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The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story

The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story

Fitzsimons, Matt
Denetclaw, Dorothy

Paperback

Indigenous StudiesRegional: SouthwestTrue Crime

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 0816556164
ISBN13: 9780816556168
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An inspiring new take on a history we thought we knew

In 1919, the brother of one of the West's most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation.

Part history, part true crime, The Sons of Gunshooter reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. The result is a book that's sweeping in its scope and surgical in its approach. Rewinding the clock to 1868, the authors follow the intertwining paths of two families to offer a riveting, deeply personal account that has been hailed as a new way of doing historiography.

One of the authors is a descendant of participants in the case; the other is an investigative journalist. By merging Diné oral traditions with archival evidence, they succeed in upending one false narrative after another.

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