Women's History Month: Diné Women in Medicine and Healing Through Generations

Join MONAH during Women’s History Month Native Conversation Series to participate in Dr. Farina King’s presentation on Diné Women in Medicine and Healing Through Generations. This presentation features the significance of women in healing and well-being for Diné since time immemorial through generations into the recent challenges with COVID-19 in the Navajo Nation and Indian Country.

Watch on the Museum of Native American History’s YouTube Channel

Signed copies of Dr. King’s first book The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century are available in the gift shop! Order it here!

Dr. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is Associate Professor of History and affiliated faculty of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies at Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She is also the director and founder of the NSU Center for Indigenous Community Engagement. She received her Ph.D. at Arizona State University in U.S. History. King specializes in twentieth-century Native American Studies, especially American Indian boarding school histories. She is the author of The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century and co-author with Michael P. Taylor and James R. Swensen of Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School (November 2021).