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An enemy such as this, Larry Casuse and the struggle for Native liberation in one family on two continents over three centuries, David Correia ; with a foreword by Melanie K. Yazzie

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An enemy such as this

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David Correia ; with a foreword by Melanie K. Yazzie

Larry Casuse and the struggle for Native liberation in one family on two continents over three centuries

An Enemy Such as This tells the story of the Casuses, a Navajo family whose lives overlay like a map onto the places and world-historical events at the heart of nineteenth and twentieth century colonial conquest"The remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence. Just weeks before police would kill him in Gallup, New Mexico, in March of 1973, Larry Casuse wrote that "never before have we faced an enemy such as this." An Enemy Such as This, for the first time, tells the history of that colonial enemy through the simultaneously epic and intimate story of Larry Casuse and those, like him, who fought against it. From the genocidal Mexican war against the Apaches in the nineteenth century, through the collapse of European empires in the first half of the twentieth century, and culminating in the efforts of young Navajo activists and organizers in the second half of the twentieth century to confront settler colonialism in New Mexico, the book offers a resolutely Native-focused history of colonialism."--Adapted from back cover

Delbert Rudy, March 1, 1973 -- Their Evil Is Mighty -- Blood Contracts -- The Story of the Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse -- Blood for Soil -- Child War Bride -- Red Scare -- Man Camp -- Larry Casuse, March 1, 1973

Larry Casuse and the fight for Native liberation in one family on two continents over three centuries