Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
The Cherokee Nation
A History
Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.
- Copyright year: 2007
Mountain Time
A Yellowstone Memoir
Schullery's heartfelt reflections on his relationship to the wildness of Yellowstone Park.
- Copyright year: 2008
Myth of the Hanging Tree
Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico
Torrez studies the gritty role of hangings in frontier New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2008
Antonio's Gun And Delfino's Dream
True Tales of Mexican Migration
These stories of real people who have immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico show how they have changed their new country and how they are changed by it.
- Copyright year: 2008
Salvation Through Slavery
Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier
Stockel examines the brutal history of forced conversion and subjection of the Chiricahua Apaches by Spanish priests during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
- Copyright year: 2008
A Cherokee Encyclopedia
Conley has compiled a guide to historical and contemporary members of the Cherokee tribe and their roles in their clans and nations.
- Copyright year: 2007
Weaving Women's Lives
Three Generations in a Navajo Family
Well-known anthropologist Lamphere highlights the voices of three generations of Navajo women who are weaving their traditional beliefs with modern American culture to create a new blueprint for their lives and the next generations.
- Copyright year: 2007
The Allen Site
A Paleoindian Camp in Southwestern Nebraska
Recent research on the intriguing Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska and the nearby Medicine Creek sites has revealed a wealth of new information on the land and animal use of the early inhabitants.
- Copyright year: 2007
Powwow's Coming
Cut-paper collage illustrations and engaging verse give young readers a new look at American Indian culture today.
- Copyright year: 2007
Mountain Wildflowers of the Southern Rockies
Revealing Their Natural History
For both visitors and natural history buffs, this book includes seventy-five examples of some of the most common and conspicuous wildflowers in the Rocky Mountains from southern Wyoming to New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2007