For over one hundred years; Navajos have gone to work in significant numbers on Southwestern railroads. As they took on the arduous work of laying and anchoring tracks; they turned to traditional religion to anchor their lives.Jay Youngdahl; an attorney who has represented Navajo workers in claims with their railroad employers since 1992 and who more recently earned a master's in divinity from Harvard; has used oral history and archival research to write a cultural history of Navajos' work on the railroad and the roles their religious traditions play in their lives of hard labor away from home.
#619927 in Books Minnesota Historical Society Press 2005-02-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .40 x 6.00l; .35 #File Name: 0873515161112 pages
Review
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. WONDERFUL AND COMPACTBy John M. Grondelski"I wrote you a long letter because I didn't have time for a short one;" runs the old saw. Writing concisely is hard: which is what makes this book SO successful. To pack the history of Minnesota Polonia into 100 pages; with interesting sidebars; solid research; and a fair presentation of both its urban (Minneapolis; Duluth) and rural (who knew there were lots of Polish colonies along the Minnesota-Canadian border?) takes great skill. Radzilowski is a wonderful writer. Strongly recommended.
