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Title: Bulletin
Identifier: bulletin7880sout (find matches)
Year: 1971- (1970s)
Authors: Southern California Academy of Sciences
Subjects: Science; Natural history; Natural history
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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NAVAJO SOCIAL INTERACTIONS 25
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Fig. 2. Multidimensional scaling plot for triads test, intertribal categories. on traditional subsistence activities (such as growing one's own food, making one's own household utensils). Moving farther to the left-hand side along the traditional/acculturation dimen- sion, the Choctaw, Cherokee, and Sioux are perceived as least traditional of the major tribes. On the extreme pole of the acculturation dimension, Cherokee are characterized as "eating out of cans, like the whites," having lots of education, not being shy around whites, being more city-oriented and less reservation-ori- ented, not speaking their language, etc."1 To summarize, in interpreting the social-psychological classification of Navajo women, there is a strong affinity for Mexican-Americans, an ambivalence towards Blacks and Asians, and definite social distance from the constellation of concepts for Caucasians. In the intertribal domain the social world is clustered into two :> For a more detailed analysis of Navajo perceptions of the intertribal domain as it relates to participation in pan-Indian organizations and social interaction, see Fiske 1977, and 1975.

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