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Hopis and the Counterculture

Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field

The University of Arizona Press

This book addresses how the Hopi became icons of the followers of alternative spiritualities and reveals one of the major pathways for the appropriation of Indigenous identities that exploded in the 1960s. Exploring the new social field that developed to spread these ideas, the book documents the biographies of Ammon Hennacy, Craig Carpenter, Frank Waters, and the Firesign Theatre, among others.

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From the Skin

Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis

Edited by Jerome Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer; Foreword by Nick Estes
The University of Arizona Press

In this edited volume, J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer deploy the term practitioner-theorist to describe Indigenous studies graduates who theorize, produce, and apply knowledge within and between their nations and academia.

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Nihikéyah

Navajo Homeland

Edited by Lloyd L. Lee
The University of Arizona Press

This anthology of essays offers Diné perspectives on the experiences, observations, and examinations of their homeland. Together, the contributors thoughtfully illustrate the complex state of nihikéyah, “our land,” as viewed by Diné people.

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Where We Belong

Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains

The University of Arizona Press

This comparative work dispels the harmful myth that Native people are unfit stewards of their sacred places. This work establishes Indigenous preservation practices as sustaining approaches to the caretaking of the land that embody ecological sustainability, spiritual landscapes, and community well-being.

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Visualizing Genocide

Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums

The University of Arizona Press

Visualizing Genocide engages the often sparse and biased discourses of genocidal violence against Indigenous communities documented in exhibits, archives, and museums. Essayists and artists from a range of disciplines identify how Native knowledge can be effectively incorporated into memory spaces.

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Michael Chiago

O’odham Lifeways Through Art

The University of Arizona Press

O’odham artist Michael Chiago Sr.’s paintings provide a window into the lifeways of the O’odham people. This book offers a rich account of how Tohono O’odham and Akimel O’odham live in the Sonoran Desert now and in the recent past.

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Indigenous Economics

Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands

The University of Arizona Press

The book explains how Indigenous peoples organize their economies for good living by supporting relationships between humans and the natural world. This work argues that creating such relationships is a major alternative to economic models that stress individualism and domination of nature.

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Finding Right Relations

Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism

The University of Arizona Press

Colonialism has the power to corrupt. This important new work argues that even the early Quakers, who had a belief system rooted in social justice, committed structural and cultural violence against their Indigenous neighbors.

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Transforming Diné Education

Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice

The University of Arizona Press

Transforming Diné Education honors the perspectives and voices of Diné educators in culturally relevant education, special education, Diné language revitalization, well-being, tribal sovereignty, self-determination in Diné education, and university-tribal-community partnerships. The contributors offer stories about Diné resilience, resistance, and survival by articulating a Diné-centered pedagogy and politics for future generations.

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Our Fight Has Just Begun

Hate Crimes and Justice in Native America

The University of Arizona Press

Our Fight Has Just Begunilluminates Native voices while exposing how the justice system has largely failed Native American victims and families. This book tells the untold stories of hate crimes committed against Native Americans in the Four Corners region of the United States.

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A History of Navajo Nation Education

Disentangling Our Sovereign Body

The University of Arizona Press

On the heels of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Department of Diné Education, this important education history explains how the current Navajo educational system is a complex terrain of power relationships, competing agendas, and jurisdictional battles influenced by colonial pressures and tribal resistance. In providing the historical roots to today’s challenges, Wendy Shelly Greyeyes clears the path and provides a go-to reference to move discussions forward.

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A Coalition of Lineages

The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians

The University of Arizona Press

The experience of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians is an instructive model for scholars and provides a model for multicultural tribal development that may be of interest to recognized and nonrecognized Indian nations in the United States and elsewhere.

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Traditional, National, and International Law and Indigenous Communities

The University of Arizona Press

This volume of the Indigenous Justice series explores the global effects of marginalizing Indigenous law. The essays in this book argue that European-based law has been used to force Indigenous peoples to assimilate, has politically disenfranchised Indigenous communities, and has destroyed traditional Indigenous social institutions. The research in this volume focuses on the resurgence of traditional law, tribal–state relations in the United States, laws that have impacted Native American women, laws that have failed to protect Indigenous sacred sites, the effect of international conventions on domestic laws, and the role of community justice organizations in operationalizing international law.

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Indigenous Environmental Justice

The University of Arizona Press

The book explores the ongoing effects of colonization and emphasizes Native American tribes as governments rather than ethnic minorities. Combining elements of legal issues, human rights issues, and sovereignty issues, Indigenous Environmental Justice creates a clear example of community resilience in the face of corporate greed and state indifference.

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Upstream

Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River

The University of Arizona Press

Upstream relates the history behind the nation’s largest state-built water and power conveyance system, California’s State Water Project, with a focus on Indigenous perspectives. Author Beth Rose Middleton Manning illustrates how Indigenous history should inform contemporary conservation measures. She uses a multidisciplinary and multitemporal approach and offers a vision of policy reform that will lead to improved Indigenous futures around the U.S.

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Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country

The University of Arizona Press

Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country calls to attention the need for culturally appropriate research protocols and critical discussions of social and criminal justice in Indian Country. Contributors reflect on issues in three key areas: crime, social justice, and community responses to crime and justice issues. Each essay demonstrates how Indigenous communities are finding their own solutions for social justice, sovereignty, and self-determination.

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Native Apparitions

Critical Perspectives on Hollywood’s Indians

The University of Arizona Press

Native Apparitions offers a critical intervention and response to Hollywood’s representations of Native peoples in film, from historical works by director John Ford to more contemporary works, such as Apocalypto and Avatar. But more than a critique of stereotypes, this book is a timely call for scholarly activism engaged in Indigenous media sovereignty.

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American Indian Medicine Ways

Spiritual Power, Prophets, and Healing

The University of Arizona Press

This groundbreaking collection provides fascinating stories of wisdom, spiritual power, and forces within tribal communities that have influenced the past and may influence the future. Through discussions of omens, prophecies, war, peace, ceremony, ritual, and cultural items such as masks, prayer sticks, sweat lodges, and peyote, this volume offers examples of the ways in which Native American beliefs in spirits have been and remain a fundamental aspect of history and culture.

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Navajo Architecture

Forms, History, Distributions

The University of Arizona Press

Complete explication of hogan and house forms, root forms, summer structures and more make this possibly the most complete study ever made of the folk architecture of a tribal society to date.
 

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Blessingway

With Three Versions of the Myth Recorded and Translated from the Navajo by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M.

The University of Arizona Press

An outstanding work crafted from the handwritten pages of translations from the Navajo of the late Father Berard Haile giving three separate versions of the Blessingway rite with each version consisting of a prose text accompanied by the ritual songs and prayers. Valuable insights into the character and use of the Blessingway rite; its ceremonial procedures, its mythology, and its drypaintings.

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