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Local Resources & Events

Recent Event: For the People Pow Wow

May 25 and 26, 2024, Jaycee Fairgrounds, 1445 Fairgrounds Rd., Jefferson City, Mo.

This will happen again in 2025! 

Resources by Indigenous and Native American scholars and educators

Books & Book Chapters

Theses & Dissertations

Heidi Senungetuk (Inupiaq)

“Creating a Native Space in the City: An Inupiaq Community in Song and Dance. PhD diss., Wesleyan University, 2017. https://doi.org/10.14418/wes01.3.71.


Robin R. R. Gray (Ts’msyen & Mikisew Cree)

“Ts’msyen Revolution: The Poetics and Politics of Reclaiming.” PhD diss., University of Massachusetts - Amherst, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7275/7247509.0.


Dawn Avery (Mohawk)

“Native Classical: Musical Modernities, Indigenous Research Methodologies, and a Kanienkéha (Mohawk) Concept of Non:Wa (Now).” PhD diss., University of Maryland, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/15192


Jessica Margarita Gutierrez Masini (Detribalized accomplice, Mexican and Indigenous mixed ancestry)

Native American Indigeneity Through Danza in Southwest Powwows: A Decolonizing, Feminist Approach.” PhD diss., University of California, Riverside, 2023.


Stephanie B. Thorne (Western Cherokee Nation)

Looking Through Trees, Finding Squirrels: Healing Traumas in Native America with Traditions, Song, and Dance.” Ph.D. diss., The Florida State University, 2020.


Renata Yazzie (Diné)

“Jesus Woodlą́ą́jí Sin: Sounding a Self-Determined Navajo Christian Church.” Master’s thesis, University of New Mexico, 2022. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/mus_etds/38.

Journal Articles

(Under construction. Stay tuned for more articles)


Robin R. R. Gray (Ts’msyen & Mikisew Cree)

Gray, Robin R. R. “Rematriation: Ts’msyen Law, Rights of Relationality, and Protocols of Return.” Native American and Indigenous Studies 9, no. 1 (2022): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1353/nai.2022.0010.

Trevor Reed (Hopi)

Reed, Trevor. “Sonic Sovereignty: Performing Hopi Authority in Öngtupqa.” Journal of the Society for American Music 13, no. 4 (November 2019): 508–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752196319000397.
———. “Who Owns Our Ancestors’ Voices? Tribal Claims to Pre-1972 Sound Recordings.” The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts 40, no. 2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.7916/d8ng536k.

Scores by Indigenous and Native American composers

Selected scores

Indigenous Protocols for Research & Writing

Writing and Citing

Background information

Encyclopedias

Other scholarly resources

(includes those by settler or non-Indigenous authors)