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Cenizas
Poems
World of Our Mothers
Mexican Revolution–Era Immigrants and Their Stories
Children Crossing Borders
Latin American Migrant Childhoods
Dance of the Returned
The disappearance of a young Choctaw leads Detective Monique Blue Hawk to investigate a little-known ceremonial dance. As she traces the steps of the missing man, she discovers that the seemingly innocuous Renewal Dance is not what it appears to be. After Monique embarks on a journey that she never thought possible, she learns that the past and future can converge to offer endless possibilities for the present. She must also accept her own destiny of violence and peacekeeping.
The Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
Michael Chiago
O’odham Lifeways Through Art
Indigenous Economics
Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands
The book explains how Indigenous peoples organize their economies for good living by supporting relationships between humans and the natural world. This work argues that creating such relationships is a major alternative to economic models that stress individualism and domination of nature.
The Border and Its Bodies
The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line
Narrating Nature
Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing
Mineralogy of Arizona, Fourth Edition
This is most comprehensive book yet to describe the minerals known to occur in Arizona. It presents a framework of Arizona’s mineralogy and a set of mineral district maps that can help identify new mineral occurrences. A must-have resource for anyone interested in Arizona minerals, gemstones, fluorescent minerals, and geology.
LGBTQ Politics in Nicaragua
Revolution, Dictatorship, and Social Movements
Unwriting Maya Literature
Ts'íib as Recorded Knowledge
The Aztecs at Independence
Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832
Crafting Wounaan Landscapes
Identity, Art, and Environmental Governance in Panama's Darién
A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back
Pachamama Politics
Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador
Flower Worlds
Religion, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Mesoamerica and the American Southwest
The recognition of Flower Worlds is one of the most significant breakthroughs in the study of Indigenous spirituality in the Americas.Flower Worldsis the first volume to bring together a diverse range of scholars to create an interdisciplinary understanding of floral realms that extend at least 2,500 years in the past.
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing
Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age
Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages.
Postindian Aesthetics
Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty
Latinx Teens
U.S. Popular Culture on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Latinx Teens examines how Latinx teenagers influence twenty-first-century U.S. popular culture. The book explores the diverse ways that contemporary mainstream film, television, theater, and young adult literature invokes, constructs, and interprets adolescent Latinidad.
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
The Greater San Rafael Swell
Honoring Tradition and Preserving Storied Lands
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.