What is it about?
This article describes how Anglo photographer Laura Gilpin incorporated Indigenous (Navajo/Diné) understandings of land, landscape, and homeland into her photographs of the traditional Navajo homeland, known as Dinétah.
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Why is it important?
This article presents Gilpin in terms of her allyship with Indigenous (Navajo/Diné) values and collaborators, which offers us an important precursor to and model for parallel acts of allyship today. It also offers a useful model of how art can engage in political advocacy.
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This page is a summary of: Seeing the four sacred mountains: Mapping, landscape and Navajo sovereignty, European Journal of American Culture, March 2020, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/ejac_00011_1.
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