Books published by University of Oklahoma Press

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the daily lives, memories, and hopes of these rural Maya women as they strive to retain their ancient customs while adapting to a rapidly changing world.

Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death for a crime he did not commit? In a tour de force of investigative scholarship, Devon Mihesuah offers an accurate depiction of Christie and the times in which he lived.

Adds a previously unexplored dimension to our understanding of the connections between gender and imperialism in the nineteenth century. Verity McInnis examines the intersections of class, race, and gender to reveal social spaces where female identity and power were both contested and constructed.