{"product_id":"kaibeto-memories-von-elizabeth-anne-jones-dewveall","title":"KAIBETO MEMORIES","description":"\u003cp\u003eKaibeto Memories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eELIZABETH ANNE JONES DEWVEALL\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA trader's daughter remembers growing up\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eon the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein remote northern Arizona\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1936 - 1960\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTRADERS TO THE NAVAJO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRALPH AND JULIA JONES, parents of author Elizabeth Anne Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDewveall, operated the Kaibeto Trading Post on the Navajo Reservation for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28 years, from 1934 to 1962, in remote northern Arizona. Theirs was a time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhen roads in the area were more like paths in the sand, over rocky ridges-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-snow-covered in winter, and across washes that could and did become\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eflash floods without warning. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative population was transitioning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom horseback and wagon travel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto pickups. The post's role was to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprovide goods that were needed by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe local population to supplement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe meager resources this harsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eland could provide. Canned fruits\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand meats were important articles,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas were tobacco, knives, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eammunition. The Natives traded\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esheep hides, wool, woven blankets,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand turquoise-laden silver jewelry for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egoods from the post. Their jewelry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoften was provided as collateral,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"pawn\", to pay for purchases. Ralph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Julia and daughter Elizabeth Anne were often the only people of their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"white-person\" race in the entire region.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was in this environment that this book's author Elizabeth Anne lived\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher childhood years. Her playmates were often from the local population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her later childhood years her school times were spent in distant Leupp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor Winslow, Arizona, but coming back to what she calls, affectionately it is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebelieved, the \"Rez\" for holidays and summer vacations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold as an adult in the year 2020 while living at Mesa, Arizona, Elizabeth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne points out her purpose in recording her story is more for it to be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher parents' story, for there is scant recorded material about their lives at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaibeto Trading Post and how they operated this out-of-the-way and nowhistoric\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epost for many years as a life-hub for a receptive Native population.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780896461031\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA trader's daughter remembers growing up on the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Post in remote northern Arizona 1936-1960\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9780896461031","offer_id":46786043937093,"sku":"9780896461031","price":31.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/2596d36f-ca8d-41d3-b111-7532263efe5c.jpg?v=1765947738","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/kaibeto-memories-von-elizabeth-anne-jones-dewveall","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}