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Decolonizing Museums
Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums Amy Lonetree
Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye toward exploring how museums can grapple with centuries of unresolved trauma as they tell the stories of Native peoples. She investigates how museums can honor Indigenous worldviews and ways of knowing, challenge stereotypical representations, and speak the hard truths of colonization within exhibition spaces to address the persistent legacies of historical unresolved grief in Native communities. Lonetree focuses on the representation of Native Americans in exhibitions at the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, the Mille Lacs Indian Museum in Minnesota, and the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture and Lifeways in Michigan. Drawing on her experiences as an Indigenous scholar and museum professional, Lonetree analyzes exhibition texts and images, records of exhibition development, and interviews with staff members. She addresses historical and contemporary museum practices and charts possible paths for the future curation and presentation of Native lifeways. Amy Lonetree (Ho-Chunk) is associate professor of American studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-editor, with Amanda J. Cobb, of The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations. She is co-author of People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942. 256 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / November 2012 Paper, 978-0-8078-3715-3, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3714-6, $65.00

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The Land Has Memory Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian. Edited by Duane Blue Spruce and Tanya Thrasher 184 pp. / 8 x 9.25 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8078-5936-0, $27.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3264-6, $49.95 Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars Club. Christopher B. Teuton With Hastings Shade, Sammy Still, SequoyahGuess, and Woody Hansen 264 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / October 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3584-5, $30.00

A forceful reassessment of museum and curatorial studies. Lonetree steers American art history away

underpinnings and encourages essential new directions in

Indigenous arts theory and practice.

Ned Blackhawk, Yale University

from its metropolitan and European

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Crooked Paths to Allotment

The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa
Standard narratives of Native American history view the nineteenth century in terms of steadily declining Indigenous sovereignty, from removal of southeastern tribes to the 1887 General Allotment Act. In Crooked Paths to Allotment, C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa complicates these narratives, focusing on political moments when viable alternatives to federal assimilation policies arose. In these moments, Native American reformers and their white allies challenged coercive practices and offered visions for policies that might have allowed Indigenous nations to adapt at their own pace and on their own terms. Examining the contests over Indian policy from Reconstruction through the Gilded Age, Genetin-Pilawa reveals the contingent state of American settler colonialism. Genetin-Pilawa focuses on reformers and activists, including Tonawanda Seneca Ely S. Parker and Council Fire editor Thomas A. Bland, whose contributions to Indian policy debates have heretofore been underappreciated. He reveals how these men and their allies opposed such policies as forced land allotment, the elimination of traditional cultural practices, mandatory boarding school education for Indian youth, and compulsory participation in the market economy. Although the mainstream supporters of assimilation successfully repressed these efforts, the ideas and policy frameworks they espoused established a tradition of dissent against disruptive colonial governance. C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa is assistant professor of history at Illinois College. 248 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / October 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3576-0, $39.95

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Federal Fathers and Mothers A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 Cathleen D. Cahill 384pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3472-5, $45.00 Paperback available December 2012 Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Sustaining the Cherokee Family Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation Rose Stremlau 336 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8078-7204-8, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3499-2, $65.00

Through rigorous historical research, sophisticated analysis, and a deft writing touch, Joseph Genetin-Pilawa offers a compelling and important counter-narrative to the standard readings of the development of late nineteenth-century U.S. Indian policy. In taking serious account of Indigenous peoples political agency, especially that of Ely S. scholarship in this field. Crooked Paths to Allotment scholars of U.S.-Indigenous relations and history.
Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College

is an excellent work, a must-read for students and

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Parker, Genetin-Pilawa offers a model for historical

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Colonial Entanglement
Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation Jean Dennison

From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new governments goals, the Nations own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on biology, culture, natural resources, and sovereignty. Osage anthropologist Jean Dennison documents the reform process in order to reveal the lasting effects of colonialism and to illuminate the possibilities for Indigenous sovereignty. In doing so, she brings to light the many complexities of defining Indigenous citizenship and governance in the twenty-first century. By situating the 2004-6 Osage Nation reform process within its historical and current contexts, Dennison illustrates how the Osage have creatively responded to continuing assaults on their nationhood. A fascinating account of a nation in the midst of its own remaking, Colonial Entanglement presents a sharp analysis of how legacies of European invasion and settlement in North America continue to affect Indigenous peoples views of selfhood and nationhood. Jean Dennison is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 272 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / October 2012 Paper, 978-0-8078-7290-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3580-7, $65.00

An elegant, effective analysis of debates over Osage nationhood in the early 21st century, contextualized by a sophisticated discussion of broader questions of indigenous sovereignty, identity, and citizenship.
Also of Interest
Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation Malinda Maynor Lowery 368 pp. / 6.125 x 9.125 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7111-9, $23.00 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3368-1, $69.95

Pauline Turner Strong, University of Texas at Austin

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Mobilizing Bolivias Displaced

Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land Nicole Fabricant

The election of Evo Morales as Bolivias president in 2005 made him the first Indigenous head of state in the Americas, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing Morales to power. Following in the tradition of the well-known Brazilian Landless movement, Bolivias MST activists seized unproductive land and built farming collectives as a means of resistance to large-scale export-oriented agriculture. In Mobilizing Bolivias Displaced, Nicole Fabricant illustrates how landless peasants politicized indigeneity to shape grassroots land politics, reform the state, and secure human and cultural rights for Native peoples. Fabricant takes readers into the personal spaces of home and work, on long bus rides, and into meetings and newly built MST settlements to show how, in response to displacement, Indigenous identity is becoming ever more dynamic and adaptive. In addition to advancing this rich definition of indigeneity, she explores the ways in which Morales has found himself at odds with Indigenous activists and, in so doing, shows that Indigenous people have a far more complex relationship to Morales than is generally understood. Nicole Fabricant is assistant professor of anthropology at Towson University. 272 pp. / 6.125 x 9.125 / November 2012 Paper, 978-0-8078-7249-9, $29.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3713-9, $69.95

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Race and Nation in Modern Latin America Edited by Nancy P. Applebaum, Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt 352 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2003 Paper, 978-0-8078-5441-9, $28.95

Rich and important. As Fabricant tells the political history of this social movement, she provides insight into all that is BoliviaEvo Morales, Indigenous politics, regional dividesand then links that story to the politics, economics, and culture of everyday life. A work of huge relevance for the whole region.
Steve Striffler, University of New Orleans

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The Corner of the Living

Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency Miguel La Serna
Perus Indigenous peoples played a key role in the tortured tale of Shining Path guerrillas from the 1960s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. The villagers of Chuschi and Huaychao, high in the mountains of the department of Ayacucho, have an iconic place in this violent history. Emphasizing the years leading up to the peak period of violence from 1980 to 2000, when 69,000 people lost their lives, Miguel La Serna asks why some Andean peasants chose to embrace Shining Path ideology and others did not. Drawing on archival materials and ethnographic field work, La Serna argues that historically rooted and locally specific power relations, social conflicts, and cultural understandings shaped the responses of Indigenous peasants to the insurgency. In Chuschi, the guerrillas found Indigenous support for the movement and dreamed of sparking a worldwide Maoist revolution. In Huaychao, by contrast, villagers rose up against Shining Path forces, precipitating more violence and feeding an international uproar that took on political significance for Peru during the Cold War. The Corner of the Living illuminates both the stark realities of life for the rural poor everywhere and why they may or may not choose to mobilize around a revolutionary cause. Miguel La Serna is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 304 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / March 2012 Paper, 978-0-8078-7219-2, $29.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3547-0, $65.00

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book is at the forefront of its field

and will be of interest to all students of Latin America.

Charles Walker, University of California, Davis

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With lucid analysis, cutting-edge research, and a fascinating topic, this

Allendes Chile and the Inter-American Cold War Tanya Harmer 400 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3495-4, $45.00

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Memories of Conquest
Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala Laura E. Matthew
Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas. What did these Indian conquistadors expect from the partnership, and what were the implications of their involvement in Spains New World empire? Laura Matthews study of Ciudad Vieja, Guatemalathe first study to focus on a single allied colony over the entire colonial periodplaces the Nahua, Zapotec, and Mixtec conquistadors of Guatemala and their descendants within a deeply Mesoamerican historical context. Drawing on archives, ethnography, and colonial Mesoamerican maps, Matthew argues that the conquest cannot be fully understood without considering how these Indian conquistadors first invaded and then, of their own accord and largely by their own rules, settled in Central America. Shaped by pre-Columbian patterns of empire, alliance, warfare, and migration, the members of this diverse Indigenous community became unified as the Mexicanosdescendants of Indian conquistadors in their adopted homeland. Their identity and higher status in Guatemalan society derived from their continued pride in their heritage, says Matthew, but also depended on Spanish colonialisms willingness to honor them. Throughout Memories of Conquest, Matthew charts the power of colonialism to reshape and restrict Mesoamerican societyeven for those most favored by colonial policy and despite powerful continuities in Mesoamerican culture. Laura E. Matthew is assistant professor of history at Marquette University. 336 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / April 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3537-1, $45.00

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Bonds of Alliance Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France Brett Rushforth 424 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3558-6, $39.95 Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

will be a touchstone for under-

standing colonial Mesoamerica for a long time to come.

John K. Chance, professor emeritus of anthropology, Arizona State University

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This original and provocative book

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Reimagining Indian Country

Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Nicolas G. Rosenthal
For decades, most American Indians have lived in cities, not on reservations or in rural areas. Still, scholars, policymakers, and popular culture often regard Indians first as reservation peoples, living apart from non-Native Americans. In this book, Nicolas Rosenthal reorients our understanding of the experience of American Indians by tracing their migration to cities, exploring the formation of urban Indian communities, and delving into the shifting relationships between reservations and urban areas from the early twentieth century to the present. With a focus on Los Angeles, which by 1970 had more Native American inhabitants than any place outside the Navajo reservation, Reimagining Indian Country shows how cities have played a defining role in modern American Indian life and examines the evolution of Native American identity in recent decades. Rosenthal emphasizes the lived experiences of Native migrants in realms including education, labor, health, housing, and social and political activism to understand how they adapted to an urban environment, and to consider how they formedand continue to formnew identities. Though still connected to the places where Indigenous peoples have preserved their culture, Rosenthal argues that Indian identity must be understood as dynamic and fully enmeshed in modern global networks. Nicolas G. Rosenthal is assistant professor of history at Loyola Marymount University. 256 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / April 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3555-5, $39.95

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researched, Nicolas Rosenthals

sophisticated analysis of urbanization sets a new standard in the field.

Daniel Cobb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Engagingly written and exhaustively

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, $41.95 Paperback available December 2012 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 Paper, 978-0-8078-7273-4, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3338-4, $55.00

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Oregon State University Press www.osupress.oregonstate.edu 800.621.2736

The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue

Voices and Images from Sherman Institute Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer, Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert and Lorene Sisquoc

The first collection of writings and images focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue shares the fascinating story of this flagship institution, featuring the voices of American Indian students. In 1902, the federal government built Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, to transform American Indian high school students into productive farmers, carpenters, homemakers, nurses, cooks, and seamstresses. Indian students helped build the school and worked daily at Sherman without pay; teachers provided vocational education and placed them in employment through the Outing Program. Contributors to The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue have drawn on documents held at the Sherman Indian Museum to explore topics such as the building of Sherman, the schools Mission architecture, the nursing program, the Sherman cemetery, and a photo essay depicting life at the school. Despite the fact that Indian boarding schoolswith their agenda of cultural genocideprevented students from speaking their languages, singing their songs, and practicing their religions, most students learned to read, write, and speak English, and most survived to benefit themselves and contribute to the well-being of Indian people.

The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue will be of interest to scholars and general readers in the fields of Native American studies, history, education, public policy, and historical photography.
Clifford E. Trafzer is professor of American history and the Rupert Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs at the University of California, Riverside. He has written and edited several books, including Boarding School Blues, Native Universe and Death Stalks the Yakama. Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, an assistant professor of American Indian studies and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has written extensively on the Sherman Institute and co-produced a 30-minute documentary film on the Hopi boarding school experience, entitled Beyond the Mesas (www.beyondthemesas. com). Lorene Sisquoc is curator of the Sherman Indian School Museum in Riverside, California. She teaches Native American Traditions at Sherman Indian High School and is a co-editor of Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences. 256 pp. / 6 x 9 / December 2012 Paper, 978-0-87071-693-5, $24.95

Also of Interest
Teaching Oregon Native Languages Edited by Joan Gross 176pp. / 5.75 x 9.25 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-87071-193-0, $24.95

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Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau

The Jesuit, the Medicine Man, and the Indian Hymn Singer Chad S. Hamill
Songs of Power and Prayer explores the role of song as a transformative force in the twentieth century. It traces a cultural, spiritual, and musical encounter that upended notions of indigeneity and the rules of engagement for Indians and priests in the Columbia Plateau.
Chad Hamills narrative focuses on a Jesuit and his two Indian grandfathersone a medicine man, the other a hymn singerwho together engaged in a collective search for the sacred. The priest became a student of the medicine man. The medicine man became a Catholic. The Indian hymn singer brought Indigenous songs to the Catholic Mass. Using song as a thread, these men weaved together two worlds previously at odds, realizing a promise born within prophecies two centuries earlier. Long before Jesuits appeared in Coeur dAlene and Salish country, Indian prophets foretold their arrival. In their respective visions, Circling Raven and Shining Shirt were the first to behold the odd-looking men wearing long black robes, carrying with them little more than crossed sticks and words of a foreign prophet who lived and died a world away. Roughly a century later, the Blackrobes arrived, immediately translating liturgical texts and hymns into the Salish language. Calling on centuries of Indigenous praxis in which song was prayer, the hymns were very quickly and consciously embodied by the Salish and Coeur dAlene people, reinterpreted and re-sung as expressions of Indigenous identity and spiritual power.

Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau reveals how song can bridge worlds: between the individual and spirit, the Jesuits and the Indians. Whether sung in an Indigenous ceremony or adapted for Catholic Indian services, song abides as a force that strengthens Native identity and acts as a conduit for power and prayer.
Chad S. Hamill is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at Northern Arizona University, where he serves as co-chair of the Commission for Native Americans. 192 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2012 Paper, 978-0-87071-675-1, $21.95 For audio files and more about the book, visit: www.songsofpowerandprayer.com

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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

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Asserting Native Resilience

Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face the Climate Crisis Edited by Zoltn Grossman and Alan Parker
Indigenous nations are on the front line of the current climate crisis. With cultures and economies among the most vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes, Native peoples are developing responses to climate change that serve as a model for Native and nonNative communities alike. Native American nations in the Pacific Northwest, First Nations in Canada, and Indigenous peoples around the Pacific Rim have already been deeply affected by droughts, flooding, reduced glaciers and snowmelts, seasonal shifts in winds and storms, and changes in species on the land and in the ocean. Having survived the historical and ecological wounds inflicted by colonization, industrialization, and urbanization, Indigenous peoples are using tools of resilience that have enabled them to respond to sudden environmental changes and protect the habitat of salmon and other culturally vital species. They are creating defenses to strengthen their communities, mitigate losses, and adapt where possible.

Asserting Native Resilience presents a rich variety of perspectives on Indigenous responses to the climate crisis, reflecting the voices of more than twenty contributors, including Indigenous leaders and Native and non-Native scientists, scholars, and activists from the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, Alaska, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Also included are a resource directory of Indigenous governments, non-governmental organizations, and communities that are researching and responding to climate change and a community organizing booklet for use by Northwest tribes.
Zoltn Grossman is a senior research associate with the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute and a professor of geography and Native American and World Indigenous Peoples Studies at The Evergreen State College. Alan Parker is director of the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute and a professor in the graduate MPA program at The Evergreen State College. 240 pp. / 7 x 10 / June 2012 Paper, 978-0-87071-663-8, $24.95

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Empty Nets Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River Roberta Ulrich 264 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-87071-188-6, $19.95 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, $19.95

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Creole Indigeneity
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson
During the colonial period in Guyana, the countrys coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyanas new natives, displacing Indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies. Looking particularly at the nations politically fraught decades from the 1950s to the present, Jackson explores aboriginal and Creole identities in Guyanese society. Through government documents, interviews, and political speeches, she reveals how Creoles, though unable to usurp the place of aboriginals as First Peoples in the New World, nonetheless managed to introduce a new, more socially viable definition of belonging, through labor. The very reason for bringing enslaved and indentured workers into Caribbean labor became the organizing principle for Creoles new identities. Creoles linked true belonging, and so political and material right, to having performed modern labor on the land; labor thus became the basis for their subaltern, settler modes of indigeneitya contradiction for belonging under postcoloniality that Jackson terms Creole indigeneity. In doing so, her work establishes a new and productive way of understanding the relationship between national power and identity in colonial, postcolonial, and anticolonial contexts. Shona N. Jackson is assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University. 328 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / October 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7776-4, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7775-7, $75.00
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The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 288 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / October 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7598-2, $25.00 Cloth, 978-8166-7597-5, $75.00

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A Chosen People, a Promised Land

Mormonism and Race in Hawaii Hokulani K. Aikau
Christianity figured prominently in the imperial and colonial exploitation and dispossession of Indigenous peoples worldwide, yet many Indigenous people embrace Christian faith as part of their cultural and ethnic identities. A Chosen People, a Promised Land gets to the heart of this contradiction by exploring how Native Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (more commonly known as Mormons) understand and negotiate their place in this quintessentially American religion. Mormon missionaries arrived in Hawaii in 1850, a mere twenty years after Joseph Smith founded the church. Hokulani K. Aikau traces how Native Hawaiians became integrated into the religious doctrine of the church as a chosen peopleeven at a time when exclusionary racial policies regarding black members of the church were being codified. Aikau shows how Hawaiians and other Polynesian saints came to be considered chosen and how they were able to use their venerated status toward their own spiritual, cultural, and pragmatic ends. Using the words of Native Hawaiian Latter-Day Saints to illuminate the intersections of race, colonization, and religion, A Chosen People, a Promised Land examines Polynesian Mormon articulations of faith and identity within a larger political context of selfdetermination. Hokulani K. Aikau is associate professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian politics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is coeditor of Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy (Minnesota, 2007). 248 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / February 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7462-6, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7461-9, $67.50

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Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 336 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / October 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7819-8, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7818-1, $75.00 Indigenous Americas Series Once Were Pacific Mori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 296 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7757-3, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7756-6, $67.50

new terrain for historical analysis in a manner that is theoretically engaged yet accessible.
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado

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The Transit of Empire

Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd
In 1761 and again in 1768, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the sun. In The Transit of Empire, Jodi A. Byrd explores how indigeneity functions as transit, a trajectory of movement that serves as precedent within U.S. imperial history. Byrd argues that contemporary U.S. empire expands itself through a transferable Indianness that facilitates acquisitions of lands, territories, and resources. Examining an array of literary texts, historical moments, and pending legislationfrom the Cherokee Nation of Oklahomas vote in 2007 to expel Cherokee Freedmen to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization billByrd demonstrates that inclusion into the multicultural cosmopole does not end colonialism as it is purported to do. Rather, that inclusion is the very site of the colonization that feeds U.S. empire. Byrd contends that the colonization of American Indian and Indigenous nations is the necessary ground from which to reimagine a future where the losses of Indigenous peoples are not only visible and, in turn, grieveable, but where Indigenous peoples have agency to transform life on their own lands and on their own terms. Jodi A. Byrd is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma and assistant professor of American Indian studies and English at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. 336 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-7641-5, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7640-8, $75.00

and Indigenous studies in close dialogue with postcolonial scholarship.

Philip Deloria, University of Michigan

Jodi Byrds brilliant critique of contemporary multicultural liberalism places American Indian

Also of Interest
Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Jean M. OBrien 296 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-6578-5, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6577-8, $75.00 The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 408 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2008 Paper, 978-0-8166-4784-2, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-4783-5, $67.50

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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. 312 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-5633-2, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-5632-5, $75.00
Also of Interest
The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 328 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2012 Paper, 978-0-8166-7783-2, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7782-5, $75.00 X-Marks 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

Unceasingly critical, ethical,

and illuminating in its research, analysis, and theorization.

J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University

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Sovereign Erotics
A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti
Two-Spirit people, identified by many different tribally specific names and standings within their communities, have been living, loving, and creating art since time immemorial. It wasnt until the 1970s, however, that contemporary queer Native literature gained any public notice. Even now, only a handful of books address it specifically, most notably the 1988 collection Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Since that books publication twenty-three years ago, there has not been another collection published that focuses explicitly on the writing and art of Indigenous two-spirit and queer people. This landmark collection strives to reflect the complexity of identities within Native gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and two-spirit (GLBTQ2) communities. Gathering together the work of established writers and talented new voices, this anthology spans genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essay) and themes (memory, history, sexuality, indigeneity, friendship, family, love, and loss) and represents a watershed moment in Native American and Indigenous literatures, queer studies, and the intersections between the two. Collaboratively, the pieces in Sovereign Erotics demonstrate not only the radical diversity among the voices of todays Indigenous GLBTQ2 writers but also the beauty, strength, and resilience of Indigenous GLBTQ2 people in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Indira Allegra, Louise Esme Cruz, Paula Gunn Allen, Qwo-Li Driskill, Laura Furlan, Janice Gould, Carrie House, Daniel Heath Justice, Maurice Kenny, Michael Koby, M. Carmen Lane, Jaynie Lara, Chip Livingston, Luna Maia, Janet McAdams, Deborah Miranda, Daniel David Moses, D. M. OBrien, Malea Powell, Cheryl Savageau, Kim Shuck, Sarah Tsigeyu Sharp, James Thomas Stevens, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, William Raymond Taylor, Joel Waters, and Craig Womack 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-0242-4, $26.95

Also of Interest
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 Queer Indigenous Studies Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finley, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen 258 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 9780816529070, $34.95

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Red Medicine
Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing Patrisia Gonzales
Patrisia Gonzales addresses Red Medicine as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant with in-depth research into oral traditions, storytelling, and the meanings of symbols to uncover how Indigenous knowledge endures over time. And she shows how this knowledge is now being reclaimed by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, and Mexican Indigenous peoples. For Gonzales, a central guiding force in Red Medicine is the principle of regeneration as it is manifested in Spiderwoman. Dating to Pre-Columbian times, the Mesoamerican Weaver/Spiderwomanthe guardian of birth, medicine, and purification rites such as the Nahua sweat bathexemplifies the interconnected process of rebalancing that transpires throughout life in mental, spiritual, and physical manifestations. Gonzales also explains how dreaming is a form of diagnosing in traditional Indigenous medicine and how Indigenous concepts of the body provide insight into healing various kinds of trauma. Gonzales links pre-Columbian thought to contemporary healing practices by examining ancient symbols and their relation to current curative knowledges among Indigenous peoples. Red Medicine suggests that Indigenous healing systems can usefully point contemporary people back to ancestral teachings and help them reconnect to the dynamics of the natural world. Patrisia Gonzales is an assistant professor in the Department of Mexican American Studies and is an affiliated faculty member in the American Indian Studies Program and the Native American Research Training Center at the University of Arizona. She is the author of The Mud People: Chronicles, Testimonios & Remembrances. 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2012 Paper, 978-0-8165-2956-8, $35.00

Also of Interest
Women and Knowledge in Mesoamerica From East L.A. to Anahuac Paloma Martinez-Cruz 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2942-1, $32.00 Comparative Indigeneities of the Amricas Toward a Hemispheric Approach Edited by M. Bianet Castellanos, Lourdes Gutirrez Njera, and Arturo J. Aldama 376 pp. / 6 x 9 / October 2012 Paper, 978-0-8165-2101-2, $37.95

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Eating the Landscape

American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience Enrique Salmn
Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms ones identity and worldview, Enrique Salmn writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the Tohono Oodham of the Sonoran Desert and the Rarmuri of the Sierra Tarahumara, the book is an illuminating journey through the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Salmn weaves his historical and cultural knowledge as a renowned Indigenous ethnobotanist with stories American Indian farmers have shared with him to illustrate how traditional Indigenous foodwaysfrom the cultivation of crops to the preparation of mealsare rooted in a time-honored understanding of environmental stewardship. Despite the large cultural and geographic diversity of the region he explores, Salmn reveals common themes: the importance of participation in a reciprocal relationship with the land, the connection between each groups cultural identity and their ecosystems, and the indispensable correlation of land consciousness and food consciousness. Salmn shows that these collective philosophies provide the foundation for Indigenous resilience as the farmers contend with global climate change and other disruptions to long-established foodways. This resilience, along with the rich stores of traditional ecological knowledge maintained by Indigenous agriculturalists, Salmn explains, may be the key to sustaining food sources for humans in years to come. As many of us begin to question the origins and collateral costs of the food we consume, Salmns call for a return to more traditional food practices in this wideranging and insightful book is especially timely. Eating the Landscape is an essential resource for ethnobotanists, food sovereignty proponents, and advocates of the local food and slow food movements. Enrique Salmn is head of the American Indian Studies Program at Cal State University East Bay in Hayward, California. He has been a Scholar in Residence at the Heard Museum and a program officer for the Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico regions for the Christensen Fund. 160 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2012 Paper, 978-0-8165-3011-3 $17.95

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We Will Secure Our Future Empowering the Navajo Nation Peterson Zah and Peter Iverson 176 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8165-0246-2, $40.00 Paper, 978-0-8165-247-9, $17.95 Reimagining Marginalized Foods Global Processes, Local Places Edited by Elizabeth Finnis 168 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2012 Cloth, 978-0-8165-0236-3, $45.00

I knew the moment I read the first paragraph that this book was going to be extraordinary.
Nancy J. Turner, University of Victoria

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Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire

Knowledge and Stewardship among the Tcho Dene Allice Legat Foreword by Joanne Barnaby
In the Dene worldview, relationships form the foundation of a distinct way of knowing. For the Tcho Dene, Indigenous peoples of Canadas Northwest Territories, as stories from the past unfold as experiences in the present, so unfolds a philosophy for the future. Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire vividly shows how through stories and relationships with all beingsT cho knowledge is produced and rooted in the land. T cho speaking people are part of the more widespread Athapaskan-speaking community, which spans the western sub-arctic and includes pockets in British Columbia, Alberta, California, and Arizona. Anthropologist Allice Legat undertook this work at the request of T cho Dene community elders, who wanted to provide younger T cho with narratives that originated in the past but provide a way of thinking through current critical land-use issues. Legat illustrates that, for the Tcho Dene, being knowledgeable and being of the land are one and the same.

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Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity Kirstin C. Erickson 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2008 Paper, 978-0-8165-2735-9, $24.95 Mediating Knowledges Origins of a Zuni Tribal Museum Gwyneira Isaac 272 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2007 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2623-9, $50.00

Walking the Land, Feeding the Fire marks the beginning of a new era of understanding, highlighting connections to and unique aspects of ways of knowing among other Dene peoples, such as the Western Apache. As Keith Basso did with his studies among the Western Apache in earlier decades, Legat sets a new standard for research by presenting Dene perceptions of the environment and the personal truths of the storytellers without forcing them into scientific or public-policy frameworks. Legat approaches her work as a community partnerproviding a powerful methodology that will impact the way research is conducted for decades to comeand provides unique insights and understandings available only through traditional knowledge.
Allice Legat is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Anthropology Department, University of Aberdeen, UK, and has recently been awarded the Roberta Bondar Fellowship, Trent University. Yellowknife, Northwest Territory, has been her home since 1986. 184 pp. / 6 x 9 / May 2012 Paper, 978-0-8165-3009-0, $32.95

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Bitter Water Din Oral Histories of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Edited and Translated by Malcolm D. Benally 136 pp. / 7 x 10 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2898-1, $19.95 Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes Rachel Corr 200 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2830-1, $45.00 Indigenous Writings from the Convent Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico Mnica Daz 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2853-0, $50.00 State Healthcare and Yanomami Transformations A Symmetrical Ethnography Jos Antonio Kelly 280 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2920-9, $55.00 Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation Indigenous Ritual, Land Conflict, and Sovereignty Claims Paul M. Liffman 296 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2930-8, $55.00 We Are Our Language An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community Barbra A. Meek 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8165-1453-3, $29.95 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2717-5, $49.95

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Trust in the Land New Directions in Tribal Conservation Beth Rose Middleton 352 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2928-5, $35.00 Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective Janis B. Nuckolls 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2858-5, $45.00 Indigenous Miracles Nahua Authority in Colonial Mexico Edward W. Osowski 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2855-4, $50.00 White Mans Water The Politics of Sobriety in a Native American Community Erica Prussing 288 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2943-8, $49.95 We Are an Indian Nation A History of the Hualapai People Jeffrey P. Shepherd 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8165-2904-9, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2828-8, $45.00 Imprints on Native Lands The Miskito-Moravian Settlement Landscape in Honduras Benjamin F. Tillman 208 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2454-9, $45.00

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The Color of the Land Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 David A. Chang 312 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7106-5, $24.00 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3365-0, $62.95 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, $39.95 Paperback available December 2012 The House on Diamond Hill A Cherokee Plantation Story Tiya Miles 336 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7267-3, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3418-3, $35.00 Removable Type Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880 Phillip H. Round 296 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, October 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7120-1, $26.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3390-2, $62.95 Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859 Gray H. Whaley 320 pp. / 6.125 x 9.125 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7109-6, $26.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3367-4, $69.95 Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game At the Center of Ceremony and Identity Michael J. Zogry 328 pp. / 6.125 x 9.125 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3360-5, $52.50

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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, 978-8166-6535-8, $60.00 The Copyright Thing Doesnt Work Here Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana Boatema Boateng 224pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-7003-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7002-4, $75.00 The Third Space of Sovereignty The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations Kevin Bruyneel 328 pp. / 5.875 x 9 /2007 Paper, 978-0-8166-4988-4, $24.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-4987-7, $67.50 A Return to Servitude Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancn M. Bianet Castellanos 296pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-5615-8, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-5614-1, $75.00 Everything You Know about Indians is Wrong Paul Chaat Smith 208 pp. / 5.375 x 8.5 / 2009 Cloth, 978-0-8166-5601-1, $21.95 The Way of Kinship An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Translated and edited by Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith Foreword by N. Scott Momaday 280 pp. / 5.5 x 8.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-7081-9, $19.95 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7080-2, $60.00

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Oregon Archaeology C. Melvin Aikens, Thomas J. Connolly, and Dennis L. Jenkins 512 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-87071-606-5, $29.95 The First Oregonians Second Edition Edited by Laura Berg 360 pp. / 7 x 10 / 2007 Paper, 978-1-88037-702-4, $22.95 Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest Robert Boyd 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / 1999 Paper, 978-0-87071-459-7, $34.95 Gathering Moss A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses Robin Wall Kimmerer 176 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2003 Paper, 978-0-87071-499-3, $18.95 Renewing Salmon Nations Food Traditions Edited by Gary Paul Nabhan A RAFT/Ecotrust Book 76 pp. / 7 x 8.5 / 2006 Paper, 978-0-97793-320-4, $9.95 Salmon Nation People, Fish, and Our Common Home Second Edition Edward C. Wolf and Seth Zuckerman A RAFT/Ecotrust Book 66 pp. / 7 x 9 / 2003 Paper, 978-0-96763-641-2, $9.95

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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 publishes 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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