In Instrumental Indians, Matthew Villeneuve explores how John Dewey, the nation’s most prominent philosopher of democracy and education, articulated his ideas in part by invoking imaginary Indians while utterly failing to account for his Indigenous contemporaries’ struggles to achieve self-determination in schools.

Featuring a new preface that discusses the complicated legacy of the nation’s founding at its 250th anniversary for the Indigenous peoples of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Never Broken features contemporary works by Lenape artists in dialogue with historic Lenape ceramics, beadwork, and other cultural objects. This richly illustrated volume explores the ways in which art can create, challenge, and rewrite history.

American Burial Ground reinterprets the historic touchstone of the Overland Trail as a story of death and Native activism. Emigrant graves became seeds of U.S. possession across the West. In response Native peoples defended their homelands by pointing to their graves as proofs of Indigenous persistence and enduring territorial claims.