The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story

The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance StoryAn inspiring new take on a history we thought we knew In 1919, the brother of one of the West's most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, part true crime, The Sons of Gunshooter reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. The result is a book that's sweeping in its scope and surgical in its

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and rumors of its cause were many: personal jealousy

With his single mother in jail

” and the speaker sees themselves as “the splintered bedlam” of reflection

She hides knives in her hair "the way my grandmother--not god-- / the way my grandmother intended

Collaborative co-creation between artists

Roberts offers questions for self-reflection

"A powerful heroic fantasy

Implementing Indigenous community research practices

"— New Yorker

including Stephen Graham Jones

the newly divorced Zaleekah