University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
In the Smaller Scope of Conscience
The Struggle for National Repatriation Legislation, 1986–1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1989, The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAIA) was successfully passed after a long and intense struggle. One year later, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) followed. These federal repatriation statutes—arguably some of the most important laws in...
Footprints of Hopi History
Hopihiniwtiput Kukveni'at
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Kukveni—footprints—are a powerful historical metaphor that the Hopi people use to comprehend their tangible heritage. Hopis say that the deity Máasaw instructed their ancestors to leave footprints during their migrations from their origin place to their home today as evidence that they had fulfilled...
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million, or approximately one third of the country’s total population. As the urban component of this population increases, the need for resources...
Big Water
The Making of the Borderlands Between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Big Water explores four centuries of the overlapping histories of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay (the Triple Frontier), and the colonies that preceded them. Examining an important area that includes some of the first national parks established in Latin America and one of the world’s largest hydroelectric...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl is one of the most controversial and provocative Mexican chroniclers from the colonial period. A descendant of both the famous Prehispanic poet-king Nezahualcoyotl and Hernán Cortés’s ally Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, he penned chronicles that rewrote Prehispanic and...
Indigenous Pop
Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Popular music compels, it entertains, and it has the power to attract and move audiences. With that in mind, the editors of Indigenous Pop showcase the contributions of American Indian musicians to popular forms of music, including jazz, blues, country-western, rock and roll, reggae, punk, and hip...
How Myth Became History
Texas Exceptionalism in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The myth of Texas origin often begins at the Alamo. This story is based on ideology rather than on truth, yet ideology is the foundation for the U.S. American cultural memory that underwrites official history. The Alamo, as a narrative of national progress, supports the heroic acts that have created...
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and...
by Charles Bowden
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson—whose summit is called Frog Mountain by the Tohono O’odham—offers up to the citizens of the basins below a wilderness in their own backyard.
When it was first published in 1987, Frog Mountain Blues documented the creeping sprawl of new development...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Paquimé, the great multistoried pre-Hispanic settlement also known as Casas Grandes, was the center of an ancient region with hundreds of related neighbors. It also participated in massive networks that stretched their fingers through northwestern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. Paquimé is widely...
by
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
In the 1100s most Pueblo peoples lived in small, dispersed settlements and moved frequently, but by the mid-1400s they had aggregated into large villages. The majority of these villages were still occupied at Spanish contact and conquest, by which time most Pueblo peoples had completely transformed...
A Passion for the True and Just
Felix and Lucy Kramer Cohen and the Indian New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote The**Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner...
Capture These Indians for the Lord
Indians, Methodists, and Oklahomans, 1844-1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
In 1844, on the heels of the final wave of the forced removal of thousands of Indians from the southern United States to what is now Oklahoma, the Southern Methodist Church created a separate organization known as the Indian Mission Conference to oversee its missionary efforts among the Native communities...
American Indian Medicine Ways
Spiritual Power, Prophets, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the...