It takes the average reader 7 hours and 11 minutes to read Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country by Marsha Weisiger
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country offers a fresh interpretation of the history of Navajo (Din�) pastoralism. The dramatic reduction of livestock on the Navajo Reservation in the 1930s -- when hundreds of thousands of sheep, goats, and horses were killed -- was an ambitious attempt by the federal government to eliminate overgrazing on an arid landscape and to better the lives of the people who lived there. Instead, the policy was a disaster, resulting in the loss of livelihood for Navajos -- especially women, the primary owners and tenders of the animals -- without significant improvement of...
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country by Marsha Weisiger is 418 pages long, and a total of 107,844 words.
This makes it 141% the length of the average book. It also has 132% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 49 minutes to read Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country aloud.
Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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