Title:
Diné perspectives : revitalizing and reclaiming Navajo thought / edited by Lloyd L. Lee ; foreword by Gregory Cajete.
Author:
Lee, Lloyd L., 1971- editor.
Cajete, Gregory, 1952- author of foreword.
Publication Information:
Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, [2014]
Call Number:
E99 .N3 D48 2014
Abstract:
"The contributors to this pathbreaking book, both scholars and community members, are Navajo (Diné) people who are coming to personal terms with the complex matrix of Diné culture. Their contributions exemplify how Indigenous peoples are creatively applying tools of decolonization and critical research to re-create Indigenous thought and culture for contemporary times"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
9780816530922
Series:
Critical issues in indigenous studies
Critical issues in indigenous studies.
Physical Description:
xiv, 196 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Frameworks of understanding -- Analyses of methodologies -- Political challenges -- Paths for the future.
American Indian scholars / Beneath our sacred minds, hands, and hearts : one dissertation journey / Understanding hózhǫ́ to achieve critical consciousness : a contemporary Diné interpretation of the philosophical principles of hózhǫ́ / Morning offerings, like salt / 7pm thought, memory @ Dziłnaodiłthle-Eastern view / Diné culture, decolinization, and the politics of hózhǫ́ / The value of oral history on the path to Diné/Navajo sovereignty / Narrating ordinary power : hózhǫ́ǫ́jí, violence, and critical Diné studies / The boy who threw the world away / Historic and demographic changes that impact the future of the Diné and the development of community-based policy / The origin of legibility : rethinking colonialism and resistance among the Navajo People, 1868-1937 / Dinétah / Sustaining a Diné way of life / "If I could speak Navajo, I'd definitely speak it 24/7" : Diné youth language consciousness, activism, and reclamation of Diné identity / The Navajo Nation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Atmosphere
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