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Byrd, Jodi A., “‘Living My Native Life Deadly’: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 311–32.

DeJong, David H., “‘Unless They Are Kept Alive’: Federal Indian Schools and Student Health, 1878–1918,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 256–82.

DeLay, Brian, “Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War,” American Historical Review, 112 (Feb. 2007), 35–68.

Delay, Brian, “The Wider World of the Handsome Man: Southern Plains Indians Invade Mexico, 1830–1848,” Journal of the Early Republic, 27 (Spring 2007), 83–113.

Denson, Andrew, “A Few Unreasonable Proposals: Some Rejected Ideas from the Cherokee Allotment Negotiations,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 84 (Winter 2006–2007), 426–43.

Dixon, Mary, “Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz: Historiography, a Philosophy for Reconstruction,” Great Plains Quarterly, 27 (Winter 2007), 39–54.

Doherty, Robert, “Old-Time Origins of Modern Sovereignty: State-Building among the Keweenaw Bay Ojibway, 1832–1854,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 165–87.

Freedman, Eric, “Protecting Sacred Sites on Public Land: Religion and Alliances in the Mato Tipila-Devils Tower Litigation,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 1–22.

Fulton, Ann, “The Restoration of ilkák’mana: A Chief Called Multnomah,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 110–28.

Herring, Joseph B., “Selling the ‘Noble Savage’ Myth: George Catlin and the Iowa Indians in Europe, 1843–1845,” Kansas History, 29 (Winter 2006), 226–45. Heavily illustrated.

Lambert, Valerie, “Political Protest, Conflict, and Tribal Nationalism: The Oklahoma Choctaws and the Termination Crisis of 1959–1970,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 283–309.

Loudbear, Richard, “Indian Country Politics: Theories of Operation and Strategy for the Nonviolent Seizure of Political Power,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 66–86.

Lyman, Edward Leo, “Caught In Between: Jacob Hamblin and the Southern Paiutes during the Black Hawk–Navajo Wars of the Late 1860s,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 75 (Winter 2007), 22–43.

Mann, Rob, “‘True Portraitures of the Indians, and of Their Own Peculiar Conceits of Dress’: Discourses of Dress and Identity in the Great Lakes, 1830–1850,” Historical Archaeology, 41 (no. 1, 2007), 37–52. Heavily illustrated.

McConnell, Les, “The Treaty Rights of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Fall 2006), 190–201.

Mohl, Allan S., “The Rise and Fall of the Iroquois Confederacy: Its Influence on Early American History,” Journal of Psychohistory, 34 (Spring 2007), 347–61.

Muller, Kathryn V., “The Two ‘Mystery’ Belts of Grand River: A Biography of the Two Row Wampum and the Friendship Belt,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Winter 2007), 129–64.

Thee, Christopher J., “Massachusetts Nipmucs and the Long Shadow of John Milton Earle,” New England Quarterly, 79 (Dec. 2006), 636–54.

Weaver, Jace, “More Light Than Heat: The Current State of Native American Studies,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Spring 2007), 233–55.

Whitaker, Kathleen, and Shannon Glydon Parker, “Bound to Its Origins: The Past and Present of the Indian Arts Research Center at the School of American Research,” American Indian Art Magazine, 32 (Spring 2007), 72–85. Heavily illustrated.

Witmer, Richard, and Frederick J. Boehmke, “American Indian Political Incorporation in the Post–Indian Gaming Regulatory Act Era,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 127–45.

 

Black, Jason Edward, “U.S. Governmental and Native Voices in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric in the Removal and Allotment of American Indians” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222453.

Dial, Heather Kimberly, “Struggling for Voice in a Black and White World: Lumbee Indians’ Segregated Educational Experience in North Carolina” (North Carolina State University, 2006). Order No. DA3223127.

Donaldson, Lisa Weber, “‘Indian rolling’: White Violence against Native Americans in Farmington, New Mexico” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3220935.

Firtha, Christie Time, “Stories Passed/Histories Present: A Literary History of Native American Autobiography, 1768–2004” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226538.

Gilbert, Matthew Thomas, “Education beyond the Mesas: Hopi Student Involvement at Sherman Institute, 1902–1929” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226542.

Hanks, Richard Alan, “‘This war is for a whole life’: The Culture of Resistance among Southern California Indians, 1850–1966” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3226547.

Jarvis, Brad Devin Edward, “Preserving the Brothertown Nation of Indians: Exploring Relationships amongst Land, Sovereignty, and Identity, 1740–1840” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3225747.

Kim, Wooyoung, “The Economic Impacts of American Indian Casinos” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2006). Order No. DA3222607.

Lopenzina, Drew, “Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period” (University of New Hampshire, 2006). Order No. DA3217431.

Muntz, Lori Lynn, “Representing Indians: The Melodrama of Native Citizenship in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1920s” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3225654.

Wynn, Kerry K., “The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Colonialism in the Cherokee Nation, 1880–1920” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006). Order No. DA3223753.

 

Abler, Thomas S., Cornplanter: Chief Warrior of the Allegany Senecas. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-8156-3114-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3138-5.)

Childs, Craig, House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization across the American Southwest. (New York: Little, Brown, 2006. xiv, 496 pp. $24.99, isbn 978-0-316-60817-6.)

Field, Ron, U.S. Infantry in the Indian Wars, 1865–91. (Oxford, Eng.: Osprey, 2007. 48 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-84176-905-9.) Heavily illustrated.

Forbes, Jack D., The American Discovery of Europe. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 250 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-252-03152-6.)

Giordano, Fedora, ed., Gli indiani d’America e l’Italia (American Indians and Italy). (Allesandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2007. 178 pp. €16.00, isbn 88-7694-938-0.) In Italian.

Goerke, Betty, Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend. (Berkeley: Heyday, 2007. xviii, 292 pp. $21.95, isbn 978-1-59714-053-9.)

Harkin, Michael E., and David Rich Lewis, eds., Native Americans and the Environment: Perspectives on the Ecological Indian. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxxvi, 367 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-7361-0.)

Michno, Gregory, and Susan Michno, A Fate Worse than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830–1885. (Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 2007. xvi, 527 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-87004-451-9.)

Wishart, David J., ed., Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. x, 252 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8032-9862-0.)

Zontek, Ken, Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xvi, 249 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8032-9922-1.)

 

Nicolar, Joseph, The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, ed. Annette Kolodny. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xvi, 222 pp. Cloth, $69.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4009-6. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4028-7.) Originally published in 1893.

Oehler, Gottlieb F., and David Z. Smith, “A Visit to the Pawnee,” ed. Richard E. Jensen, Nebraska History, 87 (Winter 2006), 142–72. Heavily illustrated.

Oskison, John Milton, The Singing Bird: A Cherokee Novel. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xlviii, 185 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3818-3.) Originally written in 1920s. Published posthumously.

Seaburg, William R., ed., Pitch Woman and Other Stories: The Oral Traditions of Coquelle Thompson, Upper Coquille Athabaskan Indian. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xviii, 309 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8032-4333-0.)

Williams, Ted, Big Medicine from Six Nations. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007. xx, 343 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0863-9.)

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