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This award winning title calls for Indigenous resistance movements across North America that refuse the destructive thinking of settler colonialism and consider the capacity for individual, everyday acts of resurgence to create new routes to Indigenous freedom.

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America.

Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the #NoDAPL movement from the broader historical context of Indigenous anti-colonial struggle in the Americas.

A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, a charismatic Red Power activist of the 1960s, who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC.

As the first full-length work of scholarship to develop a tribally specific Indigenous Queer or Two-Spirit critique, Asegi Stories examines gender and sexuality in Cherokee cultural memory, how they shape the present, and how they can influence the future.

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and an Indigenous anthem of desire against erasure: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.”

Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of west coast rock n' roll pioneers Redbone in this graphic novel.

First published in 2010, this comic book was heralded as a groundbreaking illustrated history of Indigenous activism and resistance in the Americas over the previous 500 years, from contact to present day. 11 years later, Kwakwakaʼwakw author and artist, Gord Hill, revised and expanded the book, available in color for the first time.