Writing

My current book project is about the Iroquoian-speaking Nottoway of Virginia. Other select publications are listed below, some of which may be found at my Academia site.

Nottoway Indian Reservation Allotment Survey, 1837, Southampton County Circuit Court and Records, Courtland, Virginia
Book

2019     Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, eds.). Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art.

Brafferton Hall, North Elevation, 1931, Perry, Shaw & Hepburn, Architects (American), Pencil on paper, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library
Journal Articles (Peer Review)

2024 Archaeology and Applied Anthropology as a Collaborative Approach to Decolonization, North American Archaeologist, special volume, Martin D. Gallivan and Jessica Jenkins, eds. Sage Publications.

2022     William & Mary’s Nottoway Quarter: The Political Economy of Institutional Slavery and Settler Colonialism (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life, November 2022.

2020     An Alternative to Red Power: Political Alliance as Tribal Activism in Virginia, Comparative American Studies, Special Issue: “Red Power at 50,” Vol. 17, Issue 2.

2016     Indian Land Sales and Allotment in Antebellum Virginia: Trustees, Tribal Agency, and the Nottoway Reservation, American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 17, Issue 2.

2011     Collaborative Archaeology and Strategic Essentialism: Native Empowerment in Tidewater Virginia (w/ Martin D. Gallivan and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Historical Archaeology, Vol. 45, No. 1.

Native Interpreters, Prelude to Victory (Yorktown, 1781), American Indian Initiative, 2011, Department of Public History Development, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia (photo courtesy of Robert Hunter)
Edited Volume Chapters

2022 (peer reviewed) “The Return of Indian Nations to the Colonial Capital: Heritage Relationships and the Production of Native Public History.” Community Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country. Stephen Warren and Ben Barnes, eds. Albany: SUNY Press.

2019     “ ‘To Be Supported and Maintained in all time coming’: A Reassessment of the Establishment of the Brafferton Indian School at the College of William & Mary” (second author, w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz). Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School. Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Buck Woodard, eds. Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art.

2019     “ ‘To Be Supported and Maintained in all time coming’: Funding the College of William & Mary and the Brafferton Indian School” (first author, w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz). Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School. Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Buck Woodard, eds. Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art.

2019     “Students of the Brafferton Indian School.” Building the Brafferton: The Founding, Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School. Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Buck Woodard, eds. Williamsburg, VA: Muscarelle Museum of Art.

2018     (peer reviewed) “Indian Land Sales and Allotment in Antebellum Virginia: Trustees, Tribal Agency, and the Nottoway Reservation” in Indigenous Histories of the American South During the Long Nineteenth Century, Gregory D. Smithers, ed. New York: Routledge.

“Millie Woodson-Turner Nottoway Allotment & Farmstead,” Women of Courage, Virginia Archaeology Month Poster, 2020, Department of Historic Resources
Technical Reports

2024     Ramp 3 Site (51NW117) Cultural Affiliation Report (w/ John Henshaw, Martin Gallivan, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Washington, D.C.

2023     Moore Village (18AG43) Cultural Affiliation Report (w/ John Henshaw, Martin Gallivan, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Washington, D.C.

2021     The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NHP Tribal Affiliation Study (w/ Martin D. Gallivan, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Mathew Forcier. National Park Service, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, Washington, D.C.

2021     The Nottoway of Virginia, c.1650–c.1953 (w/ Lena McDonald). National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation Form, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.

2020     Nansemond Culture and Early History, 1530–1730. Administration for Native Americans, Social and Economic Development Strategies (SEDS), U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Haliwa-Saponi Legacy Project and Federal Recognition Committee, Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe, Hollister, NC.

2017     The Millie Woodson-Turner Nottoway Reservation Allotment and Farmstead (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Megan Victor, and Berek Dore), Research Report Series, No. 20 / Archaeology Research Report Series, No. 5. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources and William & Mary.

2017     Sites of Significance in the Sappony Indian Settlement: High Plains Churches, Schools, and Christie General Store (w/ Stephanie Hasselbacher and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Research Report Series, No. 21 / Archaeology Research Report Series, No. 6. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources and William & Mary.

2017     Heritage Properties of Indian Town: The Mattaponi Indian Baptist Church, School, and Homes of Chiefly Lineages (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz and Martha McCartney), Research Report Series, No. 22 / Archaeology Research Report Series, No. 7. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources and William & Mary.

2006     Sharon Indian School, National Register of Historic Places Registration (w/ Julie H. Ernstein, Angela L. Daniel, and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Upper Mattaponi Tribe, King William Co., Virginia, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service.

Lone Dog’s Winter Count, 1870, Lakota Winter Counts: An Online Exhibit (2008), National Anthropological Archives and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Additional Publications

2018     Journal of Southern History, Vol. 84, No. 2, Book Review, The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast, Jessica Yirush Stern. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

2015     (Contributor) Rivers and Roads: Transportation in Early America, Dave Doody and Mary Miley Theobald. Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

2014     (Contributor) Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg, Taylor Stoermer, et al. Fourth edition, Williamsburg: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

2009     “They will not admitt of any Werowance from him to governe over them” The Chickahominy in Context: A Reassessment of Political Configurations (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Journal of Mid Atlantic Archaeology, Vol. 25.

2008     Journal of American History, Vol. 95, No. 4, Exhibition Review (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz), Lakota Winter Counts: An Online Exhibit, National Anthropological Archives and National Museum of Natural History. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

2008     The New West Indian Guide, Vol. 81, Book Review, The American Discovery of Europe, Jack D. Forbes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

2007     (Contributor) The Virginia Indian Heritage Trails Guidebook, Karenne Wood, ed. Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

2006     (Contributor) We Have A Story To Tell: Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region, Mark Hirsch, ed. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.

An Eastern Woodland garment, possibly a woman’s wrap skirt, late eighteenth century, wool stroud, silk ribbon, linen(?) thread, glass and shell beads, Nottoway Dress and Appearance, c.1705-1775, 2017, Source: Kunstkamera, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Native Community Publications

2023     Remembering and Reconciling: Nottoway Relations with William & Mary and the Brafferton Indian School. Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Annual Journal, Chair Denise Walters, ed. Capron, VA: Circle and Square Tract Foundation.

2018     The Millie Woodson-Turner Home Site: Nottoway Reservation Allotment Farms, c.1850-1950. Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Annual Journal, Chief Lynette Allston, ed. Capron, VA: Circle and Square Tract Foundation.

2017     Nottoway Dress and Appearance, c.1705-1775. Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Annual Journal, Chief Lynette Allston, ed. Capron, VA: Circle and Square Tract Foundation.

2016     Captain Thomas Step of the Nottoway. Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia Annual Journal, Chief Lynette Allston, ed. Capron, VA: Circle and Square Tract Foundation.

2010     An Ethnographic View of the Nottoway, 1700-1750. Dotratung – New Moon, Chief Lynette Allston, ed. Capron, VA: Circle and Square Tract Foundation.