Restoring relations through stories: from Dinétah to Denendeh

"Restoring Relations introduces, synthesizes, and analyzes traditional stories by Diné and Dene storytellers in orature and film. Restoring storied autonomy, identities, kinship, and languages is coming to a state of harmony, beauty, wellness, peace, and balance by recognizing hane' (story...

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Main Author: Watchman, Renae 1974- (Author)
Other Authors: Tapahonso, Luci 1953- (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tucson University of Arizona Press 2024
Series:Critical issues in indigenous studies
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Summary:"Restoring Relations introduces, synthesizes, and analyzes traditional stories by Diné and Dene storytellers in orature and film. Restoring storied autonomy, identities, kinship, and languages is coming to a state of harmony, beauty, wellness, peace, and balance by recognizing hane' (story/narrative) in oral, literary, and visual formats (spoken, published, directed, and beaded). The book conceptualizes narrative autonomy as hane'tonomy and visual storytelling from a Diné perspective and offers a map for restorying that resists inauthentic and misappropriated stories. The base of the argument privilege Indigenous narratives and how these narratives are tied to land and relations. In the book's final movement, the author explores the power of story to forge ancestral and kinship ties between the Diné and Dene, across time and space through re-storying of relations"--
Physical Description:xxvi, 221 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
ISBN:9780816550340
9780816550357