Dislocated: Stories from the Navajo New Lands

Mae Horseman

Portrait of Mae Horseman. Photo by Amanda Ray.

In the 1970s the federal government relocated numerous Navajo families from their longtime homes to a faraway tract of ranchland. I oversaw a team of NAU students who went to the Nahata Dziil Chapter to gather stories. The result of their work in words, photos, and video formed the core of an Arizona Humanities-funded exhibit that we created at NAU’s Native American Cultural Center.

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Peter Friederici

Peter Friederici is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about science, nature, and the environment from his home in Arizona. His articles, essays, and books tell stories of people, places, and the links between them.

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