11-06-07 Decolonizing Navajo History: Interview with Jennifer Nez Denetdale
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Host Dr. J. Kehaulani Kauanui interviews Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Denetdale discusses her new book, Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita, in which she seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, 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. 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. Original air-date: 11-6-07
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