Din D Gamalii: Navajo Latter-Day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century King Farina
Din D Gamalii: Navajo Latter-Day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century King Farina "Navajo Latter-day Saints are Dine doo Gaamalii," writes Farina King, in this deeply personal collective…
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Din D Gamalii: Navajo Latter-Day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century King Farina
"Navajo Latter-day Saints are Dine doo Gaamalii," writes Farina King, in this deeply personal collective biography. Drawing on Dine stories from the LDS Native American Oral History Project, King illuminates the mutual entanglement of Indigenous identity and religious affiliation, showing how their Dine identity made them outsiders to the LDS Church and, conversely, how belonging to the LDS community made them outsiders to their Native community. "We are Din who decided to walk a Latter-day Saint pathway, although not always consistently or without reappraising that decision."Dine doo Gaamalii is a history of twentieth-century Navajos, including author Farina King and her family, who have converted and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), becoming Dine doo Gaamalii--both Dine and LDS.
The story that King tells shows the complex ways that Dine