Jennifer Nez Denetdale

Jennifer Nez Denetdale is a professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico, where she teaches courses in Native American Studies with an emphasis on race, class, and gender.[2] She also specializes in Navajo history and culture and the effects of colonization and decolonization as it has impacted the Navajo people.[3]

Jennifer Nez Denetdale
BornUnited States
OccupationProfessor of American studies, University of New Mexico
LanguageEnglish, Navajo
Alma materPh.D. in History, Northern Arizona University, 1999
RelativesGreat-great-great grandparents, Manuelito and Juanita [1]
Website
americanstudies.unm.edu/about-us/people/faculty-profiles/jennifer-nez-denetdale.html

Early life

Denetdale's parents had both attended Stewart Indian School, a boarding school in Carson City, Nevada.[2] Denetdale was raised in Tohatchi, New Mexico from childhood with her three sisters and one brother.[2] Her four clans are the Zia (or Weaver) Clan, and she was born for the Salt People Clan. Her maternal grandfathers are of the Red House clan and her paternal grandfathers are of the Water-Running-Together Clan.[4]

Mentors

Denetdale cites her former professor Luci Tapahonso and Louis Owens as her early mentors in her pursuit of higher education.[2]

Education

Denetdale earned her M.A. in English from Northern Arizona University (NAU). She later earned her doctorates in history from NAU in 1999.[5][6]

Books, Essays and Lectures

References
  1. Cook, Roy. "Reclaiming the Pride of the Dine' Culture". Navajo Times. Retrieved 2014-06-04.
  2. Gonzales, Carolyn (October 11, 2011). "Denetdale Works to Reclaim Navajo History". Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  3. Chantal Marie Norrgard (2008). Seasons of Change: Treaty Rights, Labor, and the Historical Memory of Work Among Lake Superior Ojibwe, 1870--1942. ProQuest. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-0-549-81007-0.
  4. "Nation to Nation: 09 Bad Acts / Bad Paper - Jennifer Nez Denetdale". YouTube. September 23, 2014. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
  5. "Jennifer Nez Denetdale". Archived from the original on 2010-06-28.
  6. "American Studies at UNM".
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