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James Mallery explores the implications of such social constructs as gender, race, and class for the development of San Francisco from the gold rush through World War I.

Cast Out of Eden explores John Muir's role in the dispossession of Native Americans from U.S. wild lands and points a way toward reconciliation.

Steen Ledet Christiansen's Storytelling in "Kabuki" explores the series created by David Mack--a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki, her past, and the complex use of space on the page.

A teacher and mentor to students at St. Labre Indian School, David Joseph Charpentier details the joys, dangers, and complexities of life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in this thoughtful tribute to one of his more memorable students, Maurice Prairie Chief.

Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. Ayo A. Coly employs the concepts of "hauntology" and "ghostly matters" to examine postcolonial silences surrounding the African female body as well as female sexuality in the art of African women.

Focusing on case studies from six Native nations from across the United States, David R. M. Beck details how the U.S. government coerced American Indian nations to accept termination of their political relationship with the United States by threatening to withhold money that belonged to the tribes.

Philip Burnham's threefold biography of Clarence Three Stars, the Pine Ridge Reservation, and the Oglala Lakota peoples during a half century of forced change and transformation reveals how Three Stars worked to undermine the settler-colonial system into which the Carlisle Indian Industrial School had tried to assimilate him.

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Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body is a treatise to the voice of a daughter of immigrant parents from Lebanon and Syria, of Armenian descent, now gone, and their experiences living with illness"--

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.

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Walking to Magdalena examines how the Tohono O'odham of southern Arizona have made Christianity their own by focusing on the annual pilgrimage O'odham make to Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico.

John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America's selective relocation and internment of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during World War II.

Risking Immeasurable Harm elucidates how the prospect of immigration restrictions affect diplomatic relations by analyzing U.S. efforts to place a quota on immigration from Mexico during the late 1920s and early 1930s.