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Adams, Mikaëla M., “Savage Foes, Noble Warriors, and Frail Remnants: Florida Seminoles in the White Imagination, 1865–1934,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2009), 404–35.

Agnew, Brad, “Sustaining the Cherokees’ Lamp of Enlightenment: The Establishment of Northeastern State Normal School,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Winter 2008–2009), 388–409.

Allen, Chadwick, “Tonto on Vacation, or How to Be an Indian Lawyer,” Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d’études américaines (Ottawa), 39 (no. 2, 2009), 136–61.

Aplin, T. Christopher, “‘This Is Our Dance’: The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 92–112. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)

Babcock, Matthew, “Rethinking the Establecimientos: Why Apaches Settled on Spanish-Run Reservations, 1786–1793,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Summer 2009), 363–97.

Bieloh, Christina, “Bad Water and Epidemics: The Wages of Neglect at the Seneca Indian School,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Spring 2009), 56–75.

Binnema, Ted, and William A. Dobak, “‘Like the Greedy Wolf’: The Blackfeet, the St. Louis Fur Trade, and War Fever, 1807–1831,” Journal of the Early Republic, 29 (Fall 2009), 411–40.

Carlson, Paul H., and Tom Crum, “The ‘Battle’ at Pease River and the Question of Reliable Sources in the Recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (July 2009), 32–52.

Carroll, James T., “The Smell of the White Man Is Killing Us: Education and Assimilation among Indigenous Peoples,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Winter 2009), 21–48.

Child, Brenda J., and Karissa E. White, “‘I’ve Done My Share’: Ojibwe People and World War II,” Minnesota History, 61 (Spring 2009), 196–207. Heavily illustrated.

Doerfler, Jill, “An Anishinaabe Tribalography: Investigating and Interweaving Conceptions of Identity during the 1910s on the White Earth Reservation,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Summer 2009), 295–324.

Draper, David E., “Identity, Retention, and Survival: Contexts for the Performance of Native Choctaw Music,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 67–91. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)

Enochs, Ross, “Native Americans on the Path to the Catholic Church: Cultural Crisis and Missionary Adaptation,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Winter 2009), 71–88.

Foley, William E., “Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: The United States v. See See Sah Mah and Escotah,” Kansas History, 32 (Summer 2009), 90–105.

Frost, Richard H., “Photography and the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1870–1930,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Spring 2009), 187–232. Heavily illustrated.

Hart, Siobhan M., Elizabeth S. Chilton, and Christopher Donta, “Before Hadley: Archaeology and Native History, 10,000 bc to 1700 ad,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 43–67. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Huebner, Karin L., “An Unexpected Alliance: Stella Atwood, the California Clubwomen, John Collier, and the Indians of the Southwest, 1919–1934,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Aug. 2009), 337–66.

Igler, David, “Captive-Taking and Conventions of Encounters on the Northwest Coast, 1789–1810,” Southern California Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2009), 3–25.

Ingram, Daniel, “Anxious Hospitality: Indian ‘Loitering’ at Fort Allen, 1756–1761,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (July 2009), 221–53.

Lafferty, Lucy, and Elaine Keillor, “Musical Expressions of the Dene: Dogrib Love and Land Songs,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 21–33. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)

Lyman, Edward Leo, “Chief Kanosh: Champion of Peace and Forbearance,” Journal of Mormon History, 35 (Winter 2009), 157–207.

Miles, Tiya, “‘Circular Reasoning’: Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns,” American Quarterly, 61 (June 2009), 221–43.

Miyashita, Takashi, “Beikoku senjumin ‘bunmeika’ kyoiku: Hamputon Nogyo shihan gakko niokeru kyoiku jissen to sono eikyo” (Native American ‘civilizing’ education: An analysis of Hampton Institute, 1878–1887), Ritsumeikan Bungaku (Kyoto), 604 (2008), 694–700. In Japanese.

Mizuno, Yumiko, “Senju-min kyoiku to kirisutokyo: Seiki tenkanki no kontorakut sukuru” (The education of Native Americans and Christianity: The case of contract school at the turn of the century), Rekishi Hyoron (Tokyo) (no. 707, 2009), 49–62. In Japanese.

Monnett, John H., “‘My Heart Now Has Become Changed to Softer Feelings’: A Northern Cheyenne Woman and Her Family Remember the Long Journey Home,” Montana, 59 (Summer 2009), 45–61. Heavily illustrated.

Morgan, M. J., “Indians on Trial: Crime and Punishment in French Louisiana on the Eve of the Seven Years’ War,” Louisiana History, 50 (Summer 2009), 293–319.

Nash, Alice, “Quanquan’s Mortgage of 1663,” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 25–42. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

Nelson, Elaine M., “Cultural Survival and the Omaha Way: Eunice Woodhull Stabler’s Legacy of Preservation on the Twentieth-Century Plains,” Great Plains Quarterly, 29 (Summer 2009), 219–36.

Nichols, David A., “A Commercial Embassy in the Old Northwest: The U.S. Indian Trading Factory at Fort Wayne, 1803–1812,” Ohio Valley History, 8 (Winter 2008), 1–16.

Nomura, Gail M., “The Politics of Land Tenure: Japanese on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1922–1933,” Amerikashi-Kenkyu (Tokyo), 32 (2009), 54–68.

Parezo, Nancy J., and Angeline R. Jones, “What’s in a Name? The 1940s–1950s ‘Squaw Dress,’” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Summer 2009), 373–404.

Petty, Christina, “Broken Thread: The Choctaw Spinning Association, 1937–1943,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Winter 2008–2009), 428–45.

Prasch, Thomas, ed., “Insurgents and Guerillas, Cowboys and Indians, Lions and Tigers and Bears: Film and History in Kansas and the Great Plains,” Kansas History, 32 (Summer 2009), 124–43.

Sato, Madoka, “Cheroki-zoku niokeru ‘shiminken mondai’” (‘The citizenship question’ of the Cherokee), Rekishigaku Kenkyu (Tokyo) (Sept. 2008), 21–33. In Japanese.

Sercombe, Laurel, “The Story of Dirty Face: Power and Song in Western Washington Coast Salish Myth Narratives,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 34–53. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)

Shreve, Bradley G., “‘From Time Immemorial’: The Fish-In Movement and the Rise of Intertribal Activism,” Pacific Historical Review, 78 (Aug. 2009), 403–34.

Thiel, Mark G., “Catholic Ladders and Native American Evangelization,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Winter 2009), 49–70.

Tiro, Karim M., “Claims Arising: The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and the Indian Claims Commission, 1951–1982,” American Indian Law Review, 32 (no. 2, 2007–2008), 509–24.

Vander, Judith, “The Creative Power and Style of Ghost Dance Songs,” in Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America, ed. Tara Browner, 113–30. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.)

Vecsey, Christopher, “The Good News in Print and Image: Catholic Evangeliteracy in Native America,” U.S. Catholic Historian, 27 (Winter 2009), 1–19.

Vernon, Irene S., and Pamela Jumper Thurman, “Native American Women and hiv/aids: Building Healthier Communities,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Summer 2009), 352–72.

 

Bailey, Anna, “How Scuffletown Became Indian Country: Political Change and Transformations in Indian Identity in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1865–1956” (University of Washington, 2008). Order No. DA3328369.

Blee, Lisa M., “Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice in the South Puget Sound” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3330503.

Carter, William Howard, “Chains of Consumption: The Iroquois and Consumer Goods, 1550–1800” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3323175.

Derby, Paul Edward, “Indian Trails, Military Roads, and Waterwheels: Cultural and Ecological Transformations at Glen Lake, New York” (Syracuse University, 2008). Order No. DA3323048.

Gills, Bradley J., “The Anishnabeg and the Landscape of Assimilation in Michigan, 1854–1934” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3327246.

Mauro, Hayes Peter, “Made in the U.S.A.: Americanizing Aesthetics at Carlisle” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3334676.

Mitrød, Tom Arne, “‘So Great a Correspondence’: Native American Diplomacy in the Hudson Valley, 1609–1783” (Northern Illinois University, 2008). Order No. DA3335054.

Norrgard, Chantal Marie, “Seasons of Change: Treaty Rights, Labor, and the Historical Memory of Work among Lake Superior Ojibwe, 1870–1942” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3328330.

Parham, Vera Lynn, “From Medicine Creek to Daybreak: The Power of Protest in Pacific Northwest Native American History” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3332632.

Rex, Cathy, “Indianness and Womanhood: Textualizing the Female American Self” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3333146.

Scott, Sascha T., “Paintings of Pueblo Indians and the Politics of Preservation in the American Southwest” (Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2008). Order No. DA3335556.

Smith, Laura E., “Obscuring the Distinctions, Revealing the Divergent Visions: Modernity and Indians in the Early Works of Kiowa Photographer Horace Poolaw, 1925–1945” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3330805.

Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik, “Stealing Fire, Scattering Ashes: Anishinaabe Expressions of Sovereignty, Nationhood, and Land Tenure in Treaty Making with the United States and Canada, 1785–1923” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3324445.

Stratton, Billy J., “(Re)Inscribing King Philip’s War: Mary Rowlandson and the Advent of the Indian Captivity Narrative” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3320246.

Tetzloff, Lisa M., “‘Shall the Indian Remain Indian?’: Native Americans and the Women’s Club Movement, 1899–1954” (Purdue University, 2008). Order No. DA3330610.

Wilkinson, Elizabeth Leigh, “Story as a Weapon in Colonized America: Native American Women’s Transrhetorical Fight for Land Rights” (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2008). Order No. DA3316407.

 

Bragdon, Kathleen J., Native People of Southern New England, 1650–1775. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xviii, 293 pp. $32.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4004-9.)

Donovan, James, A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn; The Last Great Battle of the American West. (New York: Little, Brown, 2008. xvi, 528 pp. Cloth, $26.99, isbn 978-0-316-15578-6. Paper, $16.99, isbn 978-0-316-06747-8.)

Elam, Earl H., Kitikiti’sh: The Wichita Indians and Associated Tribes in Texas, 1757–1859. (Hillsboro: Hill College Press, 2008. xviii, 437 pp. $30.00, isbn 978-0-912172-44-6.)

Jacobs, Margaret D., White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxxiv, 557 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1100-1.)

Maybury-Lewis, David, Theodore Macdonald, and Biorn Maybury-Lewis, eds., Manifest Destinies and Indigenous Peoples. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. viii, 258 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-674-03313-9.)

Rubertone, Patricia E., ed., Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America. (Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast, 2008. 256 pp. $79.00, isbn 978-1-59874-155-1.)

Short, John Rennie, Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World. (London: Reaktion, 2009. 176 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-1-86189-436-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Takamura, Hiroko, Hokubei Mainoriti to Shiminken: Daiichiji-taisen noikeru Nikkeijin Josei, Senjumin (North American minorities and citizenship: Japanese Americans, women, and Native Americans during World War II). (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2009. 223 pp. ¥5,000, isbn 978-4-62305-247-9.) In Japanese.

Trafzer, Clifford E., ed., American Indians/American Presidents: A History. (New York: HarperCollins, 2009. 272 pp. $29.99, isbn 978-0-06-146653-3.) Heavily illustrated.

 

McCovey, Mavis, and John F. Salter, Medicine Trails: A Life in Many Worlds. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2009. xvi, 343 pp. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-1-59714-117-8.)

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