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The Chaco Mission Frontier The Guaycuruan Experience James Schofield Saeger 266 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2000 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2017-6, $55.00
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ezuela is a prime example of a new turn taking place in twenty-firstcentury field anthroplogy.
Roy Wagner, University of Virginia
Anthropologies of Guayana Cultural Spaces in Northern Amazonia Edited by Neil L. Whitehead and Stephanie Alemn 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2009 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2607-9, $70.00
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Negotiating Tribal Water Rights Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West Bonnie G. Colby; John E. Thorson; Sarah Britton 190 pp. / 8.5 x 11 / 2005 Paper, 978-0-8165-2455-6, $35.00 Unearthing Indian Land Living with the Legacies of Allotment Kristin 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. 136 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 pp. / 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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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.
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.
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Ethnographic Contributions to the Study of Endangered Languages Edited by Tania Granadillo and Heidi A. Orcutt-Gachiri 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2699-4, $55.00 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
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Sovereign Erotics A Collection of Two-Spiriti Literature Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-0242-4, $26.95 Sing Poetry from the Indigenous Americas Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke 352 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2891-2, $29.95
Spaces between Us
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Lauria Morgensen
We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent claims to sovereignty as Indigenous peoples. Explaining how relational distinctions of Native and settler define the status of being queer, Spaces between Us argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference indigeneity makes within a settler society. Morgensens analysis exposes white settler colonialism as a primary condition for the development of modern queer politics in the United States. Bringing together historical and ethnographic cases, he shows how U.S. queer projects became non-Native and normatively white by comparatively examining the historical activism and critical theory of Native queer and Two-Spirit people. Presenting a biopolitics of settler colonialismin which the imagined disappearance of indigeneity and sustained subjugation of all racialized peoples ensures a progressive future for white settlersSpaces between Us newly demonstrates the interdependence of nation, race, gender, and sexuality and offers opportunities for resistance in the United States. Scott Lauria Morgensen is assistant professor of gender studies at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is coeditor of Queer Indigenous Studies: Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature. 336 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / November 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-5633-2, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-5632-5, $75.00
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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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Jodi Byrds brilliant critique of contemporary multicultural liberalism places American Indian and Indigenous studies in close dialogue with postcolonial scholarship.
Philip Deloria, University of Michigan
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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
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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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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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Also of Interest Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Paul Chaat Smith 208 pp. / 5.375 x 8.5 / 2009 Cloth/jacket, 978-0-8166-5601-1, $21.95
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We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here Work, Community, and Memory on Californias Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 William J. Bauer Jr. 304 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2009 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3338-4, $52.95
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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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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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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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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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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.
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. Consulting both Nahuatl and Spanish sources, Edward W. 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. Osowskis 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.
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Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 240 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-6677-5, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6676-8, $67.50
North Country
The Making of Minnesota Mary Lethert Wingerd 472 pp. / 7.5 x 10.25 / 2010 Cloth/jacket, 978-0-8166-4868-9, $34.95
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Legalizing Identities
Becoming Black or Indian in Brazils Northeast Jan Hoffman French 272 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8078-5951-3, $23.95
We Have a Religion
The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom Tisa Wenger 360 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8078-5935-3, $23.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3262-2, $62.95
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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, 978-0-870714-9-93, $18.95
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Andrew Canessa | Jennifer Nez Denetdale | Amy Den Ouden | Daniel Heath Justice Eugene Hunn | Linc Kesler | Jean OBrien | Jace Weaver
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