Books & Other Writing

Rosalyn is an award winning Indigenous writer, environmental historian and ethnobotanist.

Current Projects

Rosalyn is working on her third book, tentatively title “Plants That Purify: Essays on the Ecology of Blackfeet Womanhood.”

Books

"Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet," University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

Winner of the 2018 Donald Fixico Book Award
Winner of the 2018 John C. Ewers Book Award.

City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934, Rosalyn LaPier and David R.M. Beck, University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Winner of the 2016 Robert G. Athearn Book Award.

Talking About Books (Podcasts)

"Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet," University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

New Books Network — Interview & Podcast on Invisible Reality.
Main Street, Prairie Public Radio — Interview & Podcast on Invisible Reality.
The Hedgehog & The Fox — Interview & Podcast on Invisible Reality.

Lexicons

Blackfeet Names of Plants Used by the Blackfeet, compiled by Rosalyn LaPier, for Saokio Heritage, 2020.

Blackfeet Vocabulary Terms for Items of Material Culture, compiled by Rosalyn LaPier, with translator Shirlee Crow Shoe, for the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 2005.

Chapters & Articles

“American Indian Moving to Cities,” in Why You Can't Teach U.S. History Without American Indians, with David R.M. Beck, edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, et.al., University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

“‘One Man Relocation Team:’ Scott Henry Peters and American Indian Migration in the 1930's,” with David R.M. Beck, Western Historical Quarterly, 45:1, Spring 2014.

“Crossroads for a Culture: American Indians in Progressive Era Chicago,” with David R.M. Beck, Chicago History, 38:1, Spring 2012.