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American Indian

Bailey, Anna, “‘It Is the Center to Which We Should Cling’: Indian Schools in Robeson County, North Carolina, 1900–1920,” in The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power, ed. Eileen H. Tamura, 67–90. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. x, 226 pp. $74.95, isbn 978-0-230-60043-0.)

Castro, Robert Francis, “After the Slavers: Law, Liberation, and Captive-Taking in the New Mexican Borderlands,” Slavery and Abolition (Ilford), 28 (Dec. 2007), 369–86.

Greene, Candace S., Bonnie Richard, and Kirsten Thompson, “Treaty Councils and Indian Delegations: The War Department Museum Collection,” American Indian Art Magazine, 33 (Winter 2007), 66–80. Heavily illustrated.

Gutiérrez, Ramón A., “Women on Top: The Love Magic of the Indian Witches of New Mexico,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 16 (Sept. 2007), 373–90.

Hyer, Joel R., “‘It Was My Duty to Protect the Indians’: Senator Thomas R. Bard and the Removal of the Cupeños from Warner’s Ranch,” Journal of the West, 46 (Fall 2007), 28–39.

Leahy, Todd E., “So That a Nation May Live: The Pawnee Ghost Dance and Cultural Renaissance,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 85 (Fall 2007), 324–41.

Pratt, Carla D., “Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty through Sexual Assimilation,” Wisconsin Law Review (no. 2, 2007), 409–62.

Pulsipher, Jenny Hale, “‘Dark Cloud Rising from the East’: Indian Sovereignty and the Coming of King William’s War in New England,” New England Quarterly, 80 (Dec. 2007), 588–613.

Richards, John D., “Viewing the Ruins: The Early Documentary History of the Aztalan Site,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 91 (Winter 2007-2008), 28–39.

Weisiger, Marsha, “Gendered Injustice: Navajo Livestock Reduction in the New Deal Era,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Winter 2007), 437–55.

Young, Ashley, “Continuing an American Legacy of Racial and Cultural Injustice: A Critical Look at Bonnichsen v. United States,” Journal of Art and Entertainment Law, 17 (Fall 2006), 1–35.

Zuyderhoudt, Lea M., “First-Hand Knowledge and Second-Hand Knowledge: Contemporary Blackfoot Reflections on Using Historical Sources,” European Review of Native American Studies (Vienna), 21 (no. 1, 2007), 9–18.

 

Bates, Denise Eileen, “Up from Obscurity: Indian Rights Activism and the Development of Tribal-State Relations in the 1970s and 1980s Deep South” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA32558331.

DeJong, David H., “The Sword of Damocles: Pima Agriculture, Water Use, and Water Rights, 1848–1921” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3254700.

Dobbs, Gladys Rebecca, “The Indian Trading Path and Colonial Settlement Development in the North Carolina Piedmont” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3262603.

Makley, Matthew Stephen, “‘These will be strong’: A History of the Washoe People” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3258123.

Means, Jeffrey D., “From Buffalo to Beeves: Cattle and the Political Economy of the Oglala Lakota, 1750–1920” (University of Oklahoma, 2007). Order No. DA3255547.

Mt. Pleasant, Alyssa, “After the Whirlwind: Maintaining a Haudenosaunee Place at Buffalo Creek, 1780–1825” (Cornell University, 2007). Order No. DA3257342.

Precht, James H., “‘The Lost Tribe Wanders No More’: Indian Gaming and the Emergence of Coushatta Self-Determination” (Arizona State University, 2007). Order No. DA3258146.

Roy, Thomas Fredrick, “Yí:sáum: Parker McKenzie’s Double Vision of Kiowa Culture and Language” (University of Oklahoma, 2007). Order No. DA3255214.

Snyder, Christina Nicole, “Captives of the Dark and Bloody Ground: Identity, Race, and Power in the Contested American South” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3257570.

Staton, Maria, “Christianity in American Indian Plays, 1760s–1850s” (Ball State University, 2007). Order No. DA3255063.

 

Clow, Richard L., ed., The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century Reader. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2007. 317 pp. Paper, $18.95, isbn 978-0-9777955-4-3.)

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., Nez Perce Country. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxii, 174 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8032-7623-9.)

Michno, Gregory, The Mystery of E Troop: Custer’s Gray Horse Company at the Little Bighorn. (Missoula: Mountain, 2005. xvi, 349 pp. Paper, $18.00, isbn 0-87842-304-4.) Originally published in 1994.

Palmer, Jessica Dawn, The Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota through 1863. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. viii, 269 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-7864-3177-9.)

Porter, Joy, ed., Place and Native American Indian History and Culture. (Frankfurt/Main: Lang, 2007. 394 pp. Paper, $89.95, isbn 978-3-03911-049-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Szabo, Joyce M., Art from Fort Marion: The Silberman Collection. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. x, 197 pp. Cloth, $49.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3883-1. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3889-3.) Heavily illustrated.

 

Appel, Anne Milano, trans., “Tesoros de los Archivos: Paolo Emilio Botta’s Observations on the Inhabitants of California,” Boletín, 23–24 (nos. 1–2, 2006–2007), 59–76. Heavily illustrated.

Brown, James W., and Rita T. Kohn, eds., Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xxviii, 416 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-253-34968-2.) Heavily illustrated.

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