Farina King is Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and associate professor of Native American studies, University of Oklahoma, coauthor of Returning Home: DinE Creative Works of the Intermountain Indian School, and author of The Earth Memory Compass: DinE Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century.
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List of Images Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Dine doo Gaamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saints 2. Gaamalii Bina'nitini: Missionaries 3. Olta' Gaamalii: "Mormon School" 4. Sodizin Ba Hooghan: Church 5. Beyond Dine Bikeyah 6. Red Power at BYU 7. Dine doo Gaamalii Perspectives Epilogue Appendix: Oral History Interviews and Oral History Sources Glossary Notes
"An insightful and fascinating study into the lived experiences of Dine Latter-day Saints. It is important as the fullest examination of that history yet published."-Times and Seasons "In this beautifully rendered autoethnography, Farina King reckons honestly with the injustices of settler colonialism but refuses to grant it a controlling role. Instead, she centers the voices of her own DinE family and other DinE dOO GAamalii, Navajo Mormons, showing how they have built lives faithful both to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and to DinE identity and peoplehood all at the same time."-Tisa Wenger, professor of divinity, American studies, and religious studies at Yale University, and author of We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom "This history illuminates the complexity of relating simultaneously to DinE and Latter-day Saint worlds. Richly textured by oral histories and the history of the author's family, it attends closely to the diversity of views and practices among DinE Latter-day Saints."-Matthew W. Dougherty, author of Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America