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Peake, Nancy. "Trading Post Tales: Biography of an Indian Trader on the Navajo Reservation, 1930-1980," University of New Mexico, May 1992.
Walter Kennedy, an Anglo Indian trader, and his Native American clientele interacted and conducted business in much the same way as their historical predecessors, with little regard for contemporary socio-cultural and economic circumstances prevailing in the “outside world.” Using his personal memoirs, the interpretive context provided by the relevant cultural, historical, and ethnographic accounts, and excerpts from Kennedy’s “trader’s tales,” this study provides a multi-dimensional examination of the contemporary Indian trader and his role in perpetuating the myth of the “Indian” to present-day Anglo and Navajo societies. The final portrait reveals an individual who continued to play out his many traditional roles within Navajo society even as he was forced to confront the changing realities of the twentieth century.
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