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.
