Publications

Books

Painting Native America: Indigenous Artists in the Twentieth Century (University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming 2025.)

Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (The University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

 Peer-Reviewed Articles

"Indigenizing Urban Landscapes: Northwest Coast Artists and Cities in the Late Twentieth Century," Journal of Urban History 48:1 (January 2022), 142-62.

“Painting Native America in Public: American Indian Artists and the New Deal,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42:3 (2018) [published August 2019].

Introduction for “Representing Native Peoples: Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture,” Special Issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 42:3 (2018) [published August 2019], co-edited by Nicolas G. Rosenthal and Liza Black.

“Rewriting the Narrative: American Indian Artists in California, 1960s-1980s,” Western Historical Quarterly 49:4 (Winter 2018), 409-36.

            Reprinted in California History, Special Issue on California Native History, 96:04 (November/December 2019), 54-77.

            Adapted into “A Critical Site: American Indian Art in California,” in Frank LaPena, et al., eds., When I Remember I See Red: American Indian Art and Activism in California [exhibition catalog] (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019).

“Native Americans and Cities,” American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedias (March 2015):http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-22.

            Reprinted in Timothy J. Gilfoyle, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Urban History, volume 1 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 684-96.

 “Beyond the New Indian History: Recent Trends in Historiography on the Native Peoples of North America,” History Compass 4 (September 2006): 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00340.x (2006), pp. 962-74 [Blackwell Publishing Online, www.history-compass.com]

 “Representing Indians: Native American Actors on Hollywood’s Frontier,” Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Autumn 2005): 329-52.  (Recipient of the 2005 Bert M. Fireman Article Prize from the Western History Association for the best article by a graduate student)

“The Dawn of a New Day?  Notes on Indian Gaming in Southern California,” in Native Pathways: Economic Development and American Indian Culture in the Twentieth Century, ed. Brian Hosmer and Colleen O’Neill (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004), 91-111.

“Repositioning Indianness: Native American Organizations in Portland, Oregon, 1959-1975,” Pacific Historical Review 71 (2002): 415-38.  (Recipient of the 2003 W. Turrentine Jackson Article Prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association for the best article by a graduate student)

Other Work

“Artist is Indigenizing Los Angeles, Rewriting Historical Narratives,” LMU Weekly, 19 November 2021.

“Gerald Stone’s Vision at the Crossroads,” Crocker Art Museum [Sacramento, Calif.] Blog, 31 January 2020, https://www.crockerart.org/oculus/gerald-stones-vision-at-the-crossroads.

“This is Indian Country,” LMU Magazine, Summer 2016.“

Teaching California History: A Conversation,” California History 87 (2009), 24-63.  (Co-organizer, co-author of introduction, and contributor to a roundtable discussion)

“At the Center of Indian Country: Native Americans and California in the Twentieth Century,” in William Deverell and David Igler, eds., The Blackwell Companion to California History (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), 405-15.

“Native Americans in Cities,” in David Goldfield, ed., Encyclopedia of American Urban History (Sage Press, 2007), 518-20.

“Native Americans,” “Seizure of Alcatraz,” and “Indian Gaming,” in Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History (M.E. Sharpe, 2006), 906-13.

“American Indian Day,” in Len Travers, ed., Encyclopedia of American Holidays and National Days: A Historical Guide (Greenwood Press, 2006), 364-76.

 “Racism, Activism, and Opportunity: African Americans in the Military and on the Home Front,” in Timothy Dowling, ed., Personal Perspectives: World War II (ABC-CLIO, 2005), 175-204.

 “K.S. Bud Adams,” “American Indian Athletic Association,” “Arthur Lee Daney,” “Gary Sargent,” and “The Urban Experience,” in C. Richard King, ed., Native Americans in Sports (Sharpe Reference, 2004), 5-6, 15-16, 95, 273-74, 313-14.

Book Reviews

“Expect to See Indians: Native Americans and Indigenous Peoples in Modern America,” Reviews in American History 48 (2020), 74-81.

Review of Theodor P. Gordon, Cahuilla Nation Activism and the Tribal Casino Movement, in Journal of American History 107 (June 2020), 274.

Review of Daniel H. Usner, American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Racuette in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 50:2 (Autumn 2019), 288-90.

Review of Chantal Norrgard, Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood, in Enterprise and Society 20:30 (September 2019), 738-40.

Review of Paul R. McKenzie-Jones, Clyde Warrior: Tradition, Community, and Red Power, in Journal of American History 104:1 (June 2017), 139.

Review of Dominque Brégent-Heald, Borderland Films: American Cinema, Mexico, and Canada during the Progressive Era, in Western Historical Quarterly 48:1 (Spring 2017), 74.

Review of George Hardwood Phillips, Chiefs and Challengers: Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California, 1769-1906, in Journal of San Diego History 62:1 (Winter 2016).

Review of Peter Nabokov, How the World Moves: the Odyssey of an American Indian Family, in American Indian Culture and Research Journal 40:1 (Spring 2016).

Review of Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: the United States and the American Indian Catastrophe in Southern California Quarterly, 98:4 (Winter 2016), 494-96.

Review of Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman, eds., Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas, in Pacific Historical Review 85:2 (2016).

Review of James Clifford, Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century, for H-AmIndian (June 2015).

Review of Frederick E. Hoxie, This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made, in Ethnohistory (April 2015), 395-96.

Review of Donald L. Fixico, Call for Change: The Medicine Way of American Indian History, Ethos, & Reality, in Journal of American Studies 48 (August 2014), 904-06.

Review of Josh Sides, ed., Post-Ghetto: Reimagining South Los Angeles, in Western Historical Quarterly 44 (Winter 2013), 480.

Review of Sherry L. Smith, Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power, in Journal of American Culture 47 (November 2013), 1-2.

Review of Sherry L. Smith and Brian Frehner, eds., Indians & Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest, in Ethnohistory (Spring 2013), 319-320.

Review of Myla Vicenti Carpio, Indigenous Albuquerque, in New Mexico Historical Review 88 (Winter 2013), 108-09.

Review of Stephen Kent Amerman, Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940-2000, in Pacific Historical Review 81 (August 2012), 489-90.Review of Tom Sitton, Grand Ventures: The Banning Family and the Shaping of Southern California, in Southern California Quarterly 93 (Summer 2011), 244-46.

Review of George Blue Spruce Jr., Searching for My Destiny, in New Mexico Historical Review 86 (Summer 2011), 414-15.

Review of Troy R. Johnson, The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Red Power and Self-Determination, in The Journal of San Diego History (Spring 2011).

Review of Daniel M. Cobb, Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty, in American Indian Culture and Research Journal 34 (2010), 198-200.

Review of Jeremiah B.C. Axelrod, Inventing Autopia: Dreams and Visions of the Modern Metropolis in Jazz Age Los Angeles, in Southern California Quarterly 92 (Spring 2010), 79-81.

Review of Al Carrol, Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War, in Pacific Historical Review 78 (November 2009), 657-58.

Review of Albert L. Hurtado, ed., Reflections on American Indian History: Honoring the Past, Building a Future, in Western Historical Quarterly 40 (Summer 2009), 221.

Review of Sebastian Felix Braun, Buffalo Inc.: American Indians and Economic Development, in Ethnohistory 56 (Spring 2009), 317-18.

Review of Renya K. Ramirez, Native Hubs: Culture, Community, and Belonging in Silicon Valley and Beyond, in Pacific Historical Review 78 (Feb. 2009), 123-24.

Review of Coll Thrush, Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place, for H-Urban (H-Net list for urban studies), February 2009.

Review of Lawney L. Reyes, Bernie Whitebear: An Urban Indian's Quest for Justice, in New Mexico Historical Review 83 (Spring 2008): 258-60.

Review of George Castile Taking Charge: Native American Self-Determination and Federal Indian Policy, 1975-1993, in Pacific Historical Review 77 (February 2008): 116-17.

Review of Steven P. Erie, Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, And the Environment in Southern California, in Southern California Quarterly 89 (Summer 2007): 235-37.

Review of Renée Ann Cramer, Cash, Color, and Colonialism: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgement, in Western Historical Quarterly 37 (Winter 2006): 532-33.

Review of Sierra S. Adare, “Indian” Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations’ Voices Speak Out, in Montana: The Magazine of Western History 56 (Summer 2006): 80-81.

Review of Bruce E. Johansen, ed., Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies, in Journal of American Ethnic History 25 (2005): 118-19.

Review of Eva Marie Garroutte, Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America, in Meeting Ground: Newsletter of the D’Arcy McNickle Center of the Newberry Library (Spring 2004).

Review of James B. LaGrand, Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75, in Western Historical Quarterly 35 (2004): 83-84.

Review of Curtis M. Hinsely & David R. Wilcox, The Lost Itinerary of Frank Hamilton Cushing, for H-WEST (H-Net list for American Western history), February 2004.

Review of Thomas Clarkin, Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969, for H-AmIndian (H-Net list for American Indian studies), January 2004.

Review of John Fahey, Saving the Reservation: Joe Garry and the Battle to Be Indian, in Pacific Historical Review 71 (2002): 677-78.

Review of Buffalo Tiger and Harry A. Kersey, Jr., Buffalo Tiger: A Life in the Everglades, for H-AmIndian (H-Net list for American Indian studies), November 2002.