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Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador. By David Carey Jr.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador. By David Carey Jr.

Iñupiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges. By Wanni W. Anderson and Douglas D. Anderson.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Iñupiat of the Sii: Historical Ethnography and Arctic Challenges. By Wanni W. Anderson and Douglas D. Anderson.

Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror: The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights, 1923–1928. By Joshua Clough.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror: The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights, 1923–1928. By Joshua Clough.

Salmon Aquaculture and Sovereignties at Sea: Eviction as a Tool for Reclaiming Indigenous Seascapes in Coastal British Columbia

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article argues that Indigenous practices of eviction can serve as a method of territorial reclamation that challenges state claims to property and jurisdiction within unceded Indigenous homelands. In the coastal seascapes of British Columbia, Indigenous leaders travel to docks, corporate offices, fish processing factories, and sites of aquaculture production with notices of eviction, seeking to evict industrial aquaculture facilities from the coast and asserting that coastal waterscapes are unceded Indigenous territories. This article suggests that attempts to evict aquaculture facilities go beyond specific companies, infrastructures, and industrial practices to also refuse the legal status of coastal waterways and seabeds as a “public commons” under state ownership. In positioning the state as a landlord of the sea and seabed, I further explore how evictions intervene in the landlord-tenant relationships between state and industry that are characteristic of how resource...

Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures. By Nathan Sowry.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures. By Nathan Sowry.

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory. By Rose Miron.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory. By Rose Miron.

Restoring Relations through Stories: From Dinétah to Denendeh. By Renae Watchman.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Restoring Relations through Stories: From Dinétah to Denendeh. By Renae Watchman.

Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land. By Russell Cobb.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land. By Russell Cobb.

Front Matter

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Front Matter

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Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Indian Boarding Schools for the Gain of White Settlers: A Case Study of Rapid City Indian School

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This paper examines how the Rapid City Indian School (1898–1934) was mobilized to advance white settler economic interests in western South Dakota. Using a political-economy lens, the study traces two linked processes: the promised economic benefits to Rapid City from siting a large, off-reservation boarding school, and the redistribution of RCIS land after closure.

Contemporary boosters aggressively pursued the school for jobs, contracts, and federal spending; enrollment grew to nearly 350 students, and local firms captured sustained construction and supply work. Following closure, Congress authorized the secretary of the interior to dispose of RCIS lands. Of the roughly 1,370 acres associated with the school, a master plan allocated about 1,200 acres to public and civic entities, enabling transfers to the city, school district, National Guard, and multiple churches—often at nominal cost and without durable public-use restrictions. By contrast, provisions for housing...

Acknowledging History to Inform Emancipatory Practices: Reflection on Stories of Place in the Phoenix Valley and the Gila and Salt Rivers

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The narratives or stories we tell about our history shape how we act in the world. We compared how institutions in the Phoenix Metro explain their beginnings with a review of academic literature detailing the history of the Keli Akimel (Gila River) and Onk Akimel (Salt River). Using qualitative methods, we analyzed narratives from (1) institutions' beginning stories found on their websites and in publications, and (2) literature identified through Boolean searches in JSTOR, EBSCO, and American Indian Histories and Culture databases. We observed that institutions’ beginning stories often overlook Indigenous legacies and contemporary experiences, mentioning Indigenous nations only when historical events align with settler state objectives. In contrast, the literature review revealed seven moments in time that challenge the myth of Anglo settlers arriving in Arizona to Terra nullius. Our findings highlighted the tenacity and resistance of Native communities, such as the...

National Parks, Native Sovereignty: Experiments in Collaboration. Edited by Christina Gish Hill, Matthew J. Hill, and Brooke Neely.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

National Parks, Native Sovereignty: Experiments in Collaboration. Edited by Christina Gish Hill, Matthew J. Hill, and Brooke Neely.

The Life of Kaatxwaaxsnéi: A Biography of Florence Shotridge

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article is the first biography written of Florence Shotridge (1882–1917), a Tlingit woman who was the first Indigenous American to lead an anthropological expedition alongside her husband, Louis Shotridge. Louis is a well-known Tlingit ethnographer and collector, but much of his work in his early career was accomplished in collaboration with Florence—yet she is often not mentioned in these early years of his work. This paper seeks to fill in the historical gaps on Florence’s life history and highlight her contributions to her husband’s career and the field of anthropology. I discuss her early life, the Tina’a Chilkat blanket she wove, the expositions she performed in with Louis across the United States, her career at the Penn Museum, and her death at the age of thirty-five. In addition to this paper, I have created an accompanying short film that aims to breathe new life into Florence’s story, to be shared widely in order to ensure her life and legacy extend beyond the...

Pushing Back against the Frontier: Native American Writing on Western Expansion

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Native Americans may resist colonial expansion in multiple ways. Some methods of resistance are direct confrontations, while others utilize subtlety. This paper examines resistance to the concept of the frontier by Native American authors, a term prevalent in settler colonial narratives connoting borders and “progress.” We claim that the term frontier is used differently by Native American authors compared to non-Native authors. The term frontier, given its centrality to American historiography, frames westward expansion and “open land” as shaping the national character. To Native Americans, the frontier ushered in a different experience. Displacement, geographic sequestering, and often genocide accompanied colonial expansion. We offer a novel approach to resistance by first employing “text mining” to identify differences in tone by Native authors. We then explore these results through a qualitative analysis for greater context. By analyzing Native-authored and non-Native-related...

The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance. By Mark Rifkin.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance. By Mark Rifkin.

Ho‘okanaka: Developing Ontological Self-Efficacy and Community Readiness as the Praxis of Participatory Action Research in Hawaiian Education

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 2020, the Office of Hawaiian Education (OHE) created the Student Research Program, a research internship for high school and college students in Hawai‘i. Student researchers conducted participatory action research (PAR) on educational issues and impact reports on various Hawaiian educational initiatives. Educational equity has remained an important issue for these researchers, as longitudinal educational data continues to report negative “lagging” student indicators (e.g., absenteeism, school suspensions, adolescent arrests and incarceration) for its Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) student populations. Of particular concern is the connectivity among these student data points, school-to-prison pipeline data, and the alarming rates of suicide and suicide attempts among student populations. As the COVID pandemic swept across the Hawai‘ian islands, “loss of learning” became another indicator that disproportionately affected NHPI students. Throughout the hulihia,...

Digging for Dye: Colonial Encounters and Native Relations with a Root as Red as Blood

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Bloodroot, puccoon, and Sanguinaria canadensis are three of the names used to term a particular plant with blood-red roots. It is ever-present below the soil of continental America’s East Coast, Central, and Northern woodlands, but it is not always visible. The plant, which I call "bloodroot," requires close attention and bears a fast orange-red dye to those who respect its limits. Yet its histories, livelihood, and futurity have been deeply unsettled by the promulgation of settler colonial extractionism and exploitation.

In my efforts to understand bloodroot as a locus of Native kinship and colonial violence, I undertook a hands-on, site-specific project of listening, watching, and waiting. I worked intimately with the plant to coax out its dye for wool and weaving canes, and I traced its appearance in colonial records from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first century, where it became a signifier for colonial fears of alterity, a tool for the settler-salvage...

Rising Above: Language Revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.By Benjamin E. Frey.

Tue, 4 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Rising Above: Language Revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.By Benjamin E. Frey.

Fire Back: Rematriating Indigenous Cultural Fire and Sovereignty

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We are living in an era of Indigenous rematriation where Indigenous peoples’ ontologies, epistemologies, diverse cultures, languages, curation, and arts all around the globe are working to restore balance and return the sacred toward our self-determination and political sovereignty. As a collective led mostly by Indigenous women representing a broad span of what is currently known as the United States and Canada, we each are working with and alongside Indigenous communities to reclaim the cultural, spiritual, relational, and ecological protection of future uses of cultural fire.

Cultural fire includes Indigenous-led fire practices such as cultural burning, fire medicine, ceremonial fire, and ancestral land-based stewardship responsibilities. Outlawed by settlers and state-led agencies, Indigenous peoples understood our relationship with fire was not solely ecological—it was and continues to be cultural, spiritual, relational, and political. With increased extreme weather,...

Indigenous Resurgence: Global Connection and Kinship and an Introduction to the Special Issue

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The world has seen in recent years what can only be described as an “Indigenous Resurgence” to which even governments are taking notice. There is a rise in popular culture regarding Indigenous peoples’ epistemologies, culture, languages, curation, and arts everywhere from New Zealand, the America’s, Africa, Australia, and other parts of the world. Historical fascinations with those systems have often been by and for the perspective of non-natives who exploited and romanticized Indigenous cultures to form their own national identities, write popular books, or make popular movies about their brief time with a tribe. The appropriation of Indigenous cultural and aesthetic motifs extended to Europe, with philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke and literary figures such as Karl May to Dylan Thomas. But now, many aspects of the resurgence arise directly from and for Indigenous peoples around the world expressing their own cultural values. Like any cultural resurgence,...

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Global Information Resurgence: Transforming Indigenous Archival Sovereignty through International Indigenous Relationality

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the development of global and transnational alliances built over the past twenty years in the fight to protect Indigenous information and knowledge, particularly in the context of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) passed in 2007. It focuses specifically on the foundational history, radical resurgence, and survivance of activists’ groups enacting change within spaces where Indigenous information is held in archives, libraries and museums, especially in non-Indigenous repositories, agencies and institutions. Examined through the lens of Indigenous Archival and Data Sovereignty, this article highlights the major challenges, as well as advances, made by transnational alliances of Indigenous activist groups, professional organizations and individual activists within the United States, Canada, and Australia, focused specifically on how they persevered during the foundational stages of information policy development in...

Front Matter

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Front Matter

Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow

Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities

Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance

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Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the US-Mexico Border

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the US-Mexico Border

Border Securitization as Settler Colonialism

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The international border that simultaneously separates and joins Canada and the US divides numerous Indigenous nations, ostensibly placing these nations solely under the jurisdiction of either state. While the unique political situations of Indigenous nations remain undertheorized in much of the border studies literature, this paper suggests that exploring post-9/11 security changes at the Canada/US border as a form of settler colonialism connects critical Indigenous scholarship with border studies. I theorize the processes of securitization to highlight the surreptitious ways settler colonialism is perpetuated by removing “the Indigenous” as a geopolitical entity. This article focuses primarily on the Coast Salish of Washington and British Columbia and their ongoing attempts to assert a transnational identity that spans the Canada/US border. Examining security changes at the international border demonstrates that securitization of the Canada/US border perpetuates the settler...

Layers

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This bilingual poem references the Māori concept of whakapapa which explains the layers of connections between everything in the natural world. Whakapapa is the lens through which we look to both the past and the future. Understanding our whakapapa means we understand our relationship with the land and with each other. It is also in our whakapapa that we find our resurgence as a people touched by colonialism.

A 100-Year Bloom of Indigenous Limnology and Reconnection to Land through Field Stations

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The impact and importance of place-based teaching and research with Indigenous communities globally is making a resurgence, and dominant Western institutions commit to but struggle with implementing these practices. This article outlines an Anishinaabe-based initiative to reoccupy space and create a network for Indigenous peoples interested in or participating in water research in the Great Lakes region by reimagining relationships around a university field station. The University of Wisconsin-Madison owns Trout Lake Station, a field station about 220 miles north of the main campus that is world-renowned for its work in limnology. The (Ph)enological Initiatives for (IN)digenous Peoples in Limnology is a project housed at Trout Lake Station aimed at reconnecting Tribal citizens to their homelands and with fellow Indigenous peoples to assess and strengthen relationships with freshwater. The project, a collaboration between the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians...

Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil

Tribal Seed Sovereignty and Rematriation: Fulfilling Our Responsibilities through Relational Work with Traditional Seeds of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This document aims to serve as a foundational resource on seed rematriation for the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA). We are revitalizing our history and culture surrounding traditional seed varities. The following is a case study in methodology on seed rematriation. In particular, we share the process when it is co-developed between an Indigenous institution and a Federal Research Agency with the same intention to support Indigenous Food and Seed Sovereignty. Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish (NHS) College and USDA-Agricultural Research Service Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory are conducting Indigenous research utilizing participatory action research methods deeply rooted in relationality and respect to support Indigenous Seed Sovereignty through seed multiplication and rematriation. The collaboration aims to support the health of the Traditional Seed Cache located at NHS College by increasing the quantity and quality of seeds available to MHA Tribal members. Through a sharing...

What Side Are You On?

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What Side Are You On?

Introduction • Pyroepistomology: Reclaiming Knowledge, Histories, Lands, Relations.