University Of Arizona Press: 461 books
Long Stories Cut Short
Fictions from the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Xbox videogamer cholo cyberpunks. Infants who read before they talk. Vatos locos, romancing abuelos, border crossers and border smugglers, drug kingpins, Latina motorbike riders, philosophically musing tweens, and so much more.
The stories in this dynamic bilingual prose-art collection touch...
by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
When Sadie Walela learns that her new neighbor in Cherokee Country, Angus Clyborn’s Buffalo Ranch, offers rich customers a chance to kill buffalo for fun, she is horrified. No good can surely come from this. It doesn’t, and murder soon follows.
Even though Deputy Sheriff Lance Smith, Sadie’s...
by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
2012 WILLA Literary Award Winner: Best Original Softcover Fiction
When Sadie Walela decides to pursue her childhood dream of owning a restaurant, she has no idea that murder will be on the menu.
In this second book in the Sadie Walela series, set in the heart of the Cherokee Nation,...
Encantado
Desert Monologues
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Inspired by Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Pat Mora brings us the poetic monologues of Encantado, an imagined southwestern town.
Each poem forms a story that reveals the complex and emotional journeys we take through life. Mora meanders through...
by Theodore Catton
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Winner of the Forest History Society's 2017 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award
American Indians and National Forests tells the story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. Indians...
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding
Indigenous Nations in the Modern American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Indian Resilience and Rebuilding provides an Indigenous view of the last one-hundred years of Native history and guides readers through a century of achievements. It examines the progress that Indians have accomplished in rebuilding their nations in the 20th century, revealing how Native communities...
Cycles of Conquest
The Impact of Spain, Mexico, and the United States on Indians of the Southwest, 1533-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Examines the effects of European expansion on the language, social structure, economy, religion, and self-image of Navajo, Yaqui, Papago, and other native American communities.
Style and Story
Literary Methods for Writing Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
There are two basic rules for writing nonfiction, says historian and award-winning author Stephen J. Pyne. Rule 1: You can’t make stuff up. Rule 2: You can’t leave out known stuff that affects our understanding. Follow these rules, and you are writing nonfiction. Writing for different audiences...
The Grand Canyon
Intimate Views
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Your personal tour of the Grand Canyon by the folks who know it best! Geology and biology, Indians and explorers, rafting and hiking—it's all here in this one handy guide written by five people whose years of hiking, river running, studying, and simply contemplating the Canyon have given them an...
Encountering Life in the Universe
Ethical Foundations and Social Implications of Astrobiology
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Are we alone in the universe? Are the planets our playground to treat as we will, or do we have a responsibility to other creatures who may inhabit or use them? Do we have a right to dump trash in space or leave vehicles on Mars or the moon? How should we interact with other life forms?
Encountering...
Creating Aztlán
Chicano Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Lowriding Across Turtle Island
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
In lowriding culture, the ride is many things—both physical and intellectual. Embraced by both Xicano and other Indigenous youth, lowriding takes something very ordinary—a car or bike—and transforms it and claims it.
Using the idea that lowriding is an Indigenous way of being in the world,...
Border Spaces
Visualizing the U.S.-Mexico Frontera
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The built environment along the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a hotbed of political and creative action. In this volume, the historically tense region and visually provocative margin—the southwestern United States and northern Mexico—take center stage. From the borderlands perspective, the...
by Emil W. Haury
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
"Emil Haury stands as one of the finest archaeologists of the American Southwest. He skills were sharpened by the best mentors—Cummings, Douglass, Gladwin—and eventually Haury's excavations became the definitive work on the Mogollon and Hohokam cultures. . . . This work is a 'best of Haury'...
Asegi Stories
Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by...