What You Need to Read, June 2025

A lot of exciting new work has appeared, or is slated to appear, in the coming months. Take a look, share with your friends and, as always, if I have missed something that you think I ought to add to the list, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Adams, Mikaëla M., Jessica Dimka, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, and Lisa Sattenspiel, “’I would Advise That It Be Kept from the Schools at All Cost’”: The Influenza of 1918-1920 at Nonreservation Indian Boarding Schools,” Ethnohistory, 72 (2025), 1-39.

Alves, Alexandre Guilherme da Cruz, “The Alcatraz Occupation and the American Indian Movement, 1969-1971,” Journal of American History, 111 (March 2025), 735-749.

Andersson, Rani-Henrik, Logan Sutton and Thierry Veyrié, eds., Great Plains Ethnohistory: New Interdisciplinary Approaches, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Apekaum, Charles E. Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian, with Weston Le Barre and Benjamin R. Kracht, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

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

Bender, Margaret and Thomas N. Belt., The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).

Bigart, Robert J. Indian Chiefs vs. Government Agents: Politics and Law Enforcement on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, 1875-1910, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Bowman, Travis M. and Matthew A. Zembo, Clearing Iroquoia: New York’s Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025).

Canby, William C. American Indian Law in a Nutshell, 8th ed., (Eagan, MN: West Academic, 2025).

Coleman, Daniel, Ki’en Debicki and Bonnie M. Freeman, eds.,  Deyohahá:ge: : Sharing the River of Life, (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2025).

Conathan, Lisa. “We Are the Bearers of His Name: Memorialization of Ephraim Williams, Jr.,” New England Quarterly, 98 (June 2025), 171-201.

Cox, James H. “Lynn Riggs and the Art of Citizenship,” American Literary History, 37 (Spring 2025), 124-134.

Davis, Elisabeth C. Catholic Sisters, Narratives of Authority, and the Native American Boarding Schools, 1847-1918, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025).

Dixon, Bradley. Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).

Duwe, Samuel. Tewa Worlds: An Archaeological History of Being and Becoming in the Pueblo Southwest, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025).

Feathers, James K. and Shannon A. Mahan, “Luminescence Dating of Stone Structures in the Northeastern United States,” American Antiquity, 90 (January 2025), 174-190.

Frey, Benjamin E. Rising Above: Language Revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Galler, Robert W., Jr. Taking Charge, Making Change: Native People and the Transition of Education from Stephan Mission to Crow Creek Tribal School, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Glowacki, Donna M. and Scott Van Keuren, eds., Religious Transformation in the Late Pre-Hispanic Pueblo World, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025).

Hill, Norbert S. and Megan Minoka Hill, Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear, (Lakewood, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2025).

Hopkins, Kelly Y. Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025).

Howey, Meghan C. L., The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier, (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama 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, 2025).

Kamper, David. Rezballers and Skate Elders: Joyful Futures in Indian Country, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Kehoe, Jacqueline. “Archaeologists are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest As Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt: In The Waterways Connected to the Great Lakes, Researchers Uncover Boats That Tell the Story of Millennia of Indigenous History,” Smithsonian, Jan/Feb 2025, 1-2.

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

Lewis, Courney. “Appropriating Corporate Personhood: Constructions of the Person-Corporation and Native Nation Sovereignty,” American Anthropologist, 127 (March 2025), 108-120.

Link, Alessandra La Rocca. The Iron Horse in Indian Country: Native Americans and Railroads in the US West, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025).

Loew, Patty. “Indigenizing Mainstream News Coverage of Native Americans,” Journalism and Communication Monographs, 27 (Summer 2025), 146-155.

Lowry, David Shane. Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Mapes, Lynda V. The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2025).

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, Douglas K. Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis, (New York: Liveright, 2025).

Morseau, Blaire. Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Critical Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands and Waters, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025).

Nichols, David Andrew. To Be Men of Business: The Origins of Chickasaw Capitalism, 1700-1840, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming, April 2026).

Nooe, Evan. “’It’s In the Blood’: Settler Family Memories of Native Violence in the American South,” History and Memory, 37 (Spring/Summer 2025), 164-193.

Oberg, Michael Leroy. “Vast Indigenous America,” William and Mary Quarterly, 82 (April 2025), 299-306.

Prior, Charles W. A. Treaty Ground: Diplomacy and the Politics of Sovereignty, from Roanoke to the Republic, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming, May 2026).

Rosenthal, Nicolas G. Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Sanchez, Andrea Maria McComb. Of Corn and Catholicism: A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

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

Skogen, Larry C., ed., To Educate American Indians: Selected Writings from the National Education Association’s Department of Indian Education, 1905-1909, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Sowry, Nathan. Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Stamatopolou, Elsa. Indigenous Peoples in the International Arena: The Global Movement for Self-Determination, (New York: Routledge, 2025).

Thomas, Peter A. “King Philip’s War and the Ambush at Bloody Brook (Deerfield, 1675): Sorting Out the Details of History,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 53 (Winter 2025), 117-137.

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

Villeneuve, Matthew. “Habeas Corpus and American Indian Boarding Schools: Indigenous Self-Determination in Body and Mind, 1880-1930,” Western Historical Quarterly, 56 (Summer 2025), 93-115.

Warren, Stephen. “Red Codes and Removal: Racial Exclusion and Indigenous Persistence in the Midwest,” American Indian Quarterly, 48 (Spring 2024), 165-194.

Waselkov, Gregory A. and Ashley A. Dumas, “’I Have Been to the Country Above’: Indigenous Revitalizations in Late Sixteenth-Century Southeastern North America,” Ethnohistory

72 (April 2025), 187-229.

Wickstrom, Lucy. “’A Portion of Land that was Part of Nipmuc Territory’: Tufts University and the Grafton Land Struggle,” New England Quarterly, 98 (June 2025), 231-260.

Younging, Gregory, Warren Cariou, Deanna Reder, Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Jordan Abel. Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples, 2nd ed., (Edmonton, Alberta: Brush Education, Inc., 2025).

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