What You Need to Read, December 2025

Christmas is approaching. Perhaps some of these new works will find a space underneath your tree. I hope you find this useful, and I hope your semester is coming to a peaceful and easy end.

Adler, Michael A. Transilient Acts and Resilient Villages: Pueblo Community Persistence in the Northern Rio Grande, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2026).

Barnett, Lisa D. Peyote Politics : The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).

Boomer, Axell Vaughan. “Mascot, Maiden, Memory: How Rockton Uses Hononegah to Rewrite Indigenous Removal,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 118 (Fall-Winter 2025), 13-61.

Borsato, Joe. “’To Rule by Customes’: Powhatan Assertions of Territorial Possessions against the Virginia Company, 1607-1624,” Ethnohistory 72 (July 2025), 277-312.

Clifford, Jim and Sam Huckerby, “Logging and Settlement Beyond the Rapids: Unmaking Algonquin Space in the Ottawa Valley, 1817-1861,” Canadian Historical Review, 106 (September 2025), 405-432.

Denetclaw, Dorothy and Matt Fitzsimmons, The Suns of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2026).

Diepold, Markus J. “’For They Fed Lustily, Drank Heartily, and Were Very Greasy Before They Finished Their Dinner’: The Material Politics of Hospitality at the Lancaster Treaty of 1744,” Food & History 23 (Issue 1, 2025), 87-106.

Dixon, Taryn M. « ‘Bullheaded Resistance’: Choctaw Nation Political Responses to the Euro-American Cattle Market and the Act of 1899,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 103 (Summer 2025), 150-170.

Ewing, Eve L. Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, (New York: One World, 2025).

Fauvelle Mikael and Alvaro Montenegro, “Do Stormy Seas Lead to Better Boats? Exploring the Origins of the Southern California Plank Canoe through Ocean Voyage Modeling,” Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 20 (July-September 2025), 588-608.

Feder, Kenneth L. Native America: The Story of First Peoples, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025).

Garcia, Edisson Giovanny, Nicola Rolls, John Guenther and Tracy Woodroffe, “Success and University for Indigenous Students: A Review of Higher Education in Australia,” International Indigenous Policy Journal, 16 (October 2025), 1-27.

Gaul, Theresa Strouth and Scott M. Langston, Being in Relation: Indigenous Peoples, the Land, and Texas Christian University, 1873-2023, (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2025).

Gere, Ann Ruggles. Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Gordillo Brockmann, Bernard. “Julio César, Luiseño Musician: California Indian Oral Tradition, Franciscan Music Instruction, and California Missions, 1769-1846,” Ethnohistory, 72 (October 2025), 459-482.

Grande, Sandy. “Grounded Engagement Against Empire,” American Quarterly, 77 (June 2025), 251-255.

Greeson, Jennifer Rae. “Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO,” American Literature, 97 (June 2025), 237-270.

Grillot, Thomas. The Pursuit of Family: A History of Dakota and Lakota Family and Kinship on the Standing Rock Reservation, 1794-2022, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026.

Harjo, Joy and Dana Tiger, Washing My Mother’s Body: A Ceremony for Grief, (New York: Ten Speed Press, 2025).

Hillaire, Pauline R. Rights Remembered: A Salish Grandmother Speaks on American Indian History and the Future, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Hundley, James M. We Are Coast Salish: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Border Securitization, (Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2025).

Hutton, Paul. The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy and the Shaping of the American West, (New York: Dutton, 2025).

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

John, Maria. Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces: Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2026.

Johnston, Carolyn and Terri M. Baker. Living Indigenous Feminism: Stories of Contemporary Native American Women, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025).

Kelley, Lucas P. Marking Native Borders: Indigenous Geography and American Empire in the Early Tennessee Country, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).

Knolle, Lila Teeters. “Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota,” Ethnic History, 44 (Summer 2025), 44-72.

Kramer, Erin, The Ancient House: Constructing Community in the Seventeenth Century New York Borderlands, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2026).

Lavin, Lucianne and Elaine Thomas. Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025).

Lee, Joseph. Nothing More of this Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity, (New York: First One Signal Publishers, 2025).

Loendorf, Chris, ed., Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances our Collective Understanding of the Past, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2026.

McGillivray, Emily. “Marie=Joseph Angelique and Marie Manon : Remembering Slavery in Canadian History,” Journal of Women’s History, 37 (Summer 2025), 115-136.

Martin, Joseph, Betty Merchant and Jon Reyhner, “Privileging Tribal Values and Knowledge in Educational Leadership,” Journal of Educational Administration and History, 57 (November 2025), 363-378.

Martinez, Hope. “Among the Bodies of Our Children: Using Amici Briefs to Analyze State Motivation in Indigenous Law Cases,” Political Research Quarterly, 78 (December 2025), 1530-1543.

Meadows, William C. The Handgame of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache: Spirited Competition on the Southern Plains, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2025).

Miller, Robert. “The Indian Law Bombshell: McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020),” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 166 (June 2025), 50-62.

NoiseCat, Julian Brave. We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning, (Toronto: Random House Canada, 2025).

Oakdale, Suzanne and Josué Aciego, “Conversation with Shannon Speed on ‘Ending Violence Against Indigenous Women: Rethinking Human Rights and Tribal Sovereignty,” Journal of Anthropological Research, 81 (Summer 2025), 151-162.

Obomsawin, Anik, Lucille Muir, and Alexandra Jasmine Fiocco, “Understanding Sources of Suffering and Pathways to Healing in Mi’kmaq Communities,” International Indigenous Policy Journal, 16 (October 2025), 1-28.

Raibmon, Paige.  “Violence that Dispossesses : Continuity on the Settler Colonial Timeline,” Canadian Historical Review, 106 (September 2025), 375-404.

Reed, Julie L. Land, Language and Women: A Cherokee and American Educational History, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2026).

Rice, James D. “’Old Soldiours Trained Up in the Netherlands’: The Low Countries and Jamestown, 1572-1614,” William and Mary Quarterly, 82 (October 2025), 531-564.

Richards, Katherine Morton, “Thoughts and Prayers: Comparing Public Apologies for Residential Schools in Canada,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 48 (Issue 2, 2025).

Rine, Holly A. “Onondaga Lake in New York State: Seventeenth Century Origins of a Superfund Site,” Environment & History 31 (August 2025), 300-304.

Rockwell, Stephen J. “War and the Administrative State, 1776-1900,” Daedalus 154 (Fall 2025), 48-68.

Schemck, Theresa M. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640-1740, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Shi, Mary. “’Until Indian Title Shall Be…Fairly Extinguished’: The Public Lands, Indigenous Erasure, and the Origins of Government Promotion of Infrastructure in the United States,” Politics and Society, 53 (December 2025), 570-602.

Simpson, Mark. “Alexander McGillivray and the Old School Fellow: A Critical Examination of the Sources for McGillivray’s Youth,” Alabama Review, 78 (October 2025), 283-318.

Singerton, Jonathan and Markéta Krizova, Habsburg Encounters with Native America, (Budapest: Central European Press, 2025).

Stockwell, Mary, Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S, Grant and the American Indians, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2025).

Swensen, Thomas Michael. Where Next, Columbus? A Native Punk Mixtape. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2026).

Talaga, Tanya.  The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today, (Toronto: Hanover Square Press, 2025).

Tuininga, Matthew J. The Wars of the Lord: The Puritan Conquest of America’s First People, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025).

van der Meulin, Jim. “Traditions of Assembly in Three Dutch ‘Lands’ in the Seventeenth Century,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 7 (December 2025), 499-519.

Villeneuve, Matthew.  “Habeas Corpus and American Indian Boarding Schools: Indigenous Self-Determination in Body and Mind, 1880-1900,” Western Historical Quarterly, 56 (Summer 2025), 93-115.

Wapen, Steven G. “Cultural Dissonance: British Commandant James F. Mercer and the French Victory at Oswego, August 14, 1756,” New York History, 106 (Summer 2025), 94-120.

Welch, Levin Elias and Monica McDermott, “Native for a Day: Non-Native Perceptions of Native American Life,” Sociological Inquiry, 95 (November 2025), 715-731.

Wenger, Tisa. Spirits of Empire: How Settler Colonialism Made American Religion, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2026).

Working, Lauren. “The First General Assembly of Virginia: Deerskin, Ruffs, and the View from Tsenacommacah,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 7 (December 2025), 521-537.

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