NMDCA News:

Bosque Redondo Memorial at Fort Sumner Historic Site is hosting an author presentation and book signing for a new book about one of the West’s most famous Indian traders who was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation.

Authors Dorothy Denetclaw, Diné (Navajo), and Matt Fitzsimons introduce their exciting new book, The Sons of Gunshooter, at 1 p.m., Saturday, May 30, in the Resource Room at Bosque Redondo Memorial. Part history, part true crime, the book reexamines the killing and subsequent murder trial, while simultaneously embedding the story in a much larger saga of colonization and resistance. 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. Matt Fitzsimons lives in San Diego, California and 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.

Bosque Redondo Memorial shares stories both past and present about Diné people. The book merges Diné oral traditions with archival evidence, upending false narratives and shining a new light on this unique story.