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  • Agnew, Brad. Fort Gibson: Terminal on the Trail of Tears. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980

  • Allegro, Linda. "Latino Migration to the U.S. Heartland: 'Illegality,' State Controls, and Implications for Transborder Labor Rights." Latin American Perspectives 37 (January 2010): 172-184

  • Allegro, Linda. “On Removing Migrant Labor in a Right-to-Work State: The Failure of Employer Sanctions in Oklahoma.” In Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America ed. Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood, 125-144. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013.

  • Ameringer, Oscar. If You Don’t Weaken: The Autobiography of Oscar Ameringer. 1940; reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

  • Anderson, Sam. Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis. New York: Crown, 2018.

B

  • Baird, W. David and Danney Goble. Oklahoma: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

  • Baird, W. David and Danney Goble. The Story of Oklahoma3rd ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.

  • Baird, W. David. Peter Pitchlynn, Chief of the Choctaws. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972.

  • Bissett, Jim. Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

  • Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.

  • Brown, James A. The Spiro Ceremonial Center: The Archaeology of Arkansas Valley Caddoan Culture in Eastern Oklahoma. 2 vols. Memoir 29. Ann Arbor: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1996.

C

  • Champagne, Duane. Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992.

  • Chang, David A. The Color of the Land: Race, Nation and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

     

  • Clampitt, Bradley R. ed., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

  • Clark, Blue. Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide 2nd ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.

  • Clark, William Bedford. “The Black Dispatch: A Window on Ralph Ellison’s First World.” Mississippi Quarterly 62 (Winter 2009): 3-18.

  • Cobb, Amanda J. Listening to Our Grandmothers’ Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000; paperback, 2007.

  • Cobb, Daniel M. Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2008.

  • Cobb, Russell. The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

  • Coleman, Spoke: A Mother. A Son. Civil Rights. Vietnam. Mineral Point, Wisconsin: Little Creek Press, 2013.

  • Confer, Clarissa W. The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.

  • Conrad, Paul. The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

  • Cronley, Connie. A Life on Fire: Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.

  • Cross, George Lynn. Professors, Presidents, and Politics: Civil Rights and the University of  Oklahoma, 1890-1968. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

D

  • Dambach, Charles F. “Chic.” Exhaust the Limits: The Life and Times of a Global Peace Builder. Baltimore: Apprentice House, 2010.

  • Daniels, Douglas Henry. One O’clock Jump: The Unforgettable History of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

  • Debo, Angie. And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940.

  • Dorman, Robert L. Alfalfa Bill: A Life in Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

  • Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.

  • Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie. London and New York: Verso, 1997.

  • DuVal, Kathleen. Native Nations: A Millennium in North America. New York: Random House, 2024.

  • DuVal, Kathleen. The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

E

  • Edwards, Tai S. Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2018.

     

  • Egan, Timothy. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. New York: Mariner Books, 2006.

  • Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952.

  • Ellsworth, Scott. Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1992.

  • Ellsworth, Scott. The Ground Breaking: The Tulsa Race Massacre and an American City’s Search for Justice. New York: Dutton, 2021.

  • Everett, Dianna, ed. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.

F

  • Field, Kendra Taira. Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018.

  • Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel. A Matter of Black and White: The Autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

  • Fixico, Donald L. Chitto Harjo: Native Patriotism and the Medicine Way. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025.

  • Fixico, Donald L. The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2024.

  • Franklin, John Hope. Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

G

  • Gates, Eddie Faye. They Came Searching: How Blacks Sought the Promised Land in Tulsa. Eakin Press, 1997.

  • The Gateway to Oklahoma History, Oklahoma Historical Society.

  • Goble, Danney with Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher. A Matter of Black and White: The Autobiography of Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

  • Goble, Danney. Progressive Oklahoma: The Making of a New Kind of State. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

  • Goble, Danney. Tulsa! Biography of the American City. Tulsa: Council Oak Books, 1997.

  • Goins, Charles Robert and Danney Goble. Historical Atlas of Oklahoma. 4th ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.

  • Gordon, Linda. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan and the American Political Tradition. New York: Liveright, 2017.

  • Grann, David. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. New York: Doubleday, 2017.

  • Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

H

  • Harjo, Joy. Crazy Brave, A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012.

  • Harjo, Joy. Poet Warrior, A Memoir. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.

  • Harris, LaDonna. A Comanche Life, ed. Henrietta Stockel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

  • Hightower, Michael J. 1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

  • Hightower, Michael J. Banking in Oklahoma before Statehood. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

  • Hightower, Michael J. Banking in Oklahoma, 1907-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

  • Hoig, Stan. The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

  • Holt, David. Big League City: Oklahoma City’s Rise to the NBA. Oklahoma City: Full Circle Press, 2012.

  • Hyde Anne F. Empire, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860. New York: Ecco, 2012.

  • Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

J

  • Janda, Sarah Eppler and Patricia Loughlin, ed. This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870s-2010s. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming.

  • Janda, Sarah Eppler. Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007.

     

  • Janda, Sarah Eppler. Prairie Power: Student Activism, Counterculture, and Backlash, 1962-1972. Noman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018.

  • John, Elizabeth Ann Harper. Storms Brewed inOther Men’s Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1975; reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

  • Johnson, Hannibal B. Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District. Fort Worth: Eakin Press, 2007.

K

  • Kidwell, Clara Sue. Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

  • Kowal, Rebekah J. “‘Indian Ballerinas Toe Up’: Maria Tallchief and Making Ballet ‘American’ in the Tribal Termination Era.” Dance Research Journal 46 (August 2014): 73-96.

  • Krehbiel, Randy. Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.

L

  • La Vere, David. Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

  • Lemons, Shelly and Steven Knoche Kite. “Rooted in the Plains: Oklahoma Women, Community, and the Dust Bowl.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 93 (Spring 2015): 30-45.

     

  • Levy, David W. Breaking Down Barriers: George McLaurin and the Struggle to End Segregated Education. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.

  • Linenthal, Edward T. The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

  • Lomawaima, K. Tsianina. They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994.

  • Loughlin, Patricia. Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

  • Luper, Clara. Behold the Walls: Commemorative Edition. Edited by Karlos K. Hill and Bob L. Blackburn. Oklahoma City: Jim Wire, 1979; reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023.

  • Lynn-Sherow, Bonnie. Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004.

M

  • Mankiller, Wilma and Michael Wallis. A Chief and Her People. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

  • Mathews, John Joseph. The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961.

  • Mihesuah, Devon A. Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

  • Miles, Tiya. Ties that Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family and Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005.

  • Miller, Douglas K. “The Spider’s Web: Mass Incarceration and Settler Custodialism in Indian Country.” In Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance ed. Robert T. Chase, 385-408. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

  • Miller, Robert J. and Robbie Ethridge. A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2023.

  • Minges, Patrick N. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867. New York: Routledge, 2003.

  • Mix, Tamara L. and Dakota K. T. Raynes. “Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity.” In Oklahoma’s Shale Plays, in Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions ed. Anthony E. Ladd, 173-197. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018.

  • Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.

  • Moore, Bill. Oklahomans and Space: Chronicles of the Amazing Contributions of Oklahomans in the Aerospaace Industry. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 2011.

  • Musslewhite, Lynn and Suzanne Jones Crawford. One Woman’s Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875-1930. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

N

  • Nagle, Mary Kathryn. Sovereignty. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2020.

  • Nichols, Roger L. and Patrick L. Halley. Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

O

  • Ogletree, Jr., Charles J. “When Law Fails: History, Genius, and Unhealed Wounds after Tulsa’s Race Riot.” In When Law Fails, 50-69. New York: New York University Press, 2009.

  • Oklahoma State University. Oral History Collections. Oklahoma Oral History Research Program. Edmon Low Library.

P

  • Parrish, Mary E. Jones. The Nation Must Awake: My Witness to the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2021.

  • Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

  • Perdue, Theda. Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540–1866. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

R

  • Rabakukk, Gayleen. Art of the Oklahoma Judicial Center. Oklahoma City: Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 2014.

  • Reed, Julie R. Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.

  • Reese, Linda W. and Patricia Loughlin, ed. Main Street Oklahoma: Stories of Twentieth-Century America. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

  • Roberts, Alaina E. I’ve Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

  • Rollings, Willard H. The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992.

S

  • Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: The Making and Unmaking of an American Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

  • Saunt, Claudio. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. New York: W.W. Norton, 2020.

  • Scales, James R. and Danney Goble. Oklahoma Politics: A History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.

  • Sellars, Nigel A. Oil, Wheat, and Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.

  • Sharp, Susan F. Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma’s Women Prisoners. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014.

  • Singleton, Eric D. and F. Kent Reilly III, ed. Recovering Ancient Spiro: Native American Arts, Ritual, and Cosmic Renewal. Oklahoma City: National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 2020.

  • Smith, F. Todd. The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846–1901. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.

  • Smith, F. Todd. The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.

  • Smith, Michael M. “Beyond the Borderlands: Mexican Labor in the Central Plains, 1900-1930.” Great Plains Quarterly 1 (Fall 1981): 239-251.

  • Stremlau, Rose. Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011.

  • Strickland, Rennard. “Osage Oil: Mineral Law, Murder, Mayhem, and Manipulation.” Natural Resources & Environment 10 (Summer 1995): 39-43.

  • Stuckey, Melissa N. “All Men Up: Race, Rights and Power in the All-Black Town of Boley, Oklahoma: 1903-1939.” PhD diss., Yale University, 2009.

  • Stuckey, Melissa N. “Boley, Indian Territory: Exercising Freedom in the All-Black Town.” Journal of African American History 102 (Fall 2017): 492-516.

T

  • Tone-Pah-Hote, Jenny. Crafting an Indigenous Nation: Kiowa Expressive Culture in the Progressive Era. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

W

  • Warde, Mary Jane. When the Wolf Came: The Civil War and the Indian Territory. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2013.

  • Wattley, Cheryl Elizabeth Brown. A Step toward Brown v. Board of Education: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

  • Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

  • White, Richard. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

  • Wickett, Murray R. Contested Territory: Whites, Native Americans, and African Americans in Oklahoma, 1865–1907. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

  • Wilkins, David E. and K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

  • Wilson, Terry P. The Underground Reservation: Osage Oil. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

  • Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. 1979; reprint, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Y

  • Yarbrough, Fay A. Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.