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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS www.uapress.arizona.edu THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS www.upress.umn.edu THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS www.uncpress.unc.edu THE OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS www.oregonstate.edu/dept/press In January 2009, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a collaborative grant to four university presses: the University of Arizona Press, the University of North Carolina Press, the University of Minnesota Press, and the Oregon State University Press. The grant established an innovative partnership that supports the publication of at least 40 books during four years, and it creates the means for the presses to collaborate in their mission to further scholarly communication in the field of Indigenous studies. Books that are published in the First Peoples initiative demonstrate the ways Indigenous traditional and lived experiences contribute to and reframe discourses on the history, culture, identity, and rights of Indigenous peoples worldwide. Our books explore the field of Indigenous studies, which is being defined globally by core concepts, such as indigeneity, sovereignty, and traditional knowledge. Our publishing initiative seeks the best and most robust scholarship by authors whose publications will contribute to the development of the field. In this collaborative effort, each publishing partner brings special foci and expertise in Native American and Indigenous studies. University of ArizonA Press The University of Arizona Press Indigenous studies publications include works in the areas of ethnohistory, contemporary issues such as Indigenous rights and resource management, language revitalization, ethnoecology, collaborative archaeology, ethnography, gender studies, literature, and the arts. University of MinnesotA Press The University of Minnesota Press is interested in interdisciplinary Native and Indigenous studies works arising out of anthropology, sociology, political science, and literary and cultural studies, with a special emphasis on global Indigenous cultures. University of north CArolinA Press The University of North Carolina Press seeks to publish innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship on Indigenous history, culture, law and policy; traditions of expression and performance in literature, music, media and the arts; material culture; Indigenous religion; and Indigenous environmental studies. It is also keenly interested in recent and contemporary histories of activism for and expressions of Indigenous political, economic, and cultural sovereignty. oregon stAte University Press The Oregon State University Press publishing focus centers on history, culture, language, and cultural resource management. Additional publishing foci include Native American and Indigenous perspectives on the cultural, social, and/or physical impacts of climate change, natural resource management, agriculture and food, geography and cartography, environmental matters, and practice and representation in the arts.
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Established in 1824, the United States Indian Service, now known as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, was the agency responsible for carrying out U.S. treaty and trust obligations to American Indians, but it also sought to civilize and assimilate them. In Federal Fathers and Mothers, Cathleen Cahill offers the first in-depth social history of the agency during the height of its assimilation efforts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Making extensive and original use of federal personnel files and other archival materials, Cahill examines how assimilation practices were developed and enacted by an unusually diverse group of women and men, whites and Indians, married couples and single people. Cahill argues that the Indian Service pursued a strategy of intimate colonialism, using employees as surrogate parents and model families in order to shift Native Americans allegiances from tribal kinship networks to Euro-American familial structures and, ultimately, the U.S. government. In seeking to remove Indians from federal wardship, the government experimented with new forms of maternalist social provision, which later influenced U.S. colonialism overseas. Cahill also reveals how the governments hiring practices unexpectedly allowed federal personnel on the ground to crucially influence policies devised in Washington, especially when Native employees used their positions to defend their families and communities. Cathleen D. Cahill is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico. 400 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / May 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3472-5, $45.00 Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
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Removable Type Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 Phillip H. Round 296 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7120-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3390-2, $59.95
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The House on Diamond Hill A Cherokee Plantation Story Tiya Miles 336 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3418-3, $32.50 From Chicaza to Chickasaw The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 Robbie Ethridge 360 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3435-0, $37.50
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Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change? Based on his work in the field and in the archives, Michael J. Zogry argues that members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation continue to perform selected aspects of their cultural identity by engaging in anetso, itself the hub of an extended ceremonial complex, or cycle. A precursor to lacrosse, anetso appears in all manner of Cherokee cultural narratives and has figured prominently in the written accounts of non-Cherokee observers for almost three hundred years. The anetso ceremonial complex incorporates a variety of activities which, taken together, complicate standard scholarly distinctions such as game versus ritual, public display versus private performance, and tradition versus innovation. Zogrys examination provides a striking opportunity for rethinking the understanding of ritual and performance as well as their relationship to cultural identity. It also offers a sharp reappraisal of scholarly discourse on the Cherokee religious system, with particular focus on the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation. Michael J. zogry is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Kansas. 328 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3360-5, $49.95
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Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape Edited by Joel W. Martin and Mark A. Nicholas 344 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7145-4, $27.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3406-0, $75.00
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Rich Indians Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History Alexandra Harmon 400 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3423-7, $39.95
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Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance Raymond D. Austin Foreword by Robert A. Williams, Jr. 296 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8166-6536-5, $19.95 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6535-8, $60.00
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The People and the Word Reading Native Nonfiction Robert Warrior 280 pp. / 5.875 x 9 / 2005 Paper, 978-0-8166-4617-3, $22.50 The Truth About Stories A Native Narrative Thomas King 184 pp. / 5 x 8 / 2008 Paper, 978-0-8166-4627-2, $19.95
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I am extremely grateful these writers have told their stories, and thankful the editors have
A Return to Servitude
Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancn M. Bianet Castellanos
As a free trade zone and Latin Americas most popular destination, Cancn, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the states modernization plan for rural, Indigenous communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up more than a third of the citys population.
A Return to Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role Indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatn Peninsula, M. Bianet Castellanos examines how Cancn came to be equated with modernity, how this city has shaped the political economy of the peninsula, and how Indigenous communities engage with this vision of contemporary life. More broadly, she demonstrates how Indigenous communities experience, resist, and accommodate themselves to transnational capitalism.
Tourism and the social stratification that results from migration have created conflict among the Maya. At the same time, this work asserts, it is through engagement with modernity and its resources that they are able to maintain their sense of indigeneity and community. M. Bianet Castellanos is assistant professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota. 296 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-5615-8, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-5614-1, $75.00
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Negotiating Tribal Water Rights Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West Bonnie G. Colby; John E. Thorson; Sarah Britton 190 pages / 8.5 x 11 / 2005 Paper, 978-0-8165-2455-6, $35.00 Unearthing Indian Land Living with the Legacies of Allotment Kristen T. Ruppel 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2008 Paper, 978-0-8165-2711-3, $35.00
theoretical understanding of the issue but also to the tools used and their practical limitations and strengths.
Mary Christina Wood, University of Oregon
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Bitter Water
Din Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Edited and Translated by Malcolm D. Benally
The removal and relocation of Indigenous peoples from traditional lands is a part of the United States colonial past, and in an expansive corner of northeastern Arizona the saga continues. The 1974 Settlement Act officially divided a reservation established almost a century earlier between the Din (Navajo) and the Hopi, and legally granted the contested land to the Hopi. To date, the U.S. government has relocated between 12,000 and 14,000 Din from Hopi Partitioned Lands. Bitter Water presents the narratives of four Din women who have resisted removal but who have watched as their communities and lifeways have changed dramatically. The book, based on 25 hours of filmed personal testimony, features the womens candid discussions of their efforts to carry on a traditional way of life in a contemporary world that includes relocation and partitioned lands; encroaching Western values and culture; and devastating mineral extraction and development in the Black Mesa region of Arizona. Though their accounts are framed by insightful writings by Benally and Din historian Jennifer Nez Denetdale, the stories of the four women elders speak for themselves. Scholars, media, and other outsiders have all told their versions of this story, but this is the first book that centers on the stories of women who have lived itin their own words in Navajo as well as the English translation. The result is a living history of a contested cultural landscape and the unique worldview of women determined to maintain their traditions and lifeways, which are so intimately connected to the land. This book is more than a collection of stories, poetry, and prose. It is a chronicle of resistance as spoken from the hearts of those who have lived it. Malcolm D. Benally studied Navajo and English at Northern Arizona University. He is currently the Community Involvement Coordinator for Kayenta Township in Kayenta, Arizona. He continues his work documenting the stories of Navajo elders and is an advocate for cultural literacy in his community. 176 pp. / 7 x 10 / May 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2898-1, $19.95
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Living Through the Generations Continuity and Change in Navajo Womens Lives Joanne McCloskey 240 pages / 6 x 9 / 2007 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2578-2, $50.00 Paper, 978-0-8165-2631-4, $24.95 Reflections in Place Connected Lives of Navajo Women Donna Deyhle 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8165-2757-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2756-4, $50.00
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Feminist Readings of Native American Literature Coming to Voice Kathleen M. Donovan 181 pp. / 6 x 9 / 1998 Paper, 978-0-8165-1633-9, $19.95
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The Huichol (Wixarika) people claim a vast expanse of Mexicos western Sierra Madre and northern highlands as a territory called kiekari, which includes parts of the states of Nayarit, Jalisco, Durango, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potos. This territory forms the heart of their economic and spiritual lives. But Indigenous land struggle is a central fact of Mexican history, and in this fascinating new work Paul Liffman expands our understanding of it. Drawing on contemporary anthropological theory, he explains how Huichols assert their sovereign rights to collectively own the 1,500 square miles they inhabit and to practice rituals across the 35,000 square miles where their access is challenged. Liffman places current access claims in historical perspective, tracing Huichol communities long-term efforts to redress the inequitable access to land and other resources that their neighbors and the state have imposed on them. Liffman writes that the cultural grounds for territorial claims were what the people I wanted to study wanted me to work on. Based on six years of collaboration with a land-rights organization, interviews, and participant observation in meetings, ceremonies, and extended stays on remote rancheras, Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation analyzes the sites where people define Huichol territory. The books innovative structure echoes Huichols own approach to knowledge and examines the nation and state, not just the community. Liffmans local, regional, and national perspective informs every chapter and expands the toolkit for researchers working with Indigenous communities. By describing Huichols ceremonially based placemaking to build a theory of historical territoriality, he raises provocative questions about what place means for Native peoples worldwide. Paul M. liffman is a professor at the Center for Anthropological Studies at the Colegio de Michoacn and a member of the National Research System of Mexico. He has worked as a consultant and translator for the Wixarika exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. 296 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2930-8, $55.00
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Indigenous Writings from the Convent examines ways in which Indigenous women participated in one of the most prominent institutions in colonial times the Catholic Churchand what they made of their experience with convent life. This book will appeal to scholars of literary criticism, womens studies, and colonial history, and to anyone interested in the ways that class, race, and gender intersected in the colonial world.
Mnica Daz is an assistant professor at Georgia State University, where she teaches colonial Latin American literature and culture.
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Indigeneity in the Mexican Cultural Imagination Thresholds of Belonging Analisa Taylor 234 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2009 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2718-2, $45.00
pioneering works in history, literature, and ethnic studies while establishing her own critical originality.
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Indigenous Miracles
Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico Edward W. Osowski
While King Carlos I of Spain struggled to suppress the Protestant Reformation in the Old World, the Spanish turned to New Spain to promote the Catholic cause, unimpeded by the presence of the false Old World religions. To this end, Osowski writes, the Spanish saw Indigenous people as necessary protagonists in the anticipated triumph of the faith. As the conversion of the Indigenous people of Mexico proceeded in earnest, Catholic ritual became the medium through which Indigenous leaders and Spaniards negotiated colonial hegemony.
Indigenous Miracles looks at how the Nahua elite of central Mexico secured political legitimacy through the administration of public rituals centered on miraculous images of Christ the King. Osowski argues that these images were adopted as community symbols and furthermore allowed Nahua leaders to represent their own kingship, protecting their claims to legitimacy. This legitimacy allowed them to act collectively to prevent the loss of many aspects of their culture.
Consulting both Nahuatl and Spanish sources, Osowski strives to fill a gap in the history of the Nahuas from 1760 to 1810, a momentous time when previously sanctioned religious practices were condemned by the viceroys and archbishops of the Bourbon royal dynasty. His approach synthesizes ethnohistory and institutional history to create a fascinating account of how and why the Nahuas protected the practices and symbols they had adopted under Hapsburg rule. Ultimately, Osowskis account contributes to our understanding of the ways in which Indigenous agency was negotiated in colonial Mexico. edward W. osowski is a professor of history at John Abbott College in Montreal. He was awarded a Fulbright dissertation scholarship for Mexico in 1998 and co-edited Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader. 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2855-4, $50.00
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The patas In Search of a Sonoran People David A. Yetman 432 pp. / 7 x 10 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8165-2897-4, $39.95 The Pyramid under the Cross Franciscan Discourses of Evangelization and the Nahua Christian Subject in Sixteenthcentury Mexico Viviana Daz Balsera 270 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2005 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2380-1, $45.00
A highly significant work of religious and urban history, Osowskis book has much to teach us about Nahua
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We Are Our Language reveals the subtle ways in which different conceptions and practiceshistorical, material, and interactionalcan variably affect the state of an Indigenous language, and it offers a critical step toward redefining success and achieving revitalization.
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Language Shift among the Navajos Identity Politics and Cultural Continuity Deborah House 121 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2002 Paper, 978-0-8165-2220-0, $17.95 Native American Language Ideologies Beliefs, Practices, and Struggles in Indian Country Edited by Paul V. Kroskrity and Margaret C. Field 336 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2008 Paper, 978-0-8165-2916-2, $26.95
Barbra A. Meek is an associate professor of anthropology and linguistics at the University of Michigan. In addition to conducting her research, she has helped organize and produce Kaska language workshops and teaching materials. 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / January 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2717-5, $49.95
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narratives themselves, effectively translated by the author, emerge as works of art in their own right.
Michael Uzendoski, Florida State University
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In the Ecuadorian Andean parish of Salasaca, the Indigenous culture has stayed true to itself and its surroundings for centuries while adapting to each new situation. Today, Indigenous Salascans continue to devote a large part of their lives to their distinctive practicesboth community rituals and individual behaviorswhile living side by side with white-mestizo culture. In this book Rachel Corr provides a knowledgeable account of the Salasacan religion and rituals and their respective histories. Based on eighteen years of fieldwork in Salasaca, as well as extensive research in Church archivesincluding never-before-published documentsCorrs book illuminates how Salasacan culture adapted to Catholic traditions and recentered, reinterpreted, and even reshaped them to serve similarly motivated Salasacan practices, demonstrating the link between formal and folk Catholicism and preColumbian beliefs and practices. Corr also explores the intense connection between the local Salasacan rituals and the mountain landscapes around them, from peak to valley.
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Natives Making Nation Gender, Indigeneity, and the State in the Andes Edited by Andrew Canessa 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2005 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2469-3, $50.00 Gender, Indian, Nation The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 Erin OConnor 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2559-1, $49.95
Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes is, in its portrayal of Salasacan religious culture, both thorough and all-encompassing. Sections of the book cover everything from the performance of death rituals to stories about Amazonia as Salasacans interacted with outsidersconquistadors and camera-toting tourists alike. Corr also investigates the role of shamanism in modern Salasacan culture, including shamanic powers and mountain spirits, and the use of reshaped, Andeanized Catholicism to sustain collective memory. Through its unique insiders perspective of Salasacan spirituality, Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes is a valuable anthropological work that honestly represents this peoples great ability to adapt.
rachel Corr is an associate professor of anthropology at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. 200 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2830-1, $45.00
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Reclaiming Din History The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita Jennifer Nez Denetdale 264 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-8165-2660-4, $19.95
reclaim a distinct Hualapai identity and culture in the face of ongoing EuroAmerican colonialism.
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To Harvest, To Hunt
Stories of Resource Use in the American West Edited by Judith L. Li 200 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-87071-192-3, $18.95
Oregon Indians
Voices from Two Centuries Edited by Stephen Dow Beckham 608 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2006 Cloth, 978-0-87071-088-9, $45.00
Gathering Moss
A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Robin Wall Kimmerer 176 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2003 Paper, 978-0-87071-499-6, $18.95
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