Minutes of the special session of the Navajo Tribal Council held at Fort Defiance, Arizona, [1934?].

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Minutes of the special session of the Navajo Tribal Council held at Fort Defiance, Arizona, [1934?].

Bound mimeograph recording the session of the Navajo Tribal Council convened on March 12 and 13, 1934 to explain the Wheeler-Howard bill. Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier, Felix Cohen, and Oliver La Farge were present.

1 v. (55 p.) ; 29 cm.

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Collier, John, 1884-1968

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La Farge, Oliver, 1901-1963

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Oliver La Farge studied anthropology at Harvard University where he took part in an archaeological expedition to northern Arizona where he studied Navajo ruins. He earned a Hemenway Fellowship that extended to graduate research in Guatemala with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University. While writing the report of his research trip, La Farge also began writing his first novel, Laughing Boy, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929. La Farge was a prolific writer, publishing 24 books...