MEDIA INDIGENA 224
Added 2020-09-18 19:50:47 +0000 UTCReclaiming history, rekindling kinship / MI 224
ON THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM:
Indigenous Gender and Sexuality Studies. A subject at the center of a talk delivered this past March by Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and the author of Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita. Historic figures with a direct connection to Denetdale, as their great-great-great-granddaughter. But, as she argues in her presentation, it’s a history non-Diné often get wrong, especially on matters of gender and tradition.
Yet her work isn’t confined to the academy; Denetdale also chairs the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission. We hear about both this episode—our final installment of the 2019/20 Weweni Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series, run by the University of Winnipeg’s Office of Indigenous Engagement.
LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:
• "Carving Navajo National Boundaries: Patriotism, Tradition, and the Diné Marriage Act of 2005" [ ResearchGate ] [ JSTOR ]
• "The most critical test of our work is whether it validates, clarifies, challenges, inspires, and confounds our own communities." From: As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, Leanne Simpson, p. 66
• "Securing Navajo National Boundaries: War, Patriotism, Tradition, and the Diné Marriage Act of 2005" [ PDF ]
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