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| Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
| 2022 | Stephen B. Acabado and Marlon M. Martin | Indigenous Archaeology in the Phillipines: Decolonizing Ifugao History | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Jennifer Adese | AboriginalTM: The Cultural and Economic Politics of Recognition | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2021 | Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes, eds. | Indigenous Celebrity: Entanglements with Fame | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2021 | Helen Agger | Dadibaajim: Returning Home through Narrative | University of Manitoba Press |
| 23-May | Edward Ahenakew | Old Keyam and Black Hawk | New York University Press |
| 2022 | Gerardo Aldana Y Villalobos | Calculating Brilliance: An Intellectual History of Mayan Astronomy at Chich'en Itza | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Chadwick Allen | Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Naomi Angel, edited by Dylan Robinson and Jamie Berthe | Fragments of Truth: Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada | Duke University Press |
| Aug-22 | Megan Asaka | Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City | University of Washington Press |
| 2021 | Damon B. Atkins and William J. Bauer Jr. | We are the Land: A History of Native California | University of California Press |
| Mar-23 | Leo Baskatawang | Reclaiming Anishinaabe Law: Kinamaadiwin Inaakonigewin and the Treaty Right to Education | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2022 | Chief Benjamin J. Barnes & Stephen Warren | Replanting Cultures Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country |
SUNY Press |
| 2021 | Eli Baxter | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth | McGill Queen's University Press |
| 2022 | Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Te Maire Tau and Peter M. Vitousek | Islands and Cultures: How Pacific Islands Provide Paths Toward Sustainability | Yale University Press |
| 2021 | Wesley Bernardini, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, Gregson Schachner, and Leigh J. Kuwanwiswma, Eds. | Becoming Hopi: A History | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Carole Blackburn | Beyond Rights: The Nisga'a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships | University of Chicago Press |
| 2021 | Trevor James Bond | Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimiipuu Campaign to Repatriate Their Exploited Heritage | Washington State University Press |
| 2022 | Kai Bosworth | Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-First Century | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Yvonne Boyer | Métis Rising: Living Our Present Through the Power of Our Past | University of Chicago Press |
| Apr-23 | Irus Braverman | Settling Nature: The Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Susan Dianne Brophy | A Legacy of Exploitation: Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821 | University of Chicago Press |
| 2022 | Tony C. Brown | Statelessness: On Almost Not Existing | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Sean Carleton | Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia | University of British Columbia Press |
| 2021 | Bronwyn Carlson and Jeff Berglund | Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism | Rutgers University Press |
| 2022 | Vicki Chartrand and Josephine Savarese | Unsettling Colonialism in the Canadian Criminal Justice System | University of Chicago Press |
| 2022 | Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo, Eds. | Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Michael Chiago Sr. and Amadeo M. Rea | Michael Chiago: O'odham Lifeways Through Art | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Children of the Setting Sun Productions | Jesintel | |
| Apr-23 | Timothy Cochrane | Making the Carry: The Lives of John and Tchi-Ki-Wis Linklater | University of Minnesota Press |
| Jul-05 | Matt Cohen | The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | Paul Conrad | The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 2021 | Peter Cook, Neil Vallance, John Lutz, Graham Brazier, and Hamar Foster, Eds. | To Share, Not Surrender: Indigenous and Settler Visions of Treaty-Making in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia | University of Chicago Press |
| 2021 | Charlotte Coté | A Drum in One Hand, A Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast | University of Washington Press |
| 2022 | Aimée Craft and Jill Blakley, eds | In Our Backyard: Keeyask and the Legacy of Hydroelectric Development | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2022 | Tiffany D. Creegan Miller | The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Carol Lynne D'Arcangelis | The Solidarity Encounter: Women, Activism, and Creating Non-Colonizing Relations | University of British Columbia Press |
| 2022 | Lori J. Daggar | Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 2022 | Jenny L. Davis | Trickster Academy | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Robert V. Davis Jr. | The Search for the First Americans: Science, Power, Politics | University of Oklahoma Press |
| 2021 | Jack Davy | So Much More than Art: Indigenous Miniatures of the Pacific Northwest | University of Chicago Press |
| 2023 | Kathleen Deagan | En Bas Saline: A Taíno Town Before and After Columbus | University Press of Florida |
| 2021 | David H. DeJong | Diverting the Gila: The Pima Indians and the Florence Casa Grande Project, 1916-1928 | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Rebecca J. Dobkins | The Art of Ceremony: Voices of Renewal from Indigenous Oregon | University of Washington Press |
| 2021 | Pamela J. Downe | Collective Care: Indigenous Motherhood, Family, and HIV/AIDS | University of Toronto Press |
| 2022 | Allan Downey | The Creator's Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood | University of Chicago Press |
| 2022 | Staci Lola Drouillard | Seven Aunts | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Elizabeth N. Ellis | The Great Power of Small Nations: Indigenous Diplomacy in the Gulf South | Penn Press (Glamm@upenn.edu) |
| 2022 | Aazhoodenaang Enjibaajig | Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash Story | University of Chicago Press |
| 2021 | Bruce Erickson and Sarah Wylie Krotz, eds. | The Politics of the Canoe | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2023 | Laura Feller | Being Indigenous In Jim Crow Virginia | University of Oklahoma Press |
| 2022 | Eds.: Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Katya García-Antón, Beaska Niillas, assisted by Liv Brissach | ?atnosat. The Sámi Pavilion, Indigenous Art, Knowledge and Sovereignty | Valiz |
| 2021 | Chantal Fiola | Returning to Ceremony: Spirituality in Manitoba Métis Communities | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2021 | Candace Fujikane | Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i | Duke University Press |
| 2022 | Mneesha Gellman | Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom: Cultural Survival in Mexico and the United States | Penn Press (Glamm@upenn.edu) |
| 2022 | Joseph Graham | Insatiable Hunger: Colonial Encounters in Context | University of Chicago Press |
| 2021 | Katherine A.H. Graham (Editor), David Newhouse (Editor) | Sharing the Land, Sharing a Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2022 | Lawrence Gross | Native American Rhetoric | University of New Mexico Press |
| 2022 | Linda LeGarde Grover | The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Andrew Gulliford | Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance | The University of Utah Press |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2021 | Shirley N. Hager and Mawopiye | The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations | University of Toronto Press |
| 2022 | Joy Harjo | Catching the Light | Yale University Press |
| May-23 | Olivia C. Harrison | Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | Travis Hay | Inventing the Thrifty Gene: The Science of Settler Colonialism | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2021 | Gordon Henry Jr., Margaret Noodin, and David Stirrup, eds. | Enduring Critical Poses: The Legacy and Life of Anishinaabe Literature and Letters | SUNY Press |
| 2022 | James L. Hill | Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763-1818 | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2022 | Hi′ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart | Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment | Duke University Press |
| 2022 | Robert D. Hoffman | Raven's Echo: Poems that honor and Explore Traditional and Contemporary Tlingit Life | University of Arizona Press |
| 2021 | Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, Eds. | We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice From Minneapolis to the World | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | James Horn | A BRAVE AND CUNNING PRINCE: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America | Basic Books and Seal Press |
| 2020 | Jessica Hurley | Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Shalene Wuttunee Jobin | Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives | University of Chicago Press |
| 2021 | Ian Kalman | Framing Borders: Principle and Practicality in the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory | University of Toronto Press |
| 2023 | Maeve Kane | Shirts Powdered Red: Haudenosaunee Gender, Trade, and Exchange across Three Centuries | Cornell University Press |
| Jun-23 | Kasey R. Keeler | American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place and Property in Minnesota | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | Emil' Keme | Le Maya Q'atzij/Our Maya World: Poetics of Resistance in Guatemala | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | Nathalie Kermoal and Chris Andersen | Daniels v. Canada: In and Beyond the Courts | University of Manitoba Press |
| Jun-23 | Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra, Eds. | Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies | New York University Press |
| 2021 | Farina King, Michael P. Taylor, and James Swensen | Returning Home: Diné Creative Works From the Intermountain Indian School | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2022 | Susan Koshy, Lisa Marie Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd, and Brian Jordan Jefferson, Eds. | Colonial Racial Capitalism | Duke University Press |
| 2021 | Matthew Kruer | Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America | Harvard University Press |
| 2022 | Robin Kundis Craig and Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, eds. | Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean | University of Utah Press |
| 2022 | Valerie Lambert | Native Agency: Indians in the Bureau of Indian Affairs | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw, eds. | Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c.1780-1980 | McGill Queen's University Press |
| 2023 | Laura Leon Llerena | Reading the Illegible: Indigenous Writing and the Limits of Colonial Hegemony in the Andes | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Tadeusz Lewandowski | The Life of Sherman Coolidge, Arapaho Activist | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2022 | McKenzie Long | This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | John P. Lukavic | Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger | University of Washington Press |
| 2021 | Kyle T. Mays | An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States | Beacon Press |
| 2022 | Kyle T. Mays | City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit | Penn Press |
| 2022 | Brandy N?lani McDougall | ?ina h?nau / Birth Land | University of Arizona Press |
| 2021 | Sam McKegney | Carrying the Burden of Peace: Reimagining Indigenous Masculinities Through Story | University of Arizona Press |
| 2021 | Robert S. McPherson | Navajo Women of Monument Valley: Preservers of the Past | University Press of Colorado |
| 2022 | Michael C. McKenzie | Country Strange and Far: The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834-1918 | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2022 | Jennifer McLerran | A New Deal For Navajo Weaving: Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles | University of Arizona Press |
| 2021 | William C. Meadows | The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I | University of Oklahoma Press |
| 2022 | Marianne O. Nielsen and Barbara M. Heather | Finding Right Relations: Quakers, Native Americans, and Settler Colonialism | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Mairin Odle | Under the Skin: Tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America | Penn Press (Glamm@upenn.edu) |
| 2021 | Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio | Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo'olelo, Aloha, '?ina, and Ea | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Paul Pasquaretta | Gambling and Survival in Native North America | University of Arizona Press |
| 2021 | Juliana Hu Pegues | Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2022 | Teresa Peterson and Walter LaBatte Jr. | Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
| 2021 | Margaret Pollak | Diabetes in Native Chicago: An Ethnography of Identity, Community, and Care | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2021 | Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford, Darryl Barthê, and Andrew J. Jolivêtte, eds. | Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community | University of Washington Press |
| Jul-23 | Liz Pryzybylski | Sonic Sovereignty: Hip Hop, Indigeneity, and Shifting Popular Music Mainstreams | New York University Press |
| 2023 | Soloman Ratt | Kâ-Pî-Isi-Kiskisiyân/ The Way I Remember | New York University Press |
| 2022 | Kaitlin Reed | Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California | University of Washington Press |
| 2022 | Martin Rizzo-Martinez | We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2021 | Alaina E. Roberts | I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| 2022 | Daniel Rück | The Laws and the Land: The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada | University of Chicago Press |
| 2022 | Scott Rushforth and James S. Chrisholm | Cultural Persistence: Continuity in Meaning and Moral Responsibility Among the Bearlake Athapaskans | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Tsim Schneider and Lee Panich, Eds. | Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence | University Press of Florida |
| 2022 | 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 |
| Apr-23 | Steven J. Schwartzberg | Arguments Over Genocide: The War of Words in the Congress and the Supreme Court Over Cherokee Removal | Ethics Press |
| 2022 | 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 |
| 2022 | James E. Seaver | A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison | Broadview Press |
| 2022 | C. Thomas Shay | Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2022 | Wendy Shelly Greyeyes | A History of Navajo Nation Education: Disentangling Our Sovereign Body | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Jan Simek | A Dark Pathway: Precontact Native American Mud Glyphs From 1st Unnamed Cave, Tennessee | The University of Tennessee Press |
| 2021 | Leanne Simpson | Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2023 | Barbara Sjoholm | From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2023 | Cristina Stanciu | The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924 | Yale University Press |
| 2022 | Anne Stewart | Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | Survivors of the Assiniboia Residential School, Andrew Woolford, Ed. | Did You See Us?: Reunion, Remembrance, and Reclamation at an Urban Indian Residential School | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2022 | Joyce M. Szabo | Reimagining History From an Indigenous Perspective: The Graphic Work of Floyd Soloman | University of New Mexico Press |
| Apr-23 | Mary E. Thomas and Bruce Braun, Eds. | Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2021 | Clifford Trafzer | Strong Hearts and Healing Hands: Southern California Indians and Field Nurses, 1920-1950 | University of Arizona Press |
| 2021 | Clifford Trafzer, Donna L. Akers, and Amanda K. Wilson | Indigenous Activism: Profiles of Native Women in Contemporary America | Lexington Books |
| 2022 | Ronald L. Trosper | Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and Their Lands | University of Arizona Press |
| 2021 | Nancy Van Styvendale, J.D. McDougall, Robert Henry, and Robert Alexander Innes, eds. | The Arts of Indigenous Health and Well-Being | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2021 | Parker VanValkenburgh | Alluvium and Empire: The Archaeology of Colonial Resettlement and Inidgenous Persistence on Peru's North Coast | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Pedro Vallejo and Vincent Werito, Eds. | Transforming Diné Education: Innovations in Pedagogy and Practice | University of Arizona Press |
| 2022 | Sabina Vaught, Bryan McKinley Jones, and Jeremiah Chin | The School-Prison Trust | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | Teresa A. Velásquez | Pachamama Politics: Campesino Water Defenders and the Anti-Mining Movement in Andean Ecuador | University of Arizona Press |
| 2023 | Rebecca M. Webster | In Defense of Sovereignty: Protecting the Oneida Nation's Inherent Right to Self-Determination | University of Wisconsin Press |
| 2022 | Clinton Westman | Cree and Christian: Encounters and Transformations | University of Nebraska Press |
| 2021 | Sarah Whitecalf and eds. H.C. Wolfart and Freda Ahenakew | mitoni niya nêhiyaw / Cree is who I truly am: nêhiyaw-iskwêw mitoni niya / me, I am truly a Cree woman | University of Manitoba Press |
| 2022 | Joshua Whitehead | Making Love with the Land: Essays | University of Minnesota Press |
| 2022 | David H. Wilson Jr. | Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon County | Bison Books |
| 2021 | Kelly Wisecup | Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures | Yale University Press |
| 2022 | Patricia Burke Wood and David A Rossiter | Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia | University of Chicago Press |
| 2022 | Elizabeth Yeoman | Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds | University of Manitoba Press |
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