An Enemy Such as This

It's been a long time since a history has touched me so deeply with its poignancy. David Correia offers a masterful original narrative that draws upon meticulous archival research and conversations and support from the Casuse family. -Jennifer Denetdale, Navajo Times Like his Apache forbearers, Larry Casuse represents an undeniable reality, an unshakeable strength. 'Their evil is mighty. But it can't stand up to our stories,' writes Leslie Marmon Silko. These words open An Enemy Such as This. Like all Indigenous freedom fighters, Larry is a story. As long as this story continues, so too will Indigenous life. Settler colonialism is the negation of life, held together through violence. You can't forge a future out of a negation. Indigenous resistance is a story of affirmation. Larry is an affirmation. -Melanie Yazzie, from the Foreword 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