Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

July 12, 2025

John Redhouse's Book Launch Details 'The Hate Crime Capital of the West'



Diné John Redhouse: Invasion and Genocide: The War on Native People is Ongoing

John Redhouse, Navajo and Ute, launched his new book on bordertown racism, and described how the history of the Four Corners region, with massive coal-fired power plants and oil and gas fields, ultimately led to Farmington, New Mexico, becoming the Hate Crime Capitol of the World. During book launches in Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Albuquerque and Farmington, Redhouse describes the organized resistance to the racism and torture murders of Navajos by white teenagers in the bordertown.

Article by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 12, 2025
Censored News at Indybay, New Today

ALBUQUERQUE -- "This book has been crying out to be published," John Redhouse said, as he named the great writers he was inspired by as a high school graduate in Farmington when he joined the National Indian Youth Council. "The Red Power Movement was, and still is, very much alive in the Southwest."