A Pipe for February Diné (Navajo) and tribal sovereignty

and tribal sovereignty

Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own

fifteen members of the Apsaalooke (Crow) Nation in southeastern Montana and three non-Native missionaries to the reservation describe how Christianity has shaped their lives

26 illustrations

A Pipe for February Diné (Navajo) and tribal sovereigntyAt the turn of the twentieth century, the Osage Indians owned Oklahoma's most valuable oil reserves and became members of the world's first wealthy oil population. Osage children and grandchildren continued to respect the old customs and ways, but now they also had lives of leisure: purchasing large homes, expensive cars, eating in fancy restaurants, and traveling to faraway places. In the 1920s, they also found themselves immersed in a series of