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Arnett, Jess. 2026.  Settler Imperialism: Alaska Natives and the Myth of the Last Frontier. University of Minnesota 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.

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.

Black, Liza. 2026. How Settlers Get Away with Murder: The Killing of Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit People in the Americas. Beacon Press, Boston. 

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Oberg, Michael Leroy. 2026. The Central Fire of the Iroquois: A Five-Hundred-Year History of the Onondaga Nation. Yale University Press. 

Ramones, Ikaika. 2026. Red Dirt: Class and the Contestations of Indigeneity in Hawaiʻi and Beyond. Princeton University Press.

Redman, J. Samuel. 2026. Tarnished Promises: Indian Peace Medals in North America. University Press of Colorado.  

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

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

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.

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.

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

Wakeham, Pauline. 2026. Indigenous Reparations and Settler Colonial Reckoning: Re-Braiding Rights and Redress in Canada. University of Minnesota Press.

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