Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denendeh

Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to DenendehThis insightful volume delves into land based Din and Dene imaginaries as embodied in storiesoral, literary, and visual. Like the dynamism and kinetic facets of hzh, Restoring Relations Through Stories takes us through many landscapes, places, and sites. Renae Watchman introduces the book with an overview of stories that bring Ts Bita, or Shiprock Peak, the sentinel located in what is currently the state of New Mexico, to life. The book then

had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government

Alongside twentieth- and twenty-first-century Native writers

and a people through historical ruptures and through intimate troubles and joys--from the sundering of Ojibwe people from their land and culture to singular horrors like the massacre at Wounded Knee to personal trauma suffered at Indian boarding schools

From the rich oral culture of his own Ojibway Indian heritage

and cultural relevancy in education

Generous notes on each poem offer insight into Harjo's inimitable poetics as she takes inspiration from Navajo horse songs and jazz

Hiawatha was a strong and articulate Mohawk who was chosen to translate the Peacemaker’s message of unity for the five warring Iroquois nations during the 14th century

" — Philip J

This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation

–Dakota War of 1862—nor did it end there

and stories that carry Dakota culture through tales

Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso shares memories of her home in Shiprock