Native American Studies

Native American Studies

episodes

Interviews with scholars of Native America about their new books.

Nicolas Delsol, "Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study" (UP of Florida, 2024)

October 28, 2024

Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas

Nicolas Delsol
Hosted by Sarah Newman

In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeol…

Donald R. Hickey, "Tecumseh's War: The Epic Conflict for the Heart of America" (Westholme, 2023)

October 14, 2024

Tecumseh's War

Donald R. Hickey
Hosted by Mark Klobas

The Shawnee leader Tecumseh came to prominence in a war against the United States waged from 1811 to 1815. In 1805, Tecumseh's younger brother Lalawet…

Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott, "Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls" (Lexington Book, 2024)

October 11, 2024

Walled-In

Lisa-Jo K. Van den Scott
Hosted by Michael Johnston

Walls profoundly shape the spaces we live in and the places we move through, impinge on our everyday lives, and entangle power relations, identity, an…

Ryan Emanuel, "On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice" (UNC Press, 2024)

October 9, 2024

On the Swamp

Ryan Emanuel

Despite centuries of colonialism, Indigenous peoples still occupy parts of their ancestral homelands in what is now Eastern North Carolina--a patchwor…

Eric Steven Zimmer, "Red Earth Nation: A History of the Meskwaki Settlement" (U Oklahoma Press, 2024)

October 5, 2024

Red Earth Nation

Eric Steven Zimmer
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

In 1857, the Meskwaki Nation began the long process of piecing their homelands back together. After decades of war, dispossession, and removal at the …

Paul Peart-Smith, "Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: A Graphic Interpretation" (Beacon Press, 2024)

September 15, 2024

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Paul Peart-Smith
Hosted by Michael Vann

As the author of a graphic history, I loved chatting with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Paul Peart-Smith about the graphic interpretation of An Indigenous …

Karen Ordahl Kupperman, "Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia" (NYU Press, 2019)

September 1, 2024

Pocahontas and the English Boys

Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia (New York University Press, 2019), Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Silver Profes…

Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Gateway State: Hawai’i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire" (Princeton UP, 2019)

September 1, 2024

Gateway State

Sarah Miller-Davenport
Hosted by Zeb Larson

One of my talking points when hanging out with my fellow diplomatic historians is the painful absence of scholarship on Hawaii. Too many political his…

Javier Muñoz-Díaz et al., "Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources" (Routledge, 2024)

September 1, 2024

Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum

Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Kathia Ibacache, and Leila Gómez
Hosted by Jen Hoyer

In Indigenous Materials in Libraries and the Curriculum: Latin American and Latinx Sources (Routledge, 2024), Javier Muñoz-Díaz, Kathia Ibacache, and …

Mark Valeri, "The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty" (Oxford UP, 2023)

August 29, 2024

The Opening of the Protestant Mind

Mark Valeri
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chi…

Holly Miowak Guise, "Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II" (U Washington Press, 2024)

August 27, 2024

Alaska Native Resilience

Holly Miowak Guise
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

The Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands during World War II changed Alaska, serving as justification for a large American military presence acro…

Douglas K. Miller, "Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century" (UNC Press, 2019)

August 24, 2024

Indians on the Move

Douglas K. Miller
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

In 1972, the Bureau of Indian Affairs terminated its twenty-year-old Voluntary Relocation Program, which encouraged the mass migration of roughly 100,…

Jaclyn Sumner, "Indigenous Autocracy: Power, Race, and Resources in Porfirian Tlaxcala, Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)

August 14, 2024

Indigenous Autocracy

Jaclyn Sumner
Hosted by Ethan Fredrick

When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth--t…

Tore C. Olsson, "Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past" (St. Martin's Press, 2024)

August 6, 2024

Red Dead's History

Tore C. Olsson
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption II, set in 1911 and 1899, are the most-played American history video games since The Oregon Trail. Beloved…

Derek Taira, "Forward without Fear: Native Hawaiians and American Education in Territorial Hawai'i, 1900-1941" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)

July 27, 2024

Forward without Fear

Derek Taira
Hosted by Abigail Kahn

During Hawai‘i’s territorial period (1900–1959), Native Hawaiians resisted assimilation by refusing to replace Native culture, identity, and history w…

Pekka Hämäläinen, "Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power" (Yale UP, 2019)

July 20, 2024

Lakota America

Pekka Hämäläinen

The names of Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse are often readily recognized among many Americans. Yet the longer, dynamic history of the Lakota…

Jacob Lee, "Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi" (Harvard UP, 2019)

July 16, 2024

Masters of the Middle Waters

Jacob Lee
Hosted by Ryan Tripp

America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Coursing through a central line across the landscape, with tributaries co…

Alfred Peredo Flores, "Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962" (Cornell UP, 2023)

July 14, 2024

Tip of the Spear

Alfred Peredo Flores
Hosted by Miranda Melcher

In Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944–1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Alfred Peredo Flores argues th…

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

June 30, 2024

Plantation Pedagogy

Bayley J. Marquez
Hosted by Max Jacobs

Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, teachers, administrators, and policymakers fashioned a system of industrial education that attempte…

David H. Wilson, "Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)

June 29, 2024

Northern Paiutes of the Malheur

David H. Wilson
Hosted by Stephen Hausmann

Between the mid-19th century and the start of the twentieth century, the Northern Paiute people of the Great Basin went from a self-sufficient tribe w…