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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811329203321

Titolo

Diné perspectives : revitalizing and reclaiming Navajo thought / / edited by Lloyd L. Lee ; foreword by Gregory Cajete

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, Arizona : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8165-9892-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (211 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies

Disciplina

979.1004/9726

Soggetti

Navajo philosophy

Navajo Indians - Ethnic identity

Navajo Indians - Historiography

Decolonization - Philosophy

Postcolonialism - Philosophy

SOCIAL SCIENCE - General

Navajo

Philosophie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Gregory Cajete -- Preface / Lloyd L. Lee -- Introduction -- American Indian scholars / Shawn L. Secatero -- Beneath our sacred minds, hands, and hearts : one dissertation journey / Shawn L. Secatero -- Understanding hózhǫ́ to achieve critical consciousness : a contemporary Diné interpretation of the philosophical principles of hózhǫ́ / Vincent Werito -- Morning offerings, like salt / Esther Belin -- 7pm thought, memory @ Dziłnaodiłthle-Eastern view / Venaya Yazzie -- Diné culture, decolinization, and the politics of hózhǫ́ / Larry W. Emerson -- The value of oral history on the path to Diné/Navajo sovereignty / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Narrating ordinary power : hózhǫ́ǫ́jí, violence, and critical Diné studies / Melanie K. Yazzie -- The boy who threw the world away / Venaya Yazzie -- Historic and demographic changes that impact the future of the Diné and the development of community-based policy / Yolynda Begay -- The origin of legibility : rethinking colonialism and resistance among the Navajo



People, 1868-1937 / Andrew Curley -- Dinétah / Venaya Yazzie -- Sustaining a Diné way of life / Kim Baca -- "If I could speak Navajo, I'd definitely speak it 24/7" : Diné youth language consciousness, activism, and reclamation of Diné identity / Tiffany S. Lee -- The Navajo Nation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Lloyd L. Lee -- Atmosphere / Venaya Yazzie -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

"The contributors to this pathbreaking book, both scholars and community members, are Navajo (Dine) people who are coming to personal terms with the complex matrix of Dine 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"--