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American Indian

Cheatham, Gary L., “‘If the Union Wins, We Won’t Have Anything Left’: The Rise and Fall of the Southern Cherokees of Kansas,” Kansas History, 30 (Autumn 2007), 154–77. Heavily illustrated.

Ciani, Kyle E., “‘A Growing Evil’ or ‘Inventive Genius’: Anglo Perceptions of Indian Life in San Diego, 1850 to 1900,” Southern California Quarterly, 89 (Fall 2007), 249–84.

Cobb, Daniel M., “Devils in Disguise: The Carnegie Project, the Cherokee Nation, and the 1960s,” American Indian Quarterly, 31 (Summer 2007), 466–90.

Denetdale, Jennifer Nez, “Discontinuities, Remembrances, and Cultural Survival: History, Diné/Navajo Memory, and the Bosque Redondo Memorial,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Summer 2007), 295–317.

Dixon, David, “A High Wind Rising: George Washington, Fort Necessity, and the Ohio Country Indians,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 333–53.

Gragson, Ted L., and Paul Bolstad, “A Local Analysis of Early-Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Settlement,” Social Science History, 31 (Fall 2007), 435–68.

Jones, David S., “Health Care in the Rural West: The Trials and Tribulations of Physicians on the Indian Reservations in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Journal of the West, 46 (Summer 2007), 11–23. Heavily illustrated.

Koppedrayer, Kay, and Raymond Bucko, “Father Eugene Buechel’s Collection of Lakota Materials,” Material Culture, 39 (Fall 2007), 17–42.

Peters, Bernard C., “The Sault Chippewas’ ‘Place of Encampment . . . Convenient to the Fishing Ground’: Michigan’s First Attempt to Seize the Reservation,” Inland Seas, 63 (Summer 2007), 103–16.

Shreve, Bradley Glenn, “Of Gods and Broken Rainbows: Native American Religions, Western Rationalism, and the Problem of Sacred Lands,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Summer 2007), 369–90.

Steele, Volney, “Charles Alexander Eastman, M.D. (Ohiyesa): A Sioux Physician between Two Worlds,” Journal of the West, 46 (Summer 2007), 40–49. Heavily illustrated.

Tveskov, Mark A., “Social Identity and Culture Change on the Southern Northwest Coast,” American Anthropologist, 109 (Sept. 2007), 431–41.

Welch, Eddie, “Bridging Cultures Abroad: Oscar Howe’s American Specialist Tour,” South Dakota History, 37 (Fall 2007), 185–208.

 

Bertolet, Jennifer L., “After the Meriam Report: W. Carson Ryan Jr. and the Transformation of American Indian Education, 1928–1936” (George Washington University, 2007). Order No. DA3248469.

Clarke, Tracy Lee, “The Negotiation of Native American Identity: A Narrative Analysis of the Controversy over the Storing of Nuclear Waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation” (University of Utah, 2006). Order No. DA3241844.

Collard, James C., “Tribal-Municipal Cooperation in Oklahoma” (University of Missouri, Saint Louis, 2006). Order No. DA3240521.

Daniels, Anita Lee, “The Circumscribing Coyote: Native American Use of Signifying to Cast Their Message in Palatable Tropes” (University of New Mexico, 2006). Order No. DA3249846.

Egan, Shannon, “An American Art: Edward S. Curtis and ‘The North American Indian,’ 1907–1930” (Johns Hopkins University, 2007). Order No. DA3240701.

Lima, Enrique, “Forms of Conquest: Indian Conflict and the Novel in the Americas” (Stanford University, 2007). Order No. DA3242581.

Long, Thomas Eugene, “To the Edge of the World and Back: Native American Struggles for Sovereignty as Seen through the Investigations of Colonel L. A. Dorrington, Indian Agent, 1913–1923” (University of California, Riverside, 2006). Order No. DA3249767.

Ragan, Edward DuBois, “Where the Water Ebbs and Flows: Place and Self among the Rappahannock People, from the Emergence of Their Community to Its Seclusion in 1706” (Syracuse University, 2005). Order No. DA3240439.

Rivaya-Martínez, Joaquín, “Captivity and Adoption among the Comanche Indians, 1700–1875” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3247411.

 

Birchfield, D. L., How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xvi, 366 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-3231-8.)

Chamberlain, Kathleen P., Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xxii, 242 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3843-5.)

Kugel, Rebecca, and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, eds., Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xxxvi, 467 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8032-2779-8. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8032-7831-8.)

Lamphere, Louise, with Eva Price, Carole Cadman, and Valerie Darwin, Weaving Women’s Lives: Three Generations in a Navajo Family. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xiv, 314 pp. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4278-2.)

Middleton, Richard, Pontiac’s War: Its Causes, Course, and Consequence. (New York: Routledge, 2007. xvi, 272 pp. Cloth, $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-97914-6. Paper, $23.95, isbn 978-0-415-97913-9.)

Miller, Robert J., Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. xx, 214 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-275-99011-7.)

 

Berg, Laura, ed., The First Oregonians. (Portland: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 2007. xii, 348 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-880377-02-4.) Originally published in 1991.

Delaney, Michelle, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Warriors: A Photographic History by Gertrude Käsebier. (New York: Collins, 2007. xiv, 160 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-06-112977-3.) Heavily illustrated.

Hoxie, Frederick E., and Jay T. Nelson, eds., Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country: The Native American Perspective. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. 366 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-252-03266-0. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07485-1.)

Kreis, Karl Markus, ed., Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886–1900, trans. Corinna Dally-Starna. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. xviii, 303 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8032-2761-3.)

MacGregor, Doug, and Melissah Pawlikowski, eds., “‘This Wretched World’: The Journal of John Michael Lindenmuth,” Pennsylvania History, 74 (Summer 2007), 374–93.

Morgan, Dale L., Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trails: Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849–1869, ed. Richard L. Saunders. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007. viii, 424 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-87421-651-6.)

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