Are We Not Foreigners Here?

“Focusing upon the Yaqui and Tohono O'odham of Sonora and Arizona and the Kickapoo of Texas, Oklahoma, and Coahuila, the work illuminates tribal specific strategies and more universal experiences of Indigenous communities that straddle international boundaries.”—Western Historical Quarterly

“Schulze has masterfully woven strands of exhaustive research into a cohesive and fascinating narrative about the experiences of Native Americans who live along the borderlands.”—Journal of American History

“A most welcome addition to an ever-growing body of scholarship on borderlands and Indigenous peoples.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly

“Schulze’s well-crafted examples have the virtue of highlighting how the specifics of time and place—not to mention of tribal history and culture—ensured that not all indigenous peoples experienced the border in the same way.”—American Historical Review

“Are We Not Foreigners Here? provides a history of indigenous nationalisms in the long twentieth century that encourages scholars of Mexico, the borderlands, and the southwest US to consider indigenous communities, not border debates between the US and Mexico, as the point of departure for borderlands history.”—H-Net Reviews

“The scope of this work is ambitious, synthesizing primary and secondary sources on many topics and bringing together a wide variety of literatures that . . . are not often read together.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

“Schulze’s sophisticated and empathetic study shows that Indigenous negotiations of peoplehood are ongoing in the modern period and that Yaquis, Kickapoos, and Tohono O'odham deserve recognition as US-Mexico borderlands nations.”—CHOICE

“A timely contribution to the historiography of transnational peoples straddling the U.S.-Mexico border.”—Pacific Historical Review

“Brings together histories of populations that have often been written about separately. It is a narrative that details resiliency, highlighting these groups' strengths and continuing attempts at nation building.”—Chronicles of Oklahoma

“Enlighten[s] the reader regarding nationalism on a small scale in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico. . . . Meticulous, thoughtful, and descriptive. . . . Schulze is particularly concerned with giving voice to Native Americans in the borderlands in their own words.”—NAIS