The SAIL Review

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Volume 3, issue 1 (Spring 2026)

  • ASAIL Announcements
  • The Serpent’s Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in Movement by Adam W. Coon
    • Reviewed by Jessica Sánchez Flores
  • Indigenous Comics and Graphic Novels: Studies in Genre. Jackson by James J. Donahue
    • Reviewed by Shelli Rottschafer
  •  Indigenous Poetics by Inés Hernández-Ávila and Molly McGlennen
    • Reviewed by Aitana Monzón-Blasco
  •  Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and Romantic Poetry by Nikki Hessell
    • Reviewed by Hayley Salo
  •  Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity by Bethany Hughes
    • Reviewed by Phillip Zapkin
  •  The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories by Devon A. Mihesuah
    • Reviewed by Miriam Brown Spiers
  •  Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History & Memory by Rose Miron
    • Reviewed by Jenna Hunnef
  • Inscribing Sovereignties: Writing Community in Native North America by Phillip H. Round
    • Reviewed by Frank Kelderman
  •  Assimilation, Resilience, and Survival: A History of the Stewart Indian School, 1890-2020 by Samantha M. Williams
    • Reviewed by Geoff Hamilton

Volume 2, Issue 1/2 (August 2022)

  • Announcements
  • Out of the Crazywoods by Cheryl Savageau
    • Reviewed by Carol Willette Bachofner
  • Picturing Worlds: Visuality and Visual Sovereignty in Contemporary Anishinaabe Literature by David Stirrup
    • Reviewed by David J. Carlson
  • Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit by Lisa Blee and Jean M. O’Brien
    • Reviewed by Helen Makhdoumian
  • Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
    • Reviewed by Shelli Rottschafer

Volume 1, Issue 2 (July 2021)  

  • Announcements
  • Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
    • Reviewed by Shelli Rottschafer
  • The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
    • Reviewed by Madison Fowler-Niblock
  • The 42nd Annual American Indian Workshop: “The Sovereign Erotic”
    • Reviewed by Jeremy M. Carnes

Volume 1, Issue 1 (April 2021)

  • Welcome to The SAIL Review
    • Jeremy M. Carnes
  • Announcements
  • The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
    • Reviewed By Kali Simmons
  • In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover
    • Reviewed by Robin Riley Fast
  • Brother Bullet by Cassandra López
    • Reviewed by Jane Haladay
  • Rovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press edited by Jacqueline Emery
    • Reviewed by Christina Stanciu
  • Bearheart: The Gerald Vizenor Chronicles directed by John Purdy
    • Reviewed by James Mackay