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As my dissertation adviser, Peter Iverson taught me the importance of visiting the communities about which I write and building relationships with the people about whom I write. More importantly, he demonstrated these commitments in his own research on the Navajo people. Diné is the culmination of a lifetime of research, but it is also a product of a life spent building relationships and understanding place. I have taken Iverson's advice and tried to follow his example with my own research on the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana.