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In the aftermath of the Civil War, New Mexico Territory endured
painful years of hardship and ongoing strife. During this turbulent
period, a U.S. military officer stationed in the territory
assembled an album of photographs, a series of still shots taken by
one or more anonymous photographers. Now, some 150 years later,
Hardship, Greed, and Sorrow reproduces the anonymous officer's
""souvenir album"" in its totality. Offering an important glimpse
of the American Southwest in the mid-1860s, the book opens with a
thoughtful foreword by Jennifer Nez Denetdale, who considers the
varied and lingering effects that settlement, conquest, and
nineteenth-century photography had on the Apaches and Navajos. In
her insightful introduction accompanying the photographs, curator
and scholar Devorah Romanek places the photographs in historical
context and explains their unusual provenance. As she points out,
the 1866 album integrates a number of important themes in
connection to the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, including
the French intervention in New Mexico and the internment of Navajos
at the Bosque Redondo Indian Reservation. The story of the album's
provenance reads like a mystery: some loose ends remain untied and
some questions remain unanswered. In addition to containing what
may be the earliest extant photographs of Navajo Indians, the album
features both studio and field images of U.S. Army officers,
Mexican politicians, and various sites throughout New Mexico.
According to Romanek, a number of the album's photographs have
appeared in other publications but with scant attention to their
original context or purpose. This compelling book reveals what we
know about the collection, its compiler, and the photographer - or
photographers - who captured such a fraught and complex moment in
the history of the American Southwest.
The last few decades have given rise to an electrifying movement of
Native American activism, scholarship, and creative work
challenging five hundred years of U.S. colonization of Native
lands. Indigenous communities are envisioning and building their
nations and are making decolonial strides toward regaining power
from colonial forces.The Navajo Nation is among the many Native
nations in the United States pushing back. In this new book, Dine
author Lloyd L. Lee asks fellow Navajo scholars, writers, and
community members to envision sovereignty for the Navajo Nation. He
asks, (1) what is Navajo sovereignty, (2) how do various Navajo
institutions exercise sovereignty, (3) what challenges does Navajo
sovereignty face in the coming generations, and (4) how did
individual Dine envision sovereignty? Contributors expand from the
questions Lee lays before them to touch on how Navajo sovereignty
is understood in Western law, how various institutions of the
Navajo Nation exercise sovereignty, what challenges it faces in
coming generations, and how individual Dine envision power,
authority, and autonomy for the people. A companion to Dine
Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought, each
chapter offers the contributors' individual perspectives. The book,
which is organized into four parts, discusses Western law's view of
Dine sovereignty, research, activism, creativity, and community,
and Navajo sovereignty in traditional education. Above all, Lee and
the contributing scholars and community members call for the
rethinking of Navajo sovereignty in a way more rooted in Navajo
beliefs, culture, and values. Contributors: Raymond D. Austin,
Bidtah N. Becker, Manley A. Begay, Jr,Avery Denny, Larry W.
Emerson, Colleen Gorman, Michelle L. Hale, Michael Lerma, Leola
Tsinnajinnie.
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