Āina Hānau / Birth Land

By Brandy Nalani McDougall

McDougall's poems cycle through sacred and personal narratives while exposing and fighting ongoing American imperialism, settler colonialism, militarism, and social and environmental injustice to protect the ʻāina (land) and its people. Tracing flows from the mountains to the ocean, from the sky to the earth, and from ancestor to mother to child, these poems are rooted in the rich ancestral and contemporary literature of Hawaiʻi. View book info

Where We Belong, Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains

By Daisy Ocampo

Ocampo explores the historic preservation of Indigenous sacred places as sites embedded with their own value systems. Indigenous people in Mexico and the United States understand historic preservation through their own cultural lens, not necessarily that of government officials. Caxcan and Chemehuevi’s sacred mountains provide an entry point into understanding the importance of creation narratives and sacred sites to Native sovereignty, and how the colonial targeting of sites through nationalist preservation projects rupture Native ties to their land. View book info

No Place for a Lady, The Life Story of Archaeologist Marjorie F. Lambert

By Shelby Tisdale

Tisdale brings into focus one of the long-neglected voices of women in the intellectual history of anthropology and archaeology. As a curator, Lambert supported the arts of Native Americans and Spanish Americans in northern New Mexico. The book documents her struggle during an era when women had to fight to find their place in what was a man’s world. View book info

Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia, Tales of Alterity, Power, and Defiance

Edited by Fernando Santos-Granero and Emanuele Fabiano

"Imaginaries" provides a nuanced approach to urban imaginaries and its implications for self-determination and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. Drawing attention to the importance of considering Indigenous worldviews and livelihoods in the face of settler colonialism, this volume complicates what we understand about Latin American cityscapes. View book info

Juan Felipe Herrera: Migrant, Activist, Poet Laureate

Edited by Francisco A. Lomelí and Osiris Aníbal Gómez

This book includes critical essays on Herrera’s work, an extensive interview with the poet and a voluminous bibliography on everything by, about, and on the author. One essayist wrote, "Juan Felipe Herrera spins out a whirlwind of creativity and expression. A writer with a voracious curiosity, an absurdist humor, and a showman’s flare for style, he is also an artist who uses his craft to inspire deep human emotion as a pathway toward greater insight and understanding.” View book info

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