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.

Request a book for course adoption consideration.

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
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?
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
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History James H. Cox 2019 Fall: Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
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
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
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
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
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?
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
Edges of the State John Protevi 2019 Fall: Using philosophical and scientific work to engage the perennial question of human nature
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?
The Fourth World An Indian Reality George Manuel and Michael Posluns 2018 Fall: A foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print
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
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
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None Kathryn Yusoff 2019 Spring: Rewriting the “origin stories” of the Anthropocene
The Neocolonialism of the Global Village Ginger Nolan 2018 Fall: Uncovering a vast maze of realities in the media theories of Marshall McLuhan
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
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
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
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
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
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
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
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
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
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen Sean Sherman 2017 Fall: Award-winning recipes, stories, and wisdom from the celebrated indigenous chef and his team
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
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
UW Struggle When a State Attacks Its University Chuck Rybak 2018 Spring: A Wisconsin story that serves as a national warning