| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

Diné: A History of the Navajos. By Peter Iverson. Photos by Monty Roessel. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xiii + 386 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, cloth; $21.95, paper.)

"For Our Navajo People": Diné Letters, Speeches, & Petitions, 1900–1960. Edited by Peter Iverson. Photo editor Monty Roessel. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. xviii + 275 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $34.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

In Diné, Peter Iverson has written a compelling history of the Navajos, the most important Indian nation in contemporary North America. Iverson's lifelong familiarity with the Navajos and his deep empathy with their trials and accomplishments makes this a book full of insights and compelling formulations of complicated issues. It ranges impressively across centuries and a variety of scholarly disciplines, and in doing so it raises, sometimes explicitly and sometimes implicitly, issues central to the ways we write Indian history.

Iverson's Diné are not a people of "tradition"; they are resolutely historical. Emerging as a distinct people in the late 1400s or early 1500s, the Navajos are a modern people, as much a creation of history and change as the non-Indians with whom they have been in contact for nearly half a millennium. They have grown to a nation of nearly 300,000 people occupying a reservation roughly the size of Ireland.

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