[nativestudies-l] Tuesday on "Indigenous Politics"

[jkauanui at wesleyan.edu]

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TUESDAYS from 4-5pm (EST)
"INDIGENOUS POLITICS: FROM NATIVE NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND"
WESU (88.1 FM), Middletown, CT
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On Tuesday, November 6th, join your host, Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui for an
interview with featured guest, Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné),
Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque.  Denetdale will discuss her new book, Reclaiming Diné
History: The Legacies of  Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita, in which she
seeks to rewrite Navajo history.  Reared on the Navajo Nation in New
Mexico and Arizona, Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of a
well-known Navajo chief, Manuelito (1816-1894), and his nearly unknown
wife, Juanita (1845-1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of
these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of
examining broader issues in Navajo historiography. Reclaiming Diné History
has two primary objectives. First, Denetdale interrogates histories that
privilege Manuelito and marginalize Juanita in order to demonstrate some
of the ways that writing about the Diné has been biased by non-Navajo
views of assimilation and gender. Second, she reveals how Navajo
narratives, including oral histories and stories kept by matrilineal
clans, serve as vehicles to convey Navajo beliefs and values.