The Sons of Gunshooter Book Talk and Signing

Authors Dorothy Denetclaw, Diné, and Matt Fitzsimons introduce their exciting new book, The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story, at the New Mexico History Museum during Indian Market weekend in the museum auditorium. Admission is FREE!

In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, part true crime, The Sons of Gunshooter reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. The result is a book that’s sweeping in its scope and surgical in its approach. Rewinding the clock to 1868, the authors follow the intertwining paths of two families to offer a riveting, deeply personal account that has been hailed as "a new way of doing historiography."

Dorothy Denetclaw is Tótsohnii born for Tł’ááschí’í and lives in Indian Wells, Arizona. She is a community organizer, activist, and interpreter, and enjoys researching her family history, a legacy for her children and grandchildren.

Matt Fitzsimons is a former newspaper reporter and the author of The Counterfeiters of Bosque Redondo: Slavery, Silver, and the U.S. War Against the Navajo Nation. He lives in San Diego, California.