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In this volume, contributors demonstrate the real-world application of Indigenous theory to the work they do in their own communities and how this work is driven by urgency, responsibility, and justice-work that is from the skin . In From the Skin , contributors reflect on and describe how they apply the theories and concepts of Indigenous studies to their communities, programs, and organizations, and the ways the discipline has informed and influenced the same. They show the ways these efforts advance disciplinary theories, methodologies, and praxes. Chapters cover topics including librarianship, health programs, community organizing, knowledge recovery, youth programming, and gendered violence. Through their examples, the contributors show how they negotiate their peoples' knowledge systems with knowledge produced in Indigenous studies programs, demonstrating how they understand the relationship between their people, their nations, and academia. Editors J. Jeffery Clark and Elise Boxer propose and develop the term practitioner-theorist to describe how the contributors theorize and practice knowledge within and between their nations and academia. Because they live and exist in their community, these practitioner-theorists always consider how their thinking and actions benefit their people and nations. The practitioner-theorists of this volume envision and labor toward decolonial futures where Indigenous peoples and nations exist on their own terms. Contributors Randi Lynn Boucher-Giago Elise Boxer Shawn Brigman J. Jeffery Clark Nick Estes Eric Hardy Shalene Joseph Jennifer Marley Brittani R. Orona Alexander Soto

From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nations Using Theory and Praxis originates from conversations at the 2016 American Indian Studies Association (AISA) conference held at Arizona State University (ASU). The membership met to consider the theme “Native Leadership in Community Building.” Each year the conference concludes with an association business meeting, where new board members and the president are nominated and elected. Once the new board is formed, they decide on the conference location for the next year. We both remember that year from separate conversations. The first conversation had to do with organizational direction and the nomination and election process.

This study documents the history of Company B from its training prior to induction and their return to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The 163rd fought in three major military battles throughout New Guinea, which led to the successful capture of the Philippine islands. During the final months of the war, the 163rd served as occupational forces in Japan. In addition to this military history of Company B, this study focused on these men's personal experiences. Interviews with the surviving Assiniboine and Dakota Sioux men of Company B contribute to and help create a diverse history of World War II and the American Indian experience, allowing a new version of an older, traditional military history to be written.

Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith . By Thomas G. Alexander. (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2019. 416 pp.)

Boxer reviews the book Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith by Thomas G. Alexander.