What You Need to Read, March 2023

I hope your spring semester is going well, and that you are finding time to do the sorts of things that bring you joy.  The past few months have seen the publication of some exciting work on Indigenous communities across North America, and there is exciting work on the horizon, so there is plenty to read. You know the drill by now. If there is something that you think I missed, please let me now and I will update accordingly.

Arnott, Sigrid, David Maki and Franky Jackson. “Intervisibility, Invisibility, and Identity Conflict in the Dakota-US War of 1862: The Wood Lake Battlefield,” in Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battlefield, ed. Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley Ann Bissonnette, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2023).

Balfe, Thomas. “Disguise Hunting and Indian Otherness in Theodor De Brey’s Brief Narration of What Befell The French in Florida (1591)” in Animals and Race, ed. Jonathan W. Thurston-Torres, (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2023).

Beck, Paul Norman. Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022).

Blaakman, Michael A. Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).

Bohaker, Heidi. Doodem and Council Fire: Anishinaabe Governance Through Alliance, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Bond, Trevor James. Coming Home to Nez Perce Country: The Niimiipuu Campaign to Repatriate their Exploited Heritage, (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2021).

Borsk, Michael. “Conveyance To Kin: Property, Preemption, and Indigenous Nations in North America, 1763-1822,” William and Mary Quarterly, 80 (January 2023).

Burgio-Ericson, Klinton and Gwyneira Isaac, “Teluli’s Melancholy Picnic: Zuni Resistance to the Hendricks-Hodge Archaeological Expedition Amidst Assimilation-Era Politics,” New Mexico Historical Review, 97 (Spring 2022).

Cavalier, Crystal Ann. “Missing Murdered Indigenous Women on the Frontlines of North Carolina,”(Ed.D thesis, University of Dayton, 2022).

Matt Cohen, The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue was Colonized, (St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press, 2022).

Connolly, Emilie. “Strategies of Succession and the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree,” William and Mary Quarterly, 80 (January 2023).

Crossley, Laura. “’An Exhibit as Will Astonish the Civilized World’: Seeking Separate Statehood for Indian Territory at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Expedition,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 22 (January 2023), 20-40.

Daggar, Lori. Cultivating Empire: Capitalism, Philanthropy, and the Negotiation of American Imperialism in Indian Country, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).

Dixon, Brad. “’In Place of Horses’: Indigenous Burdeners and the Politics of the Early American South,” Ethnohistory, 70 (January 2023), 1-23.

Dubcovsky, Alejandra. Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South, (New Haven; Yale University Press, 2023).

Endres, David J. and Ben Black Bear, Native American Catholic Studies Reader: History and Theology, (Washington, D. C., Catholic University of America Press, 2022).

Flake, Logan. “Oklahoman By Blood: Land Tenure from Indian Territory to McGirt,” M.A. Thesis, Central Oklahoma University, 2022).

Flores, Dan. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America, (New York: Norton, 2022).

Glendenning, Audrey L. “The Transfer of Federal Public Lands to Tribal Trust Ownership: Statutes and Cases from 1970-2020,” Ph.D. thesis, University of Montana.

Hauptman, Laurence M. “The Grand River Cayugas and International Arbitration, 1910-1926,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 45 (no. 2, 2021), 39-64,

Hoffmann, Robert Davis. Raven’s Echo: (Tucson: University of Arizona pres,2022).

Jacobs, Michelle R. Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation, (New York: New York University Press, 2023).

Kasey R. Keeler, American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota, (St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press, 2023).

King, Julia A., Scott M. Strickland and G. Anne Richardson, “Rappahannock Oral Tradition, John Smith’s Map of Virginia, and Political Authority in the Algonquian Chesapeake,” William and Mary Quarterly, 80 (January 2023).

Kramer, Erin B. “Corlaer’s House: Diplomatic Spaces, Lineages, and Memory in the New York Borderlands,” William and Mary Quarterly 79 (October 2022), 499-532.

Lakomäki, Sami. “’Tell Them Nott To Bring Any Rum Here’: Alcohol Regulation, Authority, and Sovereignty Among the Shawnees, 1700-1860,” History and Anthropology, 33 (October 2022), 496-615.

Lee, Robert. “The Indian Boundary Line and the Imperialization of US-Indian Affairs, in The Early Imperial Republic: From the American Revolution to the US-Mexican War, eds. Michael A. Blaakman, Emily Conroy-Krutz, and Noelani Arista,(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).

Little, J. I. “The In-Between World of a Coast Salish Shaman: Charlie Wilson/Chliraminset of Kuper (Penelakut) Island, British Columbia, 1880-1904,” Social History 55 (May 2022), 49-69

Luevano, Terrence Bradley. “A GIS Model of Shell Exchange between Coastal Southern California and Northern Arizona,” (M.A. Thesis, University of Arizona, 2022).

McGruder, Melanie. “Missing and Murdered: Finding a Solution to Address the Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada and Classifying it as a ‘Canadian Genocide,’ American Indian Law Review, 46 (no 1, 2022).

Magiliari, Michael F. “’A Species of Slavery’: The Compromise of 1850, Popular Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Unfree Indian Labor in the American West,” Journal of American History, 109 (December 2022), 521-547.

Martini, Elspeth. “Dangerous Proximities: Anglo-American Humanitarian Paternalists in the Era of Indigenous Removal,” Western Historical Quarterly, 53 (Winter 2022), 379-404.

Meniketti, Marco G. The Long Shore: Archaeologiies and Social Histories of California’s Maritime Cultural Landscapes, (New York: Bergahn Books, 2023).

Metcalf, R. Warren. “Lamb of Sacrifice: Termination, the Mixed-Blood Utes, and the Problem of Indian Identity,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 91 (no. 1, 2023), 23-36.

Meyer, Sabine. Native Removal Writing: Narratives of Peoplehood, Politics, and Law, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022).

Negrin, Hayley “Cockacoeske’s Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, Indigenous Slavery, and Sovereignty in Early Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly, 80 (January 2023).

Odle, Mairin, Under the Skin: tattoos, Scalps, and the Contested Language of Bodies in Early America, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).

Ostler, Jeffrey. “Denial of Genocide in the California Gold Rush Era: The Case of Gary Clayton Anderson,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 45 (no. 2, 2021), 81-102.

Pawlicki, Sarah. “’I Hear that God Saith Work’: Wunnampuhtogig and Puritans Laboring for Grace in Massachusetts, 1643-1653,” Early American Studies, 20 (Spring 2022), 189-214

Peterson, Teresa R. Voices from Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers, (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2022).

Pluth, Edward J. “The White Red Men: The Improved Order of Red Men in Minnesota, 1875-1920,” Minnesota History, 68 (Winter 2022/2023). 134-143.

Quint, Jonathan. “New Gnadenhutten, Moravian Missionaries and Ojibwe Land Tenure on the Clinton River, 1781-1787,” Ethnohistory, 70 (January 2023), 25-44.


Richardson, Michael. “By, With, and Through: Officers Commanding Indian Scouts, 1867-1886: Creating Self and Shaping the West,” (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2022).

Riley, Angela R. and Sarah Glenn Thompson, “Mapping Dual Sovereignty and Double Jeopardy in Indian Country Crimes,” Columbia Law Review, 122 (November 2022), 1899-1956.

Ross, Frank. “Crow Dog’s Trial and Ledger Drawing: Cultural Production and Tribal Nation in the Maw of American Empire,” Western Historical Quarterly, 53 (Winter 2022), 325-352.

Rule, Elizabeth. “American Empire and the ‘Indian Problem’ in 2020: From Covid-19 Checkpoints to McGirt,” American Quarterly, 74 (September 2022), 783-789.

Stanciu, Cristina. The Makings and Unmakings of Americans: Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023).

Steinke, Christopher. “Indigenous Waterways and the Boundaries of the Great Plains,” Journal of the Early Republic, 42 (Winter 2022), 1-27.

Teeters, Lila M. “’A Simple Act of Justice’: The Pueblo Rejection of US Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 21 (October 2022), 301-318.

Trosper, Ronald L. Indigenous Economies: Sustaining Peoples and their Lands, (Tempe: University of Arizona Press, 2022).

Wakefield, Kyler T. “Native Americans Voting Rights in Utah: Federal Policy, Citizenship, and Voter Suppression,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 91 (no. 2, 2023), 4-22.

Winters, John C. “’The Great White Mother’: Harriet Maxwell Converse, the Indian Colony of New York City, and the Media, 1885-1903,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 21 (October 20

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