Jameson R. Sweet is a historian of Native American and legal history. He is the author of *Mixed-Blood Histories: Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest*, published by University of Minnesota Press in 2025. His research examines how racial classification, federal Indian law, and kinship shaped the experiences of Dakota communities in the nineteenth century. Sweet’s scholarship draws on archival records, court cases, and tribal histories to analyze identity, citizenship, land claims, and the legal status of mixed ancestry Dakota people in the Midwest. He teaches and writes on Indigenous history, race, and law in the United States.