By Michael Lerma, Robert Yazzie, Avery Denny
What do conventional Indigenous associations of governance provide to our knowing of the modern demanding situations confronted via the Navajo state this day and day after today? Guided by means of the Mountains appears to be like on the tensions among Indigenous political philosophy and the demanding situations confronted through Indigenous international locations in construction political associations that tackle modern difficulties and enact "good governance." particularly, it appears at Navajo, or Diné, political proposal, targeting conventional Diné associations that supply "a new (old) realizing of latest governance demanding situations" dealing with the Navajo country.
Arguing not just for the lifestyles but in addition the endurance of conventional Navajo political notion and coverage, Guided by means of the Mountains asserts that "traditional" Indigenous philosophy presents a version for developing powerful governance associations that handle present matters confronted by means of Indigenous international locations. Incorporating either visible interpretations and narrative bills of conventional and modern Diné associations of presidency from Diné philosophers, the e-book is the 1st to symbolize Indigenous philosophy because the starting place at the back of conventional and modern governance. It additionally explains how Diné governance associations operated in the course of Pre-Contact and Post-Contact occasions. This path-breaking publication stands because the first-time normative account of Diné philosophy.
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