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Everyday Life of Native American Reservations in Arizona From The 1970s

In the 1970s, Environmental Protection Agency commissioned, Photographer Terry Eiler to document how much the nationals growing environmental concern were impacting the Navajo community — a society that was often missed on the country’s radar. He also documented the everyday life of the native community.

Eiler’s photographs also revealed the who valued kinship and who had one noble — and seemingly simple — goal: the protection of a deeply-rooted culture. But it’s also clear that Eiler found long-perpetuated hardships and decisive resistance to most of modernity. Their standards of living were low and many of the Navajo families were struggling hard to make ends meet. The Navajo miners worked in dangerous conditions and for very low wages.

#1 A man rides a mule train into the Grand Canyon near Peach Springs, Arizona.

#2 Navajo children examine their family truck in Red Rock, Arizona.

#3 Navajo women weave rugs at the Hubbel Trading Post in Ganado, Arizona.

#4 A woman weaves a rug at the Hubbard Trading Post on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

#5 Children sell beads on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

#6 Children ride a horse in the village of Supai, Arizona.

#8 Havasupai teachers receive training in reading and language instruction in the village of Supai, Arizona.

#10 A Navajo man plows his garden in Shiprock, New Mexico.

#11 Navajo people ride into the town of Window Rock, Arizona.

#12 Men walk through a dust storm in Shiprock, New Mexico.

#13 Navajo people in the town of Window Rock, Arizona.

#15 Havasu Falls, near the village of Supai, Arizona in the Grand Canyon.

#16 A tourist swims in Havasu Creek near Supai, Arizona.

#17 Children in the village of Supai, Arizona in the Grand Canyon.

#19 Navajo Hank Talman’s home in Red Rock, Arizona has neither electricity nor running water.

#21 A man and woman on the Navajo Reservation in Coconino county, Arizona.

#23 A Havasupai man rides into the Grand Canyon on the way to the village of Supai, Arizona.

#25 Navajo children play in the sand behind new housing under construction.

#28 A Navajo man who was injured in a coal mine near Black Mesa, Arizona.

#31 Children play on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona.

#33 A young Navajo rides a motorcycle in Window Rock, Arizona.

#34 Havasu Falls, near the village of Supai, Arizona in the Grand Canyon.

#35 A sheep paddock in the Navajo Reservation in Coconino county, Arizona.

#36 Men ride into the Grand Canyon on the way to the village of Supai, Arizona.

Written by Aung Budhh

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