Katherine Smith (Navajo activist)
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Katherine Smith (Navajo activist)
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Katherine Smith (1918–2017) was a Navajo activist, cultural educator, land defender, and resistor who protected Navajo land and refused to leave Big Mountain. A 1985 documentary Broken Rainbow depicts the struggle of the Navajo amid government enforced relocation of thousands from Black Mesa in Arizona after the enactment of the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974. The documentary film about the relocation was nominated for an Oscar. She famously shot a rifle overhead as a warning to constru
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Indigenous rights activist
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2023-06-13T02:04:55Z
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