Diné Dóó Gáamalii

Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century

AvFarina King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Lyda Conley Series on Trailblazing Indigenous Futures

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“Navajo Latter-day Saints are DineÌ doÌoÌ GaÌamalii,” writes Farina King, in this deeply personal collective biography. “We are DinÉ who decided to walk a Latter-day Saint pathway, although not always consistently or without reappraising that decision.”DineÌ doÌoÌ GaÌamalii is a history of twentieth-century Navajos, including author Farina King and her family, who have converted and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), becoming DineÌ doÌoÌ GaÌamalii—both DineÌ and LDS. Drawing on DineÌ stories from the LDS Native American Oral History Project, King illuminates the mutual entanglement of Indigenous identity and religious affiliation, showing how their DineÌ identity made them outsiders to the LDS Church and, conversely, how belonging to the LDS community made them outsiders to their Native community. The story that King tells shows the complex ways that DineÌ people engaged with church institutions in the context of settler colonial power structures. The lived experiences of DineÌ in church programs sometimes diverged from the intentions and expectations of those who designed them.In this empathetic and richly researched study, King explores the impacts of Navajo Latter-day Saints who seek to bridge different traditions, peoples, and communities. She sheds light on the challenges and joys they face in following both the Dineì teachings of Si’ h NaaghÁÌ Bik’eh HÓzh Ì—“live to old age in beauty”—and the teachings of the church.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-06
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lyda Conley Series on Trailblazing Indigenous Futures
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:University Press of Kansas
ISBN:9780700635528

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Farina King is Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and associate professor of Native American studies, University of Oklahoma, coauthor of Returning Home: DinÉ Creative Works of the Intermountain Indian School, and author of The Earth Memory Compass: DinÉ Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century.

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"An insightful and fascinating study into the lived experiences of Dine Latter-day Saints. It is important as the fullest examination of that history yet published."—Times and Seasons"In this beautifully rendered autoethnography, Farina King reckons honestly with the injustices of settler colonialism but refuses to grant it a controlling role. Instead, she centers the voices of her own DinÉ family and other DinÉ dÓÓ GÁamalii, Navajo Mormons, showing how they have built lives faithful both to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to DinÉ identity and peoplehood all at the same time."—Tisa Wenger, professor of divinity, American studies, and religious studies at Yale University, and author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom"This history illuminates the complexity of relating simultaneously to DinÉ and Latter-day Saint worlds. Richly textured by oral histories and the history of the author’s family, it attends closely to the diversity of views and practices among DinÉ Latter-day Saints."—Matthew W. Dougherty, author of Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America

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List of ImagesForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saints2. Gáamalii Bina’nitiní: Missionaries3. Ólta’ Gáamalii: “Mormon School”4. Sodizin Bá Hooghan: Church5. Beyond Diné Bikéyah6. Red Power at BYU7. Diné dóó Gáamalii PerspectivesEpilogueAppendix: Oral History Interviews and Oral History SourcesGlossaryNotes