Where Next, Columbus?: A Native Punk Mixtape
University of Oklahoma Press 2026
The book asks how punk and Native America coexist, inform each other, and together articulate their own politics.
“If Native Studies is a record store, this is the tape you have to ask for at the counter.”
--Zine Distro Dad, Las Cruces
“While some folks were rolling dice over Decolonization & Dialectics, Swensen was playing Master of Puppets at Vecna.”--Raul Duke, Jr. Desert Highway Magazine
“Turns out, the revolution was a mixtape!” --Late Stage Anarchy Quarterly
“You want this book on your shelf like you wanted that bootleg of the band that played your cousin’s quinceañera after they opened the event with Slayer's At Dawn They Sleep.”
-- Handwritten untitled Zine found under a booth at El Chopo
“It's a love letter straight from the heart. Be a good neighbor and pick up a copy, right Frank? ”
--Frank Booth & Jeffrey Beaumont on Blue Velvet Tonight! podcast
“Native punk isn’t a metaphor. It’s a lived history with duct tape, distortion, and sovereign beats”-- Willie Joe Armstrong, Blue Knight publishing
University of Oklahoma Press 2026
The book asks how punk and Native America coexist, inform each other, and together articulate their own politics.
“If Native Studies is a record store, this is the tape you have to ask for at the counter.”
--Zine Distro Dad, Las Cruces
“While some folks were rolling dice over Decolonization & Dialectics, Swensen was playing Master of Puppets at Vecna.”--Raul Duke, Jr. Desert Highway Magazine
“Turns out, the revolution was a mixtape!” --Late Stage Anarchy Quarterly
“You want this book on your shelf like you wanted that bootleg of the band that played your cousin’s quinceañera after they opened the event with Slayer's At Dawn They Sleep.”
-- Handwritten untitled Zine found under a booth at El Chopo
“It's a love letter straight from the heart. Be a good neighbor and pick up a copy, right Frank? ”
--Frank Booth & Jeffrey Beaumont on Blue Velvet Tonight! podcast
“Native punk isn’t a metaphor. It’s a lived history with duct tape, distortion, and sovereign beats”-- Willie Joe Armstrong, Blue Knight publishing