The Earth Memory Compass
Subtitle: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Oct 01, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780700626915
Description: In this innovative study, Farina King (Navajo) explores how historical changes in education shaped Navajo (Dine ) collective identity and community by examining the interconnections between Dine  students, their people, and Dine  Bike yah (Navajo lands). King investigates the ways that government schools, whether far, near, or on the reservation, affected Dine  students' sense of home and relationships with their Indigenous communities during the twentieth century. King primarily relies on oral histories and cultural historical methodologies, which reveal how the home(land) and the mountains serve as focal points of Dine  worldviews and how land, environment, and nature have formed an integral part of Dine  knowledge and teaching - what she calls the Earth Memory Compass - that external educational systems failed to erase in the twentieth century.
Notes: Source title: The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century