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Book Title: Navajo Trading : the End of an Era
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Willow Roberts Powers
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Year: 2002
Genre: History, Social Science
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
