Publications

Books, chapters, articles, papers, and reviews.

Books and Book Chapters

1. “The Darkest Part of the Nation”: The Natchez and Resistance in the Mvskoke and Cherokee Nations
   McFarland & Company, Jefferson, N.C., forthcoming 2026
2. “Captive or Captivated: Rethinking Encounters in Early Colonial America”
   Chapter in Native American Adoption, Captivity, and Slavery in Changing Contexts, ed. Max Carocci and Stephanie Pratt. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2012
3. Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery
   Real Voices, Real History series. John F. Blair, Winston-Salem, N.C., October 2006
4. Black Indian Slave Narratives
   John F. Blair, Winston-Salem, N.C., June 2004
5. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855–1867
   Studies in African American History and Culture. Routledge, June 2003
6. Theology and the Practice of Responsibility: Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer
   Contributing editor. Trinity Press International, 1994

Journal Articles and Essays

• “Aframerindian Religion”
  The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Indiana University Press, April 2006
• “Aframerindian Religion”
  Union Seminary Quarterly Review 57:3–4, 2003
• “Beneath the Underdog: Race, Religion, and the Trail of Tears”
  American Indian Quarterly 25, no. 2 (Summer), University of Nebraska Press
• “Living Together in a Sacred Place: The Role of Silver Bluff, South Carolina, in Our Collective Religious Experience”
  Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education 3, no. 2, Fall 2001
• “Red, White, and Black in the Old South”
  Appalachian Quarterly, Winter 1999
• “‘all my Slaves, whether Negroes, Indians, Mustees, or Molattoes’: Towards a Thick Description of ‘Slave Religion’”
  American Religious Experience, August 1999
• “‘I am Keetoowah’s Son’: Cherokee Nationalism and the Civil War”
  HAKO: Incontro con le culture magico visionarie, Fall 1999
• “‘His brother, and not his slave’: The Beloved Community in the Cherokee Nation”
  Journal of African American History and Genealogy, Fall 1999
• “The Keetoowah Society in Cherokee History”
  Cherokee Messenger, March 1997
• “Apocalypse Now: The Realized Eschatology of the Christian Identity Movement”
  Disinformation, February 1997; also Union Seminary Quarterly Review 49:1–2, 1995

Conference Papers and Proceedings

• “The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and Its Mission to Indian and Negro Slaves”
  Symposium: Black Indians, American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, VA, November 3, 2006
• “‘A Great Gathering of Wondering’: The Spiritual Intersections of Indigenous and African Persons in the Early Baptist Church”
  “The First and the Forced”: Indigenous and African American Intersections, University of Kansas, November 10, 2006
• “Learning to Hear the Stories VI: Listening in the Borderlands”
  “Shifting Borders of Race and Identity,” University of Kansas, March 17–19, 2005
• “The Spread of Freemasonry among the American Indians of the United States”
  Proceedings of the Ohio Lodge of Research, March 2004
• “‘Are you Kituwah’s son?’: Cherokee Nationalism and the Civil War”
  US Data Repository, US GenNet, Inc., 1994

Book Reviews

• Review of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
  Union Seminary Quarterly Review 50:3–4, 1997
• Review of Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America by Julius H. Rubin
  Journal of Religion and Health, 1996
• Review of That Godless Court? Supreme Court Decisions on Church-State Relationships by Ronald B. Flowers
  Journal of Religion and Health, 1995