Indigenous Studies Resource Page

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is observed in the United States to honor native peoples the Americas and celebrate their histories and cultures. This U.S. holiday emerged in recent years as a rejection of the erasure of Indigenous peoples from their history. To amplify the humanistic work and contributions of Indigenous studies scholars, we recently asked members of the ACLS community to share resources and work on this area of study.

We also recommending checking out work done by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), including their journal Nais. NAISA is an interdisciplinary, international membership-based organization comprised of scholars working in the fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies broadly defined.

“The humanities and social sciences will not thrive unless they reflect the diversity of the experiences they seek to interpret,” stated ACLS President Joy Connolly. At ACLS, we are dedicated to doing the continuous work of dismantling the biases within academia and positioning these areas of studies as intrinsic to the value of the humanities.

Similar to the previous published sections of scholarly writing and resources on race and racism, LGBTQ+ liberation, and Hispanic/Latinx Studies, these resources are part of our ongoing commitment to and efforts in inclusive excellence and our continued efforts to promote humanistic scholarship in the public eye. If you have any resources you would like to share with the ACLS community, or any questions or comments, please connect with us at [email protected].

NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS HISTORIES

• Article: “Disorderly Pasts: Kinship, Diagnoses, and Remembering in American Indian–U.S. Histories.” in the Journal of Social History
  Written by Susan Burch F’19, Professor of Middlebury College
• Article: “‘Intertribal’ Development Strategies in the Global Cold War: Native American Models and Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia”
  Written by Jacob A. Tropp F’09, Professor of African Studies, Middlebury College
• Article: “Joseph Johnson’s Lost Gamuts: Native Hymnody, Materials of Exchange, and the Colonialist Archive”
  Written by Glenda Goodman F’18, F’13, Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania 
• Article: “Policing the Pueblo: Vagrancy and Indigenous: Citizenship in Oaxaca, 1848–1876”
  Written by Luis Sánchez-López F’22, Assistant Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine
• Article: “Revisiting Stories and Voices of the Rogue River War (1853–1856): A Digital Constellatory Autoethnographic Mode of Indigenous Archaeology”
  Written by Ashley Cordes F’22, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media, University of Oregon
• Article: “Singing Box 331: Re-sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns from the Moravian Archives”
  Written by Rachel Wheeler F’17, Associate Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and Sarah Eyerly F’17, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
• Article: “Transnational development training and Native American ‘laboratories’ in the early Cold War”
  Written by Jacob A. Tropp F’09, Professor of Middlebury College
• Article: “U.S. Indian Affairs, British Imperial Africa, and Transcolonial Dialogues over Conservation and ‘Native Development’ in the 1930s”
  Written by Jacob A. Tropp F’09, Professor of Middlebury College
• Article: “What an Indigenous perspective on U.S. and Mexican history reveals,” The Washington Post
  Written by Alan Shane Dillingham F’11, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
• Article: “Who is Doctor Bauer?: Rematriating a Censored Story on Internment, Wardship, and Sexual Violence in Wartime Alaska, 1941-1944”
  Written by Holly Miowak Guise F’22, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
• Book: After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands (Princeton University Press, 2021)
  Written by Margaret D. Jacobs F’12, co-director of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and project co-director of Reconciliation Rising
• Book: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (Minneapolis: Broadleaf Books, 2022)
  Written by Patty Krawec, submitted by Nichole Marie Shippen F’22, Associate Professor, City University of New York, LaGuardia Community College
• Book: Finding Caspicara: Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Eighteenth-Century Quito (University of Texas Press, 2024) 
  Written by Susan Verdi Webster F’05, Professor Emerita of Art History and American Studies, College of William & Mary
• Book: Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation (Duke Press, 2018)
  Written by Dana E. Powell G’19, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Appalachian State University
• Book: Native America: A History (Wiley-Blackwell, Third Edition 2022)
  Submitted by Joel T. Helfrich F’20, Adjunct Professor of Monroe Community College
• Book: Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2021)
  Written by Alan Shane Dillingham F’11, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
• Book: Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska’s New Deal Totem Parks (University of Washington, 2018)
  Written by Emily L. Moore F’11, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Art History, Colorado State University
• Book Chapter: “Historiography of Seventeenth-Century La Florida” from The Florida Historical Quarterly (Florida Historical Society, 2014)
  Written by Jane Landers F’13, G’16, G’22, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
• Book Chapter: “The Geopolitics of Seventeenth-Century Florida” from The Florida Historical Quarterly (Florida Historical Society, 2014)
  Written by Jane Landers F’13, G’16, G’22, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
• Multimedia Project of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People Grappling with these Histories and Working Towards Reconciliation
  Submitted by Margaret D. Jacobs F’12, co-director of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and project co-director of Reconciliation Rising
• Website: Singing Box 331: Mohican Language Hymns from the Moravian Archives
  Created by Rachel Wheeler F’17, Associate Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and Sarah Eyerly F’17, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
• Website: Slave Societies Digital Archive (2022 ACLS Digital Justice Development Grantee)
  Directed by Jane Landers G’22, G’16, F’13, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History at Vanderbilt University

NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES

• Article: “Afterword” to special issues on “Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Adjunction of Indigenous Rights” in Erasmus Law Review
  Written by Stuart Kirsch F’10, Roy A. Rappaport Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
• Article: “An Invitation to Live Together Making the ‘Complex We'”
  Written by Marisol de la Cadena F’01, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• Article: “Esta carretera nos atraviesa’: roadbuilding and mapping the cuerpo-territorio of Amazonian Indigenous girls in Bolivia”
  Written by Nohely Guzmán Narváez F’23, PhD Student, Geography Department, University of California, Los Angeles
• Article: “INDIGENOUS COSMOPOLITICS IN THE ANDES: Conceptual Reflections beyond “Politics”
  Written by Marisol de la Cadena F’01, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• Article: “Making Kin with the Machines”
  Submitted by Ashley Cordes F’22, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media, University of Oregon
• Article: “Masters of the Trade: Native Artisans, Guilds, and the Construction of Colonial Quito,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
  Written by Susan Verdi Webster F’05, Professor Emerita of Art History and American Studies, College of William & Mary
• Article: “Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation”
  Submitted by Susan Burch F’19, Professor of Middlebury College
• Article: “Storying Indigenous cryptocurrency: reckoning with the ghosts of US settler colonialism in the cultural economy”
  Written by Ashley Cordes F’22, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media, University of Oregon
• Article: “The Violence at the Root of Our Thanksgiving Myth has been Hemispheric,” The Washington Post
  Written by Alan Shane Dillingham F’11, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
• Article: “Vantage Points: Andeans and Europeans in the Construction of Colonial Quito,” Colonial Latin American Review 
  Written by Susan Verdi Webster F’05, Professor Emerita of Art History and American Studies, College of William & Mary
• Article: “Wakanda Forever’ arrives just in time to dispel Thanksgiving myths,” The Washington Post
  Written by Alan Shane Dillingham F’11, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
• Book: Archaeologies of Indigenous Presence (University Press of Florida, 2022)
  Co-edited by Lee M. Panich G’22, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Santa Clara University
• Book: Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds (Duke University Press, 2015)
  Written by Marisol de la Cadena F’01, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
• Book: Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights in Ecuador (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
  Written by Carmen Martínez Novo F’17, Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida and Editor in Chief, Latin American Research Review
• Book Chapter: “Not Knowing: In the Presence Of…” from Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis (Duke University Press, 2021)
  Written by Carmen Martínez Novo F’17, Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida and Editor in Chief, Latin American Research Review
• Multimedia project: Reconciliation Rising
  Co-directed by Margaret D. Jacobs F’12, co-director of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and project co-director of Reconciliation Rising, and Kevin Abourezk
• Short film: “Return of the Pawnees”
  Produced by Margaret Jacobs and Kevin Abourezk, Producers, “Return of the Pawnees,” short film

WHY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY?

• Blog Post: “Some More Thoughts on Why We Need Indigenous Peoples’ Day”
  Submitted by Joel T. Helfrich F’20, Adjunct Professor of Monroe Community College
• Blog Post: “A Plea for Justice on Indigenous Peoples’ Day”
  Submitted by Joel T. Helfrich F’20, Adjunct Professor of Monroe Community College
• Blog Post: “Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Revisited”
  Submitted by Joel T. Helfrich F’20, Adjunct Professor of Monroe Community College
• Blog Post: “You Have No Excuse for Ignoring Indigenous Peoples’ Day”
  Submitted by Joel T. Helfrich F’20, Adjunct Professor of Monroe Community College
• Op-ed: “Christopher Columbus is No Hero”
  Written by Joel T. Helfrich F’20, Adjunct Professor of Monroe Community College

RESOURCE LIST ON INDIGENOUS STUDIES

• Bibliography: “Bill Holm Center series” (University of Washington Press)
  Submitted by Emily L. Moore F’11, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art & Art History, Colorado State University
• Bibliography of Works of Interest by Native Scholars
  Submitted by Rosanna Dent, Assistant Professor, Federated History Department, NJIT-Rutgers Newark; Created by the History of Science Society Land Acknowledgement Special Interest Group
• Bibliography: “Remembering Teresia Teaiwa: An Open Access Bibliography”
  Submitted by Justine Parkin F’24, PhD Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Collection of Articles: “Journal of Amazigh Studies”
  Submitted by Fazia Aïtel F’20, Associate Professor of French Department, Modern Languages and Literatures, Claremont McKenna College
• Indigenous Studies Bibliography
  Submitted by Susan Burch F’19, Professor of Middlebury College
• Resource List on Indigenous Studies
  Submitted by Marcella Ernst, Native Americanist at the University of New Mexico and Margaret A. Jackson F’04, Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico

BLACKNESS AND INDIGENEITY

• Article: “Racial-Settler Capitalism: Character Building and the Accumulation of Land and Labor in the Late Nineteenth Century​” in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal
  Written by Sarah E.K. Fong F’19, Assistant Professor at Tufts University
• Book Chapter: “A Nation Divided?: Blood Seminoles and Black Seminoles on the Florida Frontier” from Coastal Encounters: The Transformation of the Gulf South in the Eighteenth Century (University of Nebraska Press, 2008)
  Written by Jane Landers F’13, G’16, G’22, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
• Book Chapter: “Yamasee-African Ties in Carolina and Florida” from The Yamasee Indians: From Florida to South Carolina (University of Nebraska Press, 2018)
  Written by Jane Landers F’13, G’16, G’22, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
• Collection of Articles Addressing the Intersections of Blackness and Indigeneity
  Submitted by Sarah E.K. Fong F’19, Assistant Professor at Tufts University
• Website: The Slave Societies Digital Archive
  Submitted by Jane Landers F’13, G’16, G’22, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Department of History, Vanderbilt University

BORDERS, IMMIGRATION, AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE AMERICAS

• Article: “The Border(s) Crossed Us Too: The Intersections of Native American and Immigrant Fights for Justice”
  Submitted by Rachel Nolan F’17, Assistant Professor of Boston University
• Article: “Learning from the paisanos: Coming to consciousness in Zapotec LA”
  Written by Luis Sanchez-Lopez F’22, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
• Article: “Meeting place: bringing Native feminisms to bear on borders of cyberspace”
  Written by Ashley Cordes F’22, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Media, University of Oregon
• Article: “‘Soy de Zoochina’: Transborder Comunalidad Practices Among Adult Children of Indigenous Migrants”
  Submitted by Luis Sanchez-Lopez F’22, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
• Article: “A Translation Crisis at the Border”
  Written by Rachel Nolan F’17, Assistant Professor of Boston University
• Article: “Two Bigamists in Tehuantepec: Global(ized) Itineraries in Southern Mesoamerica, circa 1600”
  Written by Laura Matthew F’12, Associate Professor of Latin American History, Marquette University

BUILDING INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY AND ENGAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

• Article: “In Oklahoma, Emory builds relationships with the Muscogee Nation”
  Featuring Malinda Maynor Lowery, Member of the ACLS Board of Directors and Cahoon Family Professor of American History, Emory University
• Article: “Lowery Helps to Forge Relationships of Learning and Healing with Muscogee Nation”
  Featuring Malinda Maynor Lowery, Member of the ACLS Board of Directors and Cahoon Family Professor of American History, Emory University
• Article: “Public Memory as Community-Engaged Writing: Composing Difficult Histories on Campus”
  Written by Amy Lueck G’22, Associate Professor of English, Santa Clara University, and Lee M. Panich G’22, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Santa Clara University
• Article: “Representing Indigenous Histories Using XR Technologies in the Classroom”
  Written by Amy Lueck G’22, Associate Professor of English, Santa Clara University, and Lee M. Panich G’22, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Santa Clara University
• Virtual Tour: Native History Walking Tour
  Submitted by Amy Lueck G’22, Associate Professor of English, Santa Clara University; Collaboratively authored by members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ohlone Indian Tribe, and Santa Clara University faculty
• Website: Ohlone Heritage Hub
  Submitted by Amy Lueck G’22, Associate Professor of English, Santa Clara University; Collaboratively authored by members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ohlone Indian Tribe, and Santa Clara University faculty

INDIGENOUS YOUTH ACTIVISM IN MEXICO

• Article: “Indigenismo Occupied: Indigenous Youth and Mexico’s Democratic Opening (1968–1975)” in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History
  Written by Alan Shane Dillingham F’11, Assistant Professor at Albright College

INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918-1919 AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES

• Article: “‘A Very Serious and Perplexing Epidemic of Grippe’: The Influenza of 1918 at the Haskell Institute”
  Written by Mikaëla M. Adams F’18, Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi
• Article: “From Black Death to Fatal Flu, Past Pandemics Show Why People on the Margins Suffer Most.”
  Submitted by Mikaëla M. Adams F’18, Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi
• Article: “Native American Tribes Were Already Being Wiped Out. Then the 1918 Flu Hit.”
  Submitted by Mikaëla M. Adams F’18, Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi
• Blog Post: “Social Distancing in the Age of Assimilation: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920 in Indian Country”
  Submitted by Mikaëla M. Adams F’18, Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi
• Mikaela Adams F’18 Public Lecture on “Influenza in Indian Country”
  Submitted by Mikaëla M. Adams F’18, Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi

NEOCOLONIALISM AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

• Talk by Dr. Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj on the Ongoing Neocolonial Oppression of Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
  Submitted by Rachel Nolan F’17, Assistant Professor of Boston University

GENOA INDIAN SCHOOL DIGITAL RECONCILIATION PROJECT

• Digital Archive of the Genoa U.S. Indian Industrial School Records
  Submitted by Margaret D. Jacobs F’12, co-director of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and project co-director of Reconciliation Rising
• Resource List on the History of Genoa and Other U.S. Indian Boarding Schools
  Submitted by Margaret D. Jacobs F’12, co-director of the Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project and project co-director of Reconciliation Rising

REVITALIZATION AND CARE OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

• Article: “Singing Feminist Ch’ixi+ Art Music from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus,” Feminist Formations
  Written by Evelyn Saavedra Autry F’20, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University
• Book: Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito (University of Texas Press, 2017)
  Written by Susan Verdi Webster F’05, Professor Emerita of Art History and American Studies, College of William & Mary
• Podcast: “A Conversation between Evelyn Autry, Katia Yosa, and Indigenous poet Dina Ananco”
  Submitted by Evelyn Saavedra Autry F’20, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University
• Website: Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala (Guatemala)
  Submitted by Laura Matthew F’12, Associate Professor of History, Marquette University
• Website: Nahuatl/Nawat en Centroamérica: Un archivo digital (El Salvador/Guatemala/United States)
  Created by Laura Matthew F’12, Associate Professor of History, Marquette University
• Website: Ticha: A Digital Text Explorer for Colonial Zapotec (Mexico)
  2019 ACLS Digital Extension Grantee

ACLS DIGITAL EXTENSION COLLABORATIVE PROJECT TO PRODUCE NEW CRITICAL EDITION OF THE FRANZ BOAS AND GEORGE HUNT 1897 ETHNOGRAPHY ON THE KWAKWAKA’WAKW PEOPLE

• Article: “Reassembling The Social Organization Collaboration and Digital Media in (Re)making Boas’s 1897 Book” 
  Written by Aaron Glass F’20, F’08, Judith Berman F’20, and Rainer Hatoum​
• Archived Symposium on the Project: “Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology” 
  Submitted by Judith Berman F’20, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the University of Victoria and Aaron Glass F’20, F’08, Associate Professor of the Bard Graduate Center
• Exhibition Developed by Bard Graduate Center and U’mista Cultural Centre: “The Story Box: Franz Boas, George Hunt and the Making of Anthropology” 
  Submitted by Judith Berman F’20, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the University of Victoria and Aaron Glass F’20, F’08, Associate Professor of the Bard Graduate Center
• Project Abstract 
  Submitted by Judith Berman F’20, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the University of Victoria and Aaron Glass F’20, F’08, Associate Professor of the Bard Graduate Center​
• Short Documentary on the Exhibit Featuring Kwakwaka’wakw Descendants of George Hunt 
  Submitted by Judith Berman F’20, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the University of Victoria and Aaron Glass F’20, F’08, Associate Professor of the Bard Graduate Center