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| Author | Title | Publisher |
| Stephen B. Acabado and Marlon M. Martin | Indigenous Archaeology in the Phillipines: Decolonizing Ifugao History | University of Arizona Press |
| Jennifer Adese | AboriginalTM: The Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition | University of Manitoba Press |
| Edward Ahenakew | Old Keyam and Black Hawk | New York University Press |
| Freda Ahenakew and H.C. Wolfart | Kokominawak Otâcimowiniwâwa (Our Grandmother's Lives) | New York University Press |
| Gerardo Aldana Y Villalobos | Calculating Brilliance: An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich'en Itza | University of Arizona Press |
| Taiaiake Alfred | All About the Land: Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence | University of Toronto Press |
| Elin Anna Labba | The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi | University of Minnesota Press |
| Megan Asaka | Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City | University of Washington Press |
| Kathleen Ash-Milby and Bill Anthes, Eds. | Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Joe Baker and Laura Turner Igoe, Eds. | Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories | Penn Press |
| Leo Baskatawang | Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law: Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education | University of Manitoba Press |
| Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Te Maire Tau and Peter M. Vitousek | Islands and Cultures: How Pacific Islands Provide Paths Toward Sustainability | Yale University Press |
| Janet Catherine Berlo | Not Native American Art: Fakes, Replicas, and Invented Traditions | University of Washington Press |
| Michael A. Blaakman | Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic | Penn Press |
| Carole Blackburn | Beyond Rights: The Nisga'a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships | University of Chicago Press |
| Mark L.M. Blair, Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, and Kestrel A. Smith | American Indian Studies: Native PhD Graduates Gift Their Stories | University of Arizona Press |
| Kai Bosworth | Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century | University of Minnesota Press |
| Yvonne Boyer | Métis Rising: Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past | University of Chicago Press |
| Dana Brablec and Andrew Canessa | Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the 21st Century | |
| Irus Braverman | Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel | University of Minnesota Press |
| Susan Dianne Brophy | A Legacy of Exploitation: Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821 | University of Chicago Press |
| Tony C. Brown | Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing | University of Minnesota Press |
| Ajani Burrell and Kimberly Bunts-Anderson, Eds. | A Marianas Mosaic: Signs and Shifts in Contemporary Island Life | New York University Press |
| David Carey Jr. | Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador | UC Press |
| Sean Carleton | Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia | University of British Columbia Press |
| Vicki Chartrand and Josephine Savarese | Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System | University of Chicago Press |
| Eric Cheyfitz | The Colonial Construction of Indian Country: Native American Literatures and Federal Indian Law | University of Minnesota Press |
| Michael Chiago Sr. and Amadeo M. Rea | Michael Chiago: O'odham Lifeways Through Art | University of Arizona Press |
| Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer, Eds. | From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis | University of Arizona Press |
| Cathy Coats | To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| Timothy Cochrane | Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater | University of Minnesota Press |
| Matt Cohen | The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized | University of Minnesota Press |
| Sherman and Grace Coolidge, Ed. Tadeusz Lewandoski | The Collected Writings of Sherman and Grace Coolidge | University of Nebraska Press |
| Carma Corcoran | The Incarceration of Native American Women: Creating Pathways to Wellness and Recovery Through Gentle Action Theory | University of Nebraska Press |
| Aimée Craft and Jill Blakley, eds | In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development | University of Manitoba Press |
| Tiffany D. Creegan Miller | The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age | University of Arizona Press |
| Karrmen Crey | Producing Sovereignty" The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada | University of Minnesota Press |
| Carol Lynne D'Arcangelis | The Solidarity Encounter: Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations | University of British Columbia Press |
| Peter D'Errico | Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples | Praeger |
| Lori J. Daggar | Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Sean M. Daley and Christine Makosky Daley | The Complexities of American Indian Identity in the Twenty-First Century | Rowman & Littlfefield Press |
| Robert V. Davis Jr. | The Search for the First Americans: Science, Power, Politics | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Kathleen Deagan | En Bas Saline: A Taíno Town Before and After Columbus | University Press of Florida |
| René Dietrich and Kerstin Knopf | Biopolitics, Geopolitics, Life: Settler States and Indigenous Presence | Duke University Press |
| Diane Dittemore | Woven From the Center: Native Basketry in the Southwest | University of Arizona Press |
| Rebecca J. Dobkins | The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon | University of Washington Press |
| Allan Downey | The Creator's Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood | University of Chicago Press |
| Staci Lola Drouillard | Seven Aunts | University of Minnesota Press |
| Alejandra Dubcovsky | Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South | Yale University Press |
| Elizabeth N. Ellis | The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South | Penn Press (Glamm@upenn.edu) |
| Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig | Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash Story | University of Chicago Press |
| Laura Feller | Being Indigenous In Jim Crow Virginia | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Eds.: Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Katya García-Antón, Beaska Niillas, assisted by Liv Brissach | Čatnosat. The Sámi Pavilion, Indigenous Art, Knowledge and Sovereignty | Valiz |
| Bradley Folsom | Son of Vengeance: Searching for the Legendary Apache Rafael | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Andrew Garrett | The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California | MIT Press |
| Mneesha Gellman | Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States | Penn Press (Glamm@upenn.edu) |
| Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez | Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging | University of Nebraska Press |
| Aaron Glass | Writing the Hamat'sa: Ethnography, Colonialism, and the Cannibal Dance | University of British Columbia Press |
| Mishuana Goeman | Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New Worlds | University of Nebraska Press |
| Amy Gore | Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History | University of Massachusetts Press |
| Rae Gould, Holly Herbster, Heather Law Pezzarossi, Stephen A. Mrozowski | Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories that Have Futures | University Press of Florida |
| Joseph Graham | Insatiable Hunger: Colonial Encounters in Context | University of Chicago Press |
| Bruce Granville Miller | Witness to the Human Rights Tribunals: How the System Fails Indigenous Peoples | University of British Columbia Press |
| Jennifer Grenz | Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing | University of Minnesota Press |
| Lawrence Gross | Native American Rhetoric | University of New Mexico Press |
| Andrew Gulliford | Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance | The University of Utah Press |
| Erna Gunther | Indian Life on the Northwest Coast of North America as Seen by the Early Explorers and Fur Traders during the Last Decades of the Eighteenth Century | University of Chicago Press |
| Craig Harris | Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America | University of Nebraska Press |
| Olivia C. Harrison | Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France | University of Minnesota Press |
| Eric Hoenes del Pinal | Guarded by Two Jaguars: A Catholic Parish Divided by Language and Faith | University of Arizona Press |
| Tom Holm | Ira Hayes: Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II Hero, and Legend | Twelve Press; estefania.acquaviva@hbgusa.com |
| Trevor Herriot | Towards a Prairie Atonement | New York University Press |
| James L. Hill | Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763-1818 | University of Nebraska Press |
| Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart | Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment | Duke University Press |
| Robert D. Hoffman | Raven's Echo: Poems that honor and Explore Traditional and Contemporary Tlingit Life | University of Arizona Press |
| Heather Igloliorte and Carla Taunton | The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada | Routledge |
| Michelle R. Jacobs | Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation | New York University Press |
| Shalene Wuttunee Jobin | Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives | University of Chicago Press |
| Shelby Johnson | The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840 | University of North Carolina Press |
| Rosemary J. Jolly | The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial Right-Making | University of Minnesota Press |
| Jessica Joyce Christie | Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage | University Press of Florida |
| Maeve Kane | Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries | Cornell University Press |
| Stephen Kantrowitz | Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth Century United States | University of North Carolina Press |
| Stephen Kantrowitz | Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth Century United States | University of North Carolina Press |
| Sarah Keyes | American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail | Penn Press |
| Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra, Eds. | Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies | New York University Press |
| Charles W. Koenig and Myles R. Miller, Eds. | Earth Ovens and Desert Lifeways: 10,000 Years of Indigenous Cooking in the Arid Landscapes of North America | University of Utah Press |
| Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd, and Brian Jordan Jefferson, Eds. | Colonial Racial Capitalism | Duke University Press |
| Robin Kundis Craig and Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, eds. | Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean | University of Utah Press |
| Valerie Lambert | Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs | University of Minnesota Press |
| Catherine Larochelle | School of Racism: A Canadian History, 1830-1915 | University of Manitoba Press |
| Brooke Larson | The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia | Duke University Press |
| Lloyd Lee, Ed. | Nihikéyah: Navajo Homeland | |
| Lisa J. Leffler and Thomas N. Belt | Sounds of Tohi: Cherokee Health and Well-Being in Southern Appalachia | The University of Alabama Press |
| Emily Legg | Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907 | Utah State University Press |
| Laura Leon Llerena | Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes | University of Arizona Press |
| Tadeusz Lewandowski | The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist | University of Nebraska Press |
| Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou, Eds | Indigenous Peoples and Borders | Duke University Press |
| McKenzie Long | This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments | University of Minnesota Press |
| John P. Lukavic | Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger | University of Washington Press |
| David Martinez | My Heart is Bound Up With Them: How Carlos Montezuma Became the Voice of a Generation | University of Arizona Press |
| Brandy Nālani McDougall | Āina hānau / Birth Land | University of Arizona Press |
| Michael C. McKenzie | Country Strange and Far: The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834-1918 | University of Nebraska Press |
| Jennifer McLerran | A New Deal For Navajo Weaving: Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles | University of Arizona Press |
| Robert McPherson | Scouting for the Blue Coats: Navajos, Apaches, and the US Military, 1873-1911 | University Press of Colorado |
| Robert J. Miller and Robbie Ethridge | A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Rose Miron | Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory | University of Minnesota Press |
| Michelle Montgomery | Voices of Indigenuity | University Press of Colorado |
| Rachel Morgan | Sins of the Shovel: Looting, Murder, and the Evolution of American Archaeology | University of Chicago Press |
| Blaire Morseau | As Sacred to Us: Simon Pokagon's Birch Bark Stories in Their Contexts | Michigan State University Press |
| Tessa Murphy | The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean | Penn Press |
| David Myer Temin | Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Indigenous Political Thought | University of Chicago Press |
| Albert Narath | Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture | University of Minnesota Press |
| M. Eleanor Nevins | Lessons From Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance | University of Nebraska Press |
| Marianne O. Nielsen and Barbara M. Heather | Finding Right Relations: Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism | University of Arizona Press |
| Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider, Eds. | Indigenous Justice and Gender | University of Arizona Press |
| Mbuso Nkosi | These Potatoes Look Like Humans: The Contested Future of Land, Home, and Death in South Africa | New York University Press |
| Mairin Odle | Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America | Penn Press (Glamm@upenn.edu) |
| Tom Özden-Schilling | The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science After the War in the Woods | Duke University Press |
| Agnieszka Pawłowska-Mainville | Stored in the Bones: Safeguarding Indigenous Living Heritages | University of Manitoba Press |
| Christopher Perreira | Archiving Medical Violence: Consent and the Carceral State | University of Minnesota Press |
| Teresa Peterson | Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden | University of Minnesota Press |
| Teresa Peterson and Walter LaBatte Jr. | Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| Kenneth L. Pratt and Scott A. Heyes, eds. | Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North | University of Chicago Press |
| Tony Platt | The Scandal of Cal: Landgrabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley | Heydey Books |
| Kenneth L. Pratt and Scott A. Heyes, eds. | Memory and Landscape: Indigenous Responses to a Changing North | University of Chicago Press |
| Liz Pryzybylski | Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams | New York University Press |
| Soloman Ratt | Kâ-Pî-Isi-Kiskisiyân/ The Way I Remember | New York University Press |
| Kaitlin Reed | Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California | University of Washington Press |
| Marcie R. Rendon | Anishinaabe Songs For a New Millenium | University of Minnesota Press |
| Mark Rifkin | The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance | Duke University Press |
| Joaquín Rivaya-Martínez | Indigenous Borderlands: Native Agency, Resilience, and Power in the Americas | The University of Oklahoma Press |
| Nora Rivera | The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation Through Indigenous Approaches to UX | Utah State University Press |
| Martin Rizzo-Martinez | We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California | University of Nebraska Press |
| Daniel Rück | The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada | University of Chicago Press |
| Tsim Schneider and Lee Panich, Eds. | Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence | University Press of Florida |
| Tim Schouls | The Spaces In Between: Indigenous Sovereignty within the Canadian State | University of Toronto Press |
| Christopher W. Schwartz, Stephen Plog, and Patricia A. Gilman, Eds. | Birds of the Sun: Macaws and People in the U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest | University of Arizona Press |
| Steven J. Schwartzberg | Arguments Over Genocide: The War of Words in the Congress and the Supreme Court Over Cherokee Removal | Ethics Press |
| Joan Scottie, Warren Bernauer, and Jack Hicks | I Will Live For Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance | University of Manitoba Press |
| John Shaw | In Order That Justice May Be Done: The Legal Struggle of the Turtle Mountain Band of Pembina Chippewa, 1795-1905 | North Dakota University Press |
| Jacqueline Shea Murphy | Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation | University of Minnesota Press |
| Wendy Shelly Greyeyes | A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body | University of Arizona Press |
| Jan Simek | A Dark Pathway: Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs From 1st Unnamed Cave, Tennessee | The University of Tennessee Press |
| Kristalyn Marie Shefveland | Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole | University Press of Florida |
| Louise Siddons | Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty | University of Minnesota Press |
| Jan Simek | A Dark Pathway: Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs From 1st Unnamed Cave, Tennessee | The University of Tennessee Press |
| William E. Simeone | The Upper Tanana Dene: People of this Land | University of Alaska Press |
| Tendayi Sithole | Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania | New York University Press |
| Barbara Sjoholm | From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture | University of Minnesota Press |
| Anne Stewart | Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World | University of Minnesota Press |
| Blair A. Stonechild | Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future | New York University Press |
| Quito Swan | Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anti-Colonialism, and the African World | New York University Press |
| Joyce M. Szabo | Reimagining History From an Indigenous Perspective: The Graphic Work of Floyd Soloman | University of New Mexico Press |
| Marie Balsley Taylor | Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England | UMass Press |
| Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Eds. | Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil | University of Minnesota Press |
| Terra Trevor | We Who Walk the Seven Ways: A Memoir | University of Nebraska Press |
| Ronald L. Trosper | Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands | University of Arizona Press |
| Daniel H. Usner | Native American Women and the Burdens of Southern History | Lousiana State University Press |
| Rebecca and Valette | Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver: His Art and His World | Bison Books |
| Pedro Vallejo and Vincent Werito, Eds. | Transforming Diné Education: Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice | University of Arizona Press |
| Mark Van de Logt | Between the Floods: A History of the Arikaras | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones, and Jeremiah Chin | The School-Prison Trust | University of Minnesota Press |
| Teresa A. Velásquez | Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador | University of Arizona Press |
| Gerald Vizenor | Waiting for Wovoka: Envoys of Good Cheer and Liberty | Wesleyan University Press |
| Clinton Westman | Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations | University of Nebraska Press |
| Sandy White Hawk | A Child of The Indian Race: A Story of Return | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| Joshua Whitehead | Making Love with the Land: Essays | University of Minnesota Press |
| Sarah Marie Wiebe | Life Against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations From Attawapiskat | The University of Chicago Press |
| Caroline Wigginton | Indigenuity: Native Carftwork & the Art of American Literature | University of North Carolina Press |
| John William Nelson | Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent | University of North Carolina Press |
| David H. Wilson Jr. | Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon County | Bison Books |
| Patricia Burke Wood and David A Rossiter | Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia | University of Chicago Press |
| Michael D. Wise | Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History | University of Arkansas Press |
| Elizabeth Yeoman | Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds | University of Manitoba Press |