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.
Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969
A study of the shift in American Indian and white relations as both Presidents favored new policies that would have fostered the survival of American Indian cultures and heritages, yet they faced opposition from western senators who insisted on carrying out the so-called termination policies.
- Copyright year: 2001
Changing Plant Life of La Frontera
Observations on Vegetation in the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
Presents a new agenda for study of the strikingly diverse shrub and grassland ecosystems of the U.S./Mexico border.
- Copyright year: 2001
Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle
A History of the American Cowboy in Song, Story and Verse
"A beautiful job, exact, comprehensive and witty. Should remain a basic history of the subject for many years to come."--Edward Abbey
- Copyright year: 2001
Tall Woman
The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977
Translated from her own words, this story of a Navajo woman who lived for more than 102 years is a vivid account of traditional lifeways in a harsh and challenging environment.
- Copyright year: 2001
Dancing on the Stones
This new collection of essays gives you the opportunity to know him even more intimately.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Nature of Native American Poetry
Elucidates the clear mark that Native American literature, culture, and oral-poetic traditions have left on five centuries of British and American literature.
- Copyright year: 2000
Comida Sabrosa
Home-Style Southwestern Cooking
This bestselling complete cookbook on southwestern cookery is now available with the real cooks' favorite: a spiral binding.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Colorado Plateau
A Geologic History
Written with the general reader in mind, this is the updated edition of the classic on the geology of the red rock and canyon country of the Fours Corners region of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico.
- Copyright year: 2000
Puppet
A Chicano Novella
A Chicana graduate student learns of a cover-up of the police shooting a young Chicano laborer named Puppet. Both a mystery and a call-to-action novel, Puppet is an underground classic. This is a bilingual edition - Spanish and English.
- Copyright year: 2000
The Urban Indian Experience in America
As the first ethnohistory of modern urban Indians, this perceptive study looks at Indians from many tribes living in cities throughout the United States.
- Copyright year: 2000