"The first scholarly examination of an Indian day school, as revealed in letters between a teacher and superintendent. These two flawed but intent individuals, charged with the task of carrying out the federal government's campaign to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American society, candidly described their daily lives and the challenges they faced at the Indian Day School of the Santa Clara Pueblo."--

"It's 1904; Hattie's last year of finishing school.She hates it and would rather be a pioneer. Her chance comes when Earl proposes marriage along with a homestead in Tucumcari, New Mexico Territory. We share her struggles; living in near poverty while keeping the homestead going. She falls ill and is about to give birth when Rosalinda enters her life as her caretaker. Soon they find an attraction to each other that neither fully understands or dares...

In the thick of Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016, and through the travel bans his administration issued in 2017, journalist Kelsey Freeman spent nine months interviewing Central American and Mexican migrants in a shelter in central Mexico, along the migrant path. No Option But North interweaves their stories with research and anecdotes from Freeman's experiences to reveal the fundamental moral quandaries involved in contemporary migration...

"An examination of variable social and economic processes, Framing Complexity in Formative Mesoamerica explores nascent social complexity during the Preclassic/Formative period in Mesoamerica and addresses broader social questions about egalitarian and transegalitarian Pre-hispanic Mesoamerican cultural groups. The chapters explore social aggregation, emergence of ethnic affiliations, and regional and macro-regional variability."--