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A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land
Sobaipuri O’odham Landscapes
The result of decades of research, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land presents a thorough and detailed understanding of the Sobaipuri O’odham—arguably the most influential and powerful Indigenous group in southern Arizona in the terminal prehistoric and early historic periods, yet one of the least understood and under-studied to have occupied the region.
- Copyright year: 2022
Beyond the Betrayal
The Memoir of a World War II Japanese American Draft Resister of Conscience
Beyond the Betrayal is a lyrically written memoir by Yoshito Kuromiya, a Nisei member of the Fair Play Committee (FPC) that was organized at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Authority camp.
- Copyright year: 2021
Human Is to Wander
- Copyright year: 2022
A Dream of Justice
The Story of Keyes v. Denver Public Schools
A Dream of Justice is Colorado state senator and former teacher Pat Pascoe’s firsthand account of the decades-long fight to desegregate Denver’s public schools.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Title of Totonicapán
This work is the first English translation of the complete text of the Title of Totonicapán, one of the most important documents composed by the K’iche’ Maya in the highlands of Guatemala, second only to the Popol Vuh.
- Copyright year: 2022
Living Ruins
Native Engagements with Past Materialities in Contemporary Mesoamerica, Amazonia, and the Andes
- Copyright year: 2022
Aztec Antichrist
Performing the Apocalypse in Early Colonial Mexico
- Copyright year: 2022
Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica
- Copyright year: 2022
Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?
The Historical, Relational, and Contingent Interplay of Ch’orti’ Indigeneity
In Where Did the Eastern Mayas Go?Brent E. Metz explores the complicatedissue of who is Indigenous by focusing on the sociohistorical transformations over thepast two millennia of the population currently known as the Ch’orti’ Maya.
- Copyright year: 2022
Life at the Margins of the State
Comparative Landscapes from the Old and New Worlds
- Copyright year: 2022