Nick Estes, Melanie K. Yazzie, Jennifer Nez Denetdale and David Correia
176 pages, softcover: $17.95
PM Press, 2021.
In June 2017, a store owner in Omaha, Nebraska, called the cops on Zachary Bearheels, a young Rosebud Sioux man, who was acting erratically in the street. Bearheels, who had been traveling to visit his mother, ended up on the side of the highway after he was kicked off a Greyhound bus, without medication for his bipolar and schizoaffective disorders. After walking all day, he was met by four police officers. The scene quickly escalated; officers cuffed Bearheels and placed him in a police cruiser, then let him out after calling his mother, who had filed a missing person’s report. Bearheels fled and was chased by police, who beat and tased him repeatedly. When it was all over, Bearheels, hands still cuffed behind his back, lay dead on the ground. According to news sources, the coroner’s report stated he had died of “excited delirium syndrome,” a non-medical,
Denetdale to receive Community Engaged Research Lecture Award April 01, 2021
Jennifer Nez Denetdale, professor of History at The University of New Mexico, will be honored at the sixth annual Community Engaged Research Lecture. The annual event is one of the highest honors UNM can bestow on a faculty member in recognition of their community engaged research and creative activity.
The virtual event will be held via Zoom on Thursday, April 8 at 5 p.m. Participants must register for the event. The full program is here.
As part of the honor, Denetdale will discuss
Dikos Ntsaaígíí ̶ Building the Perfect Human to Invade: A Diné Feminist Analysis of the Pandemic and the Navajo Nation.
The tension between border town police and Navajos is real. And these people are trying to change that.
Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission says conflicts stretch back to the 1840s.
(Courtesy of Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries) Police officers with helmets and batons on a road near the Navajo protest march in Farmington, New Mexico, 1974. Tension between police and Native people have gone on for decades.
By Sam Stecklow | Updated: 3:36 p.m.
It started with Oxley pulling over a car because of a broken tail light.
Oxley is now expected to go on trial in April, charged with misconduct, not for the 2018 killing, but for his actions during the pursuit.