Series Editor: Robert Warrior

Indigenous Americas

Native American scholars contribute significantly to many established disciplines, and Native American studies increasingly thrives and develops in the academy with innovative research and interdisciplinary studies. Indigenous Americas aims to create a new benchmark of excellence for publications in this field, pushing the traditional boundaries of Native American studies while recognizing its strengths and applications across the academy and society. Ranging from historical and literary studies, to legal and political research of critical interest to Native and non-Native communities, to dynamic commentaries on art history and culture, these books intervene in current Native dialogues and debates with fresh perspectives and comprehensive analysis and research.

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Books in this Series

Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration

Noopiming The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism

Hungry Listening Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience

Standing with Standing Rock Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline

As We Have Always Done How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism

Speaking of Indigenous Politics “A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword

Grounded Authority A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada

Inter/Nationalism Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine

The White Possessive How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty

Red Skin, White Masks Fundamentally questions prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance

The Queerness of Native American Literature A comprehensive view of Indigenous queer literature since Stonewall

The Fourth Eye A comprehensive look at the complex relationship between Māori culture and the media

The Red Land to the South Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing

Trans-Indigenous Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies

Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Forceful and eloquent essays on the American Indian in culture and history

X-Marks A provocative and deeply personal exploration of contemporary Indian identity, nationalism, and modernity

Firsting and Lasting Tracing the origins of the persistent myth of the vanishing Indian

Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law The only book on the world’s largest tribal court system and Navajo common law

The Common Pot Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance

The Third Space of Sovereignty The struggle between indigenous resistance and American colonialism—within its own borders

Our Fire Survives the Storm Asserts the strength and diversity of Cherokee identity through its rich literary tradition

Bear Island An award-winning Native American writer recounts the “last Indian war” in verse

Like a Loaded Weapon Exposes the U.S. Supreme Court’s history of racism against American Indians

The People and the Word Reveals the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing

The Truth About Stories Illuminates the relationship between storytelling and the Native North American experience

Earthworks Rising A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices

Native Agency What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?

The Colonial Construction of Indian Country A guide to the colonization and projected decolonization of Native America

Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration

Talkin’ Up to the White Woman A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface

Allotment Stories More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands

Written by the Body Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film

Remembering Our Intimacies Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i

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Indigenous Americas

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