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Recent Scholarship

American Indian

 

Abe, Juri, “It’s a Good Day to Die: Native American Warrior Tradition and American Wars,” Rikkyo Amerika Sutadizu (Tokyo), 29 (2007), 53–70.

Abrahams, Roger D., “Mohawks, Mohocks, Hawkubites, Whatever: Down and Dirty in Eighteenth-Century London and Boston,” Common-Place, 8 (July 2008), http://www.common-place.org.

Aikau, Hokulani K., “Resisting Exile in the Homeland: He Mo’oleno No La’ie,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 70–95.

Anthes, Bill, “Learning from Foxwoods: Visualizing the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 204–18.

Arndt, Grant, “Ho-Chunk Powwows: Innovation and Tradition in a Changing World,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Spring 2008), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.

Ben-zvi, Yael, “Ethnography and the Production of Foreignness in Indian Captivity Narratives,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), ix–xxxii.

Blee, Lisa, “The 1925 Fort Union Indian Congress: Divergent Narratives, One Event,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Fall 2007), 582–612.

Brown, Richard D., “‘No Harm to Kill Indians’: Equal Rights in a Time of War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 34–62.

Champagne, Duane, “From First Nations to Self-Government: A Political Legacy of Indigenous Nations in the United States,” American Behavioral Scientist, 51 (Aug. 2008), 1672–93.

Clark, D. Anthony Tyeeme, and Malea Powell, “Resisting Exile in the ‘Land of the Free’: Indigenous Groundwork at Colonial Intersections,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 1–15.

Cox-Paul, Lori, “John M. Chivington: ‘The Reverend Colonel,’ ‘Marry-Your-Daughter,’ ‘Sand Creek Massacre,’” Nebraska History, 88 (Winter 2007), 126–47.

Eick, Gretchen Cassel, “U.S. Indian Policy, 1865–1890: As Illuminated through the Lives of Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman,” Great Plains Quarterly, 28 (Winter 2008), 27–47.

Fitz, Caitlin A., “‘Suspected on Both Sides’: Little Abraham, Iroquois Neutrality, and the American Revolution,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Fall 2008), 299–335.

Flagler, Edward K., “Relaciones interétnicas: Los indios zuñi de Nuevo México y los españoles” (Interethnic relations: The Zuñi Indians of New Mexico and the Spaniards), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid), 38 (no. 2, 2008), 57–73. In Spanish.

Ganter, Granville, “Red Jacket and the Decolonization of Republican Virtue,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Fall 2007), 559–81.

Hemmer, Joseph J., “Exploitation of American Indian Symbols: A First Amendment Analysis,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 121–40.

Holm, Sharon, “The ‘Lie’ of the Land: Native Sovereignty, Indian Literary Nationalism, and Early Indigenism in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 243–74.

Konkle, Maureen, “Indigenous Ownership and the Emergence of U.S. Liberal Imperialism,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 297–323.

Kraft, Lisa, “Thrice Purchased: Acquisition and Allotment of the Citizen Potawatomi Reservation,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 64–87.

Lee, Lloyd L., “Reclaiming Indigenous Intellectual, Political, and Geographic Space: A Path for Navajo Nationhood,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 96–110.

Lowitt, Richard, “From Termination to Self-Determination: Indian Health in Oklahoma, 1954–1980, Part 2,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Spring 2008), 32–63.

Neuman, Lisa Kay, “Indian Play: Students, Wordplay, and Ideologies of Indianness at a School for Native Americans,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 178–203.

Oberg, Michael Leroy, “Good Neighbors: The Onondagas and the Fort Schuyler Treaty of September 1788,” New York History, 88 (Fall 2007), 391–417.

Ohnesorge, Karen, “Uneasy Terrain: Image, Text, Landscape, and Contemporary Indigenous Artists in the United States,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 43–69.

Purdue, Theda, “American Indian Survival in South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 108 (July 2007), 215–34.

Schneider, Bethany, “Boudinot’s Change: Boudinot, Emerson, and Ross on Cherokee Removal,” English Literary History, 75 (Spring 2008), 151–77.

Shackelford, Alan G., “The Frontier in Pre-Columbian Illinois,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Fall 2007), 182–206.

Shepherd, Jeffrey P., “At the Crossroads of Hualapai History, Memory, and American Colonization: Contesting Space and Place,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Winter 2008), 16–42.

Sherfy, Michael, “A Persistent Removal: Black Hawk, Commemoration, and Historic Sites in Illinois,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Fall 2007), 240–67.

Snow, Dean R., “Searching for Hendrick: Correction of a Historic Conflation,” New York History, 88 (Summer 2007), 229–53.

Stock, Melissa A., “Sovereign or Suzerain: Alexander McGillivray’s Argument for Creek Independence after the Treaty of Paris of 1783,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2008), 149–76.

Sweet, Julie Anne, “Will the Real Tomochichi Please Come Forward?,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Spring 2008), 141–77.

Tahmahkera, Dustin, “Custer’s Last Sitcom: Decolonized Viewing of the Sitcom’s ‘Indian,’” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 324–51.

Walczynski, Mark, “The Starved Rock Massacre of 1769: Fact or Fiction,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Fall 2007), 215–36.

Ward, Kathleen A., “Before and After the White Man: Indian Women, Property, Progress, and Power,” Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, 6 (Spring–Summer 2007), 245–67.

Wilcox, David R., et al., “Ancient Cultural Interplay of the American Southwest in the Mexican Northwest,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Summer 2008), 103–206.

Wojcik, Eva, “Trust and Survival: awol Hunkpapa Indian Family Prisoners of War at Fort Sully, 1890–1891,” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 275–96.

Zamir, Shamoon, “Native Agency and the Making of The North American Indian: Alexander B. Upshaw and Edward S. Curtis,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Fall 2007), 613–53.

 

Busacca, Jeremy, “Seeking Self-Determination: Framing, the American Indian Movement, and American Indian Media” (Claremont Graduate University, 2007). Order No. DA3285223.

Cole, Daniel, “Indian Questions: Native American Writing in Response to Removal” (Fordham University, 2007). Order No. DA3286417.

Goble, Luke J., “Indians and the National Unconscious: Discourses of Nationalism and Democracy in the United States and Bolivia, 1780–1850” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277712.

Iverson, Margot Lynn, “Blood Types: A History of Genetic Studies of Native Americans, 1920–1955” (University of Minnesota, 2007). Order No. DA3285656.

Jacobson, Lori L., “Agencies and Associations: Women Writing Indian Reform in Nineteenth-Century America” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2007). Order No. DA3277713.

Lindsay, Brendan Charles, “Naturalizing Atrocity: California’s Indian Genocide, 1846–1916” (University of California, Riverside, 2007). Order No. DA3281669.

Moore, Paul James, “Kiowa Changes: The Impact of Transatlantic Influences” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2007). Order No. DA3288887.

O’Sullivan, Meg Devlin, “‘We Worry about Survival’: American Indian Women, Sovereignty, and the Right to Bear and Raise Children in the 1970s” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3289127.

Rozzell, Kristin Lynn, “Reinventing the Self: Native American Women’s Autobiographies” (University of Texas, Arlington, 2007). Order No. DA3288898.

Sauder Muhlfeld, Sharon, “Ambiguous Alliances: Native American Efforts to Preserve Independence in the Ohio Valley, 1768–1795” (College of William and Mary, 2007). Order No. DA3282514.

Spivey, Jessica R. S., “Red Rat and the Maker: British American and Native American Exchange in the Colonial Southeast” (Johns Hopkins University, 2008). Order No. DA3288536.

Travis, Tara Elisabeth, “Continuity and Change in the Navajo Community of Canyons del Muerto and de Chelly” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3288024.

 

Bailey, Garrick A., ed., Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 2: Indians in Contemporary Society. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 2008. xiv, 577 pp. $64.00, isbn 978-0-16-080388-8.)

Biolsi, Thomas, ed., A Companion to the Anthropology of American Indians. (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 2008. xxiv, 567 pp. Paper, $50.00, isbn 978-1-4051-8288-1.)

Calloway, Colin G., The Shawnees and the War for America. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xl, 216 pp. Cloth, $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-03862-6. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311391-1.)

Carroll, Al, Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. viii, 287 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1085-1.)

Chapman, Janet, and Karen Barrie, Kenneth Milton Chapman: A Life Dedicated to Indian Arts and Artists. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. xiv, 370 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4424-3.)

Edmunds, R. David, ed., Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 283 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03330-8. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07537-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Ellis, Anita J., and Susan Labry Meyn, Rookwood and the American Indian: Masterpieces of American Art Pottery from the James J. Gardner Collection. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xviii, 294 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1739-3. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-8214-1740-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Gaudio, Michael, Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. xxvi, 207 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4846-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8166-4847-4.)

Hoelscher, Steven D., Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett’s Wisconsin Dells. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. xxii, 194 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 978-0-299-22600-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-299-22604-6.) Heavily illustrated.

Mann, Barbara Alice, ed., Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xii, 133 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8032-6042-9.)

Mizuno, Yumiko, “Indian” to “shimin” no hazama de: Gasshukoku seibu ni okeru Senjumin shakai no saihensei (Between the “Indian” and the “citizen”: The process of reorganization of Native American society). (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2007. 340 pp. ¥5,985, isbn 78-4-8158-0564-7.) In Japanese.

Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xviii, 189 pp. Cloth, $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-03150-4. Paper, $14.00, isbn 978-0-14-311367-6.)

Reyes, Lawney L., B Street: The Notorious Playground of Coulee Dam. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008. xxii, 155 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-295-98853-5.)

Shannon, Timothy J., Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier. (New York: Viking, 2008. xii, 260 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-670-01897-0.)

Uchida, Ayako, Amerika Senjumin no gendaishi: Rekishiteki kioku to bunka keisho (A modern history of Native Americans: Historical memory and cultural inheritance). (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2008. 434 pp. ¥6,300, isbn 978-4-8158-0581-4.) In Japanese.

 

Witte, Stephen S., and Marsha V. Gallagher, eds., The North American Journals of Prince Maximillian of Wied, vol. 1: May 1832–April 1833, trans. William J. Orr, Paul Schach, and Dieter Karch. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xliv, 467 pp. $85.00, isbn 978-0-8061-3888-6.)

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