The girl in the middle

Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American WestIn 1868, celebrated Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner traveled to Fort Laramie to document the federal government’s treaty negotiations with the Lakota and other t...

Power lines

How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed i...

On indian ground

This book explores American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education in the Pacific Northwest, focusing on best practices and place-based methods. It covers history, policy, early childhood education, gifted education, parental involvement, language revitalization, and more.

Come home, indio

“a tour de force of comics” —Ed Park, The New York TimesOne of the Top Ten Graphic Novels of 2020, as chosen by the American Library AssociationOne of the Best Books of 2020, as chosen by Publishers Weekly“Fortunately for readers of this raw and intimate graphic memoir, Terry never fully lets go ...

Dēmos

“Unflinching, unrelenting, disarming, and brilliant . . . A powerhouse collection of poems by a powerhouse poet.” —VICTORIA CHANG

Deep hanging out

A chronicle of fifty years of deep hanging out in California’s Indian country!"Deep Hanging Out is a vibrant testament to one man’s commitment to nurturing community and dancing with change." —Terry Tempest WilliamsWriter and publisher Malcolm Margolin has been "deep hanging out"—or immersing him...

An indian among los indígenas

Now in paperback: a gripping, witty travel memoir that offers "a fascinating look at voluntourism from an Indigenous perspective" (Book Riot)"Ursula Pike's memoir is unlike any other I've read, with her perceptive, always-seeking, and lovely narrative voice." —Susan Straight, author of Mecca"This...

The columbia guide to american indians of the southeast

Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the compl...

The columbia guide to american indians of the northeast

Descriptions of Indian peoples of the Northeast date to the Norse sagas, centuries before permanent European settlement, and the region has been the setting for a long history of contact, conflict, and accommodation between natives and newcomers. The focus of an extraordinarily vital field of sch...

Living in indigenous sovereignty

Living in Indigenous Sovereignty offers inspiration and guidance for non-Indigenous peoples who wish to live honourably in relationship with Indigenous peoples, laws, and lands.

Mahikan ka onot

mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms of traditional Cree and Métis storytelling but also with the...

Our history is the future

One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020 One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020 Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019 Shortlist, Brooklyn Pu...

Recovering the sacred

Only the power to define what is sacred—and access it—will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.

Essential song

Audio Files located on Soundcloud Essential Song: Three Decades of Northern Cree Music, a study of subarctic Cree hunting songs, is the first detailed ethnomusicology of the northern Cree of Quebec and Manitoba. The result of more than two decades spent in the North learning from the Cree, Lynn W...

Native america

An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuityNative America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent’s Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a le...

Native american bilingual education

For over thirty years, a political and social battle over bilingual education raged in the U.S. This book, a period piece rich in political, historical, and local western context, is the story of language, education, inequality and power clashes between the dominant society and the Crow Indian Re...

Becoming little shell

Winner of the Reading the West Book AwardWinner of the Pacific Northwest Book AwardA People Best Memoir of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of the Year SelectionA Book Riot Best Book of the Year“I’m in awe of Chris La Tray’s storytelling. Becoming Little Shell creates a multilayered narra...

American zion

American Zion is the story of the Bundys, a Mormon family famous for their armed conflicts on western public lands.

Deer trails

San Francisco’s 7th poet laureate—a Native American and native San Franciscan—explores urban space and the natural world.

Indigenomics

Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship, and care for all. Includes voices of leading First Nations business leaders. Powerful reading for business leaders, policymakers, and economists.

Eyes bottle dark with a mouthful of flowers

“There is so much bottle-dark beauty here. Jake Skeets is a new, essential voice in poetry, in literature.” —TOMMY ORANGE

The way we lived

35th anniversary edition! Here, in their own words, Indigenous voices reclaim the narrative of California Indians.“Their stories, here brilliantly illuminated by Margolin's comments, contain beauty, humor, and wisdom.”—Harold Gilliam, San Francisco ChronicleBefore contact, California's Native peo...

How a mountain was made

The ohlone way

Selected by the San Francisco Chronicle’s as one of the top 100 western nonfiction books of the twentieth century.“Beautifully imagined and written.”—Alice WalkerOne of the most ground-breaking and highly-acclaimed titles that Heyday has published, The Ohlone Way describes the culture of the Indi...

Sôhkêyihta

Sôhkêyihta includes poems written across the expanse of Louise Bernice Halfe’s career, from 1990 to the present, illustrating the breadth of her engagement with key issues confronted by Indigenous peoples living in Canada, including residential schools, church and state apologies, the fur trade, ...

The banker and the blackfoot

THE BANKER AND THE BLACKFOOT tells the colorful and compelling story of a real Western town in the foothills of the Rockies in the late 1800s and highlights the unusual friendships and trust that developed there between Indians and newcomers--before the government broke its Treaty promises to the...

Our voices

Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice.

The scandal of cal

Now in paperback: "A profound alternative institutional history, one that sees the long arm of institutional racism implicated everywhere." (Publishers Weekly)"This is a land acknowledgment." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Abolition Geography: Essays towards Liberation"The Scandal of Cal is a te...

Isthmus to abya yala

A conjuration of ancient consciousness aimed at rehumanizing our contemporary cyborg condition."Referring to the American continent, 'Abya Yala' ('land of life') is a pre-Columbian term of the Guna people of Panamá and Colombia. Harrison wrestles with language, racism, and humanity in political a...

American burial ground

In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. ...

Psalm to whom(e)

In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing Diane Glancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writings that considers the relationship between place and faith; the need for movement, stability, and inner exploration; and the search for home. Psalm to Whom(e) ...

Unbound

New publication celebrates the dynamic tradition of narrative art among Native nations of the American Great Plains.Unbound shows the full expression of Plains narrative art, from historical hides, muslins, and ledger books to contemporary works. Illustrating everything from war deeds and ceremon...

Speculation nation

During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a “mania.” In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins o...

Indigenous resurgence

Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air. By placing Indigenous politics, histories, and ontologies at the center of our social movements for environmental justice, Indigenous Resurgence positions environm...

Blood snow

Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer PrizeListed in The Boston Globe's Best Poetry Books of 2022Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award in PoetryAmerican Book Award–winning poet dg okpik’s second collection of poems, Blood Snow, tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure, in an ethos of erosion,...

Lhù’ààn mân keyí dań kwánje nààtsat

WINNER OF THE CANADIAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION INDIGENOUS HISTORY BOOK PRIZEIn this poignant display of the resilience of language, culture, and community in the face of the profound changes brought by settlers, Kluane First Nation Elders share stories from their lives, knowledge of their traditional...

Flutes of fire

An essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years.Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California, and many of them are in use today. Since its original publication in 1994, Flutes of Fire has be...

City of dispossessions

In July 2013, Detroit became the largest city in U.S. history to declare bankruptcy. The underlying causes were decades of deindustrialization, white flight, and financial mismanagement. More recently it has been heralded a comeback city as wealthy white residents resettle there. Yet, as Kyle T. ...

Rose quartz

A wild, seductive debut collection that presents a powerful journey of struggle and healing—and a spellbinding brew of folklore, movies, music, and ritual.“Draw me encircled // in something // other than gasoline.” The poems of Rose Quartz hum with the naked energy of one who has found her way ho...

Grave matters

How do we reconcile the sanctity of Indigenous burial grounds with the desire to study them? Whether by curious Boy Scouts and “backyard archaeologists” or competitive collectors and knowledge-hungry anthropologists, the excavation of Native remains is a practice fraught with injustice and simme...

Know we are here

An essential look at the ways California’s Native nations are resisting colonialism today, from education reform to protests against environmental injustice and beyond.Collecting over twenty-five essays written by more than twenty California Indian authors, Know We Are Here surveys many of the wa...

I've been here all the while

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"—the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually received this mythic 40 acres, the American settl...

Father / genocide

Margo Tamez unites her father's story and Indigenous history in this stunning poetic documentation of violence on the American border.

The bear is my father

The Bear Is My Father: Indigenous Wisdom of a Muscogee Creek Caretaker of Sacred Ways is considered a love story between Bear Heart and a community that stretches across the globe. This book celebrates the life, teachings and legacy of Marcellus Bear Heart Williams, a Multi-Tribe Spiritual Leader...

Snake iv

Original Grace completes the modern epic myth/reality of the Snake Quartet. It intends to bring into awareness through poetry how and why irresponsible human stewardship of Mother Earth has pushed nearly all lifeforms to the vanishing point.

Psychedelic justice

Essays on the history of psychedelics, the present renaissance, and visions for an inclusive and equitable future. As psychedelics and psychedelic-assisted therapies explode into the popular consciousness, what does it mean to cultivate and embody a psychedelic renaissance that learns from the p...