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Capture These Indians for the Lord
Indians, Methodists, and Oklahomans, 1844-1939
By Tash Smith
The University of Arizona Press
Exploring larger issues associated with western expansion, Capture These Indians for the Lord details the history of the Southern Methodist Church in Oklahoma’s Indian Territory and the complex relationship between its white and Indian membership.
Archaeology and Apprenticeship
Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice
Edited by Willeke Wendrich
The University of Arizona Press
Apprenticeship is broadly defined as the transmission of culture through a formal or informal teacher–pupil relationship. This collection invites a wide discussion, citing case studies from all over the world and yet focuses the scholarship into a concise set of contributions. This book also examines apprenticeship in archaeology against a backdrop of sociological and cognitive psychology literature, to enrich the understanding of the relationship between material remains and enculturation.
A Passion for the True and Just
Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal
The University of Arizona Press
A Passion for the True and Just reveals the moral underpinnings of Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and their important contribution to the Indian New Deal. Alice Beck Kehoe illuminates Felix Cohen’s uncompromising commitment to the “true and the just,” rooted in his Jewish intellectual and moral heritage, and Social Democrat principles, that changed American legal philosophy.
Ethnobiology for the Future
Linking Cultural and Ecological Diversity
Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan; Foreword by Paul E. Minnis
The University of Arizona Press
Ethnobiology is dedicated to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultures and practices on Earth. In this important new collection, MacArthur Fellow Gary Paul Nabhan lays out the case for the future of the field. Nabhan and his colleagues from across disciplines and cultures call for an ethnobiology that is provocative, problem-driven, and, above all, inspiring.
Asegi Stories
Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
The University of Arizona Press
Drawing on oral histories and archival research, this book develops the concept of asegi stories. Asegi translates as “strange,” and it is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “Queer.” This book provides a LGBTQ2 lens to interpret the Cherokee past, understand the present, and imagine decolonial futures.
A Tale of Three Villages
Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in Southwestern Alaska, 1740–1950
By Liam Frink
The University of Arizona Press
A Tale of Three Villages tracks the histories of three villages ancestrally linked to Chevak, a contemporary village in southwestern Alaska. Through an innovative interdisciplinary methodology that respectfully and creatively investigates the spatial and material past, the author convincingly demonstrates that, in order to understand colonial history, we must actively incorporate indigenous people as actors, not merely as reactors.
Weathering Risk in Rural Mexico
Climatic, Institutional, and Economic Change
By Hallie Eakin
The University of Arizona Press
Chaco Revisited
New Research on the Prehistory of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Edited by Carrie C. Heitman and Stephen Plog
The University of Arizona Press
Bringing together both up-and-coming and well-known scholars of Chaco Canyon, Chaco Revisited provides readers with refreshing and updated analyses of research collected over the course of a century. Addressing age-old questions surrounding the canyon using new methods, contributors prove that Chaco Canyon was even more complex and fascinating than previously understood.
Sanctioning Matrimony
Western Expansion and Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands
By Sal Acosta
The University of Arizona Press
Sanctioning Matrimony provides a deep analysis of intermarriage in southern Arizona from 1860 to 1930. Sal Acosta utilizes vital records and census documents to demonstrate how interethnic relationships extended the racial fluidity of the Arizona borderlands.
Florida
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in favor of prescribed burning, for which it has ideal environmental conditions and a robust culture. Out of this heritage the fire community has created institutions to match. The Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the national fire revolution of the 1960s. Today, it remains the Silicon Valley of prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades.
California
A Fire Survey
The University of Arizona Press
In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what makes California’s fire scene unique is how its dramatically distinctive biomes have been yoked to a common system, ultimately committed to suppression, and how its fires burn with a character and on a scale commensurate with the state’s size and political power. California has not only a ferocity of flame but a cultural intensity that few places can match. California’s fires are instantly and hugely broadcast. They shape national institutions, and they have repeatedly defined the discourse of fire’s history. No other place has so sculpted the American way of fire.
Writing the Goodlife
Mexican American Literature and the Environment
The University of Arizona Press
The decolonial approaches found in Writing the Goodlife provide rich examples of mutually respectful relations between humans and nature. Ybarra’s book takes on two of today’s most discussed topics: environmentalism and Latina/o population growth. Ybarra shines a light on long-established traditions of environmental thought that have existed in Mexican American literary history for at least 150 years.
Weaving the Boundary
By Karenne Wood
The University of Arizona Press
Political yet universal, Weaving the Boundary tells of love and betrayal, loss and forgiveness. Poet Karenne Wood intertwines important and otherwise untold stories and histories with a heightened sense of awareness of Native peoples’ issues and present realities.
The Fornes Frame
Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes
The University of Arizona Press
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher, Maria Irene Fornes, who has transformed American theatre. Considering Fornes’s legacy, Anne García-Romero shows how five award-winning playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.
How Myth Became History
Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands
The University of Arizona Press
How Myth Became History emphasizes the heterogeneity of border communities and the foregrounding narratives often ignored, such as Mexican-indio histories. John E. Dean provides critical insight into the vexed status of the contemporary Texas-Mexico divide and points to broader implications for national and transnational identity.
Poetry of Resistance
Voices for Social Justice
The University of Arizona Press
Poetry of Resistance offers a poetic call for tolerance, reflection, reconciliation, and healing. Bringing together more than eighty writers, the anthology powerfully articulates the need for change and the primacy of basic human rights.
Indigenous Pop
Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
The University of Arizona Press
American Indian musicians have been innovators in virtually all popular forms of music—jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae, punk, and hip-hop. In fact, some of the United States’ most prominent musicians have been American Indians. Yet for too long their contributions have been invisible to the public. This book showcases the range of musical genres to which Native musicians have contributed and the unique ways in which their engagement advances the struggle for justice and continues age-old traditions of creative expression.
The Settlement of the American Continents
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography
The University of Arizona Press
Náyari History, Politics, and Violence
From Flowers to Ash
The University of Arizona Press
Copper for America
The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s
The University of Arizona Press
An extensively documented chronicle of the rise and fall of individual mines, companies, and regions, Copper for America will prove an essential resource for economic and business historians, historians of technology and mining, and western historians.
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