Native American and Indigenous Studies

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

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

Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong Paul Chaat Smith 2009 Spring

Forceful and eloquent essays on the American Indian in culture and history

Taxidermic Signs Reconstructing Aboriginality Pauline Wakeham 2008 Spring

A fascinating study of how taxidermy reinforces racial stereotypes of aboriginality

Engraving the Savage The New World and Techniques of Civilization Michael Gaudio 2008 Spring

How engravings reveal the meaning of “savage” and “civilized”

Circuits of Culture Media, Politics, and Indigenous Identity in the Andes Jeff D. Himpele 2007 Fall

A surprising study of how images of Andean Indianness have been popularized in Bolivian media

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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