Native American and Indigenous Studies

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

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

Archaeology of Minnesota The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region Guy Gibbon 2012 Fall

A precontact history of Minnesota that reveals the relevance of archaeology to our understanding of the world today

The Red Land to the South American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico James H. Cox 2012 Fall

Recovers an entire era as a major period in American Indian writing

Trans-Indigenous Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies Chadwick Allen 2012 Fall

Uncovering the wealth of Indigenous self-representation through juxtaposition of genres, cultures, histories, and geographies

The Erotics of Sovereignty Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination Mark Rifkin 2012 Spring

How queer Native writers use the erotics of lived experience to challenge both federal and tribal notions of “Indianness”

Once Were Pacific Māori Connections to Oceania Alice Te Punga Somerville 2012 Spring

Explores the relationship between indigeneity and migration among Māori and Pacific peoples

A Chosen People, a Promised Land Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i Hokulani K. Aikau 2012 Spring

How Native Hawaiians’ experience of Mormonism intersects with their cultural and ethnic identities and traditions

Spaces between Us Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization Scott Morgensen 2011 Fall

Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States

The Transit of Empire Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism Jodi A. Byrd 2011 Fall

Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empire

The Way of Kinship An Anthology of Native Siberian Literature Alexander Vaschenko and Claude Clayton Smith, Editors 2010 Fall

Prose, poetry, and drama from Siberia—the first anthology of its kind in English

Claiming Others Transracial Adoption and National Belonging Mark C. Jerng 2010 Fall

How transracial adoption and its history changes the way we see family, nation, and race

A Return to Servitude Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún M. Bianet Castellanos 2010 Fall

Tourism, consumption, migration, and the Maya in Cancún

North Country The Making of Minnesota Mary Lethert Wingerd 2010 Spring

The untold history of how the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe became the State of Minnesota

University of Minnesota Press