My Most Recent Publishing

"When Water Rises and Rocks Speak" (2022) is about the birth of the Indigenous research and Native American Studies program at a TCU. Much like butchering at times - it is messy - born from an experience with an “ally” who utilized (utilizes) my credentials and teachings as her own… but now this story lives as a teaching for me to learn when to remain silent and when to speak up.

As the conclusion states: “This is not the article that I had intended to co-author with my 'supportive' colleague. In that other unwritten article, I only wished to report the positive relationships of how Dr. Ma’ii and I moved forward together. But this experience demanded another telling, one filled with not only the successes but also the failures, my failures. For some, this may be a mere story of a charred relationship and lost friendship. It is. For others, this story reveals layers of uncomfortable feelings because they see themselves in parts of it; they wonder when they have infringed on colleagues’ voices; they cringe at their own failures to speak up; they start to recognize that the knowledge they hold is stolen from their Native colleagues and/or community members and that they themselves are the thieves. I hope it does.”

To read about Dr. Ma’ii - here is the link or message me if you would like copy
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/866551/summary

My Favorite Writing as of Today

At this moment - my favorite writing comes in the form of a creative writing book review. I had an opportunity to give feedback on The Diné Reader (2021) for Transmotion. I particularly enjoyed this writing because I was able to frame it through a conversation with a blue bird that I had just woven on my loom. It also included teachings from my nálí and from our corn field. I talk with my loom and my rug all the time - oh man... the stories they could tell you!

This review captures a conversation on The Diné Reader that also enters a terrain of lateral oppression and how we, as Native people, are shamed when we offer honest feedback about our own people and their work.

If you want to check it out... here is the link :) 🐦

Print Journals

Ami, Christine. (2022). "“When Waters Rise and Rocks Speak: An Analysis of Indigenous Research Credential Theft by an Ally.” Wicazo Sa Review. 34. 2 muse.jhu.edu/issue/48824

Internet Journals

Ami, Christine. (2022). "My Kind of Waste of Time: Indigenous Research at Diné College." Tribal College Journal. https://tribalcollegejournal.org/my-kind-of-waste-of-time-indigenous-student-research-at-dine-college/

Ami, Christine. (2020). "Politics of Distrust: The Navajo Nation’s use of propaganda devices to recruit participants for COVID-19 trial vaccine." Indian Country Today. https://indiancountrytoday.com/opinion/politics-of-distrust-the-navajo-nations-use-of-propaganda-devices-to-recruit-participants-for-covid-19-trial-vaccine

Podcasts

Labouff, Colete (Host) and Christine Ami (Guest). 2021. "On Indigenous research methodologies and Diné sheep butchering." [Audio Podcast Episode]. Where We Meet Conversations from New Mexico and Beyond. Toas Center for the Arts. https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ttTo3qOBtnQok9cQGf6UT?si=K2TtbgJzQ0mQr-QQNLABWQ

Curley, Andrew (Host) and Christine Ami (Guest). 2020. "Research Risks and Diné Vaccine Trials." [Audio Podcast Episode]. Diné Situation. https://soundcloud.com/din-situation/research-risks-and-dine-vaccine-trialssoundcloud.com/din-situation/research-risks-and-dine-vaccine-trials

Deswood, Peter (Host) and Christine Ami (Guest). 2018. "Navajo Cultural Arts Program: Dr. Christine Ami." [Audio Podcast Episode]. 21st Century Native Leaders. https://nativeleaders.podbean.com/?s=christine+ami

Book Chapters

Coming soon!

Ami, Christine. (Forthcoming 2024). "Wołí bee: Diné Cultural Arts Versus  Pandemics." COVID-19 in Indian Country: Native American Memories and Experiences of the Pandemic. Editors Farina King and Wade Davies. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Reviews

Ami, Christine. (2023). Review: A New Deal for Navajo Weaving: Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles (by Jennifer McLerran). Tribal College Journal. https://tribalcollegejournal.org/a-new-deal-for-navajo-weaving-reform-and-revival-of-dine-textiles/tribalcollegejournal.org/a-new-deal-for-navajo-weaving-reform-and-revival-of-dine-textiles/

Ami, Christine. (2022). Review Essay: The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature (Esther G. Belin, Jeff Berglund, Connie A. Jacobs, Anthony Webster, and Sherwin Bitsui, eds.). Transmotion, 8(1), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/tm.1064

Ami, Christine. (2022). Review: Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed (by Alexandra Harmon). American Indian Culture and Resource Journal. 45(2): 166-68.

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Ami, Christine. (2021). Review: A Diné History of Navajoland (by Klara Kelley and Harris Francis). Tribal College Journal. https://tribalcollegejournal.org/a-dine-history-of-navajoland/

Ami, Christine. (2019). Review: Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman (by Charlotte Frisbie). Tribal College Journal. https://tribalcollegejournal.org/food-sovereignty-the-navajo-way-cooking-with-tall-woman/

 Blogs (outside of the Dismembering: The Blog entries)

Ami, Christine. 2021. “Vulnerabilities of Storytelling, Memoir Writing and Weaving”. Navajo Cultural Arts Program Blog. http://www.navajoculturalartsprogram.org/blog/indigenous-visionaries-storytelling-memoir-writing-and-weaving

Ami, Christine. 2020. Playing Indian: Internal Colonization Seated at the Navajo Loom. Navajo Cultural Arts Program Blog. http://www.navajoculturalartsprogram.org/blog/playing-navajo-weaver-cultural-appropriation-from-within