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Western military experiences illustrate the dual role played by the United States Army in insuring national security and fostering national development. This book examines the fundamental importance of military affairs to social, economic, and political life throughout the borderlands and western frontiers.

Vividly rendered with strong characters and a dose of magical realism, this innovative glimpse of one Indian family trying to maintain tribal culture in the midst of rapid transformation resonates with issues native peoples currently face.

Examines welfare, or "relief", at the beginning of the twentieth century utilising Colorado county records to assess how rural areas balanced demands on their limited resources. Historians have heretofore focused on welfare in urban settings but Thomas Krainz provides the first account of public assistance in a rural area where locals had to prioritise recurring social issues.

Following two decades of excavations and research at the NAN Ranch Ruin in south-western New Mexico, Harry Shafer offers new information and interpretations of the rise and disappearance of the ancient Mimbres culture that thrived in the area from about AD 600 to 1140.

"An important contribution to the study of American life writing and an invaluable reassessment of the work of Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez."--Robert J. Butler, coeditor of The Richard Wright Encyclopedia

Steven Bunker's study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Diaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that "incredible things are happening in this world."

Nezahualcoyotl (1402-1472), the ""poet-king"" of Texcoco, has been described as an important pre-Hispanic figures in Nahua history. This book offers an assessment of Nezahualcoyotl that examines codices and poetry written in Nahuatl alongside Spanish chronicles. It provides a revision of the colonial images of Nahua history and culture.

Charles H. Long's groundbreaking works on Africana religious studies serve as the backdrop to With This Root about My Person. Revitalizing an interpretive framework rooted in the Chicago tradition, the essays in this volume vigorously debate the nature of religions in the Americas.

In February 1978, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E newsletter established the first public venue for the thriving correspondence of an emerging set of ambitious young poets. This volume makes available in print all twelve of the newsletter's original issues along with three supplementary issues.

Conceived in 1976 and published in 1980, LEGEND exemplifies the political and linguistic commitments of then-nascent Language writing. The twenty-six poems of the volume bring together every possible permutation of collaborative authorship in one-, two-, three-, and five-author combinations.

HIghlights the importance of transatlantic and intra-American slave trafficking in the development of colonial Spanish America, highlighting the Spanish colonies' previously underestimated significance within the broader history of the slave trade.

During his five years in the army, Private William Edward Matthews wrote a series of detailed and engaging letters to his family in Maryland describing his life in the Arizona and New Mexico Territories. His letters, published here for the first time, provide an unparalleled chronicle of one soldier's experiences in the post-Civil War Southwest.

The correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson is one of the foundational literary exchanges of twentieth-century American poetry. More than a literary correspondence, An Open Map gives insight into an essential period of poetic advancement in cultural history.

James Sexton met Ignacio Bizarro Ujpan in 1970, when Sexton travelled to Guatemala for the first time. Ignacio became Sexton's research assistant and, as their friendship grew over the years that followed, Sexton asked Ignacio to keep a journal. This volume covers the period from 1987-98 and is the fourth and latest volume of Ignacio's diary.

Carlos Montezuma (1866-1923) was one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century. This biography by an authority on Southwest Indian history tells a dramatic story that sheds light both on Montezuma's career and on the movements he influenced.

Explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: ""Owens and the World"", ""Owens and California"", and ""The Novels"".

Examines the history, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genizaro people. Contributors cover topics including ethnogenesis, slavery, settlements, poetics, religion, gender, family history, and mestizo genetics.

Examines the cult of La Santa Muerte's role in people's lives and explores how popular religious practices of worship and devotion developed around a figure often associated with the illicit. These essays move beyond the visually arresting sight of La Santa Muerte as a tattoo or figurine, suggesting that she represents a major movement in Mexico.

These seven original essays offer the first ethnohistorical interpretation of Spanish-Indian interaction from Florida to California. How did indigenous peoples fare under Spanish rule from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries? The contributors to this book discuss the social, demographic, and economic impacts of Spanish colonization on Indians.

Issues of identity and authenticity present perennial challenges to both Native Americans and critics of their art. Vickers examines the long history of dehumanizing depictions of Native Americans while discussing such purveyors of stereotypes as the Puritans, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Hollywood.

Jewish Latin American literature in Spanish begins with The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, a series of vignettes about shtetl life in Argentina first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in an English-language paperback edition as the inaugural volume in the new Jewish Latin America series.

Chiapas, a state in southern Mexico, burst into international news in January 1994 when insurgents, given a voice in the communiques of Subcomandante Marcos, took control of the capital and other key towns. Worldwide, people wanted to know the answer to one question: why had revolutionaries taken over a Mexican state? No other study of Chiapas answers that question as thoroughly as does this book.

First published in 1944, Old Oraibi is an ethnographic classic, offering a sensitive portrayal of Hopi traditional culture.