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Andersson, Rani-Henrik, Logan Sutton, and Thierry Veyrié, eds. 2024. Great Plains Ethnohistory: New Interdisciplinary Approaches. University of Nebraska Press.

Anyon, Roger, and Steven A. LeBlanc. 2024. Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley: Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350. University of Arizona Press.

Apekaum, Charles E. 2025. Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian. Edited by Benjamin R. Kracht and Weston La Barre. University of Nebraska Press.

Barnett, Lisa D. 2025. Peyote Politics: The Making of the Native American Church, 1880-1937. University of Oklahoma Press.

Beck, David R. 2024. Bribed with Our Own Money: Federal Abuse of American Indian Funds in the Termination Era. University of Nebraska Press.

Bender, Margaret, and Thomas N. Belt. 2025. The New Voice of God: Language and Worldview in the Cherokee Bible. University of Oklahoma Press.

Bigart, Robert J. 2026. Indian Chiefs Vs. Government Agents: Politics and Law Enforcement on the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, 1875–1910. University of Nebraska Press.

Burnham, Phillip. 2024. The Education of Clarence Three Stars: A Lakota American Life. Bison Books.

Cowel, Andrew. 2024. The Aaniiih Language: A Revitalization Reference Grammar. Edited by Terry Brockie. University of Nebraska Press.

Do, Minh. 2026. Process As Power: The Legitimacy of Indigenous Consultation in British Columbia Environmental Assessments. University of British Columbia Press.

Dorries, Heather, and Michelle Daigle, eds. 2024. Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance Across the Americas. Harvard University Press.

Dyck, Reginald. 2026. After the Theft of the Sacred: Experiential Religion in Indigenous Writing. University of Oklahoma Press.

Fairbanks, Janis A. 2025. Sugar Bush Babies: Stories of My Ojibwe Grandmother. University of Minnesota Press.

Fixico, Donald L. 2026. The Lighthorse Police: A History of Tribal Justice. University of Oklahoma Press.

Ford, Karl. 2024. The Colorado Trail in Crisis: A Naturalist's Field Report on Climate Change in Mountain Ecosystems. University of Colorado Press.

Fraser, Crystal Gail. 2024. By Strength, We Are Still Here: Indigenous Peoples and Indian Residential Schooling in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. University of Manitoba Press.

Galler, Robert W. 2025. Taking Charge, Making Change: Native People and the Transition of Education from Stephan Mission to Crow Creek Tribal School. University of Nebraska Press.

Gere, Anne R. 2026. Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era. University of Nebraska Press.

Glionna, John M. 2024. No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America. Bison Books.

Gould, Rae D., Holly Herbster, Heather Law Pezzarossi, and Stephen A. Mrozowski. 2024. Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories that Have Futures. University Press of Florida.

Haley, Brian. 2024. Hopis and the Counterculture: Traditionalism, Appropriation, and the Birth of a Social Field. University of Arizona Press.

Hanna, Alan. 2026. Indigenous Law in Context: Tŝilhqot'in Dechen Ts'edilhtan: Tsilhqot'in Dechen Ts'edilhtan in the Governance of Water. University of British Columbia Press.

Hernandez, Jessica. 2025. Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Solutions for Climate Displacement. North Atlantic Books.

Hinsley, Curtis M., and David R. Wilcox. 2024. On a Trail of Southwest Discovery: The Expedition Diaries of Frederick W. Hodge and Margaret W. Magill, 1886-1888. University of Arizona Press.

Horton, Jessica L. 2024. Earth Diplomacy. Duke University Press.

Hughes, Bethany. 2024. Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity. New York University Press.

Jarvenpa, Robert. 2024. Before the Roads, Before the Mines: Denesuliné Memories, Narratives, and the Legacy of a Northern Hunting Society. University of Nebraska Press.

Jernigan, Kasey. 2026. Commod Bods: Embodied Heritage, Foodways, and Indigeneity. University of Arizona Press.

Johnson, Shelby. 2024. The Rich Earth Between Us: The Intimate Grounds of Race and Sexuality in the Atlantic World, 1770-1840. University of North Carolina Press.

Kamper, David. 2025. Rezballers and Skate Elders: Joyful Futures in Indian Country. University of Nebraska Press.

Larson, Brooke. 2024. The Lettered Indian: Race, Nation, and Indigenous Education in Twentieth-Century Bolivia. Duke University Press.

Loftin, John D., and Benjamin E. Frey. 2024. People of Kituwah: The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokees. University of California Press.

Long, McKenzie. 2024. This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments. University of Minnesota Press.

Lookout, Anthony. 2026. Tilton and Grace Entokah: An Osage Story. Nebraska.

Lowry, David S. 2025. Lumbee Pipelines: American Indian Movement in the Residue of Settler Colonialism. University of Nebraska Press.

Luby, Brittany, Margaret Lehman, Andrea Bradford, Samantha Mehltretter, and Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation, eds. 2024. Manomin: Caring for Ecosystems and Each Other. University of Manitoba Press.

Marquez, Bayley J. 2024. Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space. University of California Press.

McComb Sanchez, Andrea M. 2025. Of Corn and Catholicism: A History of Religion and Power in Pueblo Indian Patron Saint Feast Days. University of Nebraska Press.

McCoy, Meredith. 2024. On Our Own Terms: Indigenous Histories of School Funding and Policy. University of Nebraska Press.

Mengesha, Lilian. 2025. Critical Dreaming: Feminist Performances Across the Indigenous Americas. New York University Press.

Miowak Guise, Holly. 2024. Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II. University of Washington Press.

Miron, Rose. 2024. Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory. University of Minnesota Press.

Mithlo, Nancy M. 2026. Red Skin Dreams: Twenty Years of Curating Indigenous Art at the Venice Biennale. University of Nebraska Press.

Montour, Enos T. 2024. Brown Tom’s Schooldays. Edited by Mary Jane Logan McCallum. University of Manitoba Press.

Murphy, Tessa. 2024. The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Mussell, Linda. 2026. Handing Over the Keys: Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice. University of British Columbia Press.

Narath, Albert. 2024. Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture. University of Minnesota Press.

Nevins, M. Eleanor. 2024. Lessons From Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance. University of Nebraska Press.

Nichols, David A. 2026. To Be Men of Business: The Origins of Chickasaw Capitalism, 1700–1840. University of Nebraska Press.

Peterson, Teresa. 2024. Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden. University of Minnesota Press.

Raschig, Megan S. 2024. Healing Movements: Chicanx-Indigenous Activism and Criminal Justice in California. New York University Press.

Rendon, Marcie R. 2024. Anishinaabe Songs For a New Millenium. University of Minnesota Press.

Rindfleisch, Bryan C. 2024. Negotiating Assimilation and Missionization in Indian Territory: Native Americans, the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, and Boarding Schools in Oklahoma, 1870s-1960s. Marquette University Press.

Rivera, Nora. 2024. The Rhetorical Mediator: Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation Through Indigenous Approaches to UX. Utah State University Press.

Robertson, Carmen L., Judy Anderson, and Katherine Boyer, eds. 2024. Bead Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands. University of Manitoba Press.

Rosenthal, Nicolas G. 2026. Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century. University of Nebraska Press.

Sabbagh, Mahdi, ed. 2024. Their Borders, Our World: Building New Solidarities with Palestine. Haymarket Books.

Schenck, Theresa M. 2025. Ojibwe Ethnogenesis, 1640–1740. University of Nebraska Press.

Shefveland, Kristalyn Marie. 2024. Selling Vero Beach: Settler Myths in the Land of the Aís and Seminole. University Press of Florida.

Shriver, Cameron M., and Bobbe Burke. 2025. Our People Believe in Education: The Unlikely Alliance of the Miami Tribe and Miami University. University of Nebraska Press.

Siddons, Louise. 2024. Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty. University of Minnesota Press.

Smith, Jen R. 2025. Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic. Duke University Press.

Sowry, Nathan. 2025. Turning the Power: Indian Boarding Schools, Native American Anthropologists, and the Race to Preserve Indigenous Cultures. University of Nebraska Press.

Stonechild, Blair A. 2024. Challenge to Civilization: Indigenous Wisdom and the Future. University of Regina Press.

Sweet, Jameson R. 2025. Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest. University of Minnesota Press.

Tekobbe, Cindy. 2024. Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces. Utah State University Press.

Thompson, Sally. 2024. Black Robes Enter Coyote's World: Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains. Bison Books.

Valette, Rebecca M. 2024. Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver: His Art and His World. Bison Books.

Watchman, Renae. 2024. Restoring Relations Through Story: From Dinétah to Denendeh. University of Arizona Press.

Whitt, Sarah A. 2025. Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American Indians. Duke University Press.

Wright, Robert. 2024. Skidegate House Models: From Haida Gwaii to the Chicago World’s Fair and Beyond. University of Washington Press.