The Navajo Political Experience
The Navajo Political Experience

Author: David E. Wilkins

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-10-25

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1442226692

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Native nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fourth edition of David E. Wilkins' The Navajo Political Experience, political developments of the last decade are discussed and analyzed comprehensively, and with as much accessibility as thoroughness and detail.

Landscapes of Power
Landscapes of Power

Author: Dana E. Powell

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0822372290

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In Landscapes of Power Dana E. Powell examines the rise and fall of the controversial Desert Rock Power Plant initiative in New Mexico to trace the political conflicts surrounding native sovereignty and contemporary energy development on Navajo (Diné) Nation land. Powell's historical and ethnographic account shows how the coal-fired power plant project's defeat provided the basis for redefining the legacies of colonialism, mineral extraction, and environmentalism. Examining the labor of activists, artists, politicians, elders, technicians, and others, Powell emphasizes the generative potential of Navajo resistance to articulate a vision of autonomy in the face of twenty-first-century colonial conditions. Ultimately, Powell situates local Navajo struggles over energy technology and infrastructure within broader sociocultural life, debates over global climate change, and tribal, federal, and global politics of extraction.

The Navajo Political Experience
The Navajo Political Experience

Author: David E. Wilkins

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2003-02-24

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1461644860

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The book offers a way to explore the culture of politics and the politics of culture confronted by all native peoples.