Thomas Varker Keam
Title | Thomas Varker Keam PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Graves |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2016-11-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 080617868X |
Thomas Varker Keam owned and operated a trading post in Keams Canyon, Arizona Territory, from 1874 to 1902. He was the first trader to develop American Indian arts and crafts as part of his business and the first to suggest that Native artists modify their techniques to increase sales. Keam had a major impact on the evolution of Hopi pottery. Involved in early archaeological work in the Southwest, Keam was the first trader to develop lucrative contacts with museum curators and anthropologists. He sold enormous collections to the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum, and the Peabody Museum, as well as several European institutions. An advocate for the Indians, Keam represented the Hopis and Navajos in confrontations with the U.S. government over “civilizing” programs between 1869 and 1902, when the Indians tried to maintain their political and cultural independence. Thomas Varker Keam revised Indian trading so that he and American Indian artists profited.
Thomas Varker Keam
Title | Thomas Varker Keam PDF eBook |
Author | John James (Author of Thomas Varker Keam) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Hopi Indians |
ISBN |
Thomas Varker Keam
Title | Thomas Varker Keam PDF eBook |
Author | John James |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Indian traders |
ISBN |
Thomas Varker Keam
Title | Thomas Varker Keam PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Graves |
Publisher | |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Arizona |
ISBN |
American Anthropologist
Title | American Anthropologist PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 886 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Anthropology |
ISBN |
In Memoriam
Title | In Memoriam PDF eBook |
Author | Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Pennsylvania Commandery |
Publisher | |
Pages | 3 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Keams Canyon (Ariz.) |
ISBN |
Hubbell Trading Post
Title | Hubbell Trading Post PDF eBook |
Author | Erica Cottam |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2015-09-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0806152567 |
For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples—and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors and clients, and what the changing relationship between them reveals about the history of Navajo trading. Drawing on extensive archival material and secondary literature, historian Erica Cottam begins with an account of John Lorenzo Hubbell, who was part Hispanic, part Anglo, and wholly brilliant and charismatic. She examines his trading practices and the strategies he used to meet the challenges of Navajo exchange customs and a seasonal trading cycle. Tracing the trading post’s affairs through the upheavals of the twentieth century, Cottam explores the growth of tourism, the development of Navajo weaving, the automobile’s advent, and the Hubbells’ relationship with the Fred Harvey Company. She also describes the Hubbell family’s role in providing Navajo and Hopi demonstrators for world’s fairs and other events and in supplying museums with Native artifacts. Acknowledging the criticism aimed at the Hubbell family for taking advantage of Navajo clients, Cottam shows the family’s strengths: their integrity as business operators and the warm friendships they developed with customers and with the artists, writers, archaeologists, politicians, and tourists attracted to Navajo country by its unparalleled landscapes and fascinating peoples. Cottam traces the preservation efforts of Hubbell’s daughter-in-law after the Great Depression and World War II fundamentally altered the trading post business, and concludes with the post’s transition to its present status as a National Park Service historic site.