
Assistant Professor
301 Commonwealth Honors College Building, 157 Commonwealth Ave.
brown-perez@honors.umass.edu
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2018 “‘An Inconvenient Truth’: The Use of Federal Policy to Erase American Indians, Indian Tribes, and Indigenous Heritage,” Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity. (ed. by Glenn Hooper). University of Florida Press.
2017 “Clearing the Landscape: The U.S. Government’s Ongoing Attempts to Remove Indigenous Peoples,” New Diversities, a special issue by guest editor Manuela Picq.
2013 “A Right Delayed: The Brothertown Indian Nation’s Story of Surviving the Federal Acknowledgment Process,” Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook. (ed. by Amy E. Den Ouden and Jean M. O’Brien). University of North Carolina Press.
2012 “‘A Reflection of Our National Character’: Structurally and Culturally Violent Federal Policies and the Elusive Quest for Federal Acknowledgment,” Landscapes of Violence.