What You Need to Read, September 2024

Welcome to the new school year. I hope you all had a restful or productive summer, which ever you prefer. Here is your third reading list for the year. A lot of exciting stuff on this list, with more items than my busy schedule will permit me to look at. If I have missed something that you would like me to look at, please reach out.

Adams, Todd, Gary Clayton Anderson and R. David Edmunds, A Reservation Undiminished: The Saginaw Chippewa Case and Native Sovereignty, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024).

Bales, Kevin and Christine Annerfalk, “Introducing the Euro-Invasion Conflict Database, 1513-1901,” Western Historical Quarterly, 55 (Summer 2024), 127-146.

Ballew, Zada “’The Indian Side of the Question’: Settling the Story of Potawatomi Removal in the Twentieth Century Midwest,” Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, 23 (April 2024), 170-189

Bess, Jennifer. “The ‘Crisis’ of Native American Mobility: Border Crossing and the Influence of International Relations on Indian Policy, 1896-1898,” Pacific Historical Review, 93 (Spring 2024), 169-201.

Brownstone, Arni. Indigenous War Painting on the Plains: An illustrated History, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024).

Canessa, Andrew and Manuela Lavina Picq, Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2024).

Coats, Cathy. To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunck, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota, (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2024).

Dennison, Jean. Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

Dennison, Jean. “Beyond #LandBack: The Osage Nation’s Strategic Relations,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 47 (No. 2, 2024).


Fawcett, R. Ben, Ryan Walker and Yale Belanger, “Liminal Spaces and Structural Limitations of First Nation Urban Reserves,” International Indigenous Policy Journal, 15 (April-June 2024), 1-25.

Fixico, Donald L. The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024).

Fixico, Donald L. Chitto Harjo: Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024).

Fixico, Donald L. Indian Treaties in the United States: An Encyclopedia and Documents Collection, (New York: Bloomsbury, 2024).

Gray, Kathryn N. and Amy M. E. Morris, Mataoka, Pocahontas, Rebecca: Her Atlantic Identities and Afterlives, (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2024).

Gross, Stephen and Elizabethada A. Wright, “Unorthodox Pleas for Contract Schools: Mother Mary Joseph Lynch and the Boarding School for Native Students in Morris, Minnesota, Catholic Studies, 135 (Summer 2024), 23-49.

Hall, Ryan. “Patterns of Plunder: Corruption and the Failure of the Indian Reservation System, 1851-1887,” Western Historical Quarterly, 55 (Spring 2024), 21-38.

Her Many Horses, Emil, et al., Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains, (Washington: National Museum of the American Indian, 2024).

Hughes, Sakina M. Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts: Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

Jaratt-Snider, Karen and Marianne O. Nielsen, eds., Indigenous Health and Justice, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2024).

Keeler, Kasey. “Beyond the White Picket Fence: American Indians, Suburbanization, and Homeownership,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 47 (no 2, 2024), 97-115.

Kiser, William. The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024).

Konkle, Maureen. What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

Lannutti, Lena. “’We Have No Tribes’: How Indigenous Boys Helped Close Philadelphia’s Indian Boarding School,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 147 (January 2024), 54-76.

Lavine, Lucianne and Elaine Thomas, eds., Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2023.

La Vere, David. “Making War on the Deer: Deer Hunting and Deerskins in Colonial North Carolina,” North Carolina Historical Review, 101 (January 2024), 24-48.

McLerran, Jennifer. A New Deal for Navajo Weaving: Reform and Revival of Diné Textiles, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2024).

Mihesuah, Devon A. The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024).

Morman, Todd Allin. Many Nations Under Many Gods: Public Land Management and American Indian Sites, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024).

Mott, Carrie. “’The Last Victims of the Indian War’: Celilo Falls, the Dalles Dam, and Infrastructural Colonization,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 114 (Issue 1), 91-106.

Parkhurst, Melissa. “Thematic Analysis of Music-Making in US Residential Schools: Navigating Colonial Archives and Honouring Indigenous Perspectives,” History of Education, 53 (January 2024), 174-188.

Rankin, Charles. “A Western Pocahontas: Myth, Reality, and Memorialization for Spotted Tail’s Daughter, Mni-Akuwin,” Western Historical Quarterly, 55 (Summer 2024), 105-226.

Rapaport, Moshe, ed., Salish Archipelago: Environment and Society in the Islands Within and Adjacent to the Salish Sea, Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs, (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2024).

Round, Philip H. Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

van de Logt, Mark. Between the Floods: A History of the Arikaras, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024).

Vaughn, Bill. The Plot Against Native America: Uncovering the Fateful Legacy of the Native American Boarding Schools, (New York: Pegasus Books, 2024).

Voight, Matthias Andre, Reinventing the Warrior: Masculinity in the American Indian Movement, 1968-1973, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2024).

Whitman, Kyle. “Indians Fish Just Because It Is Their Right to Fish: Michigan Native Americans and the Battle for Fishing Rights,” Michigan Historical Review, 50 (Spring 2024), 45-63.

Zimmer, Eric Steven. Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023).

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