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Mexican Americans and the Environment

Tierra y Vida

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Elegy for Desire

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Building the King’s Highway

Labor, Society, and Family on Mexico’s Caminos Reales, 1757-1804

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Beyond the Reach of Time and Change

Native American Reflections on the Frank A. Rinehart Photograph Collection

Edited by Simon J. Ortiz
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The Religion of Hands

Prose Poems and Flash Fictions

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The Pyramid under the Cross

Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenth-century Mexico

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Journeys in the Canyon Lands of Utah and Arizona, 1914-1916

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George C. Fraser was an easterner who loved to vacation on horseback in the American Southwest. Frederick H. Swanson has edited Fraser’s voluminous journals into a single volume covering three trips taken from 1914 to 1916. Accompanied by a selection of photographs taken by Fraser and his fellow travelers, Journeys in the Canyon Lands brings to life the Southwest’s breathtaking backcountry on the brink of discovery.

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Beyond Desert Walls

Essays from Prison

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A teacher and family man incarcerated in Arizona State Prison—the result of a transgression that would cost him a dozen years of his life—Ken Lamberton can see beyond his desert walls. In essays that focus on the natural history of the region and on his own personal experiences with desert places, the Burroughs Medal-winning author takes readers along as he revisits the Southwest he knew when he was free, and as he makes an inner journey toward self-awareness. Whether considering the seemingly eternal cacti or the desolate beauty of the Pinacate, he draws on sharp powers of observation to re-create what lies beyond his six-by-eight cell and to contemplate the thoughts that haunt his mind as tenaciously as the kissing bugs that haunt his sleep.

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Language Shift among the Navajos

Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity

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In-between Places

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Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity

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As contemporary Native Americans assert the legacy of their ancestors, there is increasing debate among archaeologists over the methods and theories used to reconstruct prehistoric identity and the movement of social groups. This is especially problematic with respect to the emergence of southwestern tribes, which involved shifting ...

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Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent

Culture, Conservation, and the State in Mexico

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Chia

Rediscovering a Forgotten Crop of the Aztecs

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Thirty Years Into Yesterday

A History of Archaeology at Grasshopper Pueblo

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The Safford Valley Grids

Prehistoric Cultivation in the Southern Arizona Desert

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Mission San Xavier del Bac

A Guide to Its Iconography

By Yvonne Lange and Richard E. Ahlborn; By (photographer) Helga Teiwes
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Miniature Crafts and Their Makers

Palm Weaving in a Mexican Town

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Comets II

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Waiting for Rain

The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil

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The Hanford Reach

A Land of Contrasts

By Susan Zwinger; By (photographer) Skip Smith
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Navajo Weaving in the Late Twentieth Century

Kin, Community, and Collectors

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Miranda

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One of the most significant Supreme Court cases in U.S. history has its roots in Arizona and is closely tied to the state's leading legal figures. Miranda has become a household word; now Gary Stuart tells the inside story of this famous case, and with it the legal history of the accused's right to counsel and silence.

Ernesto Miranda was an uneducated Hispanic man arrested in 1963 in connection with a series of sexual assaults, to which he confessed within hours. He was convicted not on the strength of eyewitness testimony or physical evidence but almost entirely because he had incriminated himself without knowing it—and without knowing that he didn't have to. Miranda's lawyers, John P. Frank and John F. Flynn, were among the most prominent in the state, and their work soon focused the entire country on the issue of their client's rights. A 1966 Supreme Court decision held that Miranda's rights had been violated and resulted in the now-famous "Miranda warnings." Stuart personally knows many of the figures involved in Miranda, and here he unravels its complex history, revealing how the defense attorneys created the argument brought before the Court and analyzing the competing societal interests involved in the case. He considers Miranda's aftermath—not only the test cases and ongoing political and legal debate but also what happened to Ernesto Miranda. He then updates the story to the Supreme Court's 2000 Dickerson decision upholding Miranda and considers its implications for cases in the wake of 9/11 and the rights of suspected terrorists. Interviews with 24 individuals directly concerned with the decision—lawyers, judges, and police officers, as well as suspects, scholars, and ordinary citizens—offer observations on the case's impact on law enforcement and on the rights of the accused.

Ten years after the decision in the case that bears his name, Ernesto Miranda was murdered in a knife fight at a Phoenix bar, and his suspected killer was "Mirandized" before confessing to the crime. Miranda: The Story of America's Right to Remain Silent considers the legacy of that case and its fate in the twenty-first century as we face new challenges in the criminal justice system.

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Isabella Greenway

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She was at home on the western range and in New York salons. An energetic entrepreneur who managed a ranch, an airline, and a resort. A politician who became a key player in the New Deal. Isabella Greenway blazed a trail for remarkable women in Arizona politics today, from Janet Napolitano to Sandra Day O'Connor. Now Kristie Miller ...

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Huichol Mythology

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Best known for their ritual use of peyote, the Huichol people of west-central Mexico carried much of their original belief system into the twentieth century unadulterated by the influence of Christian missionaries. Among the Huichol, reciting myths and performing rituals pleases the ancestors and helps maintain a world in which ...

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Chicano Sketches

Short Stories by Mario Suárez

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World to World

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Soldier-Artist of the Great Reconnaissance

John C. Tidball and the 35th Parallel Pacific Railroad Survey

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Organ Pipe

Life on the Edge

By Carol Ann Bassett; By (photographer) Michael Hyatt
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Nature and the City

Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles

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Mo

The Life and Times of Morris K. Udall

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Miracle Hill

The Story of a Navajo Boy

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Don't Let the Sun Step Over You

A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860–1975

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Don't Let the Sun Step Over You

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When the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-school officials, and menacing mounted police, they knew that resistance to American authority would be foolish. But some Apache families ...

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A Nation of Villages

Riot and Rebellion in the Mexican Huasteca, 1750-1850

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Women and the Conquest of California, 1542-1840

Codes of Silence

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Negotiating Economic Development

Identity Formation and Collective Action in Belize

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Lotería

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Desert Patriarchy

Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley

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Chicana/o Identity in a Changing U.S. Society

¿Quién Soy? ¿Quiénes Somos?

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Like a Brother

Grenville Goodwin’s Apache Years, 1928-1939

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There's a Bobcat in My Backyard

Living with and Enjoying Urban Wildlife

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Tequila

A Natural and Cultural History

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Stories and Stone

Writing the Ancestral Pueblo Homeland

Edited by Reuben Ellis
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Stalking the Big Bird

A Tale of Turkeys, Biologists, and Bureaucrats

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Race, Nation, and Market

Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico

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