Willow Powers collection, [1998-2001].

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Willow Powers collection, [1998-2001].

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This collection consists of research files used to write the book, Navajo trading : the end of an era. The book, a history of the United Indian Traders, chronicles the Indian trade primarily during the last half of the 20th century. Of interest in the collection is the role of the Navajo legal aid organization, Dinebeiina Nahilna be Agaditahe and the Federal Trade Commission in creating new regulations over the practice of pawn. Powers has collected FTC records, reports, newspaper accounts, and UITA records in crafting her book. This project was funded by a grant from the United Indian Traders Association.

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Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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Northern Arizona University, Cline Library

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Dinebeiina Nahiilna Be Agaditahe, Inc.

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United Indian Traders Association (U.S.)

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The United Indian Traders Association, a group of southwestern traders and merchants, incorporated in New Mexico December 30th 1931. The main purpose of the Association was to protect and promote the sale of genuine Indian hand-made arts and crafts. The organization was primarily comprised of traders who traded on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations, the New Mexico Pueblos and of merchants who ran trading posts in reservation border towns. The group was headquartered in Gallup, ...

United States. Federal Trade Commission.

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Powers, Willow Roberts, 1943-

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Willow Powers was born in London, England in 1943. She moved to New York City in 1965 and worked in the garment industry for 14 years. In 1979, she decided to pursue a college degree at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and in that same year, she met Jo and Sam Drolet and became interested in Indians traders. This interest led to her first book, Stokes Carson: twentieth century trading on the Navajo Reservation. In 1997, she completed a PhD in Anthropology. She has taught Anthropology...