Reviews
The absurdities of settler colonialism are cast into sharp relief in this compelling study of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute. By adroitly unpacking the cartoons that both Hopis and Navajos created to ridicule US government policy, Rhiannon Koehler has produced a work that is at once humorous and devastating.
Comics and Conquest explores the history of the Diné and Hopi land controversy through the lens of political cartoons. Especially in this age of multimodality, Koehler's analysis using visual rhetorical tools makes a fresh and timely contribution to the scholarship.
Koehler argues that Congress bowed to mining interests when it mandated the relocation of thousands of Navajos from land partitioned to the neighboring Hopis. Even those who think federal policy was primarily shaped by less malign influences will be impressed by this polemical, well-written account of a tragic conflict.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Beginning: Interdependence and Independence in the Four Corners Region, 1540-1868
2. Divide and Conquer: Misinformation and Manipulation across Dinétah and Hopituskwa
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Beginning: Interdependence and Independence in the Four Corners Region, 1540-1868
2. Divide and Conquer: Misinformation and Manipulation across Dinétah and Hopituskwa
3. Fourth World Activism: Editorial Cartoons in the Navajo Times and Qua'Töqti, 1964-1973
4. Discourse and Discord: The Conversation between the Navajo Times and Qua'Töqti, 1974
5. Activism in the Aftermath: Protest and Politics, 1974-1998
Conclusion
Appendix. Drawing Humor: A Conversation with Jack Ahasteen
Notes
Bibliography
Index