What You Need to Read, September 2025

            Some really exciting work has come to my attention, either recently published or forthcoming, that I wanted to share with you in the latest quarterly bibliography of new and noteworthy work in Native American/Indigenous studies.  I hope you will take a look, and if I have missed anything, please feel free to let me know. New quarterly bibliographies are posted every December, March, June and September, going back to early 2017.   Enjoy.

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

Beckmann, Sydney. “Pan-Indianism and Authenti(city): Refusing Colonial Borders,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2025), 59-70.

Bender, Margaret and Thomas N. Belt, The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023).

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

Crepelle, Adam. Becoming Nations Again: The Journey Towards Tribal Self-Determination, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Faull, Katherine M. Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence: The Diaries of the Moravian Mission to the Iroquois Confederacy, 1745-1755, (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2025).

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

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).

Gamble, Evan. “Into the Jurisdictionverse: How Tangled Jurisdictional Lines Around Indian Country Thwart Attempts to End the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women,” American Indian Law Review, 49 (no. 1, 2025), 57-96

Gauthier, Ethan Paul, ‘A Separate and Distinct Tribal Entity’: The Resilience of the Modoc Nation of Oklahoma,” Ph.D. diss., University of California at Riverside, 2025.

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

Giancarlo, Alexandra, Janice Forsyth and Braen TeHiwi., Beyond the Rink: Behind the Images of Residential School Hockey, (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2025).

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

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).

Haake, Claudia B. “The Value of Words: Wampum in Iroquois Diplomatic Petitions of the Removal Era,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 53 (June 2025), 510-544.

Havard, Gilles. Empire of Pelts: French Fur Traders in North America, 1600-1800, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Humalajoki, Reeta, “Bribed With Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era/Wardship and the Welfare State: Native Americans and the Formation of First-Class Citizenship in Mid-Twentieth-Century America,” American Studies in Scandinavia, 57 (May 2025), 85-90.

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).

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 Tenessee Country, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).

Kiel, Douglas Metoxen. Unsettling Territory: The Resurgence of the Oneida Nation in the Face of Settler Backlash, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026).

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

Kushner, Aaron. Cherokee Nation Citizenship : A Political History, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).

Lewis, Jacob. “The Native Fight for Hunting Rights: The Crow Tribe and Herrera v. Wyoming,” American Indian Law Review, 49 (no. 1, 2025), 97-115.

Minch-de-Leon, Mark. Indigenous Imhumanities: California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025).

Miron, Rose. Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2026).

Morris, Michael. Cherokee Odyssey: The Journey from Sovereign to Civilized, (Lanham,MD: Lexington Books, 2025).

Murphy, Thomas W. Unsettling Scripture: Iroquois and the Book of Mormon, (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2025).

Narrett, David E. The Cherokees: In War and Peace, 1670-1840, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2025).

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

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

Parent, Anthony S., Jr., Flocks of Birds: Virginia Colonialism into Native Country, 1670-1776, (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2025).  

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

Radde, Hugh D., Wendy G. Teeter, Desiree Martinez and Karimah Kennedy Richardson, “A Critical Evaluation of Radiocarbon Dates and Indigenous Settlement Patterns on Santa Catalina Island, California,” Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 20 (July-September 2025), 703-727.

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

Richards, Katherine Morton. “Thoughts and Prayers: Comparing Public Apologies for Residential Schools in Canada,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 48 (no. 2, 2025), 93-113.

Singer, Eliot A. “’Their Beautiful Storycraft’: Restoring the Original Manuscripts for Schoolcraft’s Algic Researches by William Johnson and Others,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 48 (no. 2,, 2025), 143-155.

Stone, Erin Woodruff. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025).

Usner, Daniel H. Jr., From Bayou Teche to Fifth Avenue: How Basket Diplomacy Saved the Chitimacha Indian Nation, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

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