Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita Native American Jewelry and twentieth-century artists

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Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita Native American Jewelry and twentieth-century artistsIn this groundbreaking book, the first Navajo to earn a doctorate in history seeks to rewrite Navajo history. Reared on the Navajo Nation in New Mexico and Arizona, Jennifer Nez Denetdale is the great great great granddaughter of a well known Navajo chief, Manuelito (18161894), and his nearly unknown wife, Juanita (18451910). Stimulated in part by seeing photographs of these ancestors, she began to explore her family history as a way of examining