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American Indian

 

Berlo, Janet Catherine, “The Szwedzicki Portfolios of American Indian Art, 1929–1952: Kiowa Indian Art, Pueblo Indian Painting, and Pueblo Indian Pottery,” American Indian Art Magazine, 34 (Spring 2009), 36–45. Heavily illustrated.

Black, Jason Edward, “Memories of the Alabama Creek War, 1813–1814: U.S. Governmental and Native Identities at the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Spring 2009), 200–229.

Black, Jason Edward, “Native Resistive Rhetoric and the Decolonization of American Indian Removal Discourse,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (Feb. 2009), 66–88.

Brumbaugh, Lee P., “Through the Lens of History: The Native American Photograph Collection of the Nevada Historical Society,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Fall 2008), 219–54.

Calloway, Colin G., “Sir William Johnson, Highland Scots, and American Indians,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 163–77.

Campbell, William J., “Converging Interests: Johnson, Croghan, the Six Nations, and the 1786 Treaty of Fort Stanwix,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 127–41.

Crum, Steven, “The Paddy Cap Band of Northern Paiutes: From Southeastern Oregon to the Duck Valley Reservation,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Fall 2008), 183–99.

Flint, Richard, “Without Them, Nothing Was Possible: The Coronado Expedition’s Indian Allies,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Winter 2009), 65–118.

Hammond, Geordan, “John Wesley’s Mindset at the Commencement of His Georgia Sojourn: Suffering and the Introduction of Primitive Christianity to the Indians,” Methodist History, 47 (Oct. 2008), 16–25.

Hauptman, Laurence M., and Heriberto Dixon, “Cadet David Moniac: A Creek Indian’s Schooling at West Point, 1817–1822,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (Sept. 2008), 322–48.

Hyman, Colette A., “Survival at Crow Creek, 1863–1866,” Minnesota History, 61 (Winter 2008–2009), 148–61.

Johnson, Laura E., “‘Goods to Clothe Themselves’: Native Consumers and Native Images on the Pennsylvania Trading Frontier, 1712–1760,” Winterthur Portfolio, 43 (Spring 2009), 115–40.

Kulesza, Sebastian, “The Etymology of U.S. Names in Relation to Amerindian Culture,” Language, Thought, and Education (Warsaw), 1 (2008), 99–109.

Larson, Robert W., “Chief Gall and Abe Lincoln’s Railroad,” North Dakota History, 74 (no. 3–4, 2007), 17–27.

Lush, Paige Clark, “The All American Other: Native American Music and Musicians on the Circuit Chautauqua,” Americana, 7 (Fall 2008), http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/.

McCoy, Ron, “‘Spiders Are Mysterious’: The Spirit of the Spider in Lakota Art and Lore,” American Indian Art Magazine, 34 (Spring 2009), 60–71. Heavily illustrated.

McPherson, Robert S., “‘Too Much Noise in That Bunch across the River’: Ba’áílílee and the 1907 Aneth Brawl,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Winter 2009), 26–51.

Mihesuah, Devon Abbott, “Unfinished Choctaw Justice: The Murder of Charles Wilson and the Execution of Jackson Crow,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 86 (Fall 2008), 290–315.

Miller, Mark, “The Timbisha Shoshone and the National Park Idea: Building toward Accommodation and Acknowledgment at Death Valley National Park, 1933–2000,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Winter 2008), 415–45.

Peters, Bernard C., “The Sault Chippewas’ Encampment Reserve: 1839–1853,” Inland Seas, 64 (Winter 2008), 326–45.

Preston, David L., “‘We Intend to Live Our Lifetime Together as Brothers’: Palatine and Iroquois Communities in the Mohawk Valley,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 179–89.

Reff, Daniel T., “Sympathy for the Devil: Devil Sickness and Lore among the Tohono O’odham,” Journal of the Southwest, 50 (Winter 2008), 355–76.

Rice, Alanna, “‘To Procure a Residence amongst Their Brethren to the West’: The Relocation of the Brotherton Tribe in Territorial Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Winter 2008–2009), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.

Russell, Caskey, “Cultures in Collision: Cosmology, Jurisprudence, and Religion in Tlingit Territory,” American Indian Quarterly, 33 (Spring 2009), 230–52.

Seymour, Deni J., and George Robertson, “A Pledge of Peace: Evidence of the Cochise-Howard Treaty Campsite,” Historical Archaeology, 42 (no. 4, 2008), 154–79.

Spack, Ruth, “Zitkala-Sa, The Song of Hiawatha, and the Carlisle Indian School Band: A Captivity Tale,” Legacy, 25 (no. 2, 2008), 211–24.

Starna, William A., “Retrospecting the Origins of League of the Iroquois,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (Sept. 2008), 279–321.

Wright, Gregory, “(Re)Writing the Captivity Narrative: Sarah Winnemucca’s Life among the Piutes Records White Male Sexual Violence,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 51 (Fall 2008), 200–218.

 

Berndt, Christina Gish, “Kinship as Strategic Political Action: The Northern Cheyenne Response to the Imposition of the Nation-State” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3318003.

Grant-Costa, Paul Joseph, “The Last Indian War in New England: The Mohegan Indians v. the Governour and Company of the Colony of Connecticut, 1703–1774” (Yale University, 2008). Order No. DA3317120.

King, Lisa Michelle, “Representing the Museum and the People: Rhetorical Sovereignty and the Representational Genres of American Indian Museums” (University of Kansas, 2008). Order No. DA3315190.

Molholt, Stephanie, “A Buck Well Spent: Representations of American Indians in Print Advertising since 1890” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3319494.

Motes, Kevin Daniel, “The Nation Must Change: Socio-cultural Acclimation and Instantiations of Ethnic Identity in the Choctaw Nation, 1830–1907” (University of California, Riverside, 2008). Order No. DA3319337.

 

Browner, Tara, ed., Music of the First Nations: Tradition and Innovation in Native North America. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. 166 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-02221-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.

Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle, The War in Words: Reading the Dakota Conflict through the Captivity Literature. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. xxxiv, 363 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8032-1370-8.)

Grafe, Steven L., ed., Lanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. xii, 323 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8061-4022-3. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-8061-4029-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Lightfoot, Kent G., and Otis Parrish, California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiv, 490 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-0-520-24471-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-520-25690-3.)

Lowenstein, Tom, Ultimate Americans: Point Hope, Alaska, 1826–1909. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. xxx, 351 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-60223-027-9.)

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich, and Patrick J. Jung, The Nicolet Corrigenda: New France Revisited. (Long Grove: Waveland, 2009. xii, 168 pp. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-1-57766-606-6.)

Vennum, Thomas, The Ojibwa Dance Drum: Its History and Construction. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. 348 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-87351-642-6.)

Wonderley, Anthony, At the Font of the Marvelous: Exploring Oral Narrative and Mythic Imagery of the Iroquois and Their Neighbors. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxxiv, 188 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8156-3207-8.)

 

Foley, Thomas W., ed., At Standing Rock and Wounded Knee: The Journals and Papers of Father Francis M. Craft, 1888–1890. (Norman: Arthur H. Clark, 2009. 344 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-87062-372-1.)

Townsend, Camilla, ed., American Indian History: A Documentary Reader. (Hoboken: Wiley, 2009. xiv, 247 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-1-4051-5907-4. Paper, $33.00, isbn 978-1-4051-5908-1.)

Trafzer, Clifford E., and Robert R. McCoy, Forgotten Voices: Death Records of the Yakama, 1888–1964. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009. xvi, 190 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8108-6647-8.)

Warren, William W., History of the Ojibway People, ed. Theresa Schenck. (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009. xxiv, 316 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-87351-643-3.) Originally published in 1885.

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