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What You Need To Read, December 2021

This is the final week of classes at Geneseo before finals next week. It has been a trying school year for many of us. Nonetheless I completed a few things. Peter Olsen-Harbich and I completed the third edition of Native America and submitted it to our publisher at Wiley. We expect to see it in print and e-book in time for the fall semester in 2022. That means this is the first bibliography that will be considered for the fourth edition of the book, if and when we get around to doing that work. Before we get to that, a long-awaited sabbatical, during which I hope to make a great deal of progress on my next book, a history of the Onondaga Nation. As always, if you think there is something missing here, please let me know and I will run down the cite. Have a good end of the school year.

Akins, Damon B. and William J. Bauer, Jr., We Are the Land: A History of Native California, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021).

Biolsi, Thomas. “The Treaty Imaginary and Tribal Sovereignty in South Dakota,” American Indian Quarterly 45 (Summer 2021), 209-249.

Clements, Christopher. “’There is no trouble at all if the state would keep out’: Indigenous People and New York’s Carceral State,” Journal of American History, 108 (September 2021) 296-319.

Dyck, Erika and Maureen Lux. “Population Control in the Global North? Canada’s Response to Indigenous Reproductive Rights and Neo-Eugenics,” Canadian Historical Review,102 (August 2021), 876-902.

Fisher, Julie A. “Roger Williams and the Indian Business,” New England Quarterly, 50 (September 2021), 552-571.

Haake, Claudia Bettina. “A Duty to Protect and Respect: Seneca Opposition to Incorporation during the Removal Period,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 44 (2020), 21-40.

Haider, Mellie and Manuel P. Teodoro, “Environmental Federalism in Indian Country: Sovereignty, Primacy, and Environmental Protection,” Policy Studies Journal, 49 (August 2021), 887-908.

Hart, William B. “For the Good of Their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth Century Mohawk Country, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2021).

Hoy, Benjamin.  A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Hausmann, Stephen R. “Erasing Indian Country: Urban Native Space and the 1972 Rapid City Flood,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Autumn 2021), 305-329.

Kherag, Sean. “Against the Current and into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver’s Stanley Park,” BC Studies, 211 (Autumn 2021), 131-143.

Meadows, William C. “Kiowa at the Battle of the Washita, 27 November 1868,” Ethnohistory, 68 (October 2021), 519-545.

Mize, Jamie Myers. “’To Conclude on a General Union’: Masculinity, the Chickamauga, and Pan-Indian Alliances in the Revolutionary Era,” Ethnohistory, 68 (July 2021), 429-448.

Mohlman, Nicholas K. “Making a Massacre: The 1622 Virginia ‘massacre,’ Violence and the Virginia Company of London’s Corporate Speech,” Early American Studies, 19 (Summer 2021), 419-156.

Nelson, Peter. “Where Have All the Anthros Gone? The Shift in California Indian Studies form Research ‘on’ to Research ‘with, for, and by’ Indigenous Peoples,” American Anthropologist, 123 (September 2021), 469-473.

Nesper, Larry. Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021).

Nichols, David A. “A Note on Economic Depressions and Native American Opportunities,”  Indiana Magazine of History, 117 (September 2021), 157-168.

Phillips, Katrina M. Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Pustet, Regina. Lakota Texts: Narratives of Lakota Life and Culture in the Twentieth Century, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

Reed, Julie. Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Ridner, Judith. “Archibald Loudon and the Politics of Print and Indian-Hating in the Early Republic,” Early American Studies, 19 (Summer 2021), 528-567.

Rizzo-Martinez, Martin. We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

Roberts, Alaina. “When Black Lives Matter Meets Indian Country: Using the Cherokee and Chickasaw Nations as Case Studies for Understanding the Evolution of Public History and Interracial Coalition,” American Indian Quarterly, 45 (Summer 2021), 250-271.

Shefveland, Kristalyn Marie. “Pocahontas and Settler Memory in the Appalachian West and South,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Autumn 2021), 281-303.

Sutton, Victoria. Decolonizing the Foundations of American Indian Law, (Lubbock: Texas tech University Press, 2021).

Tongkeamha, Henrietta, et al., Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

Tucker, Patrick M. “Savage Barbarity: Native American Uncivilized (Guerilla) Warfare at Cold Creek in the Firelands of Ohio during the War of 1812,” Ohio History, 128 (Fall 2021), 1-22.

Verbeek, Vincent.  “A Dissonant Education: Marching Bands and Indigenous Musical Traditions at Sherman Institute, 1901-1940,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 44 (2020), 41-58.

Witgen, Michael John.  Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Wotherspoon, Terry, and Emily Milne. “’Errors were Made:’ Public Attitudes Regarding Reconciliation and Education in Canada,” Canadian Review of Sociology, 58 (August 2021), 306-326.

Yarbrough, Fay A. Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

What You Need To Read, September 2021

I am back in front of the classroom for the first time since March of 2020. It is a busy and exciting time on campus. If you find some time amidst all the adjustments required by a new school year, here is some of the scholarly work that I think might be worth your time. Enjoy, and if there is something you noticed that I missed, please send it along and I will update the list.

Bakken, Dawn E. “The Attempted Potawatomi Removal of 1839,” Indiana Magazine of History, 117 (September 2021), 169-207.

Baumgartner, Alice L. “The Massacre at Gracias a Dios: Mobility and Violence on the Lower Rio Grande, 1821-1856,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Spring 2021), 35-58.

Bigart, Robert and Joseph McDonald, `We Want Freedom and Citizenship’: Documents of Salish, Pend d’Oreille, and Kootenai Indian History, 1912-1920, (Pablo, MT: Salish Kootenai College Press, 2021).

Boxell, Mark. “From Native Sovereignty to an Oilman’s State: Land, Race, and Petroleum in Indian Territory and Oklahoma,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 20 (April 2021), 216-233.

Britten, Thomas A. “Termination by Decentralization? Native American Responss to Federal Regional Councils, 1969-1983,” American Indian Quarterly, 45 (Spring 2021), 121-151.

Bruyneel, Kevin. Settler Memory: The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Cevasco, Carla. “`Nothing Which Hunger Will Not Devour’: Disgust and Sustenance in the Northeastern Borderlands,” Early American Studies, 19 (Spring 2021), 264-293.

Conrad, Paul. The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

Cothran, Boyd. “Between Civilization and Savagery: How Reconstruction Era Federal Indian Policy Led to Indian Wars,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Summer 2021), 167-188.

Dinwoodie, Jane. “Evading Indian Removal in the American South.” Journal of American History, 108 (June 2021), 17-41.

Estreicher, Justin. “`Unoccupied and of a Valuable Kind’: The George Gold Rush and Manufactured Cherokee Savagery,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 105 (no. 2, 2021), 87-119.

Fisher, Dennis Leo. “War, Wampum and Recognition: Algonquin Transborder Political Activism during the Early Twentieth Century, 1919-1931.” American Indian Quarterly, 45 (Winter 2021), 56-79.

Hausman, Stephen R. “Erasing Indian Country: Urban Native Space and the 1972 Rapid City Flood,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Autumn 2021), 305-329.

Hill, Matthew E. and Lauren W. Ritterbush, People in a Sea of Grass: Archaeology’s Changing Perspectives on Indigenous Plains Communities, (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021).

Horn, James P. P., A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America, (New York: Basic Books, 2021).

Hoy, Benjamin.  A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Hudson, Angela Pulley. “The Indian Doctress in the Nineteenth-Century United States: Race, Medicine, and Labor,” Journal of Social History, 54 (Summer 2021), 1160-1187.

Kalweit, Andrew, Marc Clark and Jamie Ishcomer-Aazami, “Determinants of Racial Misclassification in COVID-19 Mortality Data: The Role of Funeral Directors and Social Context,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 44 (no. 3, 2020), 15-36.

Kennedy, Brenden Edward.  “Mississippi Stocks and the 1795 Yazoo Land Sale: Slavery, Securities Markets, Native American Dispossession, and the Panic of 1819 in Alabama,” Alabama Review, 74 (July 2021), 1-38.

Krischer, Elana. “Seneca Conceptions of Land Use and Value: Debates over Land Sovereignty, 1797-1848,” Journal of the Early Republic, 41 (Fall 2021), 373-401.

LaCombe, Michael A. “`To the end that you may the better perceive these things to be true’: Credibility and Ralph Hamor’s A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia,” Early American Studies, 19 (Spring 2021), 294-321.

Lentis, Marinella. Colonized Through Art: American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

Mackenthun, Gesa and Christen Mucher, Decolonizing Prehistory: Deep Time and Indigenous Knowledges in Noth America, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021).

Mihesuah, Devon A. Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and a Cherokee Hero, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Mize, Jamie Myers. “’To Conclude on a General Union’: Masculinity, the Chickamauga, and Pan-Indian Alliances in the Revolutionary Era,” Ethnohistory, 68 (July 2021), 429-448.

Montgomery, Lindsay M. “A Rejoinder to Body Bags: Indigenous Resilience and Epidemic Disease, from COVID-19 to First ‘Contact’,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 44 (no. 3., 2020), 65-86.

Nesper, Larry, Amorin Mellow and Michael S. Wiggins, Our Relations…the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes, (Albany: SUNY Press, 2021).

Newman, Paul Douglas. “The `Four Nations of Indians upon the Susquehanna’: Mid-Atlantic Murder, Diplomacy, and Political Identity, 1717-1723,” Pennsylvania History, 88 (Summer 2021), 287-318.

Nichols, David A. “Potawatomi Resistance, Renewal, and Removal,” Indiana Magazine of History, 117 (June 2021), 65-81.

Oberg, Michael Leroy. “The Way Things Matter,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 20 (April 2021), 330-332.

Pearl, Chris. “Becoming Patriots: The Struggle for Inclusion and Exclusion on Pennsylvania’s Revolutionary Frontier,” Pennsylvania History,  88 (Summer 2021), 362-401.

Pointer, Richard W. Pacifist Prophet: Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Rindfleisch, Bryan C. Brothers of Coweta: Kinship, Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Muscogee World, (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2021).

Sabo, George. Ways of the Ancestors: Ancient Indians of Arkansas, (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2021).

Seeley, Samantha.  Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Shuck-Hall, Sheri Marie.  Journey to the West: The Alabama and Coushatta Indians,  (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Spindler, John E. “Slaughter in the Snow,” Military Heritage, 22 (Winter 2021), 62-71.

Tongkeamha, Henrieta, et al., Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021).

Usner, Daniel H. “Chitimacha Diplomacy and Commerce in Colonial Louisiana,” Louisiana History, 62 (Spring 2021), 133-176.

Webster, Rebecca M. “The Wisconsin Oneida and the WPA” Stories of Corn, Colonialism, and Revitalizaation,” Ethnohistory, 68 (July 2021), 407-427.

Wickman, Thomas. “Our Best Places: Gender, Food Sovereignty, and Miantonomi’s Kin on the Connecticut River,” Early American Studies, 19 (Spring 2021), 215-263.

Yarbrough, Fay A. Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

What You Need To Read, June 2021

I hope you all are settling into your summer routines, and that this summer is better for you than last year. Here is your quarterly bibliography of new and interesting work I will be consulting as I work with Peter Olsen-Harbich to revise and produce a third edition of Native America.

Anderson, Mark R.  Down the Warpath to the Cedars: Indians’ First Battles in the Revolution, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Baumgartner, Alice L. “The Massacre at Gracias a Dios: Mobility and Violence on the Lower Rio Grande, 1821-1856,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Spring 2021), 35-58.

Boxell, Mark.  “From Native Sovereignty to an Oilman’s State: Land, Race, and Petroleum in Indian Territory and Oklahoma,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 20 (April 2021), 216-233.

Burch, Susan.  Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Cevasco, Carla.  “’Nothing Which Hunger Will Not Devour’: Disgust and Sustenance in the Northeastern Borderlands,” Early American Studies, 19 (Spring 2021), 264-293.

Conrad, Paul.  The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).


Cothran, Boyd.  “Between Civilization and Savagery: How Reconstruction Era Frederal Indian Policy Led to the Indian Wars,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Summer 2021), 167-188.

Eustace, Nicole.  Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, (New York: Liveright, 2021).

Fisher, Dennis Leo.  “War, Wampum, and Recognition: Algonquin Transborder Political Activism during the Early Twentieth Century, 1919-1931,” American Indian Quarterly, 45 (Winter 2021), 56-79.

Harjo, Joy.  Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, (New York: Norton, 2021).

Helfrich, Joel T. “No More Nations within Nations: Indigenous Sovereignty after the End of Treaty Making in 1871,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 20 (April 2021).

Jones, Charlotte.  “Conveyors of Creolization: Animal Husbandry Practices in Louisiana, 1716-1822,” Louisiana History, 62 (Winter 2021), 33-60.

Kane, Katie.  “Art, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Resistance in the Age of Big Oil: Corwin Clairont’s Two-Headed Arrow/The Tar Sands Project,” American Indian Quarterly, 45 (Spring 2021), 152-195.

Kantrowitz, Stephen.  “Jurisdiction, Civilization, and the Ends of Native American Citizenship: The View from 1866,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Summer 2021), 189-208.

Kassabaum, Megan C.  A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2021).

Keeler, Jacqueline.  Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the America Story of Sacred Lands, (Salt Lake City: Torrey House Press, 2021).

King, Farina, Michael P. Taylor and James Swenson, eds., Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021).

LaCombe, Michael A. “’To the End that You May Better Perceive these Things to be True’: Credibility and Ralph Hamor’s True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia,” Early American Studies, 19 (Spring 2021), 294-321.

Mantegani, Joseph.  “Slouching Towards Autonomy: Reenvisioning Tribal Jurisdiction, Native American Autonomy, and Violence Against Women in Indian Country,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 111 (Spring 2021), 315-350.

Moats, Sandra.  Navigating Neutrality: Early American Governance in the Turbulent Atlantic, (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021).

Oberg, Michael Leroy.  “The Way Things Matter,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 20 (April 2021), 330-332.

Owens, Robert M.  “Indian Wars” and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763-1842, (New York: Routledge, 2021).

Peeples, Matthew A. Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021).

Pesantubbee, Michelene E., Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2021).

Reid, Gerald F.  Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021)

Strang, Cameron.  “Pursuing Knowledge, Surviving Empire: Indigenous Explorers in the Removal Era,” William and Mary Quarterly, 78 (April 2021), 281-312

Taylor, Alan.  American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850, (New York: Norton, 2021).

Toler, Lorraine Updike. “The Missing Indian Affairs Clause,” University of Chicago Law Review, 88 (March 2021), 413-486.

Tsukada, Hiroyuki.  “Powhatan and the Fate of the Lost Colonists of Roanoke: Decoding William Strachey’s Imaginary Geography,” North Carolina Historical Review, 98 (January 2021), 42-64.

Wickman, Thomas. “Our Best Places: Gender, Food Sovereignty, and Mianotonomi’s Kin on the Connecticut River,” Early American Studies, 19 (Spring 2021), 215-263.

What You Need To Read, March 2021

If you are reading this, it means you made it through 2021. Though we still have plenty of tough times ahead, I wish you all the best, and hope you find the first quarterly bibliography of this new year of some value. If there is anything I missed and that you would like me to look at, you know how to reach me. Stay safe, everyone, and here’s to hoping 2021 is better than 2020.

Baumgartner, Alice L. “The Massacre at Gracias a Dios: Mobility and Violence on the Lower Rio Grande, 1821-1856,” Western Historical Quarterly, 52 (Spring 2021), 35-58.

Burch, Susan. Committed: Remembering Native Kinship In and Beyond Institutions, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Casteneda, Terri A. Marie Mason Potts: The Lettered Life of a California Indian Activist, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Champagne, Duane and Carole Goldberg. A Coalition of Lineages: The Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians, (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2021).

Daggar, Lori. “The Mission Complex: Economic Development, ‘Civilization,’ and Empire in the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 36 (September 2016), 467-492.

Eustace, Nicole. Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice In Early America, (New York: Liveright, 2021).

Fisher, Dennis Leo. “War, Wampum, and Recognition: Algonquin Transborder Political Activism during the Early Twentieth Century, 1919-1931,” American Indian Quarterly, 45 (Winter 2021), 56-79.

Frederick, Jer. “Shifting Sands: Congressman Charlie Rose, Tribal, Federal, and State Politics, and the History of Lumbee Recognition,” North Carolina Historical Review, 97 (October 2021), 401-474.

Gage, Justin. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between U: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Garrison, Tim Alan.  “Twisting Air: Native Southerners and their Encounters with Tornadoes,” Native South, 13 (2020), 60-93.

Goodman, Linda J. and Helma Swan. Singing the Songs of my Ancestors: The Life and Music of Helma Swan, Makah Elder, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Hahn, Monica Anke. “Pantomime Indian: Performing The Encounter in Robert Sayer’s Harlequin Cherokee,” William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 78 (January 2021), 117-146.

Heyes, Scott A. “Embracing Indigenous Knowledge: The Spiritual Dimensions of Place,” SiteLINES: A Journal of Place, 16 (Fall 2020), 3-7.

Hoy, Benjamin. A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border across Indigenous Lands, (New York: Oxford University Press 2021).

Hudson, Angela Pulley. “Removals and Remainder: Apaches and Choctaws in the Jim Crow South,” Journal of the Civil War Era, 11 (March 2021), 80-102.

Janda, Sarah Eppler, Patricia Loughlin, and Renee M. Laegreid, eds. This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870-2010, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Lee, An Anson.  “The Mesilla Guard: Race and Violence in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico,” New Mexico Historical Review, 125 (December 2020), 1752-1763.

Meadows, William C. The First Code-Talkers: Native American Communication in World War I, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Mihesuah, Devon A. Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Oberg, Michael Leroy, ‘Every Drop of Indian Blood’: The Short But Ironic Life of Sylvester Long,” Native South, 13 (2020), 32-59.

O’Neill, Sean.  Cultural Contact and Linguistic Relativity among the Indians of Northwestern California, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Panich, Lee M.,, George Ann DeAntoni, and Tsim Schneider, “‘By the Aid of his Indians’: Native Negotiations of Settler Colonialism in Marin County, California.” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 25 (no. 1, 2021), 92-115.

Pauketat, Timothy R. “When the Rains Stopped: Evapotranspiration and Ontology at Ancient Cahokia,” Journal of Anthropological Research, 76 (Winter 2020), 410-438.

Peterson, Dawn.  Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017).

Phillips, Katrina M. Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Reid, Gerald F. Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Rountree, Helen C. Manteo’s World: Native American Life in Carolina’s Sound Country before            and after the Lost Colony, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Silverman, David J. “Ungrateful Children and Days of Mourning: Two Wampanoag Interpretations of the ‘First Thanksgiving’ and Colonialism through the Centuries,” New England Quarterly, 93 (December 2020), 608-634.

Smith, Andrea Lynn and Nëhdöwes (Randy A. John). “Monuments, Legitimization Ceremonies, and Haudenosaunee Rejection of Sullivan-Clinton Markers,” New York History 101 (Winter 2020/2021). 343-365.

Sousa, Ashley Riley. “Trapped? The Fur Trade and Debt Peonage in Central California,” Pacific Historical Review, 90 (Winter 2021), 1-27.

Spindler, John E. “Slaughter in the Snow,” Military Heritage, 22 (Winter 2021), 62-71.

Taylor, Alan. American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850. (New York: Norton, 2021).

Theobald, Brianna. “Bringing Back Woman Knowledge: The Women’s Dance Health Program and Native Midwifery in the Twin Cities,” Journal of Women’s History, 32 (Winter 2020).

Townshend, Russell, et. al., “Digital Archaeology and the Living Cherokee Landscape,” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 24 (December 2020), 969-988.

Turner, John G. “The Yoke of Bondage: Slavery in Plymouth Colony,” New England Quarterly, 93 (December 2020), 634-54.

Wallace, Jessica L. “More than ‘Strangers to Each Others Persons & Manners’: Overhill Cherokees and Fort Loudoun,” Native South, 13 (2020), 120-157.

Warde, Mary Jane. George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 1843-1920, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021).

Washburn, Jeffrey. “Directing Their Own Change: Chickasaw Economic Transformation and the Civilization Program, 1750s-1830s,” Native South, 13 (2020), 94-119.

Watson, Kelly L. “Mary Kittamaquund Brent, “’The Pocahontas of Maryland’: Sex, Marriage, and Diplomacy in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake,” Early American Studies, 19 (Winter 2021), 24-63.

Williams, David B.  Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021).

Wright, Miller Shores. “’A Man’s Children Have No Claim to his Property’: Creek Matrilineal Property Relations and Gendered Conflict at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century,” Native South, 13 (2020), 158-188.

What You Need to Read, September 2020

Interlibrary loan services have just restarted at my college’s library after this long Covid season. Classes are resuming, some in person, some in a hybrid format, and some entirely online. Here is your quarterly bibliography of what seemed notable to me in the field of Native American history. And, oh, by the way, I have signed a contract for the third edition of Native America which will be co-written with my friend and former student Peter Olsen-Harbich of William and Mary. It should be out by the end of 2022. Enjoy the reading!

Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928, revised ed., (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020).

Allard, Amelie. “Relationships and the Creation of Colonial Landscapes in the Eighteenth-Century Fur Trade,” American Indian Quarterly, 44 (Spring 2020), 149-170.

Arnold, Morris S. “The Quapaws and the American Revolution,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly, 79 (Spring 2020), 1-39.

Bigart, Robert J. Providing for the People: Economic Change among the Salish and Kootenai Indians, 1875-1910, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Black, Liza.  Picturing Indians: Native Americans in Film, 1941-1960, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Briggs, Laura.  Taking Children: A History of American Terror, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020).

Carmody, Stephen B. and Casey R. Barrier, eds., Shaman, Priest, Practice, Belief: Materials of Ritual and Religion in Eastern North America, (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020).

Carpenter, Kyle B. “A Failed Venture in the Nueces Strip: Misconceptions and Mismanagement of the Beales Rio Grande Colony, 1832-1836,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 123 (April 2020), 420-442.

Croce, Francesca. “Indigenous Women Entrepreneurship: Analysis of a Promising Research Theme at the Intersection of Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Women Entrepreneurship.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43 (May 2020), 1013-1031.

Denson, Andrew. “Cherokee Ambassador: Gertrude McDaris Ruskin and the Personal Politics of Southern Commemoration,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 104 (Issue 2, 2020), 127-154.

Dowd, Gregory Evans. “Custom, Text, and Property: Indians, Squatters and Political Authority in Jacksonian Michigan,” Early American Studies, 18 (Spring 2020), 195-228.

Driving Hawk, Edward J. and Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Too Strong to be Broken: The Life of Edward J. Driving Hawk, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Eick, Grethen Cassel, They Met at Wounded Knee: The Eastmans’ Story, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2020).

Ellis, Elizabeth. “The Natchez War Revisited: Violence, Multinational Settlements, and Indigenous Diplomacy in the Lower Mississippi Valley,” William and Mary Quarterly, 77 (July 2020), 441-472.

Erben, Patrick M. “Releasing the Energy of Eighteenth-Century Indigenous Hymnody,” William and Mary Quarterly, 77 (July 2020), 387-392.

Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn and Eric E. Browne, eds., The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020).

Fisher, Andrew H. “Defenders and Dissidents: Cooks Landing and the Fight to Define Tribal Sovereignty in the Red Power Era,” Comparative American Studies, 17 (No. 2, 2020), 117-141.

Gage, Justin. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Greene, Jerome A. January Moon: The Northern Cheyenne Breakout from Fort Robinson, 1878-1879, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Haake, Claudia B. Modernity through Letter Writing: Cherokee and Seneca Political Representations in Response to Removal, 1830-1857, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Hall, Philip S. and Mary S. Lewis. From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Hernandez, Christopher. “Battle Lines of the North American Southwest: An Inquiry into Prehispanic and Post-Contact Pueblo Tactics of War,” Kiva, 86 (March 2020), 47-69.

Hunziker, Alyssa A. “Playing Indian, Playing Filipino: Native American and Filipino Interactions at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,” American Quarterly, 72 (June 2020), 423-448.

Jazwa, Christopher S, et. al., “Fishing, Subsistence Change, and Foraging Strategies on Western Santa Rosa Island, California,” American Antiquity, 85 (July 2020) 591-608.

Jenkins, Jessica A. and Martin D. Gallivan. “Shell on Earth: Oyster Harvesting, Consumption, and Deposition Practices in the Powhatan Chesapeake,” Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 15 (July-Sept 2020), 384-406.

Kraft, Louis. Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Lee, Lloyd.  Diné Identity in the 21st Century World, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020).

MacKenzie-Jones, Paul. “Sending a Sailor to War: The Ponca Singers, California Hobbyists, Vietnam, and the Rejection of the Counterculture Myth of the New Age Indian,” Great Plains Quarterly 40 (Spring 2020), 117-128.

March, Ray A. Mass Murder in California’s Empty Quarter: A Tale of Tribal Treachery at the Cederville Rancheria, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

McNutt, Charles H and Ryan M. Parish, Cahokia in Context: Hegemony and Diaspora, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020).

Miller, Robert J., et al. eds. Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America: Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Przystupa, Paulina F. “The Archaeology of Native American Boarding Schools in the American Southwest,” Kiva 86 (June 2020), 214-222.

Schwartz, James Z. “Lewis Henry Morgan’s Early Theory of Progress: His Evolving View of the Passions and Social Development,” Early American Studies, 18 (Spring 2020), 229-258.

Spady, James O’Neil. Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America: Georgia and South Carolina, ca. 1700-1820, (London: Routledge, 2020).

Stone, Ashkan Soltani and Natale A. Zappia, Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Townsend, Russell, John D. Griffin and Kathryn Sampeck, “Archaeology, Historical Ruptures, and Ani-Kitu Hwagi Memory and Knowledge,” American Indian Quarterly, 44 (Spring 2020), 243-268.

Tuell, Vette Towersap. “Public Lands and American Indians: Traditional use and Off-Reservation Treaty Rights,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 88 (Spring 2020), 115-120.

West, Cane. “’They Have Exercised Every Art’: Ecological Rhetoric, A War of Maps, and Cherokee Sovereignty in the Arkansas Valley, 1812-1828,” Journal of the Early Republic, 40 (Summer 2020), 297-327.

Willard, William, Alan G. Marshall and J. Diane Pearson, Rising from the Ashes: Survival, Sovereignty, and Native America, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Beautiful Scars

I knew nothing about Tom Wilson when I first encountered him at the Abilene, a live music club in Rochester, New York, a couple of years ago. I did not know that he had played in the Juno Award-winning Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. But he appeared at the Abilene under the name LeE HARVeY OsMOND, which was good enough for me. I have often gone to see a band based on its name alone.

Between songs Wilson spoke about his album “Mohawk” and the open secrets he had uncovered about his past. Those stories are fleshed out in more detail in Wilson’s autobiography, Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers, and the Road Home, published in 2017 by Doubleday Canada. I’ve only recently come around to reading it, and I am glad I did.

Wilson’s book contains the sorts of stories one might expect in a rock ‘n’ roll autobiography. He tells us of how he was first turned on by music, formed his first band, and found meaning in performing songs of his own. There are also in these pages stories of drugs, dissipation, and addiction. But there is also here a family story, a moving and at times beautifully written tale of identity, rediscovery, redemption and grace.

He was raised by George and Bunny Wilson in Hamilton, Ontario. He did not look like his parents and they were much older than the parents of his peers. He was adopted, taken in. His biological mother, Janie Lazare, was from a Catholic Mohawk family from Kahnawake. She accompanied a high steel worker from the reserve to New York City, unaware that he was already a married man. She return home pregnant, and made her way in the world as best she could in Toronto and Hamilton. It turned out hat the man she accompanied to the City was not Wilson’s father. Wilson learned later that his real father was a Mohawk named Louis Beauvais. None of that helped Janie. She tried to find an adoptive family for the child but ended up handing him off to Bunny and George, who Wilson says did the best they could. Janie stayed present in his life. “She was always around,” Wilson writes. Janie was Bunny’s sidekick. “She always stood a few feet behind Bunny. Bunny would say her piece and then Janie might respond with a laugh or a head shake or sometimes a few words, words that were often lost in the crowd of conversation buzzing around us.” Janie’s voice, Wilson remembers, was seldom heard, and “there’s plenty of heartbreak in a voice that rarely gets heard.”

It took Wilson decades to sort out the secrets, to understand the connections between the people who had entered his life and crossed his path. Toward the end of the book he writes:

My name is Thomas George Lazare.

I came from a family of Mohawk chiefs. Peacemakers and peacekeepers, fighters and man-eaters. Lacrosse magicians, tobacco salesmen, gangsters, shamans, shit-disturbers and survivors. But instead of growing up around these heroes and zeros, I grew up on the East Mountain in Hamilton….I am a living breathing lie. An embarrassment. A married man’s mistake and a young girl’s only chance to hop a fence out of town and escape to freedom. I was hidden from the world and from myself, my name was changed because it sounded too Indian and my clothes were fitted to look like the other kids.

I’ve been Thomas Cunningham Wilson ever since. An Irish-French kid. Not Indian–No Way. No Indian blood in me. None. Zero.

Later, after meeting his father, he reflected on the process of finding his way back to Kahnawake, now the son of a Mohawk mother. Louis Beauvais, he writes, hinted at their meeting that “I was taken from him. I was supposed to be his.” They talked and they reflected. The past came more clearly into focus. Wilson thought about his family. Beauvais had waited fifty-six years for this homecoming, Wilson said. He was an old man now. So was Wilson. “But I’m here. I’m scared and scarred but I’ve survived. I’m alive and lucky as hell.”

Indigenous identity can be a tricky thing. My students wrestle with the subject when we discuss it in class. Those of us who study the field of history are aware of Pretendians and Poseurs and Wannabes, but also the efforts of government officials to define Native peoples out of existence, of powerful stereotypes and expectations that attempt to limit and define what is authentically “Indian.” Mohawk identity can be especially complicated, with an Indigenous nation that straddles the international boundary between Canada and the United States, that has confronted the efforts of the United States, Canada, New York State, and the provinces of Quebec and Ontario to define who Mohawks are and what they ought to be, while trying at the same time to appropriate their lands, reeducate their children, neuter their sovereignty, and extinguish their culture. Wilson’s biography, of an artist hardly known in the United States, paints a rich and revealing portrait of these many tangled ties. I look forward to using Wilson’s work in class.

What You Need to Read, June 2020

You have finished a rough semester. Libraries are still closed. Some interlibrary loan services are available, and school will return in some form in the fall. Here is your summer reading list to help keep you up to date on what is coming out in Native American History.

Adams, Mikaela Morgan. “‘A Very Serious and Perplexing Epidemic of Grippe,’: The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 at the Haskell Institute,” American Indian Quarterly, 44 (Winter 2020), 1-35.

Bates, Denise E. Basket Diplomacy: Leadership, Alliance-Building, and Resilience among the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, 1884-1984, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Bethke, Brandi. “Revisiting the Horse in Blackfoot Culture: Understanding the Development of Nomadic Pastoralism on the North American Plains,” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 24 (March 2020), 44-61.

Bigart, Robert J. Providing for the People: Economic Change Among the Salish and Kootenai Indians, 1875-1910 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Bigart, Robert and Joseph McDonald, “You Seem To Like Our MOney, and We Like Our Country”: A Documentary History of the Salish, Pend d’Oreille, and Kootenai Indians, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

Blanton, Dennis B. Conquistador’s Wake: Tracking the Legacy of Hernando de Soto in the Indigenous Southeast, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2020).

Britten, Thomas A. and Charles Trimble. Voice of the Tribes: A History of the National Tribal Chairmen’s Association, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Cahill, Cathleen D. “‘Our Democracy and the American Indian’: Citizenship, Sovereignty, and the Native Vote in the 1920s,” Journal of Women’s History 32 (Spring 2020), 41-51.

Carr, Kurt W., et. al, eds. The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

DeCoster, Jonathan. Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial New Mexico, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

Duwe, Samuel. Tewa Worlds: An Archaeological History of Being and Becoming Pueblo in the Southwest, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020).

Gage, Justin. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us: Native Networs and the Spread of the Ghost Dance, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Gagnon, Celese Marie and Sara K. Becker, “Native Lies in Colonial Times: Insights from Skeletal Remains of Susquehannocks, 1575-1675,” Historical Archaeology, 54 (March 2020), 262-285

Galler, Robert W., Jr., “Converting the Missionaries: The Transformation of Benedictine Priests at Crow Creek,” South Dakota History, 50 (Spring 2020), 48-79.

Glassow, Michael A., et al., Goleta Slough Prehistory: Insights Gained from a Vanishing Archaeological Record, (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2020).

Hall, Philip S. and Mary Solon Lewis. From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Hall, Ryan. Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Headman, Louis, and Sean O’Neill, Walks on the Ground: A Tribal History of the Ponca Nation, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Hedren, Paul. L. “Who Killed Crazy Horse? A Historiographical Review and Affirmation,” Nebraska History, 101 (Spring 2020 ), 2-17.

Hilbert, Vi, Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound, 2nd ed., (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020).

Humalajoki, Reetta. “‘Yours in Indian Unity’: Moderate National Indigenous Organizations and the US -Canada Border in the Red Power Era,” Comparative American Studies, 17 (no. 2, 2020), 183-198.

Johnson, Andrew D. and Carolyn Arena. “Building Dutch Suriname in English Carolina: Aristocratic Networks, Native Enslavement, and Plantation Provisioning in the Seventeenth-Century Americas,” Journal of Southern History, 86 (February 2020), 37-74.

Killsback, Leo. A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation, (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2020).

Lappas, Thomas John. In League Against King Alcohol: Native American Women and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1933, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

McNally, Michael David. Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020).

Michna, Gregory. “The Long Road to Sainthood: Indian Christians, the Doctrine of Preparation, and the Halfway Covenant of 1662,” Church History, 89 (March 2020), 43-73.

Navin, John J. The Grim Years: Settling South Carolina, 1670-1720, (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2020).

Nielsen, Marianne O. and Karen Jarratt-Snider, eds. Traditional, National, and International Law and Indigenous Communities, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020).

Ruediger, Dylan. “‘Neither Utterly to Reject Them, Nor Yet to Drawe Them to Come In’: Tributary Subordination and Settler Colonialism in Virginia,” Early American Studies, 18 (Wintero 2020), 1-31.

Saunt, Claudio. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, (New York: Norton, 2020).

Senier, Siobahn, Sovereignty and Sustainability: Indigenous Literary Stewardship in New England, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Silverman, David J. “Living with the Past: Thoughts on Community Collaboration and Difficult History in Native American and Indigenous Studies,” American Historical Review, 125 (April 2020), 519-527. Be sure to read as well the replies to Silverman’s review by Alyssa Mt. Pleasant, Philip Deloria, Jean M. O’Brien, and Christine De Lucia.

Stofferahn, Steven A. “‘Down Too Deep’: Father Pius Boehm, From Reluctant Missionary to Devoted Caretaker at Crow Creek, 1887-1935,” South Dakota History 50 (Spring 2020), 25-47.

Thornton, Russell and Jamie Geronimo Vela, comps., NAGPRA and the Repatriation of Native American Human Remains and Cultural Objects, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

Timmerman, Nicholas A. “Contested Indigenous Landscapes: Indian Mounds and the Political Creation of the Mythical ‘Mound Builder’ Race,” Ethnohistory, 67 (January 2020), 75-95.

Toth, Gyorgy. “‘Red’ Nations: Marxists and the Native American Sovereignty Movement of the Late Cold War,” Cold War History, 20 (May 2020), 197-221.

White, A. J., et. al., “After Cahokia: Indigenous Repopulation and Depopulation of the Horseshoe Lake Watershed, AD 1400-1900,” American Antiquity, 85 (April 2020), 263-278.

Woodard, Buck. “An Alternative to Red Power: Political Alliance as Tribal Activism in Virgina,” Comparative American Studies, 17 (no. 2, 2020), 142-166.

What You Need To Read, March 2020.

It has been an incredibly busy and trying semester thus far, so I have not posted as much as I normally do. Nonetheless, I have tried to keep up with the scholarship I see coming out.  Here is the latest quarterly bibliography of things I think you need to read. 

Ablavsky, Gregory. “Species of Sovereignty: Native Nationhood, The United States, and International Law, 1783-1795,” Journal of American History, 106 (December 2019), 591-613.

Adams, David W. “A Year of Crisis: Memory and Meaning in a Navajo Community’s Struggle for Self-Determination,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 42 (no. 4, 2018), 113-130.

Anderson, Chad. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia: History, Conquest, and Memory in the Native Northeast, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (Zitkala-Sa), “Help Indians Help Themselves”: The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), (Lubboock: Texas Tech University Press, 2020).

Boudreaux, Edmond A and Maureen S. Meyers, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020).

Canby, William C. American Indian Law in a Nutshell, 7th Edition, (St. Paul: West Academic, 2020).

Carr, W. Kurt, et. al., The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

Clemmons, Linda M. Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the US-Dakota War, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019).

D’Oney, J. Daniel. A Kingdom of Water: Adaptation and Survival in the Houma Nation, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Davies, Wade.  Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020).

DeCoster, Jonathan, Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial New Mexico, (New York: Oxford university Press, 2020).

Deer, Ada. Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice.  (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019)

Deloria, Philip. Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019). 

Dorgan, Byron L. The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America. (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2019).

Eastman, Charles A.  The Soul of an Indian: An Interpretation, ed. Brenda Child, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

Fletcher, Matthew L. M. American Indian Tribal Law, (New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2020).

Fullagar, Kate, The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).

Gagmpm. Celeste Marie and Sara K. Becker, “Native Lives in Colonial Times: Insights from the Skeletal Remains of Susquehannocks, A.D. 1575-1675,” Historical Archaeology, 54 (March 2020), 262-285.

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina.  As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2019).

Hall, Ryan. Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Hart, William B. “For the Good of their Souls: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

Hatton, Heather. “Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy,” Journal of Early American History, 9 (December 2019), 118-144

Lapham, Heather A. and Gregory A. Waselkov, Bears: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020).

Lappas, Thomas J. In League Against King Alcohol: Native American Women and the Woman’s Christiann Temperance Union, 1874-1933, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Legg, John R.  “White Lies, Native Revisions: The Legacy of Violence in the American West,” Great Plains Quarterly 39 (Fall 2019), 341-362.

Lewis, Courtney, “Confronting Cannabis: Legalization on Native Nation Lands and the Impacts of Differential Federal Enforcement,” American Indian Quarterly, 43 (Fall 2019), 408-438.

Loftin, John D. and Benjamin E. Frey.  “Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives: A Cherokee and Religious Interpretation,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 43 (no. 1, 2019), 83-98.

Midge, Tiffany. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Momaday, N. Scott. The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems, (New York: Harper, 2020).

Murdoch, Sierra Crane. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country, (New York: Random House, 2020).

Nelson, Megan Kate. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, (New York: Scribner, 2020).

Rice, James D. “War and Politics: Powhatan Expansionism and the Problem of Native American Warfare,” William and Mary Quarterly, 77 (January 2020), 3-32.

Richotte, Jr., Keith. Claiming Turtle Mountain’s Constitution. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Sachs, Stephen M, et. al., Re-Creating the Circle: The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination,(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020).

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, “Reconsidering Domesticity through the Lens of Empire and Settler Society in North America,” American Historical Review, 124 (October 2019), 1249-1266.

Smith, Andrea Lynn. “Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War: New York’s 1929 ‘Pageant of Decision.’” Public Historian, 41 (November 2019), 7-35.

Swensen, James R. “Bound for the Fair: Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, and Geronimo and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair,” American Indian Quarterly, 43 (Fall 2019), 439-470.

Wadewitz, Lissa K. “Rethinking the ‘Indian War’: Northern Indians and Intra-Native Politics in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands,” Western Historical Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2019), 339-361.

What You Need To Read, December 2019

Alas, December is here. Finals are approaching. The winter storm is moving east. Here is your quarterly bibliography, bringing together the things I have added to my reading list over the course of the past few months. Enjoy, and if you think there is something I have missed, on this or the other quarterly bibliographies, feel free to let me know.

Arvin, Maile Renee. Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019).

Baltus, Melissa R. and Gregory D. Wilson. “The Cahokian Crucible: Burning Ritual and the Emergence of Cahokian Power in the Mississippian Midwest,” American Antiquity, 84 (July 2019), 438-470.

Bjork, Katherine. Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

Blee, Lisa and Jean M. O’Brien. Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Carayon, Celine. Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Cipolla, Craig N. “Taming the Ontological Wolves: Learning from Iroquoian Effigy Objects,” American Anthropologist, 121 (September 2019), 613-627.

Clemmons, Linda M. Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the U.S. Dakota War, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019).

Conner, Thaddieus and Aimee L. Franklin, “20 Years of Indian Gaming: Reassessing and Still Winning,” Social Science Quarterly, 100 (May 2019), 793-807.

Crandall, Maurice. These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U. S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Criales, Jessica. “‘Women of our Nation’: Gender and Christian Indian Communities in the United States and Mexico, 1753-1837,” Early American Studies, 17 (Fall 2019), 414-442.

DeLucia, Christine. “Terrapolitics in the Dawnland: Relationality, Resistance, and Indigenous Futures in the Native and Colonial Northeast,” New England Quarterly, 92 (December 2019), 548-583.

Denial, Catherine J. “‘Mother of all the living’: Motherhood, Religion, and Political Culture at the Ojibwe Village of Fond du Lac, 1835-1839,” Early American Studies, 17 (Fall 2019), 443-473.

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina. As Long As Grass Grows: the Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock, (Boston: Beacon, 2019).

Hamalainen, Pekka. Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).

Harmon, Alexandra. Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019).

Hart, Siobhan M. and Katherine Dillon, “Entangled Things and Deposits in Early Colonial New England,” Historical Archaeology, 53 (June 2019), 265-279.

Haskins, Victoria. “Domesticating Colonizers: Domesticity, Indigenous Domestic Labor, and the Modern Settler Colonial Nation,” American Historical Review, 124 (October 2019), 1290-1301.

Herrmann, Rachel B. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019).

Hidalgo, Alex. Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2019).

Higham, Carol L. “Seeing Canniabls: Spanish and Britsh Enlightenment on the Northwest Coast,” Pacific Historical Review, 88 (Summer 2019), 345-377.

Hodge, Adam R. Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000-1868, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Ketcham, Christopher. This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West, (New York: Viking, 2019).

Legg, John R. “White Lies, Native Revisions: The Legacy of Violence in the American West,” Great Plains Quarterly, 39 (Fall 2019), 331-340.

LeTourneau, Peter M. and Robert Pagini, “Carved Into History: The Vernacular Rock Inscriptions of the Connecticut Valley,” Connecticut History Review, 57 (Fall 2019), 89-153.

Lewis, Courtney. “Confronting Cannabis: Legalizing on Native Nation Lands and the Impacts of Differential Federal Enforcement,” American Indian Quarterly, 43 (Fall 2019), 408-438.

Lopenzina, Drew and Travis Franks. “Who Lies Buried in Satanta’s Tomb? Co-Memorating a Kiowa Warrior,” American Indian Quarterly, 43 (Summer 2019), 249-280.

Lycett, Stephen J. “Time’s Arrow: Toward a Social History of Crow Biographic Art Using Seriation and Multivariate Statistics,” American Anthropologist, 121 (May 2019), 363-375.

McShea, Bronwen. Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Martinez, David. Life of the Indigenous Mind: Vine Deloria and the Red Power Movement, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Maulden, Kristopher. The Federalist Frontier: Settler Politics in the Old Northwest, 1783-1840, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019).

Midtrod, Tom Arne. “‘Calling for More than Human Vengeance’: Desecrating Native Graves in Early America,” Early American Studies, 17 (Summer 2019), 281-314.

Mihesuah, Devon A. and Elizabeth Hoover, Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Miles, Tiya. “Beyond a Boundary: Black Lives and the Settler-Native Divide,” William and Mary Quarterly, 76 (July 2019), 417-426.

Miller, Douglas K. Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Monaco, C. S. The Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).

Ostler, Jeffrey and Nancy Shoemaker, “Settler Colonialism in Early American History: Introduction,” William and Mary Quarterly, 76 (July 2019), 361-368.

Ostler, Jeffrey. Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).

Nickel, Sarah. “Reconsidering 1969: The White Paper and the Making of the Modern Indigenous Rights Movement,” Canadian Historical Review, 100 (June 2019), 223-238.

Rindfleisch, Bryan C. “Cherokee Kings and Creek Kings: Intra-Indigenous Connections and Interactions in the Eighteenth-Century South,” Journal of Southern History, 85 (November 2019), 769-802.

Roberts, Strother. Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy: Transforming Nature in Early New England, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

Romney, Susahan Shaw. “Settler Colonial Prehistories in Seventeenth-Century North America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 76 (July 2019), 375-382.

Saunt, Claudio. “Financing Dispossession: Stocks, Bonds, and the Deportation of Native Peoples in the Antebellum United States,” Journal of American History, 106 (September 2019), 315-337.

Silverman, David J. This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving, (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019).

Snow, David H. “Pueblo Surnames: A Resource for Ethnohistory,” Journal of Anthropological Research, 75 (Fall 2019), 393-412.

Spear, Jennifer M. “Beyond the Native/Settler Divide in Early California,” William and Mary Quarterly, 76 (July 2019), 399-406.

Spence, Taylor. “Naming Violence in United States Colonialism,” Journal of Social History, 53 (Fall 2019), 157-193.

Swensen, James R. “Bound for the Fair: Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, and Geronimo and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair,” American Indian Quarterly, 43 (Fall 2019), 439-470.

Theobald, Brianna. Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Treuer, David. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native American from 1890 to the Present, (New York: Riverhead, 2019).

Voelker, David J. The Powhatans and the English in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake, Debating American History Series, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Wadewitz, Lissa K. “Rethinking the ‘Indian War’: Northern Indians and Intra-Native Politics in the Western Canada-US Borderlands,” Western Historical Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2019), 339-361.

Webster, Rebecca J. and Julia A. King. “From Shell to Glass: How Beads Reflect the Changing Cultural Landscape of the Seventeenth-Century lower Potomac Valley,” Southeastern Archaeology, 38 (August 2019).

Wheeler, Rachel and Sarah Eyerly, “Singing Box 331: Re-Sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns from the Moravian Archives,” William and Mary Quarterly, 76 (October 2019), 649-696.

What You Need To Read, September 2019

The latest installment of the quarterly bibliography. This is aspirational–I am way behind in my reading–but this is what strikes me as the most interesting stuff to come out over the course of the past few months. If I am missing something you think is important, or you would like me to include something of yours that I may have missed, feel free to drop me a line.

Arnott, Sigrid and David L. Maki. “Forts on Burial Mounds: Interlocked Landscapes of Mourning and Colonialism at the Dakota Settler Frontier, 1860-1876,” Historical Archaeology, 53 (March 2019), 153-169.

Baltus, Melissa R. and Gregory D. Wilson. “The Cahokian Crucible: Burning Ritual and the Emergence of Cahokian Power in the Mississippian Midwest,” American Antiquity, 84 (July 2019), 438-470.

Barman, Jean. Iroquois in the West, (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019).

Beck, David. Unfair Labor: American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Bjork, Katharine. Prairie Imperialist: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire, (Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

Cipolla, Craig N., James Quinn, and Jay Levy. “Theory in Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology: Insights from Mohegan,” American Antiquity, 84 (January 2019), 127-142.

Clemmons, Linda M. Dakota in Exile: The  Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the US-Dakota War, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019).

Conner, Thaddieus W. and Aimee L. Franklin, “20 Years of Indian Gaming: Reassessing and Still Winning,” Social Science Quarterly, 100 (May 2019), 793-807.

Erlandson, Jon M., et. al., “Identifying Shell Middens with Historic Aerial Photos: An Example from California’s Santa Cruz Island,” Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14 (Jan-Mar 2019), 113-122.

Fritz, Gayle.  Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2019).

Griffith, Jane. Words Have a Past: The English Language, Colonialism, and the Newspapers of Indian Boarding Schools, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019).

Hart, Siobhan M. and Paul A. Shackel, Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019).

Hart, Siobahn, and Katherine Dillon. “Entangled Things and Deposits in Early Colonial Native New England,” Historical Archaeology, 53 (June 2019), 265-279.

Hauptman, Laurence M. Coming Full Circle: The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Herrmann, Rachel B. To Feast On Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic, (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019).

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Lamana, Gonzalo. How “Indians” Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019).

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Leza, Christina. Divided Peoples: Policy, Activism, and Indigenous Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Border, (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 2019).

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Pexa, Chris. Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

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