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

by Jennifer Nez Denetdale

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816526605
• ISBN13: 9780816526604
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.3"