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Comics and Conquest: Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

Name: Comics and Conquest: Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
SKU: 9781421447421
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Contributors:

Rhiannon Koehler

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Social Science, Art

Book Subcategory:

Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Ethnic Studies, Art & Politics

Book Topic:

American

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Release Date:

2023-10-24

ISBN 13:

9781421447421

Weight:

1.13 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inches

Pages:

232

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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 (Din?) and Hopi peoples and not accessible to extractive enterprise. Despite Din? and Hopi protests, US officials gained access to the coal-rich land on Black Mesa in Arizona by purposely fabricating and fueling conflict between the Din? and the Hopi.

In Comics and Conquest, historian Rhiannon Koehler documents the story of this conflict through an engaging analysis of historical Navajo and Hopi editorial cartoons. Despite the false narrative that the conflict was driven by inter-tribal animosity and that the subsequent forced removals of thousands of Indigenous peoples were part of a plan to keep the peace, the cartoons that Koehler shares reveal a rich history of artistic activism and Hopi-Din? solidarity against this land grab. The content and claims featured in political cartoons published in the tribal newspapers Qua'Toqti and the Navajo Times in the late 1960s and early 1970s were some of the most critical tools for both coping with the threats of industry and exposing the history of exploitation as it carries on into the present.

The conflict, popularly known as the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, was presented in mainstream media as an egregious threat to US interests. Acutely aware of their land's value and the minerals and other resources on it, Din? and Hopi political cartoonists used their medium to assert their protest and agency, identify the true instigators of the dispute, and expose and counter the myth that the conflict had intertribal origins. Koehler shows how tribal activism and media ultimately resulted in international recognition of the harms perpetrated by the federal government on Din? and Hopi soil.

About the Author

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.

Comics and Conquest: Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

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