John Kennedy, 8/7/1980
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
Summary of notes: Mr. Kennedy talks about his father, who worked at a lumber camp, then ran different Indian trading post at Chinle, Salinas Springs, Turkeky Springs and Gallup, and later owned the Rock Springs Ranch. He talks about his own childhood, schooling, trading post life, the Navajos, work on the ranch and at the Gallup Mercantile Store. He has interesting comments about how the trading posts were sometimes established without tribal approval and that leases on the land for many of the trading posts area running out now. He also talks about the important role the post trader played in the lives of the Navajos but that this personal tie is gone now in modern times. He talks about the local languages spoken in the Gallup area, that the early post trader had to learn Navajo and Spanish, and that the Indian old timers spoke Spanish, and sometimes Laguna and Zuni.
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Dates
- 8/7/1980
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 2 boxes (.5 cu. ft. containing 49 CDs, transcriptions, and notes)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu