Nihikéyah

Nihikéyah brings together Diné voices from the people on the ground and on the frontlines of the fight over land and climate change in a world devastated by colonialism. They shed light on how the struggle for survival as Diné and human beings requires sustaining a connection to the homeland between the sacred mountains—a reminder of how all lands are kin.’—Farina King, co-author of Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School

‘This collection of Diné knowledge holders offers their thoughts, experiences, and viewpoints on the topic of the Navajo connection to their traditional homelands. The authors harness a variety of backgrounds and approaches to discuss the role of land as it relates to both Diné history in the U.S. Southwest and more forward-looking discussions of the state of affairs on the Navajo Nation, with content split equally between literary and academic analyses. Together, these essays do a fine job of illustrating the complex state of nihikéyah, ‘our land,’ as viewed by Diné experts themselves and offer lessons for other communities—both Indigenous and otherwise—about how they might think about their own interconnections between land, people, culture, and politics.’—Wade Campbell, Boston University