The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History

Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Swanlund Chair and Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor at the University of Illinois. Prior to coming to Illinois, he taught at Antioch College and Northwestern University and was Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library. Author or editor of more than a dozen books, he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

William Bauer is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Reservation and Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the author of "We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here": Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 (2009) and co-editor of Major Problems in American Indian History (3rd edition). He is currently at work on Indigenous narratives of California history during the 1930s.

John P. Bowes is an Associate Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West and has written extensively about the history of American Indian removal. His current book manuscript, This Land is Too Good for Indians: Histories of Northern Indian Removal, is forthcoming from the University of Oklahoma Press.

James F. Brooks, former President of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of the award-winning Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002) and editor of several other volumes including Small Worlds: Method, Meaning and Narrative in Microhistory (2008). He is currently at work on "Mesa of Sorrows, " a history of Awat'ovi Pueblo that seeks to understand a massacre that occurred among the Hopis in the year 1700.

Lisa Brooks is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Amherst College and Chair of the Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Program. Her first book, The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (2008) reframes the historical and literary landscape of the American northeast. She is currently working on a book project, "The Queen's Right and the Printer's Rebellion: Reframing the History of King Philip's War, " to be published by Yale University Press.

Colin G. Calloway is the John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. The author of many books on Native Americans in early American history, his most recent book is Pen and Ink Witchcraft: Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History (2013) and is currently working on a book on The Indian World of George Washington.

Brenda J. Child is Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (1998); Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (2012), and most recently, My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation (2014). Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota where she is a citizen.

Paul DeMain, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and of Ojibwe descent is the managing editor of News From Indian Country, a monthly publication and index of news and information regarding Indigenous communities from through-out the Western Hemisphere. An award winning journalist, DeMain also assists in the production of online video news casts found at www.IndianCountryNews.com <http://www.IndianCountryNews.com> from Hayward, Wisconsin where he is involved in many business and political activities.

Jill Doerfler (White Earth Anishinaabe) is an associate professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She is the author of Those Who Belong: Identity, Family, Blood, and Citizenship Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg (2015). Erik M. Redix (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe) is an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. He is the author of The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism (2014). His teaching and research interests include Ojibwe language and its role in understanding the history and legal status of the Lake Superior Ojibwe.

Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent, Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America, and a forthcoming book on the American Revolution on the Gulf Coast.

Robbie Ethridge is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, 1796-1816 (2003) and From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 (2010) and co-editor of three anthologies on the Native history of the Southeast. Her current research is on the rise of the world of the pre-Columbian Mississippian chiefdoms of the American South, its collapse with European contact, and the restructuring of the Native South into the colonial South.

Andrew Fisher received his B.A. from the University of Oregon and his Ph.D. in History from Arizona State University. His first book, Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity (2010), examines off-reservation communities and processes of tribal ethnogenesis in the Columbia Basin. His current project is a biography of the Yakama actor, technical advisor, and activist Nipo Strongheart.

Alexandra (Sasha) Harmon is Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author of Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History (2010) and Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound (1998). She is currently researching Indian tribal efforts in the 1960s and 1970s to govern everyone within their reservations and thus reset the terms of their colonial relationship with the United States.
Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Endowed Chair and Professor of History, Law and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A former Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History and Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library, he is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians (1984), Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America (1995), and This Indian Country: American Indian Political Activists and the Place They Made (2012). He is currently editing a critical edition of Hawaii's Story By Hawaii's Queen , a memoir and plea for independence written by that nation's last monarch, Liliuokalani.

David S. Jones is the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. His first book, Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600 (2004), examined how European colonists responded to the epidemics that struck American Indians. He has also published a critique of deterministic theories of Indian mortality, "Virgin Soils Revisited " (William and Mary Quarterly, 2003). His current work examines the complexity of medical decisions.

Anya Montiel is a doctoral student in American Studies at Yale University where she is exploring the history of the Indian Arts & Crafts Board. She has worked in the museum field for many years, including seven years at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in the collections, curatorial, and education departments. She has been a writer for the Smithsonian's American Indian magazine since 2002 where she writes about contemporary Native American life and art.

Jeffrey Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon. He is the author of _The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee_ (2004) and _The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground_ (2010). He is currently working on a book about the problem of
genocide in U.S. history.

Paul C. Rosier is Professor of History and Department Chair at Villanova University. He is the author, among other works, of Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (2009). He is currently at work on a study of American Indian citizenship.

Neal Salisbury is Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences (History) at Smith College. His publications include Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England (1982); A Companion to American Indian History (edited with Philip J. Deloria, 2002); and The People: A History of Native America (co-authored with R. David Edmunds and Frederick E. Hoxie, 2007). His current work concerns indigenous peoples in seventeenth-century southern New England, particularly their relations with Natives and non-Natives within and beyond the region.

Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor of American History at the University of Georgia. He is author of A New Order of Things: Property, Power and the Transformation of the Creek Indians (1999) and, most recently, West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (2014).

Timothy J. Shannon is a professor of History at Gettysburg College. His books include Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empire: The Albany Congress of 1754 (2000) and Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier (2008). He is currently working on a biography of eighteenth-century Indian captive Peter Williamson.

David Shorter is a professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California Los Angeles. Trained in the History of Consciousness, his interdisciplinary work includes ethnographic articles and websites, film, indigenous language revitalization, and curatorial work. Based on decades of work with the Yoeme Indians of northwest Mexico, We Will Dance Our Truth: Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances_ (2008) won the Chicago Prize for the best book in Folklore. He teaches courses that range across many fields: Indigenous Studies, Performance Studies, Religious Studies, and the social science of the paranormal.

Troy D. Smith is Assistant Professor of History at Tennessee Tech University. He is currently working on a book titled Our Own Choice: Race, Slavery, and Nation in Indian Territory.

Gregory E. Smoak is Director of the American West Center and Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah. Hes is the author of Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century(2006). He is currently completing an environmental history of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument for the National Park Service

Christina Snyder is the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History at Indiana University. She is the author of _Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America_ (2010), and is currently completing a book called "Great Crossing, " which explores the development of the first national Indian boarding school in the Jacksonian era. She is also at work on "Ancient America, " which will combine history, archaeology, and oral tradition to offer a more seamless narrative of the North American past and dissolve the Eurocentric divide between "prehistory " and "history. "

Scott Manning Stevens is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk nation and an associate professor of Native American Studies at Syracuse University where he is Director of the Native American Studies program. He is former director of the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous and has taught at Arizona State University and SUNY Buffalo. Stevens has published numerous articles and book chapters on Native American literary and visual cultures of the colonial period and the nineteenth century.

Dustin Tahmahkera. A citizen of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, Dustin Tahmahkera is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Southwestern University where he teaches courses on indigenous media and sound studies. He is the author of the forthcoming, Tribal Television: Viewing Native Peoples in Sitcoms. Tahmahkera's next book project, tentative titled "The Lone Ranger: Captivating Comanches On-screen and Off," addresses the history of Comanches' relations with cinema.

Coll Thrush is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is the author of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place (2007) and co-editor of Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History (2011). He is currently completing a history of London framed through the experiences of Indigenous people who travelled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, the US, New Zealand, and Australia.

Robert Warrior (Osage) is the author of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (with Paul Chaat Smith) and has been writing about the contemporary American Indian world since the 1980s. He has been an appointed government official of the Osage Nation and was founding president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. He is Professor and Director of the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Michael Witgen is an Associate professor in the Department of History and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. His publications include "An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America, (2012). His current book project Native Sons, examines the intersection of race, national identity, and state making on America's northern borderland.

Cameron Wesson is the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Native American responses to European contact and colonization, with particular interest in the American Southeast. He is the author of Households and Hegemony (2008) and co-editor (with Mark Rees) of Between Contacts and Colonies (2002).

Rosita Kaaháni Worl is Tlingit from the Thunderbird Clan and House Lowered from the Sun of Klukwan, Alaska. She serves on the Board of Directors of Sealaska Corporation and as the President of Sealaska Heritage Institute. Dr. Worl has done extensive research throughout the circumpolar Arctic and Alaska and written a number of landmark studies and reports on bowhead whale, seal hunting, the effects of industrial development on Native communities, and Tlingit culture and history.

"an innovative and timely source that examines not only the historical facts but also the clashing interpretations crucial to understanding Native American history ... Recommended." - CHOICE