Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story
History Colorado - Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center
- Free
- Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center
29477 Colorado 159
Fort Garland, Colorado 81133 - 1:00PM - 2:30 PM
Join us on Saturday, March 28 at 1:00pm as Dorothy Denetclaw (Diné) and Matt Fitzsimons discuss their recently released book, Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story. The book reexamines the 1919 killing of the Indian trader Charlie Hubbell and subsequent murder trial while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. One of the authors is a descendant of participants in the case; the other is an investigative journalist. By merging Diné oral traditions with archival evidence, they upend one false narrative after another.
About the Speakers:
Dorothy Denetclaw is Tótsohnii born for Tł’ááschí’í and lives in Indian Wells, Arizona. She is a community organizer, activist, and interpreter, and enjoys researching her family history, a legacy for her children and grandchildren.
Matt Fitzsimons is a former newspaper reporter and the author of The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver, and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation. He lives in San Diego, California.