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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.
Moveable Gardens
Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory
Divided Peoples
Policy, Activism, and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Calling the Soul Back
Embodied Spirituality in Chicanx Narrative
A Coalition of Lineages
The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians
The experience of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians is an instructive model for scholars and provides a model for multicultural tribal development that may be of interest to recognized and nonrecognized Indian nations in the United States and elsewhere.
Alluvium and Empire
The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Indigenous Persistence on Peru’s North Coast
Alluvium and Empire examines the archaeology of Indigenous communities and landscapes that were subject to Spanish colonial forced resettlement during the sixteenth century. Written at the intersections of history and archaeology, the book critiques previous approaches to the study of empire and models a genealogical approach that attends to the open-ended—and often unpredictable—ways in which empires take shape.
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.
Famine Foods
Plants We Eat to Survive
How people eat today is a record of food use through the ages, and Famine Foods offers the first ever overview of the use of alternative foods during food shortages. Paul E. Minnis explores the unusual plants that have helped humanity survive throughout history.
The Hatak Witches
A baffling museum murder that appears to be the work of twisted human killers results in an unexpected and violent confrontation with powerful shape-shifters for Choctaw detective Monique Blue Hawk. Blending tribal beliefs and myths into a modern context, The Hatak Witches continues the storyline of Choctaw cosmology and cultural survival that are prominent in Devon A. Mihesuah’s award-winning novel, The Roads of My Relations.
The Diné Reader
An Anthology of Navajo Literature
The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature is a comprehensive collection of creative works by Diné poets and writers. This anthology is the first of its kind.