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Review in American Indian Culture and Research Journal:

“Shay makes visible the role Native cultural traditions played in shaping the Northern Plains. This text should be used as a point of departure for general readers interested in Native American plant use of the Northern Plains. Ultimately, this text offers important reflections on the relationships between Native American peoples and their environment.”

Hush of the Land

Review in Montana: The Magazine of Western History:

“The success of this book owes much, of course, to Arnold Elser himself, but the book would not exist at all without the remarkable work of Eva-Maria Maggi in conducting hundreds of hours of interviews with the packer and distilling the conversations into this fine narrative.”

1978

Review in Mr. Book’s Book Reviews:

“This was a very good look at baseball in 1978. There was plenty about the Yankees, including profiles of Reggie Jackson and Ron Guidry, the team’s historical comeback, the ‘Boston Massacre’, the playoff game against the Red Sox along with the postseason.”

Outback and Out West

Review in Great Plains Quarterly:

“Outback and Out West epitomizes the relevance of ecocriticism and comparative literary analysis to the task of moving us beyond the settler-colonial environmental imaginary to more sustainable social and environmental relationships. Put this book at the top of your must-read list.”

Woman Pissing

Review in Rhino Poetry:

“For a book about inefficiency, it is remarkably inefficient, at least in tone—cool, cutting, swift, funny . . . a perfect book about imperfection.”

Review in Heavy Feather Review:

“It’s a high-voltage style, comic, serious, probing and provocative, a style that you feel has the presence of a real person at the far end of it, with the working end often equipped with an enjoyably dangerous sharp.”

Indigenous Enlightenment

Review in Journal of Arizona History:

“Indigenous Enlightenment uses case studies to underline the challenges that educators encountered while learning and translating new languages and the distribution of these translated works to their target audiences . . . these legacies, especially their influence or lack thereof on Indigenous populations, is a topic that is well deserving of continued attention.”