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Bickham, Troy O., “‘A conviction of the reality of things’: Material Culture, North American Indians, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, 39 (Fall 2005), 29–47.

Brandão, José António, and William A. Starna, “‘Some things may slip out of your memory and be forgott’: The 1701 Deed and Map of Iroquois Hunting Territory Revisited,” New York History, 86 (Fall 2005), 417–33.

Clemmons, Linda, “‘We Will Talk of Nothing Else’: Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837,” Great Plains Quarterly, 25 (Summer 2005), 173–86.

DeJong, David H., “‘Good Samaritans of the Desert’: The Pina-Maricopa Villages as Described in California Emigrant Journals, 1846–1852,” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Autumn 2005), 457–96.

Dennis, Matthew, “Sorcery and Sovereignty: Senecas, Citizens, and the Contest for Power and Authority on the Frontiers of the Early American Republic,” in New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, ed. John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, 179–99. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi, 362 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8122-3895-8.)

Flagler, Edward K., “Naiche, el último jefe de los apaches chiricahuas” (Naiche, the last chief of the Chiricahua apaches), Revista Española de Antropología Americana (Madrid), 35 (2005), 149–67. In Spanish.

Fritz, Henry E., “Allotment of Mineral and Timber Lands on Indian Reservations and the Public Domain,” Historian, 67 (Winter 2005), 645–63.

Hurt, Douglas A., “‘The Indian Home Is Undone’: Anglo Intrusion, Colonization, and the Creek Nation, 1876–1907,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Summer 2005), 194–217.

Janda, Sarah Eppler, “‘Her Heritage Is Helpful’: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Politicization of LaDonna Harris,” Great Plains Quarterly, 25 (Fall 2005), 211–27.

Kilpinen, Jon T., “The Supreme Court’s Role in Choctaw and Chickasaw Dispossession,” Geographical Review, 94 (Oct. 2005), 484–501.

Mizuno, Yumiko, “‘Hensoku teki sonzai’ kara ‘indian shimin’ he” (From “anomalous position” to “Indian citizen”), Gengo Bunka Ronshu (Nagoya), 26 (no. 1, 2004), 135–53. In Japanese.

Morgan, Mindy J., “Constructions and Contestations of the Authoritative Voice: Native American Communities and the Federal Writers’ Project, 1935–41,” American Indian Quarterly, 29 (Winter–Spring 2005), 56–83.

Muller, Kevin R., “Pelts and Power, Mohawks and Myth: Benjamin West’s Portrait of Guy Johnson,” Winterthur Portfolio, 40 (Spring 2005), 47–76. Heavily illustrated.

Parkinson, Robert G., “From Indian Killer to Worthy Citizen: The Revolutionary Transformation of Michael Cresap,” William and Mary Quarterly, 63 (Jan. 2006), 97–122.

Peters, Jill, “The Role of Pocahontas and Sacagawea in the Creation of New American Mythology,” Midwestern Folklore, 31 (Spring 2005), 16–26.

Preston, David, “George Klock, the Canajoharie Mohawks, and the Good Ship Sir William Johnson: Land and Legitimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Valley,” New York History, 86 (Fall 2005), 473–99.

Prucha, Francis Paul, “Education of American Indians in the Age of Brown v. Board of Education,” Marquette Law Review, 89 (Fall 2005), 87–93.

Richter, Anthony H., “Father Eugene Buechel and the Lakota Sioux,” Heritage of the Great Plains, 38 (Spring–Summer 2005), 5–14.

Rifkin, Mark, “Representing the Cherokee Nation: Subaltern Studies and Native American Sovereignty,” boundary 2, 32 (Sept. 2005), 47–80.

Sato, Madoka, “Kyosei ijyu iko no cherokees zoku ni okeru rippo to jyosei no chii” (Postremoval legislation and the status of Cherokee women), Otsuma Hikaku Bunka (Tokyo), 5 (2004), 76–99. In Japanese.

Strobel, Christoph, “‘The History of the Cape is Already Written in That of America’: The Colonization of America in South Africa’s Discourse of Empire, 1820s–1850s,” Safundi (no. 20, Oct. 2005) http://www.safundi.com.

Tsosie, Rebecca, “The New Challenge to Native Identity: An Essay on ‘Indigeneity’ and ‘Whiteness,’” Washington University Journal of Law & Policy, 18 (2005), 55–98.

van de Logt, Mark, “‘The Land Is Always With Us’: Removal, Allotment, and Industrial Development and Their Effects on Ponca Tribalism,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 83 (Fall 2005), 326–41.

Van Horn, William, “Sheridan’s Saber: The 4th Cavalry Regiment in 1874,” Military History of the West, 35 (2005), 1–34.

Vest, Jay Hansford C., “An Odyssey among the Iroquois: A History of Tutelo Relations in New York,” American Indian Quarterly, 29 (Winter–Spring 2005), 124–55.

Watson, Blake A., “John Marshall and Indian Land Rights: A Historical Rejoinder to the Claim of ‘Universal Recognition’ of the Doctrine of Discovery,” Seton Hall Law Review, 36 (no. 2, 2006), 481–549.

Zimmerman, Ellen K., “Are Indians History? A Critical Review of Native American Museum Exhibits,” New England Journal of History, 62 (Fall 2005), 14–39.

 

Balvay, Arnaud, “L’épée et la plume: Amérindiens et soldats des troupes de la Marine en Louisiane et au Pays d’en Haut (1683–1763)” (The Sword and the Pen: Amerindians and Soldiers of the troupes de la Marine in the Louisiana Highcountry) (Université Laval, Canada, 2004). Order No. DANR01383. In French.

Bergmann, William H., “Commerce and Arms: The Federal Government, Native Americans, and the Economy of the Old Northwest, 1783–1807” (University of Cincinnati, 2005). Order No. DA3176703.

Carlson, Hans M., “Home Is the Hunter: Subsistence, Reciprocity, and the Negotiation of Cultural Environment among the James Bay Cree” (University of Maine, 2005). Order No. DA3169617.

Matthews, Jessica Ruggieri, “Killing a Culture to Save a Race: Writing and Resisting the Discourse of the Carlisle Indian School” (George Washington University, 2005). Order No. DA3167031.

Maynor, Malinda, “Native American Identity in the Segregated South: The Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, 1872–1956” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170494.

McFarland, Morgan J., “The Watery World: The Country of the Illinois, 1699–1778” (University of Cincinnati, 2005). Order No. DA3176757.

 

Anderson, Fred, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War. (New York: Viking, 2005. xxvi, 293 pp. $25.95, isbn 0-670-03454-1.)

Bak, Hans, ed., First Nations of North America: Politics and Representation. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2005. 384 pp. Paper, €39.95, isbn 90-5383-954-2.)

Grafe, Steven L., Peoples of the Plateau: The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898–1915. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. xiv, 221 pp. Cloth, $39.95, isbn 0-8061-3727-4. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8061-3742-8.) Heavily illustrated.

Pluckhahn, Thomas J., and Robbie Ethridge, eds., Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. xii, 283 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-8173-1500-4. Paper, $34.95, isbn 0-8173-5287-2.)

Stojanowski, Christopher M., Biocultural Histories in La Florida: A Bioarchaeological Perspective. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, xiv, 193 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 0-8173-1485-7. Paper, $29.95, isbn 0-8173-5267-8.)

Yenne, Bill, Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West. (Pennsylvania: Westholme, 2006. x, 325 pp. $26.00, isbn 1-59416-016-3.)

 

Smith, Huston, A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom, ed. Phil Cousineau. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xxii, 232 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-520-24439-7.)

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