Hubbell Trading Post - Ganado - Arizona
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The guest house was built in the early 1930s by Roman and Dorothy Hubbell, Mr. Hubbell's son and daughter-in-law, as a tribute to Mr. Hubbell. Dorothy Hubbell carved the inner wooden door. Visitors stayed in the Hubbell home, such as artists who were interested in the color and shapes of the land; anthropologists who came to Mr. Hubbell for information; statesmen; friends of the family; and ordinary travelers in need of a place to stay. Architecturally, the guest house is in the Hogan (pronounced hoe-gone) (Navajo for home) style. Most hogans are built of logs, and the door always faces the east. Hogans are one-room dwellings and usually have six or eight sides. Mr. Hubbell built several traditional hogans on the grounds for the Navajos who came long distances to trade. The guest house was originally called Pueblo Colorado (the inscription over the door) but often was confused with the town of Pueblo, Colorado. There was an important Navajo leader named totsohnii Hastiin (pronounced Toe-so-knee haaus-teen) (Navajo for man of the big water clan). He was also called Ganado Mucho (pronounced gah-nah-doe-moo-cho) (Spanish for many cattle) and Mr. Hubbell renamed this place Ganado for him. Ganado Mucho had a son, Many Horses, who is buried on the property.
Beyond the perimeter wall to the north courses the Pueblo Colorado Wash, the northern boundary of the Hubbell settlement. In some sections of the Ganado-Cornfields valley, the wash is spring-fed and runs year round. Melting snows in spring and heavy summer rains sometimes cause it to flood. In the Southwest a good source of water has always attracted people. The Anasazi (pronounced Ah-na-eeh-son-ni) (Navajo for the ancient ones) lived in small villages up and down the valley hundreds of years ago. The Navajos came later, and then the traders - all attracted to the source of water.
The cone-shaped hill located northwest of the trading post is Hubbell Hill. The family cemetery is at the top. Mr. Hubbell, his wife, three of his children, a daughter-in-law, a granddaughter, and a Navajo man named Many Horses are buried there. Many Horses was one of the local herdsmen and the son of Ganado Mucho. He and Mr. Hubbell were close friends for many years. Mr. Hubbell maintained a friendship with many of his customers until his death in 1930. Then his younger son Roman operated the business. When Roman died in 1957, his wife Dorothy managed the store for another ten years, until 1967 when the National Park Service acquired the site.
Built with juniper logs upright in the ground, the corrals of the trading post held lambs and sheep purchased from Navajo stockmen by Mr. Hubbell. The flocks stayed in the corral complex until they could be herded to the railroad. From time to time Mr. Hubbell kept beef cattle as well. Mr. Hubbell homesteaded 160 acres (0.6 km2) before they were part of the reservation and territory. When the reservation expanded, it surrounded the Hubbell property. Through an act of Congress Mr. Hubbell got permission to keep his home. Freight wagons brought supplies fifty-six miles to the store from the little railroad town of Gallup, New Mexico, two to four days' travel in good weather. Going back to Gallup, freight wagons hauled huge sacks of wool.
Construction
Construction of the trading post barn began in 1897. The builders, local people, made the walls of local sandstone and the roofs fashioned in the ancient Anasazi-style dwellings. Ponderosa pine beams, aspen poles, juniper bark, cornstalks, and dirt make up layers, each at right angles to the one below it. Mules and pulleys lifted the beams into place. The timbers came from about twelve miles (19 km) east of Ganado Village where it is high enough for Ponderosa to grow. The aspen poles came from farther away in the Chuska Mountains that straddle the Arizona/New Mexico state line one hundred miles north to the intersection with Colorado and Utah. The barn was completed in 1900.
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site
Hubbell Trading Post is a meeting ground of two cultures, the Navajo and settlers who came to the area to settle in what is now northeastern Arizona in the late 19th century. These settlers came from Mexico from the south and eastern United States. In 1878, John Lorenzo Hubbell purchased this trading post, ten years after Navajos were allowed to return to their homeland from their U.S.-imposed exile in Bosque Redondo, Fort Sumner, New Mexico. This ended what is known in Navajo history as the Long Walk of the Navajo. The park is located in Ganado, Arizona. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.
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Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, within the Navajo Nation, commemorates the distinctive role of the Native American trader in the American Southwest. The post has a preeminent place in the history and ethnography of the Navajo people. It still functions much the way Hubbell operated it in the late 1800s and early 1900s and is internationally renowned for authentic and high-quality Native American arts.
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Hubbell Trading Post
Hubbell Trading Post, a National Historic Site, located in Ganado, AZ, is like stepping back in time. Except for the electric lights, this trading post has not changed greatly since 1883 when it was built. It is said to have been the most important trading post in the Southwest, taking in, during its heyday, a quarter of a million dollars in wool and hides. The Hubbell Trading Post had and continues to have an important place in the Southwest tribes’ culture and economy. Still operating today, the trading post provides an economy conduit for the Native people and a living history lesson for others.
Hubbell Trading Post and Window Rock then onto Cuba NM to see Tent Rocks - 2018 USA Days 10 & 11
Ten days into our trip we have a long drive with just a couple of short stops. First at Hubbell Trading Post to see this historical site and the way things used to be. Then on to Window Rock to see the marvels of mother nature, wind & time. There are also monuments to the fallen hero's and the famous Navajo Code Talkers. After these, we drive to Cuba NM for our overnight stay in our little hacienda, Mexican style. The next day we head to Taos with a stop at Tent Rocks en route. A climb well worth the effort, through the short canyon passing the unusual rock formations. Before reaching Taos we stop at Chimayo.
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Navajo 1970's Ganado Rug Beth Yazzie #01
Ganado Red rugs grow out of the Hubbell Trading Post tradition. Don Lorenzo apparently loved red, and encouraged his weavers to make these intricately patterned rugs for the post. Beth Yazzie has carried on the tradition, making us a lasting example of what Hubbell loved. Thanks to the Don.
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Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site is a historic site on Highway 191, north of Chambers, with an exhibit center in Ganado, Arizona. It is considered a meeting ground of two cultures between the Navajo and the settlers who came to the area to trade.
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An exhibit overview of Navajo Trading Posts in Arizona, (Navajo Nation). From the Navajo Nation Museum.
Hubbel Trading Post
Andrew Hubbel takes us on a tour of the oldest running trading post in the US.
1828-1867 - Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site North Dakota
Fort Union Trading Post was established in 1828 by John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. This was not a government or military post, but a business, established for the specific purpose of trading with the northern plains tribes.
Located at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers on the North Dakota/Montana border, the fort was originally called Fort Henry. For the next four decades, Fort Union would serve as the headquarters of the Upper Missouri Outfit (U.M.O.) of the American Fur Company.
The most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri River, Fort Union controlled the bison robe and fur trade over a huge area encompassing what are now North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming from 1828 to 1867.
Here, Assiniboine, Crow, Cree, Ojibway, Blackfoot, Hidatsa, Mandan, and other tribes traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as beads, guns, blankets, knives, cookware, and cloth.
During its heydays the trading post employed as many as 200 people, mostly Métis Indians, of French and Native American ancestry.
Keelboat in 1872 The rivers were the main source of travel for the fur traders, primarily utilizing keel boats until 1832 when the first steamboat, the Yellowstone landed here. Mackinaw boats were another form of travel made by the workers of the fort and bull boats, constructed by the tribes out of a green buffalo hide and willow, were also used.
In 1867, Fort Union was sold to the U.S. Army and the post was razed. Its building materials were used to construct Fort Buford about two miles away.
Here, Assiniboine, Crow, Cree, Ojibway, Blackfoot, Hidatsa, Mandan, and other tribes traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as beads, guns, blankets, knives, cookware, and cloth.
During its heydays the trading post employed as many as 200 people, mostly Métis Indians, of French and Native American ancestry.
The rivers were the main source of travel for the fur traders, primarily utilizing keelboats until 1832 when the first steamboat, the Yellowstone landed here. Mackinaw boats were another form of travel made by the workers of the fort and bull boats, constructed by the tribes out of a green buffalo hide and willow, were also used.
In 1867, Fort Union was sold to the U.S. Army and the post was razed. Its building materials were used to construct Fort Buford about two miles away.
Here, Assiniboine, Crow, Cree, Ojibway, Blackfoot, Hidatsa, Mandan, and other tribes traded buffalo robes and other furs for trade goods such as beads, guns, blankets, knives, cookware, and cloth.
During its heydays the trading post employed as many as 200 people, mostly Métis Indians, of French and Native American ancestry.
The rivers were the main source of travel for the fur traders, primarily utilizing keelboats until 1832 when the first steamboat, the Yellowstone landed here. Mackinaw boats were another form of travel made by the workers of the fort and bull boats, constructed by the tribes out of a green buffalo hide and willow, were also used.
In 1867, Fort Union was sold to the U.S. Army and the post was razed. Its building materials were used to construct Fort Buford about two miles away.
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A Peek Inside the Hubbell Home in Ganado, AZ
Mom and I snuck away for a bit and went to tour the Hubbell Home in Ganado, AZ (my hometown *woot*woot*). It might not be obvious, but I am NOT a history buff. If you're interested in learning more about Hubbell Trading Post and it's unique history, I would recommend taking a tour with one of their knowledgeable tour guides aka Park Rangers.
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Native American Navajo Rugs: How to identify Rugs from the Ganado and Klagetoh Trading Posts
Navajo Ganado and Klagetoh rugs identification and pricing. Learn what the difference between a Classic Chief's blanket and a Hubbell revival Navajo blanket.
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How to identify Navajo rugs from the Ganado and Klagetoh Trading Posts
One of the most common words you probably heard when you hear about Native American and Navajo textiles is the Ganado. What is a Ganado weaving? Well, these are weavings that were made at the Hubbell Trading Post, which was founded in 1878 by Lorenzo Hubbell at Ganado.
Lorenzo Hubbell was a very interesting guy. In fact, he ended up being the sheriff of Arizona for the Apache County, and he also was a state senator, and he actually ran for United States Senate and he didn't win this, but he did have powerful friends, and he was well known within the region. When he first got to Hubbell, they were still making blankets, and blankets would soon be turned into making Navajo rugs, because at the point in time when he got there, people still wanted blankets. Other Indians wanted blankets, but by the time the 1880s to 1890's came around those really weren’t of any use.
The earliest Navajo blankets – things like this, which would have been made about that 1870 timeframe as a Chiefs blanket. This has raveled yarn and indigo dye.
People like Randolph Hearst from San Francisco would pay $1,500 for a great classic early design. In fact, the famed artist Maynard Dixon would even act as Lorenzo Hubble's agent in San Francisco, and there's a very famous little drawing that Dixon did of himself after the April 18, 1906 earthquake, showing him running from his studio with blankets around his shoulders; the reason being is these were mostly Lorenzo Hubble's blankets and he didn't want to lose them. In fact, he lost $75 worth of blankets and rugs during that 1906 earthquake, which took him years to pay back.
So, these were very valuable at the time, and when people like Hubble started selling to Hearst, they kind of wiped out those markets. In fact, from blankets like this, since they were no longer there, then you would have revival, and this would be a Hubble revival of a Navajo Chiefs blanket. That's a blanket of the 1890s, but it's really not the early-late-class or classic blankets.
Now, most people when they think of Hubble, they think of red because he loved red, and this is an example (as well as this) of Ganados that were done in the 30s timeframe, and Hubbell lived until 1930.
The Trading Post is still there; in fact, it's 40 miles north of I-40 on 191, and I highly recommend you going and seeing – It's still an active trading post; it’s a historical building, and it's a very interesting place. There's a wonderful drawing done by Maynard Dixon that shows the post (which was) done early on when he would go and visit Hubbell. Native American Ganados are sought after and the most sought-after ones are with bold design that have the nice red (deep red) design.
Now, Hubble also owned the Klagetoh Trading Post, which was just south between I-40 and which didn't exist, of course, when he owned it. The early trading posts of the Klagetoh have different a sensibility than the Ganado, in that they used a gray background. Generally, there's a very large central diamond in the Klagetohs and then the background is gray (not always) sometimes you'll see them in red. If you see the big central diamond think Klagetoh, and these are also highly collectible. So, go visit the Ganado Trading Post; it's well worth your time.
Chief Yellowhorse Native American Trading Post on Route 66 Arizona Navajo Land
Check out the rock formation behind Chief Yellowhorse Native American Indian Trading Post on the Arizona and New Mexico border. Along I-40 and Route 66
Chief Yellowhorse Route 66 Indian Trading Post - Full Tour (New Mexico and Arizona State Line)
Check out this place! A lot of the goods (Apart from in the TeePee) are all hand crafted and handmade by the native american tribes. A lot of the produce is also collected from the local area and made into gifts. The prices vary, you can easily pickup cheap $1 gifts, such as: arrow heads, mini statues sitting a on a little stone and some cheap snacks. I was also impressed by seeing cow head skulls for only $25. You can also see the stateline run through Chief Yellowhorse's hut on the right end of the row. We spoke to his son and he was very friendly and nice. There is also a trail out back from the hut you can walk along.
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Navajo Reservation-Ganado, Chinle & Canyon De Chelley, Arizona
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