Through My Eyes

A Navajo man reflects on his cultural identity while interacting at the Bosque Redondo Memorial–a Navajo incarceration camp in Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

David Henderson is a full blood Navajo man who was raised by a loving white family after his biological mother died giving birth to his younger brother. Even though raised in the Four Corners area of Northwest New Mexico and in close contact with his own people, he was not raised as a Navajo person. Upon visiting the Bosque Redondo Memorial dedication in 2018, he finally felt he could address a question he had suppressed for decades…Who am I as a Navajo man? As a Diné elder? This is the beginning of that search in self-reflection.