An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents over Three Centuries

by David Correia, Melanie K. Yazzie (Foreword by)

Overview

The remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence.

Just weeks before police would kill him in Gallup, New Mexico, in March of 1973, Larry Casuse wrote that “never before have we faced an enemy such as this.” An Enemy Such as This, for the first time, tells the history of that colonial enemy through the simultaneously epic and intimate story of Larry Casuse and those, like him, who fought against it.

From the genocidal Mexican war against the Apaches in the nineteenth century, through the collapse of European empires in the first half of the twentieth century, and culminating in the efforts of young Navajo activists and organizers in the second half of the twentieth century to confront settler colonialism in New Mexico, the book offers a resolutely Native-focused history of colonialism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642597370
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	04/26/2022
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Correia is a writer, activist and organizer. Heis a co-author of Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation, author of Properties of Violence: Law and Land Grant Struggle in Northern New Mexico, co-author of Police: A field Guide, and co-editor of Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police.

Table of Contents

Foreword Melanie K. Yazzie ix

Delbert Rudy, March 1, 1973 1

Their Evil Is Mighty 7

Blood Contracts 15

The Story of the Boy Who Was Traded for a Horse 47

Blood for Soil 53

Child War Bride 79

Red Scare 99

Man Camp 127

Larry Casuse, March 1, 1973 151

Acknowledgments 181

Notes 185

Index 217

Editorial Reviews

"A brilliant tour de force bringing back to life the beloved Navajo militant Larry Casuse who died at the hands of Gallup, NM police. In doing so, David Correia traces the Casuse family history within a world-historical context of Western colonialism, both world wars, US wars against the Native Nations, and continued settler-colonialism and bordertown violence, propped up by US law. This is a breathtaking and original historical narrative that is also a page-turner." —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not “A Nation of Immigrants,” Settler-Colonialism, White Supremacy and a History of Erasure and Exclusion

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