Navajo traders collection, 1868-1999.

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Navajo traders collection, 1868-1999.

Records include correspondences, memos, annual reports, newspaper clippings, trading licenses, and treaties recording business dealings between Indian traders and the Navajo Nation. Specific trading posts include the John Hubbell post, and those located at Gallup and Keams Canyon. The General Navajo (1924-1982) records provide information on the following topics: Navajo way of living, Navajo justice, medicine men, wild Navajos of Four Corners, Chief Hoskaninni, Navajo gold, discovery of ancient tower of Haskhekizh, powwow of the Navajo, discovery of Betatakin, and Navajoland Pioneer.

1.5 linear ft.

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Keam, Thomas V.

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Hubbell, John Lorenzo

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Lorenzo Hubbell, Jr. was the son of "Don" Lorenzo Hubbell, the well known Indian trader who operated the Hubbell Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona. Lorenzo was a wholesaler based in Winslow, Arizona and dealt in Navajo rugs and Hopi pottery. From the guide to the Lorenzo Hubbell Collection, 1933-1957., (Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department) ...