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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.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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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.

  • Copyright year: 1999
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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

Each song appears both in Spanish and English. For many, transcriptions of the musical notations are provided as well as graphic illustrations of dance technique.

  • 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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