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What You Need to Read, March 2026

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Alves, Alexandre Guilherme da Cruz, “The Alcatraz Occupation and the American Indian Movement, 1969-1971,” Journal of American History, 111 (March 2025), 735-749.

Beyreis, David. “`The Lawless Whites on our Frontier Must be Restrained’: Outlaws, Cheyennes, and the Origins of the Red River War, 1874-1875,” Western Historical Quarterly, 56 (Winter 2025), 279-294.

Bickers, Aamaawia John. The Miami Nation: A Middle Path for Indigenous Nationhood, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2026).

Brunner, Benedikt. “Sensory Encounters on Martha’s Vineyard: Native American Deathways in Colonial New England around 1700,” Renaissance and Reformation, 48 (Winter/Spring 2025), 207-237.

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

Clough, Joshua. “Bribed with out Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 103 (Fall 2025), 338-340.

Companion, Michele. “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls: Opportunities Based on Collaborative Governance,” in Michele Companion and Jason D. Rivera, Indigenous Experiences with Collaborative Governance: Moving Toward Equitable Partnerships, (New York: Bergahn, 2026).

Denetclaw, Dorothy and Matt Fitzsimmons, The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2026.

Estes, Nick. “Awakening the Red Giant: American Indian Anti-Imperialism and the First Decade of the International Indian Treaty Council,” Wicazo Sa Review, 40 (Spring-Fall 2025), 32-61.

Fischer, John Ryan. “`The Mississippi was Our River’: Sauk and Meskwaki Geopolitical Strategies on the Nineteenth-Century Prairie,” Early American Studies, 23 (Fall 2025), 423-450.

Fisher, Linford. Stealing America: The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in American History, (New York: Liveright, 2026).

Fletcher, Mattew L. M. Tribal Law in a Nutshell, (Eagan, MN: West Academic Publishing, 2026).

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

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).

Hall, Timothy d. “`Getting A Bushel of Money for the School’: Samson Occom’s Practice of Christian Indigeneity on his English Fundraising Tour, 1766-1768,” Fides et Historia 57 (Summer/Fall 2025), 24-42.

Hidalgo Reese, Elizabeth. “The Three Phases of the Tribal Self-Determination Era and the Phase Out of Federal Paternalism,” Columbia Law Review, 125 (December 2025), 205-241.

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).


Johnson, Eric Daniel and Zoë Antoinette Eddy, “Beads of Settler Bafflement and Indigenous Futurity: White-Owned Wampum Factories and Native Baby Yoda,” American Anthropologist, 127 (December 2025), 707-719.

Johnson, Kimberley Morales, Sean Milanovich, and Beth Rose Middleton Manning, “Native Land Trusts: Centering Relationality, Justice, and Healing,” Environmental History, 30 (April 2025), 360-371.

Kinealy, Christine. “Gadugi—The Cherokee Gift To Ireland in 1847,” History Ireland, 34 (January/February 2026), 22-24.

Law, Anna O. Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2026).

Manshel, Hanna. “In Perfect Bad Faith: Race and Attacks on the Indian Child Welfare Act,” American Quarterly, 77 (December 2025), 613-636.

Masta, Stephanie, ed., Indigenous Voices of Girls and Women in Educational Spaces: Celebrating Presence, (New York: Routledge, 2026).

Miller, Robert J. “The Indian Law Bombshell: McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020),” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 166 (June 2025), 50-62.

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

Montoya, Sarah. “Moving Toward Accountability: Challenging Settler Narratives Through Interpretive Shifts and Tribal Engagement at Anza National Historic Trail,” Parks Stewardship Forum, 42 (no. 1, 2026), 101-110.

Moral, Paulina Garcia-Del, “State Complicity: Settler Colonialism, Multisided Violence, and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada,” Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society, 32 (Fall 2025), 560-583.

Night Pipe, Michelle L., Felicia Bartley, Fallon Carey and Samuel Torres. “Steps on the Healing Journey: Investigating the Pipestone Indian Boarding School Archival Records for Survivors, Descendants, Tribes and National Park Visitors,” Parks Stewardship Forum, 42 (no. 1, 2026), 139-149.

O’Neill, Collen M. Waging Sovereignty: Native Americans and the Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina 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).

Panich, Lee M. and Gustavo Flores, We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2026).

Pearce, Matthew. “Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 103 (Fall 2025), 340-342.

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

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

Silverman David J. The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States, (New York: Bloomsbury, 2026).

Simpson, Mark. “Alexander McGillivray and the Old School Fellow: A Critical Examination of the Sources for McGillivray’s Youth,” Alabama Review, 78 (October 2025), 283-318.

Stauroudis, Christianna, “’Let My People Have a Right:’ The Native Activism of Arapaho Chief Paul Boynton,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 103 (Fall 2025), 291-318.

Suarez, Sasha Maria. An Ojibwe Home in the City: White Earth Women and Community Organizing in Minneapolis, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2026.

Sweet, Jameson. Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2025).

Webster, Rebecca. “Fueled By Conflict: Intergovernmental Relations on the Oneida Reservation,” in Companion and Rivera, Indigenous Experiences with Collaborative Governance: Moving Toward Equitable Partnerships, (New York: Berghahn Books, 2026).

Welch, Levin Elias and Monica McDermott, “Native for a day: Non-Native Perceptions of Native American Life,” Sociological Inquiry, 95 (November 2025), 715-731.

Wellman, Judith. “`Here We Wish To Lay Our Bones in Peace’: Haudenosaunee People in the Burned-Over District of Upstate New York,” Journal of the Early Republic, 46 (Spring 2026), 71-86.

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.

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What You Need to Read, September 2023

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I hope this finds you well. Classes have begun at Geneseo, the students are back on campus, and now it is time to begin balancing all the tasks facing the college professor.  This is your quarterly installment of “Things You Need to Read.” Hope you find this helpful.  As always, if I have missed anything, please do not hesitate to let me know about that.

Aune, Stefan. Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023).

Brown, Hana E. “Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Cast Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act,” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 9 (September 2023), 232-251.

Carlose, Ann M. “The Country They Built: Dynamic and Complex Indigenous Economies in North America before 1492,” Journal of Economic History, 83 (June 2023), 319-358.

Collar, Amanda. “Indigenous Peoples’ Limited Access to Reproductive Care,” Annals of Internal Medicine, March 2023.

DasSarma, Anjali and Lindford D. Fisher, “The Persistence of Indigenous Unfreedom in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1704-1804,” Slavery and Abolition, 44 (June 2023), 267-291.

Davis, Elisabeth. “’Any Violation of this Arrangement’: Catholic Negotiations at the Carlisle Indian School, 1883-1918,” Pennsylvania History, 90 (Summer 2023), 321-443.

Dwider, Maraam A and Kathleen Marchetti, “Tribal Coalitions and Lobbying Outcomes: Evidence from Administrative Rulemaking,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 53 (September 2023), 354-392.

Edmunds, R. David. Voices in the Drum: Narratives from the Native American Past, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023).

Friedman, Joseph, Helena Hansen and Joseph P. Gone. “Deaths of Despair and Indigenous Data Genocide,” The Lancet, 401 (March 2023).

Glancy, Diane and Linda Rodriguez, eds., Unpapered: Writers Consider Native American Identity and Cultural Belonging, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023).

Hoagland, Serra J. and Albert Steven, Wildlife Stewardship on Tribal Lands: Our Place is in Our Soul, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023).

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

Kiser, William S. “The Business of Killing Indians: Contract Warfare and Genocide in the U.S-Mexico Borderlands,” Journal of American History, ## (June 2023), 15-39.

Krupat, Arnold. “The Wheelocks and the Clouds at Odds: Some Differences Among Red Progressives in the Early Twentieth Century,” American Indian Quarterly, 46 (Fall 2022).

Leroux, Darryl, “State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 46 (no. 2, 2023), 53-84.

Mauro, Hayes Peter. The Art of Americanization at the Carlisle Indian School, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2023).

Midtrød, Tom Arne. “’A People Before Useless’: Ethnic Cleansing in the Wartime Hudson Valley, 1754-1763.” Early American Studies, 21 (Summer 2023), 428-459.

Monnett, John H. “The Collapse of Cheyenne Supremacy on the Central Plains,” Nebraska History, 104 (Fall 2023), 128-145.

Olson, Greg. “A ‘Rebellious District and Dangerous Locality’: Cherokee Soldiers and Refugees in Neosho, Missouri, 1862-1863,” Missouri Historical Review, 117 (July 2023), 235-253.

Parins, James W. Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023).

Peyton, John T. “’The Land We Have We Wish To Keep’: Miami Autonomy and Resistance to Removal in Indiana, 1812-1826,” Indiana Magazine of History, 119 (June 2023), 139-176.

Schmader, Matthew F. “Pueblo Resistance and Inter-Ethnic Conflict: The 1540-1542 Vazques de Coronado Expedition to the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico,” Kiva, 89 (June 2023), 167-191.

Stockel, H. Henrietta. Salvation Through Slavery: Chiricahua Apaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2022).

Toups, Eric. “Indian Men and French ‘Women’: Fragile Masculinity and Fragile Alliances in Colonial Louisiana, 1699-1741,” Early American Studies, 21 (Summer 2023), 353-379.

Treuer, Anton. Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but were Afraid to Ask, (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023).

Van de Logt, Mark. Between the Floods: A History of the Arikaras, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023).

van Deusen, Nancy E. “In the Tethered Shadow: Native American Slavery, African Slavery, and the Disappearance of the Past,” William and Mary Quarterly, 80 (April 2023), 355-388.

Van Gorder, Megan. “Uncovering Comparative Indigenous Inquiries at the Homewood Boarding School in Peoria County,” Illinois Heritage, 26 (July/August 2023), 11-12.

New Publications

What You Need to Read, March 2023

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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