University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository History ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations 8-19-2011 Sacrilege in Dinétah: Native Encounters with Glen Canyon Dam Sonia Dickey Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Dickey, Sonia. "Sacrilege in Dinétah: Native Encounters with Glen Canyon Dam." (2011). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ hist_etds/21 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in History ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. i SACRILEGE IN DINÉTAH: NATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH GLEN CANYON DAM BY SONIA L. DICKEY B.A., History, Georgia Southern University, 1998 M.A., History, Georgia Southern University, 2001 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy History The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico May 2011 ii Acknowledgments Like any large project, this dissertation benefitted from research grants and scholarships. I would like to thank the History Department at the University of New Mexico, the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University, and the New Mexico branch of the Daughters of the American Revolution for providing much needed monies that enabled me to research at institutions all over the Intermountain West. I am extremely grateful for the funding opportunities Dr. Tobias Duran and the Center for Regional Studies have given me during my tenure at the University of New Mexico.