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What You Need to Read, September 2025

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            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).

New Publications

What You Need to Read, March 2025

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Assembling the quarterly bibliography brought to my attention some really interesting new work. As always, I hope this is useful and, if there is something that I missed, I hope you will let me know.

Adams, Mikaela M., Jessica Dimka, Svenn-Erik Mamelund, and Lisa Sattenspiel, “’I Would Advise That It Be Kept from the Schools at All Cost’: The Influenza of 1918-1920 at Nonreservation Indian Boarding Schools,” Ethnohistory, 72 (January 2025).

Apekaum, Charles E. Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian, Benjamin R Kracht and Weston La Barre, eds., (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Barnett, Lisa D. Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).

Baylis, Elena. “Looted Cultural Objects,” Columbia Law Review, 124 (December 2024), 183-220.

Brown, Kaitlin M and Shyra Ligouri. “Rediscovering Lost Narratives: The Hidden Cache of a High-Status Indigenous Family at Mission La Purisima Concepcion and its Significance in California History,” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 28 (September 2024), 612-641.

Burnham, Philip.  The Education of Clarence Three Stars: A Lakota American Life, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024).

Carson, William O., Felina M. Cordova-Marks and S.R. Carroll, “Exploring the Historical Complexities of Native Identity Formation, Blood Quantum, and Modern Tribal Enrollment Criteria,” Journal of Global Indigeneity, 8 (no.1, 2024), 1-16.

Carvalho, Joseph III., “The Cogamucks: A Multiracial and Multicultural Community of the Congamond Lake Region, Southwick, Massachusetts,” New England Journal of History, 81 (Fall 2024), 56-74.

Eure, Eve. “Intergenerational Testimonials and the Politics of Black Cherokee Belonging,” American Literature, 96 (December 2024), 671-690.

Fisher, Andrew. “What Land Back Looks Like: The Yakama Nation’s 160-Year Fight for Tract D., Oregon Historical Quartelry, 125 (Winter 2024), 326-359.

Fixico, Donald L. Chitto Harjo: Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025).

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).

Harrell, Bruce and Dan Strauss, “More Than Land Acknowledgment: Authentic Tribal and Urban Native Engagement,” National Civic Review, 113 (Fall 2024), 18-31.

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

Hopkins, Kelly, Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture, 1630-1783, (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025).

Isenberg, Andrew C. The Age of Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790-1850, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

John, Maria. Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces: Urban Indigenous Health Activism in the United States and Australia, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

Kamper, David. Rezballers and Skate Elders: Joyful Futures in Indian Country, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Kane, Randy. “Prelude to the Little Bighorn: Failure of the Allison Commission,” Nebraska History, 105 (Winter 2024), 192-201.

Kelley, Lucas P. Marking Native Borders: Indigenous Geography and American Empire in the Early Tennessee Country, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025).

Kent-Stoll, Peter. “Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1955-1972, Social Problems, 71 (November 2024), 1014-1031.

Kilgore, Paul. “The Rabbit Lake Cases: Minnesota Grapples with Questions of Shoreland, Lake and Mineral Ownership,” Minnesota History, 69 (Fall 2024), 94-105.

Kiser, William S. The Business of Killing Indians: Scalp Warfare and the Violent Conquest of North America, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025)

Kleber, Michaela. “’No Cause for Distrust’: Gender Plurality in Illinois-French First Contacts,” Journal of American History 111 (September 2024), 241-266.

Lowry, David Shane. Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

McCreary, Tyler and Frank Schmitz, “Engineering Indigenous Dispossession and Plantation Slavery in the Southeast Gulf Coast,” Journal of Historical Geography, 86 (December 2024), 107-116.

MacDonald, Douglas H. “When did People Arrive in Montana? An Excerpt from Land of Beginnings: Archaeology of Montana’s First Peoples,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 74 (Winter 2024), 28-39.

McGready, Blake. “Ravage the Country: Gendering Environmental Violence in the Revolutionary Hudson Valley,” Early American Studies, 23 (Winter 2025).

Meadows, William C. “’Just Give Me That Respect, I’m a Veteran’: The Kiowa Women Warriors Color Guard—Changing Women’s and Veteran’s Roles Among the Kiowa,” American Indian Quarterly, 48 (Winter 2024).

Midge, Tiffany and Devon A. Mihesuah, The Dreamcatcher in the Wry, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024).

Morseau, Blaire. Mapping Neshnabé Futurity: Celestial Currents of Sovereignty in Potawatomi Skies, Lands, and Waters, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025).

Myers, Kit W. The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025).

Ortiz, Beverley R. and Gregg Castro, “Respectful Tribal Consultation Protocols from Native California Perspectives,”Parks Stewardship Forum,  41 (2025), 83-93.

Ramones, Ikaika. “’Insurgent Indigeneity’: A New Threshold of Indigenous Politics,” American Quarterly, 76 (September 2024), 567-590.

Renoir, Megan and Sally Covert., “Recognition as Resilience: How an Unrecognized Indigenous Nation is Using Visibility as a Pathway toward Restorative Justice,” American Historical Review, 129 (December 2024), 1567-1598.

Richotte, Keith. The Worst Trickster Story Ever Told: Native America, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Constitution, (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2025).

Rogers, Donald W. “An Ongoing Presence: Native People in Progressive-Era Connecticut, 1890s-1910s,” Connecticut History Review, 63 (Fall 2024), 3-35.

Sanchez,Andrea Maria McComb. Of Corn and Catholicism: A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days, (Linclon: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Schenck, Theresa M. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640-1740, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Seymour, Deni J. “A Muted Legacy: O’Odham Encounters with the Coronado Expedition,” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 28 (December 2024), 1137-1167.

Shanta, David G. American Indian Cowboys in Southern California, 149301941: Survival, Sovereignty, and Identity, (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024).

Sowry, Nathan. Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2025).

Strang, Cameron B. “’Presumptuous Enough To Tell us that It Is A Fine Country’: Competing Visions During the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek Exploring Expedition of 1828,” Atlantic Studies, 21 (September 2024), 419-436.

Sussman, Naomi. “’Related Around the Mountain’: Relational Sovereignty and Coalition Building in the California Interior,” William and Mary Quarterly, 81 (October 2024), 721-766.

Thomas, Peter A. “King Philip’s War and the Ambush at Bloody Brook (Deerfield, 1675): Sorting out the Details of History,” Historical Journal of Massachusetts, 53 (Winter 2025), 117-137.

Thompson, Sally. Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024).

Van Dusen, Nancy E. “Indigenous War Captives and Mobility-Oriented Punishments: An Atlantic-Mediterranean World Perspective,” Atlantic Studies, 21 (September 2024), 342-371.

Vaughan, Bill. The Plot Against Native America: The Fateful Story of Native American Boarding Schools and the Theft of Tribal Lands, (New York: Pegasus, 2024).

Warren, Stephen. “Red Codes and Removal: Racial Exclusion and Indigenous Persistence in the Midwest,” American Indian Quarterly, 48 (Spring 2024).

Whiteley, Kathleen C. “History on the Lost Coast: Locating Wiyot Stories of Resilience in Nancy and Matilda Spear,” American Historical Review, 129 (December 2024), 1542-1566.

Whitt, Sarah A. Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2025).

Yarbrough, Fay A. Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025).

Native American Bibliography, New Publications

What You Need to Read, December 2023

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The fall semester has come to a close. There is a brief respite between the madness of the holidays and the beginning of the spring semester to take stock, see what is out there, and decide what to place on the reading list. As always, each quarter I can find plenty of stuff that interests me. I hope you find some interest in what is included here, and if I have missed something you think should be on the list, please let me know.

Abram, Susan. “Chess, Not Checkers: The Complexities of Historic Creek Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History, 47 (November 2023), 890-893.

Allread, W. Tanner. “The Specter of Indian Removal: The Persistence of State Supremacy Arguments in Federal Indian Law,” Columbia Law Review, 123 (October 2023), 1533-1610.

Archer, Seth. “Vaccination, Dispossession and the Indigenous Interior,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 97 (Summer 2023), 255-293.

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

Cooke, Jason: “Savagery Repositioned: Historicizing the Cherokee Nation,” American Indian Quarterly, 47 (Spring 2023).

Dorries, Heather and Michelle Daigle, Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance Across the Americas, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024).

Dubcovsky, Alejandra. Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023).

Dwider, Maraam A. and Kathleen Marchetti, “Tribal Coalitions and Lobbying Outcomes: Evidence from Administrative Rulemaking,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 53 (September 2023), 354-382.

Evans, Laura E. “The Strange Career of Federal Indian Policy: Rural Politics, Native Nations, and the Path Away from Assimilation,” Studies in American Political Development, 27 (October 2023), 89-110.

Fitz, Caitlin. “The Monroe Doctrine and the Indigenous Americas,” Diplomatic History, 47 (November 2023), 802-822.

Fixico, Donald L. “That’s What They Used to Say’: Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023).

Foxworth, Raymond, and Carew Boulding, “How Race, Resentment, and Ideology Shape Attitudes about Native American Inherent Rights and Policy Issues,” Political Research Quarterly, 76 (December 2023), 1843-1856.

Goeman, Mishauna. Settler Aesthetics: Visualizing the Spectacle of Originary Moments in The New World, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023).

Gone, Joseph P. “Indigenous Historical Trauma: Alter-Native Explanations for Mental Health Inequities,” Daedalus, 152 (Fall 2023), 130-150.

Gonzalez, Michael. “The Enduring Flame: Stress, Epigenetics, and the California Indian, 1769-2000,” American Indian Quarterly, 46 (Fall 2022).

Haefeli, Evan. “The Great Haudenosaunee-Lenape Peace of 1669: Oral Traditions, Colonial Records, and the Origin of Delaware’s Status as Women,” New York History, 104 (Summer 2023), 79-95.

Harris, Craig. Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023).

John, Randy H. and Alicia Puglionesi, “The Most Valuable Lands: Seneca Oil, Seneca’s Oil, and the Struggle for Land Rights at the Birthplace of an Industry,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal,  46 (no. 2, 2023), 1-28.

Johnson, Tai Elizabeth. “The Shifting Nature of Subsistence on the Hopi Indian Reservation,” Agricultural History, 97 (April 2023), 215-244.

Kantrowitz, Stephen. Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

Kenmille, Agnes Oshanee. Agnes Oshanee Kenmille: Salish Indian Elder and Craftswoman, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023).

Krupat, Arnold. From the Boarding Schools: Apache Students Speak, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023).

Lee, Wayne E. The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

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

Lloyd, Dana. “Haaland v Brackeen and the Logic of Discovery,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 41 (Summer 2023), 95-115.

Marshall, Stuart. “Dividing the Carolinas: Indians, Colonists and Slaves in the Prerevolutionary Boundary Dispute, 1763-1773,” Early American Studies, 21 (Winter 2023), 42-86.

May, Roy H., “’I Did Get Along with the Indians’: Joseph Hugo Wenberg, Missionary to the Aymara, Ponca, and Oneida, 1901-1950,” Methodist History, 61 (no. 1, 2023), 22-34.

McCutchen, Jennifer Monrie. “’They Will Know in the End that We are Men’: Gunpowder and Gendered Discourse in Creek-British Diplomacy, 1763-1776,” Ethnohistory, 70 (July 2023).

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

Miron, Rose. Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024).

Murray, Laura J. “’We are the Ones that Make the Treaty’: Michi Saagiig Lands and Islands in Southeastern Ontario,” Ethnohistory, 70 (July 2023).

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.

Peterson, Anna “’A Desire to Learn’: Native American Experiences in Lutheran Colleges, 1945-1955,” American Indian Quarterly, 47 (Winter 2023), 26-69.

Riggs, Brett H. “The Return of Standing Wolf,” North Carolina Historical Review, 100 (April 2023), 157-187.

Shannon, Timothy J. “In the Bushes: The Secret History of Anglo-Iroquois Treaty Making,” New York History, 104 (Summer 2023), 53-78.

Shrake, Peter. “Stambaugh’s Treaty,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 106 (Spring 2023), 24-37.

Smith, Lindsey Claire. Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023).

Stockel, H. Henrietta. Salvation Through Slavery: Chiracahua APaches and Priests on the Spanish Colonial Frontier, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2023).

Theobald, Brianna, “Dobbs in Historical Context: The View from Indian Country,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 97 (Spring 2023), 39-47.

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

Vigil, Kiara. “Language, Water, Dance: An Indigenous Meditation on Time,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 44 (no. 1, 2023), 168-182.

Voigt, Matthias Andre. “Warrior Women: Indigenous Women, Gender Relations, and Sexual Politics within the American Indian Movement and at Wounded Knee,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 46 (no. 3, 2023), 101-130.