Collection: Native American and Indigenous Studies 2023

Virtual presence for attendees and those interested in the 2023 meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Books on sale, University of Minnesota Press information, and more.

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS

The University of Minnesota Press is pleased to offer a discount on print books to attendees and those interested in the 2023 meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, (Tkaronto, May 11-13).

All books below are 40% off using code MNNAISA23 through July 1, 2023.

Read a letter to NAISA attendees from Editorial Director Jason Weidemann.

Interested in discussing a current project? Contact Jason or another member of our Editorial team here.

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Mark My Words Native Women Mapping Our Nations Mishuana Goeman 2013 Spring: Examining the role of twentieth-century Native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies
The Seeds We Planted Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua 2013 Spring: Reveals the paradoxes of teaching indigenous knowledge within institutions built to marginalize and displace it
The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall: Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing
Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 2012 Fall: Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies
Creole Indigeneity Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean Shona N. Jackson 2012 Fall: How Creoles refashioned the techniques of settler power and used the principle of labor to become the Caribbean’s new “natives”
The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 2012 Spring: How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”
Once Were Pacific Māori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 2012 Spring: Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples
A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring: How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
Spaces between Us Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Morgensen 2011 Fall: Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States
The Transit of Empire Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd 2011 Fall: Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire
A Return to Servitude Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún M. Bianet Castellanos 2010 Fall: Tourism, consumption, migration, and the Maya in Cancún
The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 2008 Fall: Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance
Firsting and Lasting Writing Indians out of Existence in New England Jean M. O’Brien 2010 Spring: Tracing the origins of the persistent myth of the vanishing Indian
X-Marks Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 2010 Spring: A provocative and deeply personal exploration of contemporary Indian identity, nationalism, and modernity
The Mishomis Book The Voice of the Ojibway Edward Benton-Banai 2010 Fall: For young readers, the collected wisdom and traditions of Ojibway elders
Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance Raymond D. Austin 2009 Fall: The only book on the world’s largest tribal court system and Navajo common law
Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Paul Chaat Smith 2009 Spring: Forceful and eloquent essays on the American Indian in culture and history
The Truth About Stories A Native Narrative Thomas King 2008 Fall: Illuminates the relationship between storytelling and the Native North American experience
Taxidermic Signs Reconstructing Aboriginality Pauline Wakeham 2008 Spring: A fascinating study of how taxidermy reinforces racial stereotypes of aboriginality
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing Native American Modern Dance Histories Jacqueline Shea Murphy 2007 Fall: Addresses the Indian, absent and present, in modern dance studies
The Third Space of Sovereignty The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations Kevin Bruyneel 2007 Fall: The struggle between indigenous resistance and American colonialism—within its own borders
Toward a Global Idea of Race Denise Ferreira da Silva 2007 Spring: Breaks open the concept of race in a modern, global world.
Our Fire Survives the Storm A Cherokee Literary History Daniel Heath Justice 2005 Fall: Asserts the strength and diversity of Cherokee identity through its rich literary tradition
Like a Loaded Weapon The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Robert A. Williams, Jr. 2005 Fall: Exposes the U.S. Supreme Court’s history of racism against American Indians
The People and the Word Reading Native Nonfiction Robert Warrior 2005 Fall: Reveals the history and impact of Native American nonfiction writing
Red on Red Native American Literary Separatism Craig S. Womack and Hans Aarsleff 1999 Fall: An entertaining and enlightening proposal for a new way to read Native American literature.
Tribal Secrets Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions Robert Warrior 1994 Fall: “Robert Warrior writes at once to the memories of tribal survivance and the critical confidence of his generation; he ascertains intellectual histories that have been largely unconsidered in other studies of Native American Indians . . . a courageous comparative textual criticism.” --Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley