"We are lonesome for our land": The Settler Colonialist Use of Exodus in the Diné Long Walk
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Euro-American scholarship of the Diné Long Walk often concludes that the end of this traumatic experience “birthed” the Navajo Nation. This conclusion derives from the hegemonic narrative of nation-formation: the biblical Exodus, in which the people endured a grueling period in the desert and reached the “promised land” as a united people. The imposition of this narrative serves as a tool of the ongoing project of American settler colonialism. This project unpacks and challenges this presumption, in part through the use of Diné-recorded oral histories and native scholarship.
Author: Emma Brewer-Wallin
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2893735136