Fri, Mar 27
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Dorothy Denetclaw & Matt Fitzsimons, The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story
“The Sons of Gunshooter is an excellent example of a Diné-based narrative that honors Diné oral histories and showcases Diné resistance and resilience in the face of settler violence.”—Jennifer Nez Denetdale, author of Reclaiming Diné History:The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita
Date, Time & Location
Mar 27, 2026, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Join us in-store or register to watch on Zoom.
Order Sons of Gunshooter (publishes 3/3, $21.95, paperback) online from CWB here or call the store to pre-order.
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.”
One of the authors is a descendant of participants in the case; the other is an investigative journalist. By merging Diné…