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Dr. Farina King will discuss her co-authored book, "Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School".
Dr. Farina King will discuss her co-authored book, Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School, which looks at the lived experiences of Native American boarding school students through artwork, poems, and other creative materials archived.
A moderated question-and-answer will be provided by the Museum of Native American History (MONAH).
Dr. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is Associate Professor of History and affiliated faculty of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She is also the director and founder of the NSU Center for Indigenous Community Engagement. She received her Ph.D. at Arizona State University in U.S. History. King specializes in twentieth-century Native American Studies, especially American Indian boarding school histories. She is the author of The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century and co-author with Michael P. Taylor and James R. Swensen of Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School (November 2021).
The Museum of Native American History is a non-profit, handicapped-accessible museum of Native American history, art, and culture located in Bentonville, Arkansas. For additional information regarding MONAH, please visit their website: https://www.monah.org/
