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.

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
Along the Journey River A Mystery Carole laFavor 2017 Fall: When tribal traditions run strong, is it possible to love an “other”?
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
A Third University Is Possible la paperson 2017 Spring: Uncovering the decolonizing ghost in the colonizing machine
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?
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
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
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
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
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
California Mission Landscapes Race, Memory, and the Politics of Heritage Elizabeth Kryder-Reid 2016 Fall: How iconic American places cultivate and conceal contested pasts
Inter/Nationalism Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Steven Salaita 2016 Fall: Connecting the scholarship and activism of Indigenous America and Palestine
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring: What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
The White Possessive Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty Aileen Moreton-Robinson 2015 Spring: How whiteness operationalizes race to colonize and displace Indigenous sovereignty
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings Mary Siisip Geniusz 2015 Spring: The first complete resource for the practical use of plants in the Anishinaabe culture and the stories that surround them
The Queerness of Native American Literature Lisa Tatonetti 2014 Fall: A comprehensive view of Indigenous queer literature since Stonewall
Savage Preservation The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology Brian Hochman 2014 Fall: How ethnographic encounters shaped audiovisual media in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America
Red Skin, White Masks Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Glen Sean Coulthard 2014 Fall: Fundamentally questions prevailing ideas of settler colonialization and Indigenous resistance
Settler Common Sense Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin 2014 Spring: Tracing the unacknowledged effects of colonialism in the canon of nineteenth-century American literature
Voices of Fire Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui 2014 Spring: Restoring the literature of Pele and Hi‘iaka to its rightful place in Native culture and identity
The Fourth Eye Māori Media in Aotearoa New Zealand Brendan Hokowhitu and Vijay Devadas, Editors 2013 Fall: A comprehensive look at the complex relationship between Māori culture and the media
Native American DNA Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Kim TallBear 2013 Fall: How identifying Native Americans is vastly more complicated than matching DNA
Survival Schools The American Indian Movement and Community Education in the Twin Cities Julie L. Davis 2013 Spring: The first history of two alternative schools founded by AIM in the Twin Cities in 1972—and their role in revitalizing Native culture and community