New information from Inquisition documents shows how African slaves in Mexico adapted to the constraints of the Church and the Spanish crown in order to survive in their communities.

Alex Harris beautifully captures many archetypes of today's Cuba, and Lillian Guerra's essay discusses what it means to be Cuban.

This detailed history of Remington's role in the development of military weapons is the result of twenty-five years of research of the company's records and military archives.

Noted archaeologist Polly Schaafsma presents new research by current scholars on this largely neglected ancestral Puebloan site.

These poems reveal Price's healing from the crippling traps of childhood and the rejection of the conformity required by modern American life.

Based on statements given to the Navajo Uranium Miner Oral History and Photography Project, this revealing book assesses the effects of uranium mining on the reservation beginning in the 1940s.

The author, an expert on business interests in Latin America, examines U.S. efforts, spanning two centuries, to impose economic dominance on the peoples of the Americas and the Latin American responses to these policies.

This thoroughly researched study uses death to explore the intersection of religious culture and politics in colonial New Mexico.

A Peruvian scholar focuses on the cultural significance of illicit sexual practices in seventeenth-century Lima.

One of the West's most eloquent photographers shares his favorite images and his stories of how they came to be.

This classic of American fiction tells the story of the travels of Bluefeather Fellini, a half-Pueblo Indian and half-Italian who always returns to his mother's home in Taos, New Mexico.

The first large-scale dictionary of any of the Eastern Apachean languages.

The traditional Hispanic culture of 1950s Santa Fe comes alive through the members of the hardworking Romero family.

Dewey tells the stories of early Puebloan peoples and their reverance for the land and animals on which their survival depended.

"This lady is a big breath of hope in a cynical age."--from the Introduction by John Nichols

The author provides methods for the study of American Indian ethnographic texts and disputes some previous assumptions about the sources of the stories in Son of Old Man Hat.

Interviews with major Chicana/o authors are the basis for this examination of the commonality of issues in the work of each of them.

This valuable and long-out-of-print edition of Pike's Southwestern journals is being reissued on the bicentennial of the journey with a new Introduction by historian Mark L. Gardner.

These tales of the mountains, mines, and characters of the Guadalupe range were collected over many years by the author who has explored the area since he was a boy.

Dedek paints a complex portrait of America's most famous highway.

A new look at the colorful history of the Peerless Princess of the Plains.

The silver rush in Tombstone, Arizona, created one of the most sophisticated towns in the American West, complete with lavish saloons, gambling, ice cream parlors, and a swimming pool.

The authors document the secret role of the Mexican president in the insurgency against Anglos during the Mexican Revolution and the Texas Rangers' role in ending the uprising.

Dark and fast-paced, The Ecuador Effect combines a liberal dose of Ecuadorian Indian culture with the drama of a novel.

Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and Native American scholars offer new views of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 that emphasize the transformative roles of material culture in mediating Pueblo Indian strategies of resistance and Colonial Spanish structures of domination.

This study of the early, unpublished novel, The Hungry Generations, explains how subsequent events in McNickle's life lead the author to eventually create The Surrounded, a classic of American Indian literature.

Barnes, a paleopathologist, offers general overviews of specific diseases (West Nile virus, Lyme disease, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, cholera, etc.) and their carriers.

The life of celebrated Mexican archaeologist Moctezuma tells of a man rising to the challenges of life and a man who has eloquently spoken to the the importance of understanding the roots of civilization.

The agrarian revolution beginning in 1910 in rural Morelos helped shape Mexican society for the rest of the twentieth century.

This entertaining novel brings writer Myron Brinig, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and the avant garde of 1930s Taos back to center stage.

How the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company contributed to the development of Southwest tourism.

Jackson brings to life this important route which the Spanish extended north into present-day New Mexico in 1598.

This handbook will help mental health and social workers reach across the language barriers to help their clients.

Dym's analysis of Central America's early nineteenth-century politics shows nation-state formation to be a city-driven process that transformed colonial provinces into enduring states.

The Santa Ana Pueblo creation legend including how Coyote tricked the other animals to join them in our world and how he was punished.

A study of Native literature from the perspective of national sovereignty and self-determination.

The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.

The experiences of a young woman who was the first band instructor in a remote fishing village in 1950s Alaska.

This new revision of New Mexico Government includes a brief history of the state and other chapters on government organization, local and tribal governments, elections, and education.

The story of a father's relationship with his daughter and her struggles with mental illness.