Collection: Native American and Indigenous Studies 2022
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From Lapland to Sápmi Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture Barbara Sjoholm 2023 Spring
- A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts
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Making the Carry The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater Timothy Cochrane 2022 Fall
- An extraordinary illustrated biography of a Métis man and Anishinaabe woman navigating great changes in their homeland along the U.S.–Canada border in the early twentieth century
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Dancing Indigenous Worlds Choreographies of Relation Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2022 Fall
- The vital role of dance in enacting the embodied experiences of Indigenous peoples
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Native Agency Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Valerie Lambert 2022 Fall
- What happens when American Indians take over an institution designed to eliminate them?
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The Silence of the Miskito Prince How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized Matt Cohen 2022 Fall
- Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies
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Statelessness On Almost Not Existing 2022 Fall
- A pathbreaking new genealogy of statelessness
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Making Love with the Land Essays Joshua Whitehead 2022 Fall
- A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world
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The Sky Watched Poems of Ojibwe Lives Linda LeGarde Grover 2022 Fall
- A collective memoir in poetry of an Ojibwe family and tribal community, from creation myth to this day, updated with new poems
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This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2022 Spring
- One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii
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Webbed Connectivities The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Vrushali Patil 2022 Fall
- Constructing a new approach for centering empire in productions of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference
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The School-Prison Trust Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Jeremiah Chin 2022 Fall
- Considers colonial school–prison systems in relation to the self-determination of Native communities, nations, and peoples
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Seven Aunts Staci Lola Drouillard 2022 Spring
- Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century
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Noopiming The Cure for White Ladies Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2022 Spring
- 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
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Pipeline Populism Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century Kai Bosworth 2022 Spring
- How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development became populist struggles
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Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring
- A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
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Studious Drift Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education Tyson Lewis and Peter B. Hyland 2022 Fall
- What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?
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Earthworks Rising Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts Chadwick Allen 2022 Spring
- A necessary reexamination of Indigenous mounds, demonstrating their sustained vitality and vibrant futurity by centering Native voices
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Allotment Stories Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien, Editors 2021 Fall
- More than two dozen essays of Indigenous resistance to the privatization and allotment of Indigenous lands
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Eco Soma Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters Petra Kuppers 2021 Fall
- Modeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures
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The Big No Kennan Ferguson, Editor 2021 Fall
- What it means to celebrate the potential and the power of no
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We Are Meant to Rise Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, Editors 2021 Fall
- A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota
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Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall
- Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
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Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong Linda LeGarde Grover 2021 Fall
- Award-winning author Linda LeGarde Grover interweaves family and Ojibwe history with stories from Misaabekong (the place of the giants) on Lake Superior
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Talkin’ Up to the White Woman Indigenous Women and Feminism Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2021 Fall
- A twentieth-anniversary edition of this tour de force in feminism and Indigenous studies, now with a new preface
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Remembering Our Intimacies Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio 2021 Fall
- Recovering Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) relationality and belonging in the land, memory, and body of Native Hawai’i
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Grandmother’s Pigeon Louise Erdrich 2021 Fall
- A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award–winning author—at last back in print
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Written by the Body Gender Expansiveness and Indigenous Non-Cis Masculinities Lisa Tatonetti 2021 Fall
- Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film
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Le Maya Q’atzij/Our Maya Word Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala Emil’ Keme 2021 Spring
- Bringing to the fore the voices of Maya authors and what their poetry tells us about resistance, sovereignty, trauma, and regeneration
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The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring
- Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
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Outsiders Within Writing on Transracial Adoption Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin, Editors 2020 Fall
- Confronting trauma behind the transnational adoption system—now back in print
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The Children of Lincoln White Paternalism and the Limits of Black Opportunity in Minnesota, 1860–1876 William D. Green 2021 Spring
- How white advocates of emancipation abandoned African American causes in the dark days of Reconstruction, told through the stories of four Minnesotans
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As We Have Always Done Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 2021 Spring
- How to build Indigenous resistance movements that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism
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Blackness in Morocco Gnawa Identity through Music and Visual Culture Cynthia J. Becker 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking study of Blackness in Morocco through the lens of visual representation
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Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall
- A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
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Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall
- A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
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The Range Eternal Louise Erdrich 2020 Fall
- The story of a girlhood lived in the glow of a woodstove from one of the country’s most distinguished and beloved authors, now back in print
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Trans Care Hil Malatino 2020 Fall
- A radical and necessary rethinking of trans care
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In the Night of Memory A Novel Linda LeGarde Grover 2020 Fall
- Two lost sisters find family, and themselves, among the voices of an Ojibwe reservation
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Hungry Listening Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies Dylan Robinson 2020 Spring
- Reimagining how we understand and write about the Indigenous listening experience
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Border Thinking Latinx Youth Decolonizing Citizenship Andrea Dyrness 2020 Spring
- Rich accounts of how Latinx migrant youth experience belonging across borders
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Resisting Dialogue Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent Juan Meneses 2019 Fall
- A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent
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Fair Trade Rebels Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas Lindsay Naylor 2019 Fall
- Reassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade
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Walking the Old Road A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe Staci Lola Drouillard 2019 Fall
- The story of a once vibrant, now vanished off-reservation Ojibwe village—and a vital chapter of the history of the North Shore
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LatinX Claudia Milian 2020 Spring
- Nationality is not enough to understand “Latin”-descended populations in the United States
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Johnny’s Pheasant Cheryl Minnema 2019 Fall
- An encounter with a pheasant (which may or may not be sleeping) takes a surprising turn in this sweetly serious and funny story of a Native American boy and his grandma
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Queering Colonial Natal Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa T. J. Tallie 2019 Fall
- How were indigenous social practices deemed queer and aberrant by colonial forces?
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What God Is Honored Here? Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, Editors 2019 Fall
- Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain, revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage and infant loss
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The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall
- Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
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This Wound Is a World Billy-Ray Belcourt 2019 Fall
- The new edition of a prize-winning memoir-in-poems, a meditation on life as a queer Indigenous man—available for the first time in the United States
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Standing with Standing Rock Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, Editors 2019 Spring
- Dispatches of radical political engagement from people taking a stand against the Dakota Access Pipeline
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Beyond Education Radical Studying for Another World Eli Meyerhoff 2019 Fall
- A bold call to deromanticize education and reframe universities as terrains of struggle between alternative modes of studying and world-making
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Translated Nation Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte Christopher Pexa 2019 Spring
- How authors rendered Dakhóta philosophy by literary means to encode ethical and political connectedness and sovereign life within a settler surveillance state
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Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
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Producers, Parasites, Patriots Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes 2019 Spring
- The shifting meaning of race and class in the age of Trump
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Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall
- Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
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The Politics of Annihilation A Genealogy of Genocide Benjamin Meiches 2019 Spring
- How did a powerful concept in international justice evolve into an inequitable response to mass suffering?
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The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall
- A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
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The Art of Protest Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present, Second Edition T. V. Reed 2019 Spring
- A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance
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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade Timothy Cochrane 2018 Fall
- The journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring
- Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
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The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall
- Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan
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Speaking of Indigenous Politics Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Editor 2018 Spring
- “A lesson in how to practice recognizing the fundamental truth that every inch of the Americas is Indigenous territory.” —Robert Warrior, from the Foreword
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Power and Progress on the Prairie Governing People on Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2018 Spring
- A critical exploration of how modernity and progress were imposed on the people and land of rural South Dakota
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The Right to Be Cold One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change Sheila Watt-Cloutier 2018 Spring
- A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
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After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account of Native People in North America Thomas King 2018 Spring
- A brilliantly subversive and darkly humorous history of Indian–White relations in North America since first contact
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Postcolonial Biology Psyche and Flesh after Empire Deepika Bahri 2017 Fall
- Rethinking the body of the colonized and its ongoing transformation in today’s global order
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The River Is in Us Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover 2017 Fall
- The riveting story of the Mohawk community that fought back against the contamination of its lands
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Being Together in Place Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World Soren C. Larsen and Jay T. Johnson 2017 Fall
- How place summons Native and non-Native people into dialogue to take up the challenging work of coexistence with each other and the nonhuman world
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When the Hills Are Gone Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community Thomas W. Pearson 2017 Fall
- An overlooked part of fracking’s environmental impact becomes a window into the activists and industrial interests fighting for the future of energy production—and the fate of rural communities
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Aspirational Fascism The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism William E. Connolly 2017 Fall
- Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
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The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman 2017 Fall
- Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team
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Onigamiising Seasons of an Ojibwe Year Linda LeGarde Grover 2017 Fall
- Fifty short essays evoke the four seasons of the year, and of life, for the Ojibwe in northeastern Minnesota
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Officially Indian Symbols that Define the United States Cécile Ganteaume 2017 Fall
- A wide-ranging exploration of the symbolic importance of American Indians in the visual language of U.S. democracy
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UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring
- A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning
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Evil Dead Center A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall
- Renee is back at it, this time uncovering a dark web with far reaches and implications
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Along the Journey River A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall
- When tribal traditions run strong, is it possible to love an “other”?
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Grounded Authority The Algonquins of Barriere Lake against the State Shiri Pasternak 2017 Spring
- A rare, in-depth critique of federal land claims policy in Canada
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A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring
- Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
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White Birch, Red Hawthorn A Memoir Nora Murphy 2017 Spring
- A personal investigation into the multigenerational cost of immigration and genocide in the American heartland
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Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
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Juárez Girls Rising Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon 2017 Spring
- Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juárez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence
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Compulsory Education and the Dispossession of Youth in a Prison School Sabina E. Vaught 2017 Spring
- A groundbreaking look at America’s public education system through the lens of prison schooling
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Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
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California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall
- How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
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Inter/Nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Steven Salaita 2016 Fall
- Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine
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A Mishomis Book (set of five coloring books) Edward Benton-Banai 2016 Fall
- A five-part coloring book series of Ojibway history, myth, and tradition
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The World and All the Things upon It Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration David A. Chang 2016 Spring
- Centering indigenous perspectives on the age of exploration
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? Vinciane Despret 2016 Spring
- A provocative challenge to the marginalization of “humanlike” aspects of animal life
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Our Own Image A Story of a Māori Filmmaker Barry Barclay 2015 Fall
- An insightful look at the introduction of Fourth Cinema into the mainstream
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The Beginning and End of Rape Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America Sarah Deer 2015 Fall
- How to address widespread violence against Native women—practically, theoretically, and legally—from the foremost advocate for understanding and change
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Hope at Sea Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Teresa Shewry 2015 Fall
- Hope is a lifeline running through the work of literary writers in and surrounding the Pacific Ocean
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Roots of Our Renewal Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance Clint Carroll 2015 Spring
- Highlights the complexities for indigenous Americans of governing a state while caring for the environment
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Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring
- What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
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The White Possessive Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2015 Spring
- How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty