Preface. Arrivals  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
List of Abbreviations  xxi
Introduction. Changing Climates of Colonialism  1
Interlude 1. Every Navajo Has an Anthro  19
1. Extractive Legacies: Histories of Diné Power   26
2. The Rise of Energy Activism  64
Interlude 2. Solar Power in Klagetoh  108
3. Sovereignty's Interdependencies  113
4. Contesting Expertise: Public Hearings on Desert Rock  149
5. Artifacts of Energy Futures  187
Interlude 3. Off-Grid in the Chuskas  230
Conclusion. Conversions  236
Epilogue. Vitalities  253
Notes  257
References  283
Index

“Powell's book is impressive and creative. Essential reading for scholars of the Navajo nation and Indian country more broadly. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” — R. E. O'Connor, Choice

“Dana Powell’s Landscapes of Power offers a fresh, astute, and important look at contemporary life within the context of energy politics on an American Indian Reservation in what is arguably the first modern and consciously post-colonial ethnography of the Diné. This book should draw interest from a broad range of readers.” — Gilbert A. Quintero, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"Dana Powell is a gifted writer and exquisite storyteller, and the book is engaging, readable, and carries the reader through from beginning to end." — Kristina Jacobsen, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies

"Landscapes of Power seeks to explain what energy justice and climate justice look like for marginalized communities embedded in ecologies rich in energy minerals. The book complicates common understandings of sovereignty as absolute independence; instead, it considers the variant forms of struggles and redefinitions of sovereignty among the Diné in their ongoing contestations over land, minerals, and energy...." — Jorge Ramirez, Radical History Review

“Powell's book is impressive and creative. Essential reading for scholars of the Navajo nation and Indian country more broadly. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals.” —R. E. O'Connor, Choice

“Dana Powell’s Landscapes of Power offers a fresh, astute, and important look at contemporary life within the context of energy politics on an American Indian Reservation in what is arguably the first modern and consciously post-colonial ethnography of the Diné. This book should draw interest from a broad range of readers.” —Gilbert A. Quintero, Medical Anthropology Quarterly

"Dana Powell is a gifted writer and exquisite storyteller, and the book is engaging, readable, and carries the reader through from beginning to end." —Kristina Jacobsen, The Canadian Journal of Native Studies

"Landscapes of Power seeks to explain what energy justice and climate justice look like for marginalized communities embedded in ecologies rich in energy minerals. The book complicates common understandings of sovereignty as absolute independence; instead, it considers the variant forms of struggles and redefinitions of sovereignty among the Diné in their ongoing contestations over land, minerals, and energy...." —Jorge Ramirez, Radical History Review

"In this masterful study Dana E. Powell weaves a rich narrative that intertwines Navajo leaders' efforts to reverse a depressed economy with the complexities of the political atmosphere, tribal sovereignty, the imperative to address environmental justice and climate change, and Navajo concerns about land use. Landscapes of Power is indispensable to the study of Native nations, their relationships to energy and development projects, and to understanding the Navajo nation's twenty-first-century history." — Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), University of New Mexico

"Expertly tracing the legacy of the thwarted Desert Rock project, Dana E. Powell identifies an ethical project among Navajo activists that signals politics beyond straightforward environmentalism—a politics that matters for Navajo sovereignty, territory, and ethical ways of life, as well as for energy activism and policy everywhere. As with #NoDAPL and Standing Rock, the Desert Rock struggle goes to the core of what politics look like within, across, and in solidarity with Indian Country. This is essential reading." — Jessica R. Cattelino, author of, High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty

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