A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body research and method Canadian surveyors have arrived and 9781459837140 Canadian surveyors have arrived and Métis families The essays are linked by overarching examinations of how Europeans manipulated native ideas about gender for their own ends and how indigenous people responded to European attempts to impose gendered cultural practices at odds with established traditions A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body unravels the tangle of federal and state education programs that have been imposed on Navajo people and illuminates the ongoing efforts by tribal communities to transfer state authority over Diné education to the Navajo Nation this important education history explains how the current Navajo educational system is a complex terrain of power relationships