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Oregon Indians Voices from Two Centuries Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham 608 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2006 Cloth, 978-0-87071-088-9, $45.00 Teaching Oregon Native Languages Edited by Joan Gross 176 pp. / 5.75 x 9.25 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-87071-193-0, $24.95
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Empty Nets Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River Roberta Ulrich 264 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-87071-188-6, $19.95 To Harvest, To Hunt Stories of Resource Use in the American West Edited by Judith L. Li 200 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-87071-192-3, $18.95
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Rich Indians Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History Alexandra Harmon 400 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3423-7, $39.95
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Memories of Conquest
Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala Laura E. Matthew
Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spains New World empire? Laura Matthews study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemalathe first study to focus on a single allied colony over the entire colonial periodplaces the Nahua, Zapotec, and Mixtec conquistadors of Guatemala and their descendants within a deeply Mesoamerican historical context. Drawing on archives, ethnography, and colonial Mesoamerican maps, Matthew argues that the conquest cannot be fully understood without considering how these Indian conquistadors first invaded and then, of their own accord and largely by their own rules, settled in Central America. Shaped by pre-Columbian patterns of empire, alliance, warfare, and migration, the members of this diverse Indigenous community became unified as the Mexicanosdescendants of Indian conquistadors in their adopted homeland. Their identity and higher status in Guatemalan society derived from their continued pride in their heritage, says Matthew, but also depended on Spanish colonialisms willingness to honor them. Throughout Memories of Conquest, Matthew charts the power of colonialism to reshape and restrict Mesoamerican societyeven for those most favored by colonial policy and despite powerful continuities in Mesoamerican culture. Laura E. Matthew is assistant professor of history at Marquette University. 336 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / April 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3537-1, $45.00
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Bonds of Alliance Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France Brett Rushforth Approx. 416 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3558-6, $39.95 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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Allendes Chile and the Inter-American Cold War Tanya Harmer 400 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3495-4, $45.00
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Removable Type Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 Phillip H. Round 296 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7120-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3390-2, $59.95 The Color of the Land Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 David A. Chang 312 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7106-5, $22.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3365-0, $59.95
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The Tourist State Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand Margaret Werry 360 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-6606-5, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6605-8, $75.00 A Quadrant Book Series Once Were Pacific Mori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 288 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7757-3, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7756-6, $67.50
Attending to fraught and revealing episodes in Hawaiian-Mormon history, Hokulani K. Aikau opens up new terrain for historical analysis in a manner that is theoretically engaged yet accessible.
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado
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Jodi Byrds brilliant critique of contemporary multicultural liberalism places American Indian and Indigenous studies in close dialogue with postcolonial scholarship.
Philip Deloria, University of Michigan
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Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Jean M. OBrien 296 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-6578-5, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6577-8, $75.00 The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 408 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2008 Paper, 978-0-8166-4784-2, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-4783-5, $67.50
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Spaces between Us
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Lauria Morgensen
We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent claims to sovereignty as Indigenous peoples. Explaining how relational distinctions of Native and settler define the status of being queer, Spaces between Us argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler society. Morgensens analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, he shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a biopolitics of settler colonialismin which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlersSpaces between Us newly demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States. Scott Lauria Morgensen is assistant professor of gender studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is coeditor of Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. 312 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-5633-2, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-5632-5, $75.00
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The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 328 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / May 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7783-2, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7782-5, $75.00 X-Marks Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 240 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-6677-5, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6676-8, $67.50
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A Return to Servitude
Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancn M. Bianet Castellanos
As a free trade zone and Latin Americas most popular destination, Cancn, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the states modernization plan for rural, Indigenous communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up more than a third of the citys population.
A Return to Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role Indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatn Peninsula, M. Bianet Castellanos examines how Cancn came to be equated with modernity, how this city has shaped the political economy of the peninsula, and how Indigenous communities engage with this vision of contemporary life. More broadly, she demonstrates how Indigenous communities experience, resist, and accommodate themselves to transnational capitalism.
Tourism and the social stratification that results from migration have created conflict among the Maya. At the same time, this work asserts, it is through engagement with modernity and its resources that they are able to maintain their sense of indigeneity and community. M. Bianet Castellanos is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota. 296 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-5615-8, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-5614-1, $75.00
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Boatema Boateng is associate professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego. 224 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-7003-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7002-4, $75.00
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We Will Secure Our Future Empowering the Navajo Nation Peterson Zah and Peter Iverson 176 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8165-0246-2, $40.00 Paper, 978-0-8165-247-9, $17.95 Reimagining Marginalized Foods Global Processes, Local Places Edited by Elizabeth Finnis 168 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8165-0236-3, $45.00
I knew the moment I read the first paragraph that this book was going to be extraordinary.
Nancy J. Turner, University of Victoria
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Red Medicine
Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing Patrisia Gonzales
Patrisia Gonzales addresses Red Medicine as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, and Mexican Indigenous peoples. For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principal of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwomanthe guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bathexemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual, and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma. Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world. Patrisia Gonzales is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies and is an affiliated faculty member in the American Indian Studies Program and the Native American Research Training Center at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Mud People: Chronicles, Testimonios & Remembrances. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2012 Paper, 978-0-8165-2956-8, $35.00
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Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica From East L.A. to Anahuac Paloma Martinez-Cruz 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2942-1, $32.00
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Sovereign Erotics
A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti
Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasnt until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirt: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that books publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been another collection published that focuses explicitly on the writing and art of Indigenous two-spirit and queer people. This landmark collection strives to reflect the complexity of identities within Native gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit (GLBTQ2) communities. Gathering together the work of established writers and talented new voices, this anthology spans genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essay) and themes (memory, history, sexuality, indigeneity, friendship, family, love, and loss) and represents a watershed moment in Native American and Indigenous literatures, queer studies, and the intersections between the two. Collaboratively, the pieces in Sovereign Erotics demonstrate not only the radical diversity among the voices of todays Indigenous GLBTQ2 writers but also the beauty, strength, and resilience of Indigenous GLBTQ2 people in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Indira Allegra, Louise Esme Cruz, Paula Gunn Allen, Qwo-Li Driskill, Laura Furlan, Janice Gould, Carrie House, Daniel Heath Justice, Maurice Kenny, Michael Koby, M. Carmen Lane, Jaynie Lara, Chip Livingston, Luna Maia, Janet McAdams, Deborah Miranda, Daniel David Moses, D. M. OBrien, Malea Powell, Cheryl Savageau, Kim Shuck, Sarah Tsigeyu Sharp, James Thomas Stevens, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, William Raymond Taylor, Joel Waters, and Craig Womack 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-0242-4, $26.95
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Sing Poetry from the Indigenous Americas Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 352 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2891-2, $26.95 Walking the Clouds An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction Edited by Grace L. Dillon 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2012 Paper, 978-0-8165-2982-7, $22.95
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Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity Kirstin C. Erickson 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2008 Paper, 978-0-8165-2735-9, $24.95 Mediating Knowledges Origin of a Zuni Tribal Museum Gwyneira Isaac 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Cloth, (978-0-8165-2623-9, $50.00
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Bitter Water
Din Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Edited and Translated by Malcolm D. Benally
The removal and relocation of Indigenous peoples from traditional lands is a part of the United States colonial past, and in an expansive corner of northeastern Arizona the saga continues. The 1974 Settlement Act officially divided a reservation established almost a century earlier between the Din (Navajo) and the Hopi, and legally granted the contested land to the Hopi. To date, the U.S. government has relocated between 12,000 and 14,000 Din from Hopi Partitioned Lands. Bitter Water presents the narratives of four Din women who have resisted removal but who have watched as their communities and lifeways have changed dramatically. The book, based on 25 hours of filmed personal testimony, features the womens candid discussions of their efforts to carry on a traditional way of life in a contemporary world that includes relocation and partitioned lands; encroaching Western values and culture; and devastating mineral extraction and development in the Black Mesa region of Arizona. Though their accounts are framed by insightful writings by Benally and Din historian Jennifer Nez Denetdale, the stories of the four women elders speak for themselves. Scholars, media, and other outsiders have all told their versions of this story, but this is the first book that centers on the stories of women who have lived itin their own words in Navajo as well as the English translation. The result is a living history of a contested cultural landscape and the unique worldview of women determined to maintain their traditions and lifeways, which are so intimately connected to the land. This book is more than a collection of stories, poetry, and prose. It is a chronicle of resistance as spoken from the hearts of those who have lived it. Malcolm D. Benally studied Navajo and English at Northern Arizona University. He is currently the Community Involvement Coordinator for Kayenta Township in Kayenta, Arizona. He continues his work documenting the stories of Navajo elders and is an advocate for cultural literacy in his community. 136 pp. / 7 x 10 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2898-1, $19.95
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Reclaiming Din History The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita Jennifer Nez Denerdale 264 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-8165-2660-4, $19.95 Reflections in Place Connected Lives of Navajo Women Donna Deyhle 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8165-2757-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2756-4, $50.00
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Indigenous Miracles
Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico Edward W. Osowski
Consulting both Nahuatl and Spanish sources, Edward W. Osowski strives to fill a gap in the history of the Nahuas from 1760 to 1810, a momentous time when previously sanctioned religious practices were condemned by the viceroys and archbishops of the Bourbon royal dynasty. Osowskis approach synthesizes ethnohistory and institutional history to create a fascinating account of how and why the Nahuas protected the practices and symbols they had adopted under Hapsburg rule. Ultimately, Osowskis account contributes to our understanding of the ways in which Indigenous agency was negotiated in colonial Mexico. Edward W. Osowski is a professor of history at John Abbott College in Montreal.
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368 pp. / 6.125 x 9.125 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7111-9, $21.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3368-1, $65.00
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280 pp. / 5.5 x 8.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-7081-9, $19.95 Cloth, 978-0-8165-7080-2, $60.00
Gathering Moss
A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Robin Wall Kimmerer
Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings. Robin Wall Kimmerer is an associate professor on the faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
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