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Publications and Presentations

Discover the Newark Earthworks Center's research through our publications and presentations within The Ohio State University.

American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University | Knowledge Bank
The Atlas Obscura Podcast | "Newark Earthworks," June 3, 2021.
"A basis for bordering: land, migration and inter-Tohono O’odham distinction along the U.S.-Mexico Line," in Jones, R. and Johnson, C. (Eds) Placing the Border in Everyday Life. London: Ashgate, pp. 93-116. [external link]
- Madsen Kenneth. D. 2014. If you are interested in obtaining digital or print copies of this publication, please email Dr. Ken Madsen.
"Beyond Squier and Davis: Rediscovering Ohio's Earthworks Using Geophysical Remote Sensing"
- Jarrod Burks and Robert A. Cook, American Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Vol 76, Issue 4, October 2011, Page 667-689.
Blood Narrative | Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts
- Dr. Chadwick Allen (Chickasaw ancestry).
Blue Indians: teaching the political geography of imperialism with fictional film. Journal of Geography. 113 (2): 47-57. [external link DOI]
- Madsen, Kenneth D. 2014. If you are interested in obtaining digital or print copies of this publication, please email Dr. Ken Madsen.
The C.A. and P.A. Buser Collection
“Chief Topinabee – Using Tribal Memories to Better Understand American (Indian) History-Nwi Yathmomen-We Will Tell Our Story” John Low. Ethnohistory. 70 (4),2023.
Confronting the Wealth Transfer from Tribal Nations that Established Land-Grant Universities: Steps toward atonement.
- Gavazzi, S. M., Low, J.N. American Association of University Professors. 2022. [external link]
"Contemporary American Indian Arts: Including Earthworks" Video Lecture by Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris, 2015.
"Contextualizing cultural landscapes and political geography with montage. you are here." XXVI: 42-45.
- Madsen, Kenneth D. 2014. If you are interested in obtaining digital or print copies of this publication, please email Dr. Ken Madsen.
Continuity and Change in the Native American Village | Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture
- Dr. Robert Cook. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
"The Crossroads of Indigenous America" Video with Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) in The Indigenous Tour of Northwestern University.
Digital Dialogue Four | Earthworks Rising: Native Art and Literature Dr. Chadwick Allen, Ohio State Global Arts and Humanities. [YouTube link] February 2, 2022.
"Earthworks: Rise and Tell" by Marti Chaatsmith (Comanche Nation/Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Descendant) and Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris in the Fifth Session: Through Space and Time on April 12, 2018 at "Metaphors of Time: An Interdisciplinary Conversation Across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences," April 11-12, 2018. Paper in publication.
- Sponsored by The Ohio State University Office of Research, Jewish Studies at Fordham University, The Thomas and Diann Mann Distinguished Symposium Fund, The Melton Center for Jewish Studies at Ohio State, The Departments of NELC and Philosophy at The Ohio State University.
Earthworks Rising
"Earthworks rising: emerging roles within collaborations for indigenous knowledge." Christine Ballengee-Morris; Marti Chaatsmith; Glenna Wallace. Replanting cultures:community-engaged scholarship in Indian country. Benjamin Barnes and Stephen Warren. State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), 2022.
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma: Resilience through Adversity
- edited by Stephen Warren, The University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.
- ProQuest Online Copy [OSU Login required.]
Environmental Professionals Network | School of Environment and Natural Resources Career Services, The Ohio State University, Joe Campbell
- Dibaginjigaadeg Anishinaabe Ezhitwaad, a tribal climate adaptation menu YouTube video.
  - Speakers Jeff Sharp, Nicole Jackson, Ziigwanikwe (Katy Bresette), Gidigaa bizhiw (Jerry Jondreau), Sara Smith, Rob Croll, Kristen Schmitt, and John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi). January 12, 2021.
The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage.
- edited by Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy Jordan, and Richard Shiels. The Ohio State University Press. June 2023.
Frenchtown Chronicles of Prairie Du Chien
- Mary Elise Antoine and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Wisconsin Historical Society Press. 2016.
A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832
- Dr. Lucy E. Murphy. University of Nebraska Press. June 2004.
Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860
- Dr. Rebecca Kugel and Dr. Lucy E. Murphy. Cambridge University Press. 2014.
Harvard Peabody Museum Collections
- Dr. Robert Cook, "Ohio archaeological collections, which are currently being cataloged to support the work of visiting researcher and professor Dr. Robert Cook of The Ohio State University."
Historic Costume and Textiles Collection
"Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks: Landscape Monuments of the Ancient Ohio Valley" [external link]
- John E. Hancock, Marti L. Chaatsmith, Bradley T. Lepper, Bret J. Ruby. Smithsonian Books. April 21, 2026.
Hopewell Earthworks: Stories Written on the Land | WOSU Youtube [external link]
- Six part docu-series, now nominated for an Emmy!
Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago
- Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi). Michigan State University Press. 2016.
Indians and Mestizos in the “Lettered City”: Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru
- Dr. Alcira Dueñas.
"Indigenous research, publishing and intellectual property." American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 32 (3): 89-105. [external link]
- Madsen, Kenneth D. 2008. If you are interested in obtaining digital or print copies of this publication, please email Dr. Ken Madsen.
"Intervention: Indigenous Studies Reflections on The Land-Grab Universities Project" Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal. Vol 8, No 1, Spring 2021. | JSTOR
"Investigating the Placement of Hopewell Earthworks: A GIS Spatial Analysis of Ross County, Ohio" | Knowledge Bank
- 2014, Timothy Everhart, The Ohio State University.
"John Low on understanding the importance of the Newark Earthworks" Voices of Excellence from Arts and Sciences Podcast, August 2021.
"Foreword" by Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) in Mapping Chicagou/Chicago: A Living Atlas, part of the Decolonizing the Chicago Cultural Center at the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial by the research collective The Settler Colonial City Project.
“Let Us Tell the Story of Our Land and Place: Tribal Leader Interviews Concerning the Seizure and Sale of Territories Benefiting Land-Grant Universities." [external link]
- Williams, R. B., Gavazzi, S. M., Roberts, M. E., Snyder, B. W., Low, J. N., Hoy, C., Chaatsmith, M. L., and Charles, M. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. Volume 33, No. 4- Summer 2022.
The Mayan Cultures Archive | Home of the Mayan Studies Journal
Miami Valley Recollections and Reconnections, Turpin Site 2023
- Doug Dierking
"Migration, identity and belonging." Journal of Borderlands Studies. 18 (1): 61-75. [external link DOI]
- Madsen, Kenneth D. and Ton van Naerssen. 2003. If you are interested in obtaining digital or print copies of this publication, please email Dr. Ken Madsen.
A Nation Across Nations: The Tohono O’odham and the U.S.-Mexico Border. PhD. Dissertation, Arizona State University. [external link]
- Madsen, Kenneth D. 2005. If you are interested in obtaining digital or print copies of this publication, please email Dr. Ken Madsen.
Native Women’s History in Eastern North America before 1900: A Guide to Research and Writing
- Dr. Rebecca Kugel and Dr. Lucy E. Murphy.
The Newark Earthworks | Enduring Monuments, Contested Meanings
- Dr. Lindsay Jones and Dr. Richard Shiels.
Ohio Native Heritage Archive
"One site, many interpretations: managing heritage at an ancient American site," Museum and Place. Paris: ICOFOM (International Committee for Museology), pp. 138-161. [external link]
- Weiser, Elizabeth; Low, John; Madsen, Kenneth. 2019. Smeds, K. and Davis, A. (Eds.) If you are interested in obtaining digital or print copies of this publication, please email Dr. Ken Madsen.
"On the Identification of Villages: Temporal and Formal Considerations between Early Nucleated Villages in the Miami Valleys and Neighboring Mississippian Regions."
- Robert A. Cook, Marcus A. Schulenburg, and Aaron R. Comstock. "The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands." Edited by Martin Menz, Analise Hollingshead and Haley Messer. The University of Alabama Press, 2024. Pg 125-147.
"Paying Old Debts" [external link] Williams, R.B., Gavazzi, S. M., Roberts, M.E., Chaatsmith, M.L., Hoy, C., Low., J. N., and Snyder, B. W. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. Vol. 33, No. 2. 2021.
"Pokégnek Bodéwadmik The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Survival and Revival through Storytelling" Video Lecture by Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), 2015.
Pokégnek Bodéwadmik | The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians | Keeper’s of the Fire
- Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi).
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago: Special Guest Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi).
- November 2018 Lecture Video at the Moraine Valley Community College Library.
"Pokagon Potawatomi Black Ash Baskets: Our Storytellers opens to the public April 16, 2021 in the Maran Gallery near the Maori House"
- Dr. John Low, Pokegnek Yathdanawa issuu, June 2021, Page 5.
"Pokagon Potawatomi Basket Making--Recollecting Nationhood"
- Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi).
Pokagon Black Ash Baskets | The Field Museum
- Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi) and Monisa Ahmed, May 26, 2021.
"Proposal to Create the Newark Earthworks Center" | Knowledge Bank
- 2006, Newark Earthworks Center, The Ohio State University.
"Reckoning with the Original Sin of Land-Grant Universities: Remaining Land-Grant Fierce While Insisting on Contrition and Repentance." (pg. 157-161) Stephen M. Gavazzi.
"Selma Sully Walker and Native Women's Leadership in Ohio, 1975-2011,"
- edited by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820, Alexander Street.
"Singing at a Center of the Indian World: The SAI and Ohio Earthworks"
- Marti Chaatsmith (Comanche Nation/Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Descendant).
"Stepping Out and Stepping Up: Toward Truth and Reconciliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes"
- Brian Snyder and Steven M., Gavazzi, Initiative for Food and AgriCultural Transformation (InFACT) newsletter, The Ohio State University Discovery Themes, December 17, 2020.
Sunwatch: Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
- Dr. Robert Cook. The University of Alabama Press. 2007.
"They Came, They Claimed, They Named, and We Blame: Art Education in Negotiation and Conflict." [external link, OSU login required].
- Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris. Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research. Vol. 51, Issue 3. 2010. pg 275-287.
Transforming our practices: indigenous art, pedagogies and philosophies
- edited by Dr. Christine Ballengee-Morris and Dr. Kryssi Staikidis. National Art Education Association. 2017. [OSU Library copy link]
Trans-Indigenous | Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies
- Dr. Chadwick Allen (Chickasaw ancestry).
"Traveler’s Guide to Ancient Ohio: Essential Guidebook and Journal." John Hancock. University of Cincinnati Press. June 2025.
"Tribal Participation in the Preservation of the Newark Earthworks" Video Lecture by Marti Chaatsmith (Comanche Nation/Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Descendant), 2015.
"Two Steps Land Grants Should Take to Fight Racial Injustice"
- Steven M. Gavazzi, Inside Higher Education, May 7, 2021.
"Update on Racial Justice Project: Toward Truth and Reconciliation with Dispossessed Native American Tribes"
- May 20, 2021.
Virtual Quest | Seeking Knowledge: Native People and Ohio
- "Ohio History Connection's Virtual Quests are engaging online educational resources about Ohio's people and history. Created in collaboration with community stakeholders, these digital resources provide remote learning opportunities for 4th-8th grade students."
Virtual World Heritage Ohio
- Newark Earthworks GIS Web Map
- Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ball State's Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab), Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL), The Works, Ohio History Connection, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and the Shawnee Tribe.
"Water/Earth/Sky Journeys: Overcoming Serial Nomination Challenges with a Themed Landscape Approach"
- Jennifer Aultman, Marti Chaatsmith (Comanche Nation/Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Descendant), Elizabeth Bartley.
What is a land-grant university? Who Knew? a video series by The Lantern. [YouTube link] April 1, 2022.
"Women's Leadership through the Women's Basket Cooperative in Pokagon Band of Potawatomi, 1983-2000"
- Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi).
"WOSU Preserving American Indian Culture." Radio Show Recording.
- September 29, 2016. All Sides with Ann Fisher with guests President Kerry Holton of the Delaware Nation, Daryl Balwin Director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University, and Marti Chaatsmith (Comanche Nation/Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Descendant) Interim Director of the Newark Earthworks Center.
"WOSU Removing Confederate Monuments" Radio Show Recording.
- June 29, 2020. All Sides with Ann Fisher with guests Elizabeth Brown, Columbus City Councilmember; Megan Wood, Director of Cultural Resources at the Ohio History Connection; Rita Fuller Yates, Columbus historian of the Columbus Landmarks Foundation; and Dr. John Low (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), Associate Professor of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University at Newark.