2025/10/03 by William Bauer, Dmitri Brown, Keith L Camacho +3 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Australian History and Society #Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights #Latin American history and culture
paper · doi:10.1093/ahr/rhaf514
openalex publication_date 2025/10/03 · openalex created_date 2025/12/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/23
With the emergence of Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS) as a discipline in the early 2000s, growing numbers of historians who research and write American Indian and Indigenous histories have drawn from NAIS methodologies.1 This has begun to transform the way historians research and write Indigenous histories and the types of historical narratives that have been published. Yet even with this important methodological turn in the field of Indigenous history, there is still progress to be made at better incorporating NAIS methodologies in history and, for some historians, at recognizing the value of these approaches.2 Excited by the possibilities of this methodological shift in the discipline of history, the American Historical Review organized a roundtable discussion at the AHA’s 2024 conference in San Francisco, California. We assembled six historians whose scholarship successfully draws from both history and NAIS to discuss methodologies in Indigenous history. We then edited our conversation for clarity and cited some scholarship relevant to our discussion.