Dr. Jennifer Nez Denetdale

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274 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 23 Jul

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American History Hit · Long Walk of the Navajo · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm very proud to be Diné.

I'm proud to know this history of my people.

It is something that I carry with me and that I encourage our young people to know.

I am a scholar and a historian who draws on community-based scholarship to do my work.

And so that always means involving my elders, our medicine people, our young people, our leaders, my relatives, to create stories to think about the future and what the future should look like.

And so there's a lot of Navajo energies towards revitalization and renewal that's happening, and they're just on multiple layers.

We have at least two generations that have lost the language.

And so there's efforts to renew and revital the language that are just happening on multiple fronts.

And so that's always a pleasure to see.

There are people in communities that are determined that our homeland will not be wasteland.

And so there's that front also.

And so I'm just, you know, it's always good to remember for me and for Navajo people that

Our origin stories of the place that we come from, that's what our prayers and our ceremonies and songs are about.

And so I have a lot of privilege to be a part of that community, to listen and to be appreciative of who we are as Navajo people.

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