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What You Need To Read, March 2020.

It has been an incredibly busy and trying semester thus far, so I have not posted as much as I normally do. Nonetheless, I have tried to keep up with the scholarship I see coming out.  Here is the latest quarterly bibliography of things I think you need to read. 

Ablavsky, Gregory. “Species of Sovereignty: Native Nationhood, The United States, and International Law, 1783-1795,” Journal of American History, 106 (December 2019), 591-613.

Adams, David W. “A Year of Crisis: Memory and Meaning in a Navajo Community’s Struggle for Self-Determination,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 42 (no. 4, 2018), 113-130.

Anderson, Chad. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia: History, Conquest, and Memory in the Native Northeast, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (Zitkala-Sa), “Help Indians Help Themselves”: The Later Writings of Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), (Lubboock: Texas Tech University Press, 2020).

Boudreaux, Edmond A and Maureen S. Meyers, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020).

Canby, William C. American Indian Law in a Nutshell, 7th Edition, (St. Paul: West Academic, 2020).

Carr, W. Kurt, et. al., The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

Clemmons, Linda M. Dakota in Exile: The Untold Stories of Captives in the Aftermath of the US-Dakota War, (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2019).

D’Oney, J. Daniel. A Kingdom of Water: Adaptation and Survival in the Houma Nation, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020).

Davies, Wade.  Native Hoops: The Rise of American Indian Basketball, 1895-1970, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020).

DeCoster, Jonathan, Conflict and Accommodation in Colonial New Mexico, (New York: Oxford university Press, 2020).

Deer, Ada. Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice.  (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019)

Deloria, Philip. Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019). 

Dorgan, Byron L. The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America. (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2019).

Eastman, Charles A.  The Soul of an Indian: An Interpretation, ed. Brenda Child, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

Fletcher, Matthew L. M. American Indian Tribal Law, (New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2020).

Fullagar, Kate, The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020).

Gagmpm. Celeste Marie and Sara K. Becker, “Native Lives in Colonial Times: Insights from the Skeletal Remains of Susquehannocks, A.D. 1575-1675,” Historical Archaeology, 54 (March 2020), 262-285.

Gilio-Whitaker, Dina.  As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock, (Boston: Beacon Press, 2019).

Hall, Ryan. Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020).

Hart, William B. “For the Good of their Souls: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020).

Hatton, Heather. “Narrating Sovereignty: The Covenant Chain in Intercultural Diplomacy,” Journal of Early American History, 9 (December 2019), 118-144

Lapham, Heather A. and Gregory A. Waselkov, Bears: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives in Native Eastern North America, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020).

Lappas, Thomas J. In League Against King Alcohol: Native American Women and the Woman’s Christiann Temperance Union, 1874-1933, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020).

Legg, John R.  “White Lies, Native Revisions: The Legacy of Violence in the American West,” Great Plains Quarterly 39 (Fall 2019), 341-362.

Lewis, Courtney, “Confronting Cannabis: Legalization on Native Nation Lands and the Impacts of Differential Federal Enforcement,” American Indian Quarterly, 43 (Fall 2019), 408-438.

Loftin, John D. and Benjamin E. Frey.  “Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives: A Cherokee and Religious Interpretation,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 43 (no. 1, 2019), 83-98.

Midge, Tiffany. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Momaday, N. Scott. The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems, (New York: Harper, 2020).

Murdoch, Sierra Crane. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country, (New York: Random House, 2020).

Nelson, Megan Kate. The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West, (New York: Scribner, 2020).

Rice, James D. “War and Politics: Powhatan Expansionism and the Problem of Native American Warfare,” William and Mary Quarterly, 77 (January 2020), 3-32.

Richotte, Jr., Keith. Claiming Turtle Mountain’s Constitution. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Sachs, Stephen M, et. al., Re-Creating the Circle: The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination,(Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020).

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, “Reconsidering Domesticity through the Lens of Empire and Settler Society in North America,” American Historical Review, 124 (October 2019), 1249-1266.

Smith, Andrea Lynn. “Settler Colonialism and the Revolutionary War: New York’s 1929 ‘Pageant of Decision.’” Public Historian, 41 (November 2019), 7-35.

Swensen, James R. “Bound for the Fair: Chief Joseph, Quanah Parker, and Geronimo and the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair,” American Indian Quarterly, 43 (Fall 2019), 439-470.

Wadewitz, Lissa K. “Rethinking the ‘Indian War’: Northern Indians and Intra-Native Politics in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands,” Western Historical Quarterly, 50 (Winter 2019), 339-361.