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Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines
Decolonizing Ifugao History
This book illustrates how descendant communities can take control of their history and heritage through active collaboration with archaeologists. Drawing on the Philippine Cordilleran experiences, Indigenous Archaeology in the Philippines discusses how changing historical narratives help empower peoples who are traditionally ignored in national histories.
Transforming Diné Education
Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice
American Indian Studies
Native PhD Graduates Gift Their Stories
Native American doctoral graduates of American Indian Studies (AIS) at the University of Arizona, the first AIS program in the United States to offer a PhD, gift their stories. The Native PhD recipients share their journeys of pursuing and earning the doctorate, and its impact on their lives and communities.
Barger Gulch
A Folsom Campsite in the Rocky Mountains
The Community-Based PhD
Complexities and Triumphs of Conducting CBPR
Calculating Brilliance
An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich’en Itza
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak
Winner of the 2021 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets
Cardinal in My Window with a Mask on Its Beak offers the insightful voice of a first-generation immigrant to the United States in both Spanish and English. The poems, both fantastical and real, create poetic portraits of historical migrants, revealing shocking and necessary insights into humanity while establishing a transatlantic dialogue with the great voices of the Spanish Renaissance.
The Book of Wanderers
Our Fight Has Just Begun
Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America
Our Fight Has Just Begunilluminates Native voices while exposing how the justice system has largely failed Native American victims and families. This book tells the untold stories of hate crimes committed against Native Americans in the Four Corners region of the United States.
A History of Navajo Nation Education
Disentangling Our Sovereign Body
Trickster Academy
The Archaeology of Refuge and Recourse
Coast Miwok Resilience and Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial California
Navigating CHamoru Poetry
Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization
Soldiers, Saints, and Shamans
Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico's Gran Nayar, 1910–1940
Primitivism and Identity in Latin America
Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture
Land Uprising
Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity
The Sound of Exclusion
NPR and the Latinx Public
Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds
The Transformations of Mexico's Narco Cartels
Returning Home
Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School
Once Upon the Permafrost
Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia
Decolonizing “Prehistory”
Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in North America
Decolonizing “Prehistory” critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.
Baja California's Coastal Landscapes Revealed
Excursions in Geologic Time and Climate Change
Discovering Mars
A History of Observation and Exploration of the Red Planet
Natural Landmarks of Arizona
Latin American Immigration Ethics
Border Women and the Community of Maclovio Rojas
Autonomy in the Spaces of Neoliberal Neglect
Postcards from the Baja California Border
Portraying Townscape and Place, 1900s–1950s
Naturalizing Inequality
Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa
The Beloved Border
Humanity and Hope in a Contested Land
Deuda Natal
Count
Museum Matters
Making and Unmaking Mexico’s National Collections
x/ex/exis
poemas para la nación
Science Be Dammed
How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
Between the Andes and the Amazon
Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia
The Pluto System After New Horizons
Letras y Limpias
Decolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature
Tourism Geopolitics
Assemblages of Infrastructure, Affect, and Imagination
Tourism Geopolitics offers a unique and timely intervention into the growing significance of tourism in geopolitical life as well as the intrinsically geopolitical nature of the tourism industry.
We Are Not a Vanishing People
The Society of American Indians, 1911–1923
The early twentieth-century roots of modern American Indian protest and activism are examined in We Are Not a Vanishing People. It tells the history of Native intellectuals and activists joining together to establish the Society of American Indians, a group of Indigenous men and women united in the struggle for Indian self-determination.