Squint Advances Native American Literary Scholarship

Dr. Kirstin Squint wrote the entry on Choctaw Nation writer, LeAnne Howe, in American Indian Literature: an Encyclopedia for Students, edited by Dr. Kimberley Wieser-Weryackwe, and recently published by Bloomsbury.

Squint’s review of Chadwick Allen’s monograph, Earthworks Rising: Mound Building in Native Literature and Arts, recently appeared in the journal American Antiquity, published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society of American Archaeology.

In early June, Squint observed and participated in the Berry site archaeological field school in Morganton, North Carolina, as part of her current research on representations of 16th-century conflicts between Spanish colonial forces and Indigenous peoples in the Carolinas. While there, Squint gave a talk to the field school students on the subject of Native American storytelling in its many forms.