Noah Ramage specializes in Native American and Indigenous history. His first project, Phoenix on Fire: The Cherokee Nation from Reconstruction to Denationalization, examines the political and economic development of the Cherokee Nation and Indian Territory during the closing decades of the 19th century. Starting with the Cherokee government's approach to Reconstruction, he explores how the self-described "little republic" instituted important economic reforms during the 1880s which helped mitigate the costs of settler encroachment and promote Cherokee nation-building. In re-examining the supposed end of sovereignty, he seeks to bring a fresh interpretation of the links between U.S. imperialism abroad and Oklahoma's path to statehood, granted in 1907. Noah Ramage is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.