Farina King
FARINA KING {[email protected]}, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is associate professor of history and an affiliate of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She is the author of The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century. She is currently writing about Latter-day Saint Native American experiences between the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century. Learn more about her at farinaking.com.
Review: Unerasing Shoshone Testaments of Survival, Faith, and Hope Darren Parry, The Bear River Massacre
Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2
Although Darren Parry claims to not begrudge the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he does not hold back when addressing the injustices and wrongs that his people have faced at the expense of…
Read moreRoundtable: The Complications of Columbus and Indigeneity at BYU
Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2
The Indigenous peoples of the Americas have held their own sets of values and beliefs since time immemorial. Indigenous peoples have rejected the Doctrine of Discovery because it suggests that the United States government is…
Read moreDiné Doctor: A Latter-day Saint Story of Healing
Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 2
Podcast version of this Personal Essay. “They say that they are like firemen. They know what they signed up for. They must fulfill their call for duty.” This is what my mother told me when…
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