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Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.

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Capirotada

A Nogales Memoir

University of New Mexico Press

Vignettes of family, neighbors, friends, and secrets from his youth in the two Nogaleses--in Arizona and through the open gate into Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Education and the American Indian

The Road to Self-Determination Since 1928

University of New Mexico Press

This revised edition provides an overview of American Indian/Alaska Native education from 1928 to 1998.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Mexico Between Hitler and Roosevelt

Mexican Foreign Relations in the Age of Lázaro Cárdenas, 1934-1940

University of New Mexico Press

Mexico's relationship with the world during the 1930s is revealed as a fascinating series of calculated responses to domestic political changes and international economic shifts.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Telling Western Stories

From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry

University of New Mexico Press

Narrates the evolution of the western story from the Civil War to the present, focusing on books, movies, and people.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

An American Tragedy

University of New Mexico Press

This personal and historical account traces the twentieth-century legal battle, Healing v. Jones, and it's effects on both tribes.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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American Indian Grandmothers

Traditions and Transitions

University of New Mexico Press

These essays explore the complex world of grandmothers in Native America, where, although often impoverished and marginalized, they provide a vital connection to native identity, history, and wisdom.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Chasing Shadows

Apaches and Yaquis Along the United States-Mexico Border, 1876-1911

University of New Mexico Press

Hatfield examines for the first time the military campaigns on both sides of the border against the Apaches and other native peoples during the late nineteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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CrashBoomLove

A Novel in Verse

University of New Mexico Press

A California farmworker kid's season in hell, told through fast-verse lines that careen to the beat of a fiery heart.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Cuentos from Long Ago

University of New Mexico Press

A bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offering the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Horizontal Yellow

Nature and History in the Near Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

Personal and historical meditations explore the human and natural history of the large expanse of land the Navajos once named the Horizontal Yellow.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Six Neuvomexicano Folk Dramas for Advent Season

University of New Mexico Press

This bilingual edition of these classic folk dramas is produced for both those acting in the plays, or for students of the literature.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Collected Stories of Moacyr Scliar

By Moacyr Scliar; Translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli; Introduction by Ilan Stavans
University of New Mexico Press

From Brazil's most distinguished and important Jewish writer comes this anthology of powerful stories, bringing a compelling voice of the Jewish Diaspora to the English language.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Saga of Billy the Kid

University of New Mexico Press

First published in 1926, this dramatic biography forever installed outlaw Billy the Kid in the pantheon of mythic heroes from the Old West.

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Tombstone

An Iliad of the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

A mixture of fact and fiction, this is the book that defined Wyatt Earp's legend as a gunfighter-lawman.

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The Suppression of Salt of the Earth

How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in the American Cold War

University of New Mexico Press

Examines the conception, production, distribution, and suppression of the pioneering labor-feminist film made during the virulently anti-communist era of the Cold War.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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La musica de los viejitos

Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte

University of New Mexico Press

A companion set of audio compact discs to the text collecting examples of the musical forms used over the centuries in this often isolated and harsh but beautiful region of the Rio Rande. A blend of religious and secular music from sixteenth-century Spain, Mexican-influenced folk tunes, and melodies indigenous to the life of the region, the music covered here includes romances, trovos, cuandos and decimas, inditas, corridos, canciónes, ceremonial and religious music, and dance music.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Sonora

An Intimate Geography

University of New Mexico Press

This informal account of the people, culture, land, and history of Sonora, Mexico, is now available in paperback.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Tangled Destinies

Latin America and the United States

University of New Mexico Press

Historical overview from both perspectives of the often-troubled and always uneven relationship between the United States and the nations of Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property

Whose Culture? Whose Property?

Edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger; Foreword by Brian Fagan
University of New Mexico Press

Explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artifacts.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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Bones, Boats, and Bison

Archeology and the First Colonization of Western North America

University of New Mexico Press

This revolutionary synthesis dispels the stereotype of big game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge, while painting a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Wisconsin Death Trip

University of New Mexico Press

A shocking portrait of a small town crumbling--socially, morally, physically and emotionally--under the impact of the great depression of the 1890s. This "cult classic" is now available again in paperback.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Madres del Verbo/Mothers of the Word

Edited by Nina M. Scott
University of New Mexico Press

A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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She-Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales

Edited by Johnny Payne
University of New Mexico Press

These fables from highland Peru, presented in both Quechua and English, capture a rich oral tradition and illustrate many universal human themes.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Tamarind

Forty Years

Edited by Marjorie Devon
University of New Mexico Press

An essential addition to the library of anyone concerned with contemporary printmaking.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Navajo Verb System

An Overview

University of New Mexico Press

Provides a summary description of the Navajo language and a detailed treatment of the inflectional morphology of its verb system.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Independence in Spanish America

Civil Wars, Revolutions, and Underdevelopment

University of New Mexico Press

This new edition, revised and enlarged to take account of recently published studies as well as a rethinking of certain prevailing views, is a compelling reinterpretation of the independence era. The turbulent history of the independence movements is set forth with attention to key figures and their ideologies, regional differences, and the legacy of underdevelopment left by the wars of independence.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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That Disturbances Cease

The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, 1697-1700

University of New Mexico Press

Volume 5 in The Journals of don Diego de Vargas.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico

Men, Women, and War

University of New Mexico Press

This account of the history of Mexico from Independence to the Revolution traces the struggle of common people to exert control over their everyday lives.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century

University of New Mexico Press

Studies the growth of Indian populations since 1900, showing why and how American Indian populations recovered in the 20th century.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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He Walked In and Sat Down and Other Stories

University of New Mexico Press

The stories in this bilingual collection portray the everyday lives of a cross-section of Chicano men and women in the contemporary U.S.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Fly Patterns of Northern New Mexico

By Karen Denison and Bill Orr; Foreword by Craig Martin
University of New Mexico Press

Illustrates fishing flies developed by locally-respected fly tyers, with step-by-step instructions for fly fishing success in northern New Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Gatewood and Geronimo

University of New Mexico Press

Parallels the lives of Gatewood and Geronimo as events drive them toward their historic meeting in Mexico in 1886--a meeting that marked the beginning of the end of the last Apache war.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Ten Texas Feuds

University of New Mexico Press

Based on painstaking research and interviews, Sonnichsen's tales bring to life the bloody feuds of the young state of Texas, where personal vengeance righted intolerable wrongs and settled unbearable grievances.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Romance of a Little Village Girl

University of New Mexico Press

This memoir of growing up in northern New Mexico offers a unique and engaging portrait of daily life and customs from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Battle of Glorieta Pass

A Gettysburg in the West, March 26-28, 1862

University of New Mexico Press

A highly readable account of this major turning point of the Civil War in the West.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Contested Homeland

A Chicano History of New Mexico

University of New Mexico Press

Studies territorial and rural New Mexico in the nineteenth century, the struggle for statehood, Nuevomexicano politics, immigration, urban issues in the twentieth century, the role of Spanish in education, ethnic identity, and the Chicano movement.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Native Peoples of the Southwest

University of New Mexico Press

A comprehensive guide to the historic and contemporary indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, intended for college courses and the general reader.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Far Southwest, 1846-1912

A Territorial History

University of New Mexico Press

A history of the Four Corners states during their formative territorial years. Newly revised edition.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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The Urban Indian Experience in America

University of New Mexico Press

As the first ethnohistory of modern urban Indians, this perceptive study looks at Indians from many tribes living in cities throughout the United States.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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Puppet

A Chicano Novella

University of New Mexico Press

A Chicana graduate student learns of a cover-up of the police shooting a young Chicano laborer named Puppet. Both a mystery and a call-to-action novel, Puppet is an underground classic. This is a bilingual edition - Spanish and English.

  • Copyright year: 2000
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