What You Need to Read, September 2026

It took me longer to get this out this September. It has been a busy month. I hope you find this of value. If I have forgotten something, I hope you will let me know.

Ablavsky, Gregory. “The Long Legal History of Indian Removal,” Journal of the Civil War Era, 16 (September 2026), 503-527.

Aldern, Jared D. and Theresa Lynn Gregor, Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships, (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2026).

Anderson-Davis, Stuart. “The New York Indian Board and the Righteous Case for Removal,” Journal of the Early Republic, 46 (Fall 2026), 425-437.

Bauer, William. “Indigenous Travelers and the Making of the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 57 (Summer 2026), 29-89.

Bigart, Robert J. Indian Chiefs vs. Government Agents, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Braccio, Nathan. Creating New England, Defending the Northeast: Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds, 1500-1700, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2026).

Clark, J. Jeffery. Bundle: Life, Stories and Hope Across Diné Worlds, (Tempe: University of Arizona Press, 2027).

Conner, Thaddieus W. “Location is Everything: Proximity and the Diffusion of Tribal-State Gaming Compacts,” Political Research Quarterly, 79 (September 2026), 951-963.

Davis, Elisabeth C. “’What a great grace to have died in the Church’: A Case Study in Death Culture and Ars Moriendi at a Native American Catholic Boarding School,” U. S. Catholic Historian, 44 (Spring 2026), 105-127.

Davis, Steven L. Beating Heart of the World: The Taos Art Colony, the Pueblo Resistance, and the Battle for Indigenous America, (Albuquerque: High Road Books, 2026).

Dublin, Susan Alette. Malevolent Spirits Along the Hudson Valley: The Native American Alcohol Trade, 1609-1700, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2027).

Ellis, Elizabeth. “Gendered Violence: Native American Women and the Early Republic,” Journal of the Early Republic, 46 (Summer 2026), 243-253.

Ellis, Elizabeth. “Just Keep in Mind, America Does Have History’: Challenges and Collaborative Methods for Native American History,” Journal of American History, 113 (June 2026), 107-127.

Fine-Dare, Kathleen S. Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2027).

Fraser, Crystal. Talk Treaty to Me: Understanding the Basics of Treaties and Land in Canada, (Toronto: Collins, 2026).

Gage, Justin. “Wolf Chief, the ‘Irrepressable Letter Writer’: Native American Activism through Correspondence in the Early Reservation Years,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 25 (July 2026), 247-268.

Garrison, Tim Alan. Sovereignty on Trial: The Cherokee Nation and the Fight for Native Rights, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2026).

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

Gillingham, John.  “Writing the History of the Pequot War,” Historical Research 99 (February 2-26), 91-112.

Glover, William. “`Witness Our Hands’: The Rhetoric of Indigenous Petitions in Colonial Massachusetts,” Early American Literature, 61 (2026), 285-321.

Gordillo Brockmann, Bernard. “The Mission Soundscape: Church Bells, Spanish Colonization, and California Indians, 1769-Present,” Pacific Historical Review, 95 (Summer 2026), 317-351.

Haaland, Deb. A Voice Like Mine: A Memoir, (New York: Henry Holt, 2026)

Kelton, Paul. Hidden Terrors: The Scourge of Cholera in Jackson’s America, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026).

Kemble, Rene, Tandra Morris and Erin Dyke, “Teaching and Learning with Indigenous Oral History: Intergenerational Truthtelling of Boarding Schools in Oklahoma,” Oral History Review, 53 (September 2026), 461-494.

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

King, Farina. “Aunt Helen and Navajo Code Talkers: Oral Histories with Diné Warriors,” Oral History Review, 53 (September 2026), 324-344.

Kokomoor, Kevin. The Cherokee War of 1776: Native Destruction at the Dawn of American Independence, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026).

Kosc, Kallie M. The Education of Mary Peters: Stockbridge Mohican Women and Community Survivance in Early America, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2027).

Larkin-Gilmore, Juliet. “Hygienic Dispossession: Allotment and the Cherokee and Choctaw Health Drives of 1917,” Western Historical Quarterly, 56 (Winter 2025), 317-334.

Legg, John R. “Convicted by Design: The Trials of Sakpe and Wakhan Ozanzan, 1864-1865,” Western Historical Quarterly, 57 (Autumn 2026), 203-220.

Little, Tarisa Dawn. “`Traditional Accounts from the Tide of Oblivion’: Wyandot Continuity Across Time and Place, 1820-1922,” Ethnohistory, 73 (April 2026), 187-215.

Magra, Christopher Paul. America’s First War: The Military History of the Declaration of Independence, (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2026).

Mancall, Peter C. Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026).

Michno, Gregory F. A Decent Excuse for an Indian War: How the Frontier Myth, Race, and Class Killed Reconstruction, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2027).

Monroe McCutchen, Jennifer and Jamie Myers. Gender in the Native South: A Reinterpretation of Women, Men, and Two-Spirit Peoples before 1850, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2027).

Nadeau, Sierra Biidaaban. What the Ancestors Say: One Journalist’s Intimate Investigation into Indian Boarding Schools, (Minneapolis: Broadleaf, 2026).

Nelson, Megan Kate.  The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier, (New York: Scribner, 2026).

O’Neal, Jennifer R. Out of the Shadows: Native American International Activism, 1975-1981, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026).

Oberg, Michael Leroy. The Central Fire of the Iroquois: A Five-Hundred Year History of the Onondaga Nation, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2026).

Oertel. Kristen Tegtmeier, Seeking Freedom in Indian Country: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Resistance within the Five Tribes, 1790-1861, (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 2026).

Osborn, Katherine M. B. Sovereignty, Services, and Citizenship: Indigenous Political Activism in Arizona, 1945-1975, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2027).

Parkin, Katherine J. “’Here Come the Beads and Trinkets’: Native Americans and the 1976 Bicentennial,” Modern American History 9 (July 2026), 211-236.

Pearkes, Eileen Delehanty.  Travels with Dellie: Finding Human Ecology and Hope in Indigenous Landscapes, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2027).

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

Quint, Jonathan. “Anxious to be Exactly Informed’: Information and Empire in the Great Lakes Basin, 1776-1783,” Journal of the Early Republic, 46 (Fall 2026), 381-393.

Rosier, Paul. Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans’ Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025), (New York: Norton, 2026).

Saffa, Sarah N. “Nursing a School and a Profession at Kiowa Indian Hospital,” Ethnohistory 73 (July 2026), 263-300.

Schroedel Jean Reigh, Melissa Rogers and Edward Headington, “Indian Boarding Schools for the Gain of White Settlers: A Case Study of the Rapid City Indian School,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2026. Online.

Shannon, Timothy J. “Native Pennsylvanians in the Revolutionary Era,” Pennsylvania History, 93 (Summer 2026), 453-465.

Smithers, Gregory D. The Water Carriers: A Journey Through Cherokee History and the Secret Life of Rivers, (New York: Pegasus Books, 2026).

Solnit, Rebecca. The Beginning Comes after the End: Notes on a World of Change, (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2026).

Steele, Ian. “Shawnee Origins of Their Seven Years’ War,” Ethnohistory 53 (no. 4, 2026), 657-687.

Stewart, Austin. “The Other Cherokee Removal: Property and Dispossession in the Revolutionary Texas Borderlands, 1820-1840,” Journal of the Early Republic, 46 (Summer 2026), 171-202.

Tejada, Vivien. “Schooling and Servitude: Menominee Children, Bound Labor, and the Struggle for Authority in Michigan Territory, 1827-1834,” William and Mary Quarterly, 83 (April 2026), 223-258.

Weyhing, Richard. “`They Closed their Eyes and Threw Their Bodies in the Path of Death’: The Menominee at War in Early America, 1712-1756,” Ethnohistory, 73 (July 2026), 301-325.

Working, Lauren. “The First General Assembly of Virginia: Deerskin, Ruffs and the View from Tsenacommacah,” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 7 (December 2025), 521-537.

Zimmerman, Julie A. “Storytelling in the Creation of Cahokia,” American Antiquity, 91 (April 2026), 322-346.

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