Náhodidáhí (Lady Picker-Up) at Fajada Butte: Astronomy, Landscape, and the Basketmaker III Origins of Chacoan Ceremonialism
In this paper, we combine evidence from archaeology, landscape, astronomy, and Indigenous oral traditions to propose that Chaco Canyon was established as a regionally influential sun-moon-rain shrine beginning in the Basketmaker III period. We review the Basketmaker III archaeological record of Chaco Canyon with emphasis on Shábik'e'eshchί (29 SJ 1659), Woodpecker (29 SJ 423), and Coyote Point (29 SJ 299), a site near Fajada Butte. We suggest Shá…
Navajo Land Use: An Ethnoarchaeological Study
Indian Giving: Allotments on the Arizona Navajo Railroad Frontier, 1904-1937
This article seeks to deepen our understanding of an all-too-recurrent process: Washington, D.C.'s eviction of Indians from lands that the American government itself had previously "secured" for them. The intricacies of this process appear in a little-known story that precedes the Navajo-Hopi land dispute. It is the story of how Navajo families lost lands, which we call the Chambers Checkerboard (see fig
Many Generations, Few Improvements: "Americans" Challenge Navajos on the Transcontinental Railroad Grant, Arizona, 1881-1887
Between 1863 and 1868, the US Army waged a war on the Navajo people that ended in the Army holding perhaps half of all Navajos at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The Navajo homelands before this time extended from southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado across northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. Fort Sumner was hundreds of miles to the east. In 1868, a dozen Navajo headmen inscribed their Xes on a treaty with the US Army, which set asi…
Navajoland: Family and Settlement and Land Use
Navajo Political Economy before Fort Sumner
Yet Another Reanalysis of the Navajo Outfit: New Evidence from Historical Documents
In an effort to find order in the apparent "amorphousness" of Navajo kinship organization above the level of the homesite, Aberle (1981) has defined a larger social group, the "coresident kin group," to which he ascribes six characteristics. This paper offers a limited test of Aberle's formulation with historical data on Navajo families near Window Rock, Arizona. The main sources of information are several sets of documents from around 1940 and t…
Ethnoarchaeology of the Black Hat Navajos: Historical and Ahistorical Determinants of Site Features
This paper reports some results of an ethnoarchaeological study of Navajo sites on a coal mine lease near Black Hat, in northwestern New Mexico. Before the 1950s, features on Black Hat Navajo archaeological sites mainly reflect three ahistorical factors: the physical attributes of a site's occupants; responses of the occupants to weather; and how much of the year the occupants used a site. Historical changes in Navajo political economy interacted…
Ethnoarchaeology of Navajo Trading Posts
Trading posts have existed in the Navajo country since 1851. Their history has been a popular subject for both scholarly and popular books and articles. Yet recent archaeological work and the ethnohistorical research that has accompanied it are beginning to show heretofore unrecognized aspects of trading-post history. In contrast to the long-lived trading post operated by a full-time, non-Navajo owner or manager, most trading posts documented in …
Navajo Land Use: An Ethno-Archaeological Study
Navajo Land Use: An Ethnoarchaeological Study
Navajoland: Family and Settlement and Land Use
Places Important to Navajo People
Navajo Sacred Places
An engaging blend of anthropological study and firsthand account takes readers into the heart of the Navajo's struggle to protect their sacred places
Whose Relevance Problem
Indian Giving: Allotments on the Arizona Navajo Railroad Frontier, 1904-1937
This article seeks to deepen our understanding of an all-too-recurrent process: Washington, D.C.'s eviction of Indians from lands that the American government itself had previously "secured" for them. The intricacies of this process appear in a little-known story that precedes the Navajo-Hopi land dispute. It is the story of how Navajo families lost lands, which we call the Chambers Checkerboard (see fig
Many Generations, Few Improvements: "Americans" Challenge Navajos on the Transcontinental Railroad Grant, Arizona, 1881-1887
Between 1863 and 1868, the US Army waged a war on the Navajo people that ended in the Army holding perhaps half of all Navajos at Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The Navajo homelands before this time extended from southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado across northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. Fort Sumner was hundreds of miles to the east. In 1868, a dozen Navajo headmen inscribed their Xes on a treaty with the US Army, which set asi…
Traditional Navajo Maps and Wayfinding
All theories of the "peopling" of the Western Hemisphere acknowledge the abundant evidence, from remotest pre-Columbian times to the present, that American Indians have traveled long distances for direct subsistence, trade, and other purposes. 1 Yet most Indian societies have not produced "maps" in the familiar sense of "a representation, usually on a plane surface, of a region of the earth or heavens." 2 Outside the influence of European coloniz…
Diné Clans and Climate Change: A Historical Lesson for Land Use Today
This paper presents the history of the Diné (Navajo) system of kinship and clanship as a response to environmental and political instability. We describe the Diné traditional system of k'éí, kinship and clanship, held together by k'é, the ethic of universal relatedness, and how, after 1930, the system has fared under conquest, settler colonialism, climate change, and replacement with a government-administered grazing-permit system. As long recogn…
A Diné History of Navajoland
Downy Home Man and Chacoan Macaws: How Diné Oral Tradition Can Enhance Archaeology
Four recent archaeological studies suggest that macaws came to Chaco Canyon and Mimbres, New Mexico, from Mesoamerica and that the Mayan epic of the hero twins accompanied them to Mimbres. An episode from a narrative about the origins of a Diné (Navajo) ceremonial repertoire is analyzed here to suggest avenues for future archaeological research. The Diné narrative presumably has come from one or more of the many southwestern US and other groups t…
Asdzáán Náhodidáhí (Lady Picker-Up) at Fajada Butte: Astronomy, Landscape, and the Basketmaker III Origins of Chacoan Ceremonialism
In this paper, we combine evidence from archaeology, landscape, astronomy, and Indigenous oral traditions to propose that Chaco Canyon was established as a regionally influential sun-moon-rain shrine beginning in the Basketmaker III period. We review the Basketmaker III archaeological record of Chaco Canyon with emphasis on Shábik'e'eshchί (29 SJ 1659), Woodpecker (29 SJ 423), and Coyote Point (29 SJ 299), a site near Fajada Butte. We suggest Shá…
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