Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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I've spent more than 40 years in academia.
And as a graduate student, as first an undergraduate and then in a master's and a PhD program at universities that are near Navajo land.
I actually had to forge my own way through university studies because I did not have access to indigenous or Diné studies or histories.
And so I had to find my way through these programs, particularly with the support and help of professors who understood Diné.
what I needed to do.
And so my travels in terms of study was to find the experiences of our people and give it a name that it was not given in American history.
And so, you know, that's been our experiences as Indigenous people.
And so I...
want to name our experiences for what they have been under American occupation, and that our Indigenous peoples' defense against foreign invaders is five centuries long, and that it's inhumane, it's genocidal, and it's ethnic cleansing.
According to a recent unofficial census, we're about 404,000.
And there was a census that was taken particularly during COVID, you know, and COVID, as you know, was just absolutely devastating.
traumatic for Indigenous people in the United States because many of our people have some of the poorest living conditions in the United States.
My homeland Navajo people struggle to have access to clean water.
They struggle to have access to things that people just take
for granted, like water, like electricity, jobs.
So yeah, it's still the same.
And then you mentioned 1923, that the first Navajo Council of Men was created with the partnership between
oil and gas companies and the federal government.
And so today, the energy companies' interest in Navajo land continues, and you have Navajo people in community-based organizations who do their best to refute this exploitative natural resources extraction.
You know, I am a Diné woman.
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