Reclaiming Dine History : The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita

by Denetdale, Jennifer Nez

• ISBN13: 9780816526604
• ISBN10: 0816526605
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-19
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS

Summary

In this groundbreaking book, Navajo historian Jennifer Nez Denetdale seeks to rewrite the history of the Navajo, or Dine, people. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great-great-great-granddaughter of the well-known Navajo chief Manuelito (1816-1894) and his nearly unknown wife Juanita (1845-1910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of her 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 Dine history that underlines the dichotomy between Navajo and non-Navajo perspectives on the past. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Recovering Dine Intellectual Traditions: At the Intersection of History and Oral Tradition; Or, "It's Hard Work Traipsing Around in Indian Country"	p. 17
A Biographical Account of Manuelito: Noble Savage, Patriotic Warrior, and American Citizen	p. 51
The Imperial Gaze: Portraits of Juanita and Manuelito, 1868-1902	p. 87
Stories of Asdzaa Tl'ogi: Dine Traditional Narratives as History	p. 128
Stories in the Land: Navajo Uses of the Past	p. 159
Conclusion	p. 177
Genealogical Charts	p. 181
Notes	p. 189
Selected Bibliography	p. 209
Figure Credits	p. 233
Index	p. 235
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