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A Statement on Indigenous Land and Colonial Spaces

The University Press of Colorado, including its University of Alaska Press, Utah State University Press, and University of Wyoming Press imprints (collectively UPC), has roots in many institutions across Colorado, Alaska, Utah, and Wyoming, all of which function as colonial spaces within and on primarily unceded lands that are and were home to many nations and bands of Indigenous peoples. Those peoples and their lands are recognized in the institutional acknowledgments below. In addition, our staff live beyond those places, in and on still other homelands and territories that have long been, and remain still, places of life, tradition, and celebration, but also places of forced removal, suffering, genocide, and occupation. 

As a publisher of scholarly books that draws its influence from colonial systems—systems of higher education that have long played a part in the suppression of Indigenous voices, the destruction of Indigenous communities, and the theft of Indigenous land—UPC sees the violent results of colonization on Indigenous peoples around the world, and most especially in the places where, and ways in which, our staff live and work. UPC commits to recognizing and communicating that impact and our role in it, and UPC commits to recognizing the sovereignty of the people and nations whose land we occupy, seeking ways to amplify the voices of Indigenous people both within our publications and beyond, and supporting efforts to return land to those nations. 

UPC commits to deepening our understanding of sovereignty and land return as it relates to the tribal nations within our reach—including but not limited to the Arapaho and Shoshone in the Mountain West and the Yupik and Iñupiaq1 in Alaska—with the hope that we will build relationships with these communities and find ways to assist their efforts through our publishing program or other avenues of support. 

Updated 2/14/23; will update annually in July


1Those tribal nations that have been named here represent those whose lands our institutions occupy and/or those about whom we have published most extensively.


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Inuksuk

Northern Koyukon, Gwich'in and Lower Tanana 1800-1901

Iñupiaq Ethnohistory

Selected Essays

Iñupiaq to English Dictionary

Iñupiatun Uqaluit Taniktun Sivuniŋit/ Iñupiaq to English Dictionary

Iñupiat of the Sii

Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges

Kusiq

An Eskimo Life History from the Arctic Coast of Alaska

Life at Swift Water Place

Northwest Alaska at the Threshold of European Contact

Lugiim Yuraa

Lucy's Dance, Yup'ik Edition

Making History

Alutiiq/Sugpiaq Life on the Alaska Peninsula

Newe Hupia

Shoshoni Poetry Songs

Objects of Survivance

A Material History of the American Indian School Experience

Plants That We Eat

Nauriat Nigiñaqtuat

Qanemcit Amllertut

Many Stories to Tell
Tales of Humans and Animals in Southwest Alaska

Shandaa

In My Lifetime

Shem Pete's Alaska

The Territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina
Revised 2nd Edition

Stebbins Dance Festival

Taprarmiuni Kassiyulriit / Stebbins Dance Festival

Stronger Together / Kammanatut Atausigun / Iknaqataghaghluta Qerngaamta

Bering Strait Communities Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story

Teaching American Indian Rhetorics

Tell Me, Grandmother

Traditions, Stories, and Cultures of Arapaho People

The Dall Sheep Dinner Guest

Iñupiaq Narratives of Northwest Alaska

The Eskimo Storyteller

Folktales from Noatak, Alaska

The Greater Chaco Landscape

Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy

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