Her current research is focused on colonialism; Indigenous land rights; Indian policy, "race," and Native resistance in New England; and contemporary political issues in Native North America. Dr. Den Ouden is the author of Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England (University of Nebraska Press). For over a decade she worked as a researcher and consultant for the federal acknowledgment projects of the Eastern Pequot Nation and the Golden Hill Paugussett Nation.