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Title:

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

Publisher:

The University of Arizona Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiv, 196 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Navajo philosophy.
Navajo Indians--Ethnic identity.
Navajo Indians--Historiography.
Decolonization--Philosophy.
Postcolonialism--Philosophy.

Other Authors:

Lee, Lloyd L., 1971- editor.
Cajete, Gregory, 1952- author of foreword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Frameworks of understanding -- Analyses of methodologies -- Political challenges -- Paths for the future.
Contributors. Venaya Yazzie -- Preface / Lloyd L. Lee -- Introduction -- Atmosphere / Shawn L. Secatero -- Beneath our sacred minds, hands, and hearts : one dissertation journey / Shawn L. Secatero -- Understanding h©đzho· to achieve critical consciousness : a contemporary Din©♭ interpretation of the philosophical principles of h©đzho· / Vincent Werito -- Morning offerings, like salt / Esther Belin -- 7pm thought, memory @ Dzi¿naodi¿thle-Eastern view / Venaya Yazzie -- Din©♭ culture, decolinization, and the politics of h©đzho· / Larry W. Emerson -- The value of oral history on the path to Din©♭/Navajo sovereignty / Jennifer Nez Denetdale -- Narrating ordinary power : h©đzho·o·j©Ư, violence, and critical Din©♭ studies / Melanie K. Yazzie -- The boy who threw the world away / Venaya Yazzie -- Historic and demographic changes that impact the future of the Din©♭ 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 -- Din©♭tah / Venaya Yazzie -- Sustaining a Din©♭ way of life / Kim Baca -- "If I could speak Navajo, I'd definitely speak it 24/7" : Din©♭ youth language consciousness, activism, and reclamation of Din©♭ identity / Tiffany S. Lee -- The Navajo Nation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples / Lloyd L. Lee -- Atmosphere / Venaya Yazzie -- Contributors.

Summary:

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

Series:

Critical issues in indigenous studies

ISBN:

0816530920 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780816530922 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863196140

LCCN:

2013039491

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)