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Our initiative partners publish books that exemplify contemporary scholarship and research in Indigenous studies. First Peoples supports this scholarship with unprecedented attention to the growing dialogue among Native and non-Native scholars, communities, and publishers.

Collaborating Presses
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.

Advisory Board
Andrew Canessa | Jennifer Nez Denetdale | Amy Den Ouden | Daniel Heath Justice Eugene Hunn | Linc Kesler | Jean OBrien | Jace Weaver

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Federal Fathers and Mothers


A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 Cathleen D. Cahill

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

Also of interest
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

examines the functioning of the

Indian Service unlike any previous book.


Linda Gordon, New York University

Cathleen Cahills extraordinary book

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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South


Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation Malinda Maynor Lowery
With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolinas Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malinda Maynor Lowery, a Lumbee herself, describes how, between Reconstruction and the 1950s, the Lumbee crafted and maintained a distinct identity in an era defined by racial segregation in the South and paternalistic policies for Indians throughout the nation. They did so against the backdrop of some of the central issues in American history, including race, class, politics, and citizenship. Lowery argues that Indian is a dynamic identity that, for outsiders, sometimes hinged on the presence of Indian blood (for federal New Deal policy makers) and sometimes on the absence of black blood (for southern white segregationists). Lumbee people themselves have constructed their identity in layers that tie together kin and place, race and class, tribe and nation; however, Indians have not always agreed on how to weave this fabric into a whole. Using photographs, letters, genealogy, federal and state records, and first-person family history, Lowery narrates this compelling conversation between insiders and outsiders, demonstrating how the Lumbee People challenged the boundaries of Indian, southern, and American identities. Malinda Maynor lowery (Lumbee) is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a native of Robeson County, North Carolina. 368 pp / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7111-9, $21.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3368-1, $65.00

Also of interest
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

recognition are subtle, nuanced, and powerful.

Jean OBrien, University of Minnesota

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Her insights on race, identity, and

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Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game


At the Center of Ceremony and Identity Michael J. Zogry

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

A valuable book that is based on

impressive archival and ethnographic work.


Michael D. McNally, Carleton College

Also of interest
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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Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee


U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859 Gray H. Whaley
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. In this book, Gray Whaley examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoplesfocusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the landfrom initial encounters to Oregons statehood. He emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the Indigenous world he examines. Whaley argues that the process of Oregons founding is best understood as a contest between the British Empire and a nascent American one, with Oregons Native people and their lands at the heart of the conflict. He identifies race, republicanism, liberal economics, and violence as the key ideological and practical components of American settler-colonialism. Native peoples faced capriciousness, demographic collapse, and attempted genocide, but they fought to preserve Illahee even as external forces caused the collapse of their world. Whaleys analysis compellingly challenges standard accounts of the quintessential antebellum Promised Land. gray Whaley is assistant professor of history at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 320 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7109-6, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3367-4, $65.00

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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

subjects that should be essential reading in as well as out of the region.


Ned Blackhawk, Yale University

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An important study of long-neglected

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The Copyright Thing Doesnt Work Here


Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana Boatema Boateng
In Ghana, adinkra and kente textiles derive their significance from their association with both Asante and Ghanaian cultural nationalism. Adinkra, made by stenciling patterns with black dye, and kente, a type of strip weaving, each convey, through color, style, and adornment, the bearers identity, social status, and even emotional state. Yet both textiles have been widely mass-produced outside Ghana, particularly in East Asia, without any compensation to the originators of the designs. In The Copyright Thing Doesnt Work Here, Boatema Boateng focuses on the appropriation and protection of adinkra and kente cloth in order to examine the broader implications of the use of intellectual property law to preserve folklore and other traditional forms of knowledge. Boateng investigates the compatibility of Indigenous practices of authorship and ownership with those established under intellectual property law, considering the ways in which both are responses to the changing social and historical conditions of decolonization and globalization. Comparing textiles to the more secure copyright protection that Ghanaian musicians enjoy under Ghanaian copyright law, she demonstrates that different forms of social, cultural, and legal capital are treated differently under intellectual property law. Boateng then moves beyond Africa, expanding her analysis to the influence of cultural nationalism among the diaspora, particularly in the United States, on the appropriation of Ghanaian and other African cultures for global markets. Boatengs rich ethnography brings to the surface difficult challenges to the international regulation of both contemporary and traditional concepts of intellectual property, and questions whether it can even be done. Boatema Boateng is associate professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego. 248 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / April 2011 Paper, 978-0-8166-7003-1, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8166-7002-4, $75.00

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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 Way of Kinship


An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Translated and edited by Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith Foreword by N. Scott Momaday
That these treasures are available to us as writing is a miracle. . . . The writings here, while altogether modern in one sense, are based on a literature, albeit oral, that has existed for thousands of years. They are the reflections of people who have lived long on the earth, on their own terms, in harmony with the powers of nature. They are invaluable to us who have so much to learn from them. These stories, poems, songs give us a way, a sacred way, into a world that we ought to know for its own sake. It is our own world, after all. N. Scott Momaday, from the Foreword The first anthology of Native Siberian literature in English, The Way of Kinship represents writers from regions extending from the Ob River in the west to the Chukotka peninsula, the easternmost point of the Siberian Russian Arctic. Drawn from seven distinct ethnic groups, this diverse body of workprose fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfictionchronicles ancient Siberian cultures and traditions threatened with extinction in the contemporary world. Translated and edited by Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith, leading scholars in Native Siberian literature, The Way of Kinship is an essential collection that will introduce readers to new writers and new worlds. Alexander vaschenko is chair of the Program in Comparative Studies in Literature at Moscow State University. Claude Clayton smith is professor emeritus of English at Ohio Northern University. n. scott Momaday is a Native American (Kiowa) writer. The author of several works of fiction, his novel House Made of Dawn was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1969. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2007. 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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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

presented this most important anthology.


Rudolfo Anaya

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I am extremely grateful these writers have told their stories, and thankful the editors have

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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

ism and illustrates vividly how the Maya struggle to survive.


Patricia Zavella, UC-Santa Cruz

A Return to Servitude dismantles romantic representations of tourAlso of interest


Black and Indigenous Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras Mark Anderson 304 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8166-6102-2, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6101-5, $75.00 Circuits of Culture Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes Jeff D. Himpele 274 pp. / 7 x 10 / 2007 Paper, 978-0-8166-3919-9, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-3918-2, $75.00

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Trust in the Land


New Directions in Tribal Conservation Beth Rose Middleton
Beth Rose Middleton examines new and innovative ideas concerning Native land conservancies, providing advice on land trusts, collaborations, and conservation groups. Increasingly, tribes are working to protect their access to culturally important lands by collaborating with Native and non-Native conservation movements. By using private conservation partnerships to reacquire lost land, tribes can ensure the health and sustainability of vital natural resources. In particular, tribal governments are using conservation easements and land trusts to reclaim rights to lost acreage. Through the use of these and other private conservation tools, tribes are able to protect or in some cases buy back the land that was never sold but rather was taken from them. Trust in the Land sets into motion a new wave of ideas concerning land conservation. This informative book will appeal to Native and non-Native individuals and organizations interested in protecting the land as well as environmentalists and government agencies. Beth rose Middleton has published articles in Economic Development Quarterly, the Journal of Political Ecology, Ethnohistory, and News from Native California. She is an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis, in the Department of Native American Studies, where she has developed courses on Native public health, Native environmental policy, and federal Indian law. 352 pp. / 6 x 9 / March 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2928-5, $35.00

Also of interest
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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The level of probing inquiry is exceptional, contributing to not only a

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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

Also of interest
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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Queer Indigenous Studies


Critical Interventions in Theory, Politics, and Literature Edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Chris Finely, Brian Joseph Gilley, and Scott Lauria Morgensen
This book is an imagining. So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so much a manifesto as it is a dialoguea writing in conversationamong a luminous group of scholar-activists revisiting the history of gay and lesbian studies in Indigenous communities while forging a path for Indigenous-centered theories and methodologies. The bold opening to Queer Indigenous Studies invites new dialogues in Native American and Indigenous studies about the directions and implications of queer Indigenous studies. The collection notably engages Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements as alliances that also call for allies beyond their bounds, which the coeditors and contributors model by crossing their varied identities, including Native, trans, straight, non-Native, feminist, Two-Spirit, mixed blood, and queer, to name just a few. Rooted in the Indigenous Americas and the Pacific, and drawing on disciplines ranging from literature to anthropology, contributors to Queer Indigenous Studies call on Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements and allies to center an analysis that critiques the relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy. By answering critical turns in Indigenous scholarship that center Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, contributors join in reshaping Native studies, queer studies, transgender studies, and Indigenous feminisms. Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people experience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival, this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change. Qwo-li Driskill is a Cherokee Queer/Two-Spirit writer, scholar, and performer and is currently and assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas A&M University. Chris finley is a queer Native feminist finishing her PhD in American culture at the University of Michigan. Brian Joseph gilley is an associate professor of anthropology and director of the First Nations Education and Culture Center at Indiana University, Bloomington. scott lauria Morgensen is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Queens University. 258 pp. / 6 x 9 / April 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2907-0, $34.95

Also of interest
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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Huichol Territory and the Mexican Nation


Indigenous Ritual, Land Conflict, and Sovereignty Claims Paul M. Liffman

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

Also of interest Reinventing the Lacandn


Subaltern Representations in the Rain Forest of Chiapas Brian Gollnick 240 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2009 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2629-1, $49.95

One of the most significant

ethnographic writings of our times.


Philip E. Coyle, Western Carolina University

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Indigenous Writings from the Convent


Negotiating Ethnic Autonomy in Colonial Mexico Mnica Daz
Sometime in the 1740s, Sor Mara Magdalena, an Indigenous noblewoman living in one of only three convents in New Spain that allowed Indians to profess as nuns, sent a letter to Father Juan de Altamirano to ask for his help in getting church prelates to exclude Creole and Spanish women from convents intended for Indigenous nuns only. Drawing on this and other such lettersas well as biographies, sermons, and other textsMnica Daz argues that the survival of Indigenous ethnic identity was effectively served by this class of noble Indigenous nuns. While colonial sources that refer to Indigenous women are not scant, documents in which women emerge as agents who actively participate in shaping their own identity are rare. Looking at this minority agencyor subaltern voicein various religious discourses exposes some central themes. It shows that an Indigenous identity recast in Catholic terms was able to be effectively recorded and that the religious participation of these women at a time when Indigenous parishes were increasingly secularized lent cohesion to that identity.

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.
Also of interest
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

248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2853-0, $50.00

pioneering works in history, literature, and ethnic studies while establishing her own critical originality.

Jennifer L. Eich, Loyola Marymount University

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Daz has done a very good job of acknowledging precursive and

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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

life, culture, and religious practice in eighteenth-century New Spain.


Susan Kellogg, University of Houston

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


An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan Community Barbra A. Meek
For many communities around the world, the revitalization or at least the preservation of an Indigenous language is a pressing concern. Understanding the issue involves far more than compiling simple usage statistics or documenting grammarit requires examining the social practices and philosophies that affect Indigenous language survival. In presenting the case of Kaska, an endangered language in an Athabaskan community in the Yukon, Barbra Meek asserts that language revitalization requires more than just linguistic rehabilitation; it demands a social transformation. The process must mend rips and tears in the social fabric of the language community that result from an enduring colonial histories. These disjunctures include government policies conflicting with community goals, widely varying teaching methods and generational viewpoints, and even clashing ideologies within the language community. This book provides a detailed investigation of language revitalization based on more than two years of active participation in local language renewal efforts. Each chapter focuses on a different dimension, such as spelling and expertise, conversation and social status, family practices, and bureaucratic involvement in local language choices. Each situation illustrates the balance between the desire for linguistic continuity and the reality of disruption.

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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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

Original, informative, and well written.


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Lessons from a Quechua Strongwoman


Ideophony, Dialogue, and Perspective Janis B. Nuckolls
Through the intriguing stories and words of a Quechua-speaking woman named Luisa Cadena from the Pastaza Province of Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls reveals a complex language system in which ideophony, dialogue, and perspective are all at the core of cultural and grammatical communications among Amazonian Quechua speakers. This book is a fascinating look at ideophoneswords that communicate succinctly through imitative sound qualities. They are at the core of Quechua speakers discourseboth linguistic and culturalbecause they allow agency and reaction to substances and entities as well as beings. Nuckolls shows that Luisa Cadenas utterances give every individual, major or minor, a voice in her narrative. Sometimes as subtle as a barely felt movement or unintelligible sound, the language supports an amazingly wide variety of voices. Cadenas narratives and commentaries on everyday events reveal that sound imitation through ideophones, representations of dialogues between humans and nonhumans, and grammatical distinctions between a speaking self and an other are all part of a language system that allows for the possibility of shared affects, intentions, moral values, and meaningful, communicative interactions between humans and nonhumans. Janis B. nuckolls is an associate professor at Brigham Young University and an anthropological linguist with many years of field experience, primarily in Amazonian Ecuador. In addition to many journal articles, she is the author of Sounds like Life: Soundsymbolic Grammar, Performance and Cognition in Pastaza Quechua. 248 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2858-5, $45.00
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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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Ritual and Remembrance in the Ecuadorian Andes


Rachel Corr

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

The author has gotten as close to an

inside view of Salasacan cosmovision as anyone writing today.


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We Are an Indian Nation


A History of the Hualapai People Jeffrey P. Shepherd
Though not as well known as the U.S. military campaigns against the Apache, the ethnic warfare conducted against Indigenous people of the Colorado River basin was equally devastating. In less than twenty-five years after first encountering Anglos, the Hualapais had lost more than half of their population and nearly all their land and found themselves consigned to a reservation. This book focuses on the historical construction of the Hualapai Nation in the face of modern American colonialism. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and participant observation, Jeffrey Shepherd describes how thirteen bands of extended families known as the Pai confronted American colonialism and in the process recast themselves as a modern Indigenous nation. Shepherd shows that Hualapai nation-building was a complex process shaped by band identities, competing visions of the past, creative reactions to modernity, and resistance to state power. He analyzes how the Hualapais transformed an externally imposed tribal identity through nationalist discourses of protecting aboriginal territory; and he examines how that discourse strengthened the Hualapais claim to land and water while simultaneously reifying a politicized version of their own history. Along the way, he sheds new light on familiar topicsIndianwhite conflict, the creation of tribal government, wage labor, federal policy, and Native activismby applying theories of race, space, historical memory, and decolonization. Drawing on recent work in American Indian history and Native American studies, Shepherd shows how the Hualapai have strived to reclaim a distinct identity and culture in the face of ongoing colonialism. We Are an Indian Nation is grounded in Hualapai voices and agendas while simultaneously situating their history in the larger tapestry of Native peoples confrontations with colonialism and modernity. Jeffrey P. shepherd is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso. 320 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8165-2904-9, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8165-2828-8, $45.00

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reclaim a distinct Hualapai identity and culture in the face of ongoing EuroAmerican colonialism.

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Ethnoarchaeology of Maya Metates Michael T. Searcy 192 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2011 Paper, 978-0-8165-2909-4, $29.95

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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

Firsting and Lasting


Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Jean M. OBrien 304 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8166-6578-5, $25.00 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6577-8, $75.00

The Networked Wilderness


Communicating in Early New England Matt Cohen 252 pp. / 5.5 x 8.5 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8166-6098-8, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-6097-1, $67.50

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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The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 408 pp. / 6 x 9 / 2009 Paper, 978-0-8166-4784-2, $22.50 Cloth, 978-0-8166-4783-5, $67.50

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The Color of the Land


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Indians, Settlers, and Slaves and the Making of the American South Angela Pulley Hudson 272 pp. / 6.125 x 9.25 / 2010 Paper, 978-0-8078-7121-8, $24.95 Cloth, 978-0-8078-3393-3, $65.00

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, $49.95

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The First Oregonians


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