Native American and Indigenous Studies

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

The Truth About Stories A Native Narrative Thomas King 2008 Fall

Illuminates the relationship between storytelling and the Native North American experience

The Inner Life of Mestizo Nationalism Estelle Tarica 2008 Spring

A timely examination of narratives of interethnic intimacy in twentieth-century Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru

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

The Third Space of Sovereignty The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.–Indigenous Relations Kevin Bruyneel 2007 Fall

The struggle between indigenous resistance and American colonialism—within its own borders

Deadliest Enemies Law and Race Relations on and off Rosebud Reservation Thomas Biolsi 2007 Spring

How U.S. federal law creates racial conflict between Native American and white people

Shimmering Screens Making Media in an Aboriginal Community Jennifer Deger 2006 Fall

Reconsiders the interplay between aboriginal communities and media

Indians in Minnesota Kathy Davis Graves and Elizabeth Ebbott 2006 Fall

The fully updated survey of American Indian communities in Minnesota

Our Fire Survives the Storm A Cherokee Literary History Daniel Heath Justice 2005 Fall

Asserts the strength and diversity of Cherokee identity through its rich literary tradition

Bear Island The War at Sugar Point Gerald Vizenor 2006 Spring

An award-winning Native American writer recounts the “last Indian war” in verse

Like a Loaded Weapon The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights, and the Legal History of Racism in America Robert A. Williams, Jr. 2005 Fall

Exposes the U.S. Supreme Court’s history of racism against American Indians

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