- Local call number
- nm089g000s007b001f0001
- Media type
- Text
- Creator
- Gleason, Herbert W.
- Title
- Through the Navajo country scenes in Canyon de Chelly Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona, February 17, 1923.
- Original creation date
- 1923
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Day Family
- Content Summary
- Article in the Boston Evening Transcript: Navajo Material: Canyon de Chelly, reservation; Through the Navajo Country, Part IV, 1923. Text and photographs by Herbert W. Gleason.
- Biography/History
- The Day Family were anglo Indian traders, on the Navajo Reservation in eastern Arizona. The collection includes the personal and business papers of Sam Day, Sr. (1845-1925) surveyor, Indian trader, legislator and United States Indian Commissioner; Anna Day, Sam Sr.'s wife (1872-1932); and of their children, Charles L. Day (1879-1918), Samuel Day, Jr. (1889-1944), United States deputy Marshall. The collection includes information on Navajo culture, stories and legends; the looting of Canyon del Muerta, and the Frank Dugan murder.
- Finding Aid
- http://aao.lib.asu.edu/ViewRecordFrame.jsp?record=0000000347
- Other Contributors
- Boston Evening Transcript
- Day family
- Subjects
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Tourism--Arizona
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Navajo Indians--Folklore
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Navajo Indians--History
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Navajo Indians--Social life and customs
- Places
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Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Ariz.)
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Navajo Indian Reservation
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