NAISA: History
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
All books below are 40% off using code MNNAISA23. Code expires July 1, 2023.
BROWSE BOOKS:
ANTHROPOLOGY // CHILDREN'S LITERATURE // CINEMA AND MEDIA
EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT // GEOGRAPHY
GLBT AND GENDER // HISTORY // LAW AND LEGAL STUDIES
LITERATURE AND POETRY // LITERARY CRITICISM // POLITICAL SCIENCE
POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES // SOCIOLOGY // RELIGION
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The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi Elin Anna Labba 2023 Fall
- The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today
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Archiving Medical Violence Consent and the Carceral State Christopher Perreira 2023 Fall
- A major new reading of a U.S. public health system shaped by fraught perceptions of culture, race, and criminality
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American Indians and the American Dream Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota Kasey R. Keeler 2023 Spring
- Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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”
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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
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X-Marks Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 2010 Spring
- A provocative and deeply personal exploration of contemporary Indian identity, nationalism, and modernity
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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
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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
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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