Comics and Conquest
Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
- Hardcover
232 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2023
Summary
The untold story of Navajo and Hopi resistance and solidarity in the face of forced removal by the US government, as documented by tribal editorial cartoons.
For generations, US politicians and energy companies attempted to gain access to the coal and uranium in the Four Corners region, where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet. The land on which they found billions of tons of high-grade coal in 1909, however, was reserved for the Navajo (Diné) and Hopi peopl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421447421 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1421447428 |
| Author: | Rhiannon Koehler |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
Comics and Conquest is a thought-provoking history of the Navajo- Hopi Land Dispute, well suited for classroom use….Highly recommend!
—Diplomatic History
Koehler’s Comics and Conquest provides a unique addition to the ongoing project of unmaking US history’s settler colonial paradigms.
—Inks: The Journal of Comic Studies
For all its richness, Comics and Conquest is a cross between a history and a thesis driven work….Comics and Conquest should be read both for its novel approach and for the way it challenges preconceptions of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute.
—Law, Culture and the Humanities
Rhiannon Koehler
Rhiannon Koehler (CHICAGO, IL) is a historian and writer. She has published in American Indian Quarterly, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and the Journal of Arizona History. She has worked in higher education and in creative direction and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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