Title: The Earth Memory Compass
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.
Subjects: Indians of north america, education, Indians of north america, southwest, new, Indians of north america, ethnic identity, Navajo Indians, Ethnic identity, Education, History