The first biography of a Pueblo leader, Pablo Abeita, a man considered the most important Native leader in the Southwest... Læs mere
In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter established the first public venue for the thriving correspondence of an... Læs mere
This is an eloquently written autoethnography in which researcher Hillary S. Webb seeks to understand the indigenous Andean... Læs mere
Simon J Ortiz is widely regarded as one of the literary giants of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This title shows his role in the... Læs mere
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.
Elena Poniatowska is recognised today as one of Mexico's greatest writers. Lilus Kikus, published in 1954, was her first book. However, it has not... Læs mere
Grounded in archival research and cultural and economic approaches, this new book situates Navajo weavers within the economic history of the Southwest and debunks the romantic stereotypes of weavers and traders that have dominated the literature.
Documents the religious customs of the crypto-Jewish culture in Spain, Portugal, and their American colonies, principally Mexico, Peru, and Brazil.... Læs mere
This study argues that the collapse of Classic Maya civilization was driven by drought. Between A.D. 800 and 1000, unrelenting drought killed millions of Maya people with famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization.
Examines how the Spanish invasion of the Inca Empire in 1532 brought dramatic and irreversible transformations in... Læs mere
In his latest study of the Navajo language, Professor Robert W. Young tackles the obstacle that Navajo appears to be a verb-centered language in which all the verbs are ""irregular"".