First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies publishes books that exemplify contemporary research in indigenous studies. This initiative is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a joint collaboration of four university presses: the University of Arizona Press, the University of Minnesota Press, the University of North Carolina Press, and Oregon State University Press. These studies are supported with unprecedented attention to the growing dialogue among Native and non-Native scholars, communities, and publishers. For more information, go to the First Peoples web site, http://firstpeoplesnewdirections.org.
Books in this Series
A Chosen People, a Promised Land
Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i
How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions
The Transit of Empire
Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism
Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire
The Copyright Thing Doesn’t Work Here
Adinkra and Kente Cloth and Intellectual Property in Ghana
The intersection of Western intellectual property law and traditional knowledge in Africa
The Way of Kinship
An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature
Prose, poetry, and drama from Siberia—the first anthology of its kind in English
A Return to Servitude
Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún
Tourism, consumption, migration, and the Maya in Cancún
Mark My Words
Native Women Mapping Our Nations
Examining the role of twentieth-century Native women’s literature in remapping settler geographies
Roots of Our Renewal
Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance
Highlights the complexities for indigenous Americans of governing a state while caring for the environment
The Seeds We Planted
Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School
Reveals the paradoxes of teaching indigenous knowledge within institutions built to marginalize and displace it
Creole Indigeneity
Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean
How Creoles refashioned the techniques of settler power and used the principle of labor to become the Caribbean’s new “natives”
Agitating Images
Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia
Demonstrates how photographic images complicate the history of Soviet Siberia
Spaces between Us
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States
Voices of Fire
Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hiʻiaka
Restoring the literature of Pele and Hi‘iaka to its rightful place in Native culture and identity