| The plains Sioux and US colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee J Ostler Cambridge University Press, 2004 | 467 | 2004 |
| Surviving genocide: Native nations and the United States from the American revolution to bleeding Kansas J Ostler Yale University Press, 2019 | 169 | 2019 |
| The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The struggle for sacred ground J Ostler Penguin, 2010 | 152 | 2010 |
| Prairie populism: the fate of agrarian radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 J Ostler University Press of Kansas, 1993 | 100 | 1993 |
| Settler colonialism in early American history: Introduction J Ostler, N Shoemaker The William and Mary Quarterly 76 (3), 361-368, 2019 | 57 | 2019 |
| The rhetoric of Conspiracy and the Formation of Kansas Populism J Ostler Agricultural History 69 (1), 1-27, 1995 | 54 | 1995 |
| Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural genocide and Native liberation in an era of racial oppression KT Lomawaima, J Ostler Journal of American Indian Education 57 (1), 79-100, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| “To Extirpate the Indians”: An Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide in the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, 1750s–1810 J Ostler William & Mary Quarterly 72 (4), 587-622, 2015 | 47 | 2015 |
| Genocide and American Indian History J Ostler Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2015 | 47 | 2015 |
| Prairie populism: the fate of agrarian radicalism in Kansas J Ostler Nebraska, and Iowa 1892, 17-19, 1880 | 32 | 1880 |
| ‘Just and lawful war’as genocidal war in the (United States) Northwest Ordinance and Northwest Territory, 1787–1832 J Ostler Journal of Genocide Research 18 (1), 1-20, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| Conquest and the State: Why the United States Employed Massive Military Force to Suppress the Lakota Ghost Dance J Ostler Pacific Historical Review 65 (2), 217-248, 1996 | 25 | 1996 |
| Why the Populist Party was strong in Kansas and Nebraska but weak in Iowa J Ostler The Western Historical Quarterly 23 (4), 451-474, 1992 | 25 | 1992 |
| Locating Settler Colonialism in Early American History J Ostler The William and Mary Quarterly 76 (3), 443-450, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Disease has never been just disease for Native Americans J Ostler The Atlantic 29, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| ”They Regard Their Passing As Wakan”: Interpreting Western Sioux Explanations For The Bison's Decline J Ostler Western Historical Quarterly 30 (4), 475-497, 1999 | 19 | 1999 |
| " THE LAST BUFFALO HUNT" AND BEYOND: PLAINS SIOUX ECONOMIC STRATEGIES IN THE EARLY RESERVATION PERIOD J Ostler Great Plains Quarterly 21 (2), 115-130, 2001 | 14 | 2001 |
| Prairie populism J Ostler Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993 | 12 | 1993 |
| After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America J Ostler, K Jacoby Journal of Genocide Research 24 (2), 321-336, 2022 | 7 | 2022 |
| Governmentality and the Mastery of Territory in Nineteenth-Century America by Matthew G. Hannah J Ostler JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY 33 (2), 312-312, 2002 | 5 | 2002 |
