Edited by Thomas W. Killion School for Advanced Research Press (2007) Review by Emily Lena Jones, Ph.D. Opening Archaeology is a collection of essays from a diverse set of practitioners concerning the impact of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and associated efforts to repatriate Native American burial material to culturally (more)

By Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. University of Nebraska Press (2007) Review by James Thull Nez Perce Country is a detailed, informative, and easy-to-read history of the Nez Perce people and their interactions with white society from the earliest influences of the Spanish through the mid-20th century. The late Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., begins the book (more)

University of Washington Press (2007) Review by Holy Ristau In May of 1875, the government exiled 72 Cheyenne and Kiowa Indians from Fort Sill, in what is now the state of Oklahoma, to Fort Marion, FL. Many of these captives were artists, and at least 26 of the 72 created over 1,400 drawings during the (more)

By Joseph M. Marshall III Penguin Group (2007) Review by James Thull This book is a very detailed account of the battle of Little Big Horn and its eventual impact on the Lakota. The events are recounted primarily from the Lakota perspective. The author, who is Lakota, has described in great detail the battle, the (more)

By Al Carroll University of Nebraska Press (2008) Review by Gretchen Healy Al Carroll has written a cogent, readable, scholarly, and comprehensive study of Native American veterans from a Native perspective. White scholars, some with the best of intentions, too often try to understand how Native Americans feel and miss the mark. Carroll gently punctures (more)

by Jeff Corntassel and Richard C. Witmer III University of Oklahoma Press (2008) Review by Michael W. Simpson This book explores the new “rich Indian” stereotype and how it impacts Indian policy and relations with other governments. The passing of the Indian Gaming and Regulatory Act of 1988 is seen as ushering in a new (more)

By Barbara Perry The University of Arizona Press (2008) Reviewed by Patty Lambert Barbara Perry does a good job of shedding light on a topic that is usually ignored by the mainstream. She tells how genocidal practices against the Native people of this country continue to impact Native lives today through racial violence and hate (more)

By Kim E. Ramseyer Terrami Publishing (2007) Review by Michael W. Simpson This review has been difficult to write. The book is about a young Lakota boy in the 1700s, the son of an outcast Lakota man and a non-Lakota slave struggling to join the camp circle. I am not Lakota and not versed in (more)

By Joel Andreas AK Press (2004) Review by Michael W. Simpson This book is done in comic book style, but it is deadly serious about exposing the long history of the United States dominant culture’s war addiction. The book is better than the “approved” textbooks because it uses quotes from U.S. leaders and policies/laws that (more)

By Eric Chaikin Camel’s Back Films (2007) Review by Michael W. Simpson This film follows six people from law school graduation through the California Bar exam. One of them is a Ho-Chunk woman from Wisconsin who attended law school with tribal assistance. An interesting scene conveys her reaction to a job offer from the tribe (more)