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What You Need to Read, March 2019

Adams, James David, Jr., Troy Phipps, “Los Angeles Area Indian Land Ownership After the Civil War,” Journal of the West, 57 (Spring 2018) 7-13.

Andersson, Rani-Henrik and Raymond J. DeMallie, A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018)

Beck, Robin. Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).

Beyreis, David. “The Chaos of Conquest: The Bents and the Problem of American Expansion, 1846-1849,” Kansas History,  41 (Summer 2018), 74-89.

Bruchac, Margaret M. “Broken Chains of Custody: Possessing, Dispossessing, and Repossessing Lost Wampum Belts,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 163 (March 2018), 56-105.

Buchkoski, John J. “’Being Judged by its Fruits’: Transforming Indian Lands into Orchards along the Arkansas River, 1800-1867,” Great Plains Quarterly, 39 (Winter 2019), 39-58.

Burns, Michael “The Civil War on the Northern Plains: John Pope’s Military Policies against the Sioux in the Department of the Northwest, 1862-1865,” Great Plains Quarterly, 38 (Winter 2018), 77-103.

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Catalano, Joshua Casmir. “Blue Jacket, Anthony Wayne, and the Psychological and Symbolic War for Ohio, 1790-1795,” Ohio History, 126 (Spring 2019), 5-34.

Cipolla, Craig N., James Quinn, and Jay Levy. “Theory in Collaborative Indigenous Archaeology: Insights from Mohegan,” American Antiquity, 84 (January 2019), 127-142.

Donis, Jay. “No Man Shall Suffer for the Murder of a Savage: The Augusta Boys and the Virginia and Pennsylvania Frontiers,” Pennsylvania History,86 (Winter 2019), 38-66.

Dubcovsky, Alejandra. Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Estes, Nick and Jaskiran Dhillon, eds., Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

Fowles, Severin, et. al., “Comanche New Mexico: The Eighteenth Century,” in New Mexico and the Pimeria Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest, ed. John G. Douglass and William M. Graves, (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2017)

Garret-Davis, Josh. “The Intertribal Drum of Radio: The Indians for Indians Hour and Native American Media, 1941-1951,” Western Historical Quarterly, 49 (Autumn 2018) 249-273.

Gillreath-Brown, Andrew and Tanya M. Peres, “Identifying Turtle Shell Rattles in the Archaeological Record of the Southeastern United States,” Ethnobiology Letters, 8 (no. 1, 2017), 109-114

Grillot, Thomas. “The Point of View of a Stone: Looking at the Colonization of the Northern Plains from the Standing Rock,” Ethnohistory, 66 (January 2019), 49-70

Hansen, Karen V., Grey Osterud, and Valerie Grim, “Land Was One of the Greatest Gifts: Womens Land Ownership in Dakota Indian, Immigrant Scandinavian, and African American Communities,” Great Plains Quarterly, 38 (Summer 2018), 251-272.

Handsman, Russel G. “Survivance Strategies and the Materialities of Mashantucket Pequot Labor in the Later Eighteenth Century,” Historical Archaeology, 52 (March 2018), 51-69.

Harper, Rob. Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Hart, Siobhan and Paul A. Shackel, Colonialism, Community and Heritage in Native New England, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2019).

Hauptman, Laurence M. Coming Full Circle: The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Henry, Robert, et. al., eds. Global Indigenous Health: Reconciling the Past, Engaging the Present, Animating the Future. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018).

Hodge, Adam R. Ecology and Ethnogenesis: An Environmental History of the Wind River Shoshones, 1000-1868, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Kelderman, Frank. “Rock Island Revisited: Black Hawk’s Life, Keokuk’s Oratory, and the Critique of US Indian Policy,” The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 6 (Spring 2018), 67-92.

Keyser, James D. “Cheval Bonnet: A Crow Calling Card in the Blackfeet Homeland,” Ethnohistory, 65 (January 2018) 129-155.

Koehler, Rhiannon. “Hostile Nations: Quantifying the Destruction of the Sullivan-Clinton Genocide of 1779,” American Indian Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2018), 427-453.

Kokomoor, Kevin. Of One Mind and of One Government: The Rise and Fall of theh Creek Nation in the Early Republic, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Lampitt, Bradley R. “The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory: Historiography and Prospects for New Directions in Research,” Civil War History, 64 (June 2018), 121-145.

Landrum, Cynthia Leanne. The Dakota Experience at Flandreau and Pipestsone Indian Schools, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

McNeil, Kent. “Louisiana Purchase: Indian and American Sovereignty in the Missouri Watershed,” Western Historical Quarterly, 50 (Spring 2019). 17-42.

Madley, Benjamin. “California’s First Mass Incarceration System: Franciscan Missions, California Indians, and Penal Servitude, 1769-1836,” Pacific Historical Review, 88 (Winter 2019), 14-47.

Miller, Douglas K. Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Nielsen, Marianne O.  and Karen Jarratt-Snider, Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018)

Osburn, Katherine M. B., “Strategic Citizenship: Negotiating Public Law 280 in Arizona, 1953-1968,” Ethnohistory, 66 (June 2019), 1-20.

Ostler, Jeffrey. Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019).

Pawling, Micah A. “A ‘Labyrinth of Uncertainties’: Penobscot River Islands, Land Assignments, and Indigenous Women Proprietors in Nineteenth Century Maine,” American Indian Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2018), 454-487.

Pexa, Christopher J. Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhota Oyate, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

Rindfleisch, Bryan. “The Indian Factors: Kinship, Trade, and Authority in the Creek Nation and American South, 1740-1800,” Journal of Early American History, 8 (2018), 1-29.

________. “’We Are Now, As We Have Always Been, A Free and Independent People’: The Familial and Interpersonal Dimensions of Creek Indian Sovereignty, 1783-1800,” New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, 15 (Spring 2018), 33-53.

Rivas, Brenna Gardner. “An Unequal Right to Bear Arms: State Weapons Laws and White Supremacy in Texas, 1836-1900,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 121 (January 2018), 285-303.

Robbins, Sarah Ruffing.  “Reclaiming Voices from Indian Boarding School Narratives,” in Reclaiming Voices from Indian Boarding School Narratives, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), 135-179.

Sedgwick, John. Blood Moon: Am American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation, (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018).

Shreve, Bradley G. “From Gallup to Grandiosity and Back Again: The National Indian Youth Council and the Roots of Red Power,” New Mexico Historical Review, 93 (Fall 2018), 377-397.

Smithers, Gregory D. Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

Strong, John A. America’s Early Whalemen: Indian Shore Whalers on Long Island, 1650-1750, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018).

Toulouse, Pamela Rose. Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Schools, (Winnipeg: Portage and Main Press, 2018).

Trafzer, Clifford. Fighting Invisible Enemies: Health and Medical Transitions among Southern California Indians, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Treuer, David. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, (New York: Riverhead Books, 2019).

Truden, John. “Reexamining Dick Wilson: Oglala Politics, Nation Building, and Local Conflict, 1972-1976,” South Dakota History, 48 (Fall 2018), 173-199.

Van de Logt, Mark. Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

VanWinkle, Tony N. and Jack R. Friedman, “American Indian Landowners, Leasemen, and Bureaucrats: Property, Paper, and the Poli-Technics of Dispossession in Southwestern Oklahoma,” American Indian Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2018), 508-533.

Walkiewicz, Kathryn. “Pressing for Sequoyah: Print Culture and the Indian Territory Statehood Movement,” Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanist, 6 (Fall 2018), 335-364.

Warren, James A. God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England, (New York: Scribner, 2018).

Waterman, Stephanie J. and Shelly C. Lowe, Beyond Access: Indigenizing Programs for Native American Student Success, (Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2018).

Watson, Samuel. “Military Learning and Adaptation Shaped by Social Context: The U. S. Army and Its ‘Indian Wars,’ 1790-1890,” Journal of Military History, 82 (April 2018) 373-438.

Wilkins, David E. Documents of Native American Political Development: 1933 to the Present, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

What You Need to Read, December 2018

Adams, James David, Jr., and Troy Phipps. “Los Angeles Area Indian Land Ownership after the Civil War,” Journal of the West, 57 (Spring 2018), 7-13.

Andersson, Rani Henrik. A Whirlwind Passed Through Our Country: Lakota Voices of the Ghost Dance, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

Arnett, Chris and Jesse Morin. “The Rock Painting/Xela:Is of the Tsleil-Waututh: A Historicized Coast Salish Practice,” Ethnohistory, 65 (January 2018), 101-127.

Ben-Zvi, Yael. Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories, (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2018).

Berkey, Curtis G., Alexandra C. Page and Lindsay G. Robertson, “The Misuse of History in Dismissing Six Nations Confederacy Land Claims,” American Indian Law Review 42 (number 2, 2018).

Billings, Andrew C. Mascot Nation: The Controvery over Native American Representations in Sports, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018).

Birch, Jennifer and Victor D. Thompson. The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America, (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2018).

Bjork, Katharine. Prairie Imperialists: The Indian-Country Origins of American Empire, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Blantsett, Kent. A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018)

Bloch, Lee. “Tales of Esnesv: Indigenous Oral Traditions about Trader-Diplomats in Ancient Southeastern North America,” American Anthroplogist, 120 (December 2018), 781-794.

Brown, Kaitlin M. “Crafting Identity: Acquisition, Production, Use and Recycling of Soapstone During the Mission Period in Alta California,” American Antiquity, 83 (April 2018), 244-262.

Bruchac, Margaret and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists, (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2018).

Byram, Scott, et. al., “Geophysical Investigation of Mission San Francisco Solano, Sonoma, California.” Historical Archaeology, 52 (June 2018), 242-263.

Caison, Gina. Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).

Cash, Sherri G. “Roots in the Valley: Ginseng and the New York-Iroquois Borderlands, 1752-1785,” New York History, 99 (Winter 2018), 7-37

Chambers, Ian. “The Kootenai War of ’74,” American Indian Quarterly, 42 (Winter 2018), 43-86.

Cleary, Patricia. “Possessing and Defining Native American Places in East St. Louis,” Missouri Historical Review, 113 (October 2018), 1-21.

Den Ouden, Amy E. “Recognition, Antiracism, and Indigenous Futures: A View from Connecticut,” Daedalus, 147 (Spring 2018), 27-38.

Ebright, Malcolm and Rick Hendricks. Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Ebright, Malcolm.  “Benjamin Thomas in New Mexico, 1872-1883: Indian Agents as Advocates for Native Americans,” New Mexico Historical Review, 93 (Summer 2018), 303-338.

Edwards, Tai S. Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018).

Erdrick, Heid E. New Poets of Native Nations, (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2018).

Flaherty, Anne F. Boxberger. States, American Indian Nations, and Intergovernmental Politics: Sovereignty, Conflict and the Uncertainty of Taxes, (New York: Abingdon, 2018).

Gaines-Stoner, Kelly, et. al., The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook: A Legal Guide to the Custody and Adoption of Native American Children, (Chicago: American Bar Association, 2018).

Garrison, Nanibaa A. “Genetic Ancestry Testing with Tribes: Ethics, Identity, & Health Implications,” Daedalus, 147 (Spring 2018). 60-69

Gilbert, Matthe Sakiestewa, Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain Between Indian and American, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2018).

Grillot, Thomas. First Americans: U. S. Patriotism in Indian Country after World War I, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).

Grossman, Zoltan. “Planning the American Indian Reservation: From Theory to Empowerment,” Geographical Review, 108 (January 2018, 168-170.

Haggerty, Julia Hobson, et. al., “Restoration and the Affective Ecologies of Healing: Buffalo and the Fort Peck Tribes,” Conservation and Society, 16 (no.1, 2018), 21-29.

Harness, Susan Devan. Bitterroit: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

Hart, E. Richard. American Indian History on Trial: Historical Expertise in Tribal Litigation, (Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2018).

Hauptman, Laurence M. Coming Full Circle: The Seneca Nation of Indians, 1848-1934, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Hedren, Paul L. Rosebud, June 17 1876: Prelude to the Little Big Horn, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019)

Heerman, M. Scott. The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018).

Hill, Matthew E., Margaret E. Beck, Stacey Lengyel, Sarah Trabert, and Mary J. Adair., “A Hard Time to Date: The Scott County Pueblo (14SC1) and Puebloan Residents of the High Plains,” American Antiquity, 83 (January 2018), 54-74.

Jacobs, Jaap. “‘ACt with the Cunning of a Fox’: The Political Dimensions of the Struggle for Hegemony over New Netherland, 1647-1653,” Journal of Early American History, 8 (no. 2, 2018), 122-152.

Jordan, Kurt A. “Markers of Difference or Makers of Difference? Atypical Practices at Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Satellite Sites, ca. 1650-1700,” Historical Archaeology, 52 (March 2018), 12-29.

Justice, Daniel Heath. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2018).

Keyes, Sarah. “Western Adventurers and Male Nurses: Indians, Cholera, and Masculinity in Overland Trail Narrarives,” Western Historical Quarterly, 49 (Spring 2018) 43-64.

Knight, Vernon James. “Puzzles of Creek Social Organization in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries,” Ethnohistory, 65 (no, 3, 2018).

Koehler, Rhiannon. “Hostile Nations: Quantifying the Destruction of the Sullivan-Clinton Genocide of 1779,” American Indian Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2018), 427-453.

Kokomoor, Kevin. Of One Mind and Of One Government: The Rise and Fall of the Creek Nation in the Early Republic, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Krupat, Arnold. Changed Forever: American Indian Boarding School Literature, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018).

Lee, Jacob F. Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions along the Mississippi, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019).

Lycett, Stephen J. and James D. Keyser, “Beyond Oral History: A Nineteenth Century Blackfeet Warriors’ Biographic Robe in Comparative and Chronological Context,” International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 22 (no. 4, December 2018), 771-799.

Mathes, Valerie Sherer and Phil Brigandi, Reservations, Removal, and Reform: The Mission Indian Agents of Southern California, 1878-1903, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

Matthews, Christopher N. and Allison Manfra McGovern. “Created Communities: Segregation and the History of Plural Sites on Eastern Long Island, New York,” Historical Archaeology, 52 (March 2018), 30-50.

Morman, Todd Allin. Many Nations Under Many Gods: Public Land Management and American Indian Sacred Sites, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

Nesper, Larry. “The 1914 Meeting of the Society of American Indians at UW-Madison,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 102 (Winter 2018), 28-37.

Nolan, Raymond. “The Midnight Reader: The EPA and Tribal Self-Determination,” American Indian Quarterly, 42 (Summer 2018), 329-343.

Ramirez, Renya K. Standing Up to Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

Ray, Jack H. “Ear Spools, Ceramics and Burial Mounds from Southwest Missouri: Caddoan and Spiro Connections on the Northern Frontier,” Southeastern Archaeology, 37 (April 2018), 58-81.

Rensink, Brendan. Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2018).

Rindfleisch, Bryan. “My Land is My Flesh: Silver Bluff, the Creek Indians, and the Transformation of Colonized Space in Early America,” Early American Studies, 16 (Summer 2018), 405-430.

Rosenthal, Nicolas G. “Rewriting the Narrative: American Indian Artists in California, 1960s-1980s,” Western Historical Quarterly, 49 (Winter 2018), 409-436.

Schulze, Jeffrey M., ed., Are We Not Foreigners Here? Indigenous Nationalism in the U.S. Mexico Borderlands, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).

Shriver, Cameron.  “Wily Decoys, Native Power, and Anglo-American Memory in the Post-Revolutionary Ohio River Valley,” Early American Studies, 16 (Summer 2018), 431-459

Sleeper-Smith, Susan. “Presidential Address: Eighteenth-Century Indian Trading Villages in the Wabash River Valley,” Ethnohistory, 65 (no. 3, 2018).

Smithers, Gregory D. Native Southerners: Indigenous History fro Origins to Removal, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Stockwell, Mary. Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians, (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2018).

Sundstrom, Linea, ed., Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2018).

Teasdale, Guillaume. Fruits of Perseverence: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701-1815, (Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2018).

Tone-Pah-Hote, Jenny. Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

Trafzer, Clifford E. Fighting Invisible Enemies: Health and Medical Transitions among Southern California Indians, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019).

Treuer, David. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native Americans from 1890 to the Present, (New York: Riverhead, 2018)

Tusler, Megan.  “Toward a Native Archive: Chicago’s Relocation Photos, Indian Labor, and Indigenous Public Text,” American Indian Quarterly, 42 (Summer 2018), 375-410.

van den Hout, J. Adriaen van der Donck: A Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America, (Albany: SUNY Press, 2018).

van de Logt, Mark. Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

Warren, James A. God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England, (New York: Scribner, 2018).

Witgen, Michael. “Seeing Red: Race, Citizenship, and Indigeneity in in the Old Northwest,” Journal of the Early Republic, 38 (Winter 2018), 581-611.

Wood, Peter H.  “Missing the Boat: Ancient Dugout Canoes in the Mississippi-Missouri Watershed,” Early American Studies, 16 (Spring 2018), 197-254.