Poverty, Politics, and Petroleum
The Utah Navajo and the Aneth Oil Field
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4038684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert S Mcpherson (0009-0007-3268-344X), David Wolff, David A Wolff |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 451 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Indian Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-182X • E-ISSN: 1534-1828 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1185517 |
| OpenAlex | W2066280741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The land was soft, still going through its creative process when the Navajo people first emerged into this world. They traveled from worlds beneath this one, entering into the Four Corners region, ready to establish a new life. Yet few things are ever as easy as they initially appear. Monsters also inhabited the land and destroyed the Dine, or People, at every opportunity. Many of these creatures assumed different forms and powers, such as Ye'iitsoh, a man-eating giant that had an uncanny ability to ferret out people in hiding; another monster killed with its eyes; another pushed unsuspecting travelers off cliffs; another, with large horns, skewered its victims, while others flew in the air, carried off their prey, and smashed them on the jagged peak of Shiprock, New Mexico. Into this chaos were born two supernatural twins, sons of Changing Woman and Sunbearer. The boys, Monster Slayer and Born for Water, eventually journeyed to their father who lived in the heavens and received from him arrows made of chain lightning, sheet lightning, sunbeam, and rainbow. They returned to the earth and set about ridding the People of these monsters. The remains of the vanquished foe still dot the landscape: Cabezon Peak, New Mexico, is the severed head of Ye'iitsoh; his dried blood the lava flow outside of Grants; and petrified wood his bones. Dinosaur tracks and fossils belonged to other creatures slain by the Twins. The sands of Red Mesa, Arizona, were stained with the blood of a monster that killed with its breath; the remains of other creatures are found in the igneous and sandstone rock formations that cover Navajo land. Each serves as a reminder of the battle once waged to free the People from destruction. Yet some of the monsters and their remains survived in different forms to eventually help the Navajo. For instance, flint came from the armor of Ye'iitsoh. From the flying monsters came the eagle that provides bones for whistles and feathers for ceremonies, the owl that prophesies of man's future, and small birds to beautify the earth. Tracking Bear Monster gave from his body yucca fruit for nourishment, soap from its roots, plus needle and thread from its spines.' The list goes on
Archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Field (mathematics · Geography · Navajo · Oil field · Petroleum · Petroleum engineering · Political science · Politics · Poverty · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Geology · Law · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2016 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |