Nothing More of this Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity
By Joseph Lee
Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2025

Martha’s Vineyard is an iconic destination for wealthy elites, but it has also been the ancestral home of the Wampanoag people for over 10,000 years. Today nearly three-quarters of tribal members live off-island, displaced by the rising cost of living. Nothing More of This Land takes a journey across time and place to unpack what it means to be Indigenous. Shedding the idea that Indigenous identity can only be tied to ancestors, land, and history, Lee shows how peoples world-wide have found ways to strengthen their ties to each other and their legacies.

This event is presented in partnership with the Delaware Historical Society and Historic Lewes. 

About the Author
Joseph Lee is an Aquinnah Wampanoag writer who teaches creative writing at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, NY. His work has been published in The Guardian, BuzzFeed News, and Vox, winning multiple awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association and a Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellowship at Grist.

Purchase the book
Please help support local independent bookstores by purchasing this book at Browseabout Books, official bookseller of the History Book Festival. Online sources and digital versions are tempting; however, supporting local brick and mortar shops helps to preserve our vibrant main streets. Drop by Browseabout, order books online, or call the store at 302-226-2665. You also may purchase a copy at biblion in Lewes.

About the Festival
The History Book Festival is the first and only book festival in the United States devoted exclusively to history. With the help of our presenting funding partners — Delaware Humanities and The Lee Ann Wilkinson Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices | PenFed Realty — as well as our program and community partners, volunteers, and donors, the 2025 History Book Festival will be full of great discussions with authors of newly published narrative nonfiction and historical fiction. 

Thanks to all of our donors, especially our education and outreach funding partners: Ronald Collins & Susan Cohen, Carolyn & Aaron Nayer, Jen Mason & Clare Hancock, and Browseabout Books. HBF authors visit classrooms in Delaware, and HBF provides their books to schools, libraries, and community organizations.

Our Keynote event is presented by Griswold Home Care for Sussex and Kent Counties and Sally Mott Freeman & John K. Freeman; our Closing event is presented by the Delaware Community Foundation. Saturday’s Spirited Discussion, our gathering for attendees and presenters to celebrate and discuss their day, is presented by Dogfish Head Beer & Benevolence.

Special thanks to our Founding Program Partners for their continuing support: the Lewes Public Library, for event promotion and production, and Browseabout Books in Rehoboth Beach, official bookseller of the History Book Festival. Thanks also to the  Lewes Chamber of Commerce for event promotion, and the Cape Gazette and Delmarva Public Media, our media partners.