Native American and Indigenous Studies

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

Represent and Destroy Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism Jodi Melamed 2011 Fall

A stinging critique of the link between global capitalism and U.S. multiculturalisms

The Tourist State Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand Margaret Werry 2011 Fall

Examining the role of performance in state-making

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

The Common Pot The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast Lisa Brooks 2008 Fall

Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance

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

X-Marks Native Signatures of Assent Scott Richard Lyons 2010 Spring

A provocative and deeply personal exploration of contemporary Indian identity, nationalism, and modernity

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

The Mishomis Book The Voice of the Ojibway Edward Benton-Banai 2010 Fall

For young readers, the collected wisdom and traditions of Ojibway elders

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

The Networked Wilderness Communicating in Early New England Matt Cohen 2009 Fall

Significantly broadens our ideas of literacy, writing, and communication in early America

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