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Contaminated Country
Nuclear Colonialism and Aboriginal Resistance in Australia
The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia's embrace of the world's nuclear order
Though a nonnuclear state, Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth...
ISBN: 9780295753799
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Wrecked
Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
A provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast
The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar...
ISBN: 9780295753768
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Fighting for the Puyallup Tribe
A Memoir
A compelling on-the-ground account of Native activism in the Northwest
A relentless advocate for Native rights, Ramona Bennett Bill has been involved in the battles waged by the Puyallup and other Northwest tribes around fishing...
ISBN: 9780295753508
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The Tlingit in Sitka
The Photography of Elbridge W. Merrill
A rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920s
Lured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a...
ISBN: 9780295753478
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Reenvisioning Histories of American Art
Transforming Museum Practice
How museums are changing to embrace a more inclusive vision of American art
US museums have faced increasing pressure to reckon with their histories in light of movements against racism, violence, and the erosion of human...
ISBN: 9780295753386
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Waves of Belonging
Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup
Showcases surfing as a site of social belonging and power formation
The surf zone—the place between ocean and shore—offers a powerful space to reflect on the dynamic contemporary politics of our worlds. Surfing always occurs on...
ISBN: 9780295753416
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Kernels of Resistance
Maize, Food Sovereignty, and Collective Power
The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and won
Right before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala’s legislature into lifting its national ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and...
ISBN: 9780295753300
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Native Alienation
Spiritual Conquest and the Violence of California Missions
Challenges the romantic portrayal of Spanish missions
Sites of slavery and spiritual conquest, the California missions played a central role in the brutal subjugation of the region’s Indigenous peoples. Mainstream California history, however, still largely presents...
ISBN: 9780295753270
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Refusing Settler Domesticity
Native Women's Labor and Resistance in the Bay Area Outing Program
Traces young Native women’s lives and experiences as Bay Area domestic workers
In the early twentieth century, the Bay Area Outing Program coercively recruited over a thousand Native girls and women from boarding schools to labor...
ISBN: 9780295753003
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Alaska Native Resilience
Voices from World War II
Alaska Native elders remember wartime invasion, relocation, and land reclamation
The US government justified its World War II occupation of Alaska as a defense against Japan’s invasion of the Aleutian Islands, but it equally served to...
ISBN: 9780295752525
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Unrecognized in California
Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians
An inside account of one Luiseño tribe's history and their efforts to be recognized by the United States
With the largest number of Native Americans as well as the most non-federally recognized tribes in the United...
ISBN: 9780295752846
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Preoccupied
Indigenizing the Museum
Interrogates the colonial underpinnings of museums
Published on the occasion of the “Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum” initiative at the Baltimore Museum of Art, this book centers Native artist voices and challenges collective understandings of Native peoples’...
ISBN: 9780912298023
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Skidegate House Models
From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World's Fair and Beyond
Explores the Skidegate model village carved by Haida artists for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
In 1892 seventeen Haida artists were commissioned to carve a model of HlGaagilda Llnagaay (the village of Skidegate on Haida Gwaii,...
ISBN: 9780295751047
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Treaty Justice
The Northwest Tribes, the Boldt Decision, and the Recognition of Fishing Rights
In 1974, Judge George Boldt issued a ruling that affirmed the fishing rights and tribal sovereignty of Native nations in Washington State. The Boldt Decision transformed Indigenous law and resource management across the United States...
ISBN: 9780295752723
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Resisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanities
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed...
ISBN: 9780295752341
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Tengautuli Atkuk / The Flying Parka
The Meaning and Making of Parkas in Southwest Alaska
A unique collaboration celebrating the importance of parkas in Yup'ik material culture
Parkas are part of a living tradition in southwest Alaska. Some are ornamented with tassels, beads, and elaborate stitching; others are simpler fur or...
ISBN: 9780295751740
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Not Native American Art
Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions
Explores the making and meaning of so-called Native American art
The faking of Native American art objects has proliferated as their commercial value has increased, but even a century ago experts were warning that the faking...
ISBN: 9780295751368
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Settler Cannabis
From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California
Connects California cannabis production to the violence and dispossession of Indigenous land and people
Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous...
ISBN: 9780295751566
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Sharing Honors and Burdens
Renwick Invitational 2023
Celebrates the groundbreaking work of six contemporary craft artists from Indigenous Nations across the US
This volume features the work of six Indigenous artists whose craft speaks to the responsibility of honoring cultural traditions while shaping...
ISBN: 9780937311882
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Jesintel
Living Wisdom from Coast Salish Elders
A gathering of stories for all generations, past, present, and future
Dynamic and diverse, Coast Salish culture is bound together by shared values and relations that generate a resilient worldview. Jesintel—"to learn and grow together"—characterizes the...
ISBN: 9780295748641
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