The Dine, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education. An autoethnography of sorts, the book follows Farina King's search for her own Dine identity as she investigates the interconnections among Navajo students, their people, and Dine Bikeyah-or Navajo lands-across the twentieth century. In her exploration of how historical...

The Dine, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education. An autoethnography of sorts, the book follows Farina King's search for her own Dine identity as she investigates the interconnections among Navajo students, their people, and Dine Bikeyah-or Navajo lands-across the twentieth century. In her exploration of how historical...