The Nakba, the Law, and What Lies In Between

Author Melanie Yazzie

Melanie K. Yazzie is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. She is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Yazzie specializes in Navajo studies, Southwest studies, environmental studies, Native feminist and queer studies, American Indian history, and social and political theory. She is the vice president of Navajo Studies Conference, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to the development of Navajo Studies, and co-founder of The Red Nation, a coalition advocating Native liberation from colonialism and capitalism.

Reclaiming Native History, from New Mexico to Palestine

As part of an ongoing dialogue with the Native rights movement in the United States, Adalah USA Representative Nadia Ben-Youssef recently sat down with Melanie Yazzie and Nick Estes, scholar-activists and founders of Red Nation, a coalition of Native and non-Native activists, educators, students and community organizers advocating Native liberation. They discussed the points of intersection between Palestinian and Native histories and consider ways forward to reclaim memory as a force for collective liberation.

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