Interview with Tom Ration (medicine man), Smith Lake, NM

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Subject: Giant Clan and Pueblo Bonito; Interclan marriage taboos; Battles with Apache; origin of Sky City (Acoma) and Mesa Encantada; origin of Catholic Church at Acoma and Laguna; Origin of Fiesta of San Ignacio; origination of Snake Dance/Song; Navajo Education; Alcoholism and youth; Jesus Arviso and Kit Carson, Navajo Roundup; The Long Walk; grandparents at Fort Sumner, raiding Sioux horses for food; Battles with U.S. Army; Meteor crash and volcanic eruption, poison gas, exodus from Pueblo Bonito. Oct. 1968.

Location: 
Tribe, Community, Culture: 
Navajo Nation
Community: 
University of New Mexico
Protocol: 
University of New Mexico Public Access
Category: 
Health, Medicine, and Wellness, Oral History & Interviews
Keywords: 
Indians of North America Interviews., Indians of North America Interviews. West (U.S.), Indians of North America History Interviews. 20th century, Indians of North America Social life and customs., Indians of North America., West United States.
Collections: 
University of New Mexico
Original Date Description: 
1968
Original Date: 
1968 October
Creator: 
Tom Ration
Contributor: 
Richard Ellis, Austin N. Leiby
Language: 
English
Rights: 
Rights to the digital resource are held by the University of New Mexico. Duplication of recordings permitted only with written permission from artist, performer, interviewer and interviewee, tribal authority, or current holder of intellectual property rights. User is responsible for compliance with all copyright, privacy, and libel laws.
Source: 
MSS 314
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Publisher: 
Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, The University of New Mexico Libraries
Identifier: 
xx_MSS314_20_p.1 [xx=1 through 16]
Subject: 
Navajo Indians, Navajo language
Type: 
Audio, Transcript
Format: 
MP3, PDF