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Comics and Conquest - Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
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The untold story of Navajo and Hopi resistance and solidarity in
the face of forced removal by the US government, as documented by
tribal editorial cartoons. For generations, US politicians and
energy companies attempted to gain access to the coal and uranium
in the Four Corners region, where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,
and Utah meet. The land on which they found billions of tons of
high-grade coal in 1909, however, was reserved for Navajo (Diné)
and Hopi peoples and not accessible to extractive enterprise.
Despite Diné and Hopi protests, US officials gained access to the
coal-rich land on Black Mesa in Arizona by purposely fabricating
and fueling conflict between the Diné and the Hopi. In Comics and
Conquest, historian Rhiannon Koehler documents the story of this
conflict through an engaging analysis of historical Navajo and Hopi
editorial cartoons. Despite the false narrative that the conflict
was driven by inter-tribal animosity and that the subsequent forced
removals of thousands of Indigenous peoples were part of a plan to
keep the peace, the cartoons that Koehler shares reveal a rich
history of artistic activism and Hopi-Diné solidarity against this
land grab. The content and claims featured in political cartoons
published in the tribal newspapers Qua'Toqti and the Navajo Times
in the late 1960s and early 1970s were some of the most critical
tools for both coping with the threats of industry and exposing the
history of exploitation as it carries on into the present. The
conflict, popularly known as the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, was
presented in mainstream media as an egregious threat to US
interests. Acutely aware of their land's value and the minerals and
other resources on it, Diné and Hopi political cartoonists used
their medium to assert their protest and agency, identify the true
instigators of the dispute, and expose and counter the myth that
the conflict had intertribal origins. Koehler shows how tribal
activism and media ultimately resulted in international recognition
of the harms perpetrated by the federal government on Diné and
Hopi soil.
General
Imprint: |
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Rhiannon Koehler
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
232 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4214-4742-1 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4214-4742-8 |
Barcode: |
9781421447421 |
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