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.

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