Left Handed (Navajo) (1868–?) was a Diné man who was
born at Hweéldi (the Bosque Redondo prison camp), where the
American military held Navajos from 1863 to 1868, and then returned
to the Navajo homeland with his family. At the time of Walter Dyk’s
interviews about his life, he was positioned as an elder who had
lived well and prospered. Walter Dyk (1899–1972) was a
linguist who studied under Edward Sapir. He studied Navajo
language and published Old Mexican. Jennifer Denetdale
(Diné/Navajo) is the first Diné/Navajo to earn a PhD in history and
is an associate professor of American studies at the University of
New Mexico. She is the author of Reclaiming Diné History: The
Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita and The Long Walk:
The Forced Exile of the Navajo.
“An extraordinarily vivid and detailed story, full of earthily
realistic dialogue, told with an amazing storyteller’s craft.”—The
Roundup
“A serious anthropological study that reads like a combination of
Tobacco Road with two parts of Studs Lonigan.”—New Republic
“An entertaining and absorbing story about Indian life.”—True
West
"For Western fiction writers, there is much to glean here; for
anthropologists . . . there is an opportunity here to read and
reflect on the discipline and its relationship with indigenous
people."—Tom Carpenter, Roundup Magazine
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