Native American and Indigenous Studies

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?

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

Chi-mewinzha Ojibwe Stories from Leech Lake Dorothy Dora Whipple 2015 Spring

Stories of an Ojibwe elder in the original Ojibwe, with English translation

A Peculiar Imbalance The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837–1869 William D. Green 2015 Spring

The untold story of what it meant to be a black member of early Minnesota society

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

Agitating Images Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia Craig Campbell 2014 Fall

Demonstrates how photographic images complicate the history of Soviet Siberia

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

One Good Story, That One Stories Thomas King 2013 Fall

A collection of humorous and provocative short stories ranging from Native traditions to pop culture and trickster tales—now available in the United States

A Short History of Indians in Canada Stories Thomas King 2013 Fall

A collection of twenty short stories told in King’s classic wry, irreverent, and allegorical voice—now available in the United States

New Architecture on Indigenous Lands Joy Monice Malnar and Frank Vodvarka 2013 Spring

Tribal architecture gets back to its Native roots—and becomes something new

Coming soon

University of Minnesota Press

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