| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Navajo Land, Navajo Culture: The Utah Experience in the Twentieth Century. By Robert S. McPherson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. xviii, 301 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3357-0.)

Robert S. McPherson's educational background includes training in English, United States history, and anthropology. He has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles, mostly devoted to southeastern Utah. The present book may be viewed as a sequel to McPherson's The Northern Navajo Frontier, 1860–1900 (1988).

Navajo Land, Navajo Culture concentrates on the relatively small portion of the Navajo reservation that lies in southeastern Utah. McPherson uses a topical chapter organization rather than a chronological narrative. Each of his twelve chapters takes up a specific subject: deer hunting, livestock reduction, filmmaking, uranium mining, Navajo women, etc. One problem with this approach is the lack of an overall theme or themes to unify the discussion. It is not until he discusses the postwar period that McPherson touches on one such unifying theme—the northern Navajos' strong belief that the tribal government was discriminating against them in the distribution of benefits.

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