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In this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez 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. Here she presents a thought-provoking examination of the construction of the history of the Navajo people (Diné, in the Navajo language) that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the Diné past. __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. By scrutinizing stories about Juanita,
Who reads Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Jennifer Denetdale
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816526604
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.39 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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