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Borders mark off the place where one nation ends and another begins. But what happens when you belong to a people that has lived on both sides of the border, since long before the border even existed?

I grew up during the Native land claims era in Alaska. Throughout the twentieth century, Alaska Native people watched their lands and livelihoods slip away as settlers came to the territory in search of resources.

by Lynn Stephen and Laura Velasco-Ortiz, guest editors of the special issueIn a special issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, called "Mesoamerican Indigenous Mobilities in Mexico and the United States," we look at how Indigenous people from Mesoamerica move in modern times. We study h

By Patrick Bixby, author of License to Travel: A Cultural History of the PassportPassports occupy a place in some of our most avid fantasies. They can promise travel to exotic destinations; they can provide secure passage to a new life far away; they can enable flight from the dangers, the restr

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, and rather than celebrating the traditional colonial Thanksgiving holiday, we are sharing a recent land acknowledgement and call to action from UC Press Senior Publicist Katryce Lassle. This acknowledgement encourages UC Press staff to engage with the work

By William J. Bauer, Jr., author of "Reclaiming Alcatraz: The Legacies and Continuities of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island, 1971–2021" published in the current issue of California History and coauthor, with Damon Akins, of We Are the Land: A History of Native California. Th