The Oral History Review, Volume 53, Issue 2 (2026)
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Special Issue: Indigenous Oral History
Introduction
Listening Forward: An Introduction to the Oral History Review’s Special Issue on Indigenous Oral History
Sara Sinclair
Research Articles
Mi’kmaw Oral History as Law: Narrative Authority and Indigenous Legal Sovereignty
Pamela Palmater
Aunt Helen and Navajo Code Talkers: Oral Histories with Diné Warriors
Farina King
Fichi Ukiin and Kuleana: Ancestors, Genealogy, and Island Responsibilities in Oral History
Micah Mizukami
Amazonian Storytelling as Co-Learning Within the Land of More-Than-Human Beings and Environmental History from Indigenous Perspectives
Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Sidney da Silva Facundes, Francisco Apurinã & Vesa Matteo Piludu
“All of Us, We Are Relatives”: The Hudum Framework in Conducting Chakma Oral History and Indigenizing Colonial Narratives
Dinalo Chakma
Oral Histories of Displacement: The Mizo Diaspora in Happy Valley, Shillong
Karen L. Donoghue & Donskobar Junisha Khongwir
Theorizing Indigenous Feminist Oral Histories: A Methodological Intervention in Indigenous Oral Histories from an Indigenous Feminist
Lindsey Willow Smith
uqaalaiharlutit uqaruk (say it slowly)
Norma Jean Dunning
Teaching and Learning with Indigenous Oral History: Intergenerational Truthtelling of Boarding Schools in Oklahoma
Rene Kemble, Tandra Morris & Erin Dyke
Reconciling a Sovereign Debt: The FWP Slave Narratives and the History of Chickasaw Slaveholding
Rozanne Gooding Silverwood
From the Archives: Preserving the Past, Empowering the Present Through the Doris Duke Native American Oral History Revitalization Project
Molly Stothert-Maurer & Jolene Dezbah Manus
Əstą: Reflections on a Community-Based Indigenous Oral History Research Trip in ’Iihts’ii nùtsudawit’į̀į̀h (March) 2012
Daniel Sims
Book Reviews
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (10th Anniversary Expanded Edition). By Deborah A. Miranda. Heyday Books, 2022.
Fanny García
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. By Robin Wall Kimmerer. Milkweed Editions, 2015.
Savannah Apedaile
Indigenous Oral History Manual: Canada and the United States. By Winona Wheeler, Charles E. Trimble, Mary Kay Quinlan, and Barbara W. Sommer. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2024.
Nina Knight
Nishga. By Jordan Abel. McClelland and Stewart, 2021.
Hilary Seeley
We Survived the Night. By Julian Brave NoiseCat. Alfred A. Knopf, 2025.
Hannah Conway
Book Review: Classics Revisited
Storyteller. By Leslie Marmon Silko. 3rd ed. Penguin Group, 2012.
Lindsey Willow Smith
Media Reviews
Mukurtu CMS
Christopher Mario Pandza
Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness
Clarissa A. Shane