Mitchell & VanderWall APSI 2014

Mitchell and VanderWall APSI, 2014
Arnold, Mary Ellicott and Mabel Reed. In the Land of the Grasshopper Song:
Two Women in the Klamath Indian Country in 1908-09. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1957.
Axtell, James W. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in North America.
New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the
American West. New York: Bantam, 1971.
Calloway, Colin G. New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of
Early America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998.
Calloway, Colin G. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian
History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1999.
Edmunds, R. David, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Neal Salisbury. The People: A History of Native America.
Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006.
Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and Ecology of
New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Crosby, Alfred W., Jr. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural
Consequences of 1492. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Crow Dog, Mary. Lakota Woman. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.
A compelling, modern, autobiography of Indian life
Deloria, Vine, Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. New York:
Avon Books, 1969.
Fixico, Donald Lee. Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-
1960. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986.
Hoxie, Frederick E. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-
1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Hoxie, Frederick E., Ed. Indians in American History: An Introduction.
Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1988.
This collection of essays includes selections suitable for student reading for exposure to contemporary scholarship and depth of understanding. Highly recommend James Axtell’s “Colonial America Without the Indians: A

Counterfactual Scenario,” Charles F. Wilkinson’s “Indian Tribes and American
Constitution,” William T. Hagan’s “How the West Was Lost,” and Frederick E.
Hoxie’s “The Curious Story of Reformers and the American Indian,” and W.
Richard West, Jr. and Kevin Glover’s “The Struggle for Indian Civil Rights” for consideration in this regard.
Mann, Charles. “1491”. The Atlantic Monthly. March 2002. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/302445/
Mann, Charles. 1491: New Revelations of America Before Columbus. New
York: Vintage Books, 2005.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and
Survival. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1998.
Nash, Gary B. Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Early America. Englewood
Cliffs: NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982.
Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the
Oglala Sioux. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1932.
Nichols, Roger. American Indians in U.S. History. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2004.
Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early
America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2003.
Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History
Since 1492. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
Welch, James. Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the
Plains Indians. New York: WW Norton, 1994.
White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great
Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge: UP, 1991.
Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States:1492-Present. New York:
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003.
Offers several chapters that students could use to post-hole knowledge of the role of Indians in the larger narrative of America including “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress,” “As Long as the Grass Grows or Water Runs,” and
“Suprises.”
Lesley, Craig. River Song. New York: Picador, 1989.
Welch, James. Fool’s Crow. New York, Penguin, 1986.

Historical fiction
_____. The Heartsong of Charging Elk. New York: Doubleday, 2000.
Black Robe. Dir. Bruce Beresford. With Lothaire Bluteau and Aden Young.
Alliance Communications Corporation, 1991.
Setting: New France, 1634. Vivid, unromantic, and powerful.
Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American. Dir.
Chris O’Obrien and Jason Witmer. 2003. 25 mi.
Excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hJFi7SRH7Q
In the White Man’s Image. Dir. Christine Lesiak. American Experience, 1992.
50 minutes. Documentary of “Americanization” policy in late 19 th c.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14RifPPh1YU
Little Big Man. Dir. Arthur Penn. With Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, and Chief
Dan George. Cinema Center Films, 1970.
Smoke Signals. Dir. Chris Eyre. With Evan Adams and Adam Beach.
Shadowcatcher Entertainment, 1998.
First feature length, Indian written (Sherman Alexie, based on his book “The
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”), Indian scored, directed and produced film. This is a great portrayal of the balancing necessary to maintain an Indian identity in modern America.
Huey, Aaron. “Native American Prisoners of War”. 2010. Ted Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_huey
National Congress of the American Indian. “Proud to Be”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-tbOxlhvE
Newberry Library http://publications.newberry.org/indiansofthemidwest/indian-imagery/stereotypes/

Optional Primary and Secondary Readings
Period 1: 1491-1607 (Pre-Colonial Period)

Gary Nash: Red, White and Black -[Chapter 1] “Pre-contact Population”; “The
Iroquois”; “The Native American World View”; “French-Indian Relations”;
“Spanish-Indian Relations”
 William Cronon and Richard White: “The Clash of Cultures: Indians, Europeans, and the Environment”
 “Their manner of fishynge in Virginia”, John White; Bartolome de Las Casas
Defends the Indians (1552); Columbus Reports on a Voyage (1493); Map of native population in North America pre-1492; Richard Hakluyt Calls for an
Empire (1582); Two paintings of Jamestown

Excerpt from 1491 , Charles Mann
 Excerpt from Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States ,
“Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress”
Period 2: 1607-1754 (Colonial)
 James Axtell’s “Colonial America Without the Indians: A Counterfactual
Scenario”

Gary Nash: Red, White and Black - [Excerpts from Chapter 3-6] “English-Indian
Relations”; “Puritans and Indians”; “Dutch-Indian Relations”; “Quaker-Indian
Relations”; “Metacom’s War”
Period 3: 1754-1800 (Revolutionary Era)

Gary Nash: Red, White and Black-[Excerpts from Chapter 10-11] “Iroquois
Diplomacy”; Cherokee Diplomacy”; “Transformations in Indian Society”;
“Indian-White Relations after 1763”

Natives and the Revolution: Kyle Ward: History in the Making - “Massacre at
Wyoming”

Northwest Ordinance

Constitutional Convention and the Natives
Period 4: 1800-48 (Antebellum)

Thomas Jefferson’s Indian Policy (1803)

Tecumseh Challenges William Henry Harrison

Treaties from 1790-1850

The Story of James Vann

Charles F. Wilkinson: “Indian Tribes and American Constitution”


Indian Removal Act

Andrew Jackson on Indian Removal, Addresses to Congress
 Robert Remini: “Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act”

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States , “As Long as the
Grass Grows or Water Runs”
 Dee Brown: “The Trail of Tears”

John Marshall, the Cherokee, and the Constitution

Census of Cherokee in Georgia
Period 5: 1844-77
 William T. Hagan’s “How the West Was Lost,”

Kyle Ward: History in the Making - “The Dakota Conflict of 1862”
 Stanley Vestal: “Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux”
 Robert M. Utley: “Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the
Western Military Frontier”
Period 6: 1865-1898
 William T. Hagan’s “How the West Was Lost,”
 Stanley Vestal: “Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux”
 Robert M. Utley: “Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the
Western Military Frontier”
 Helen Hunt Jackson: “A Century of Dishonor”
 Frederick E. Hoxie’s “The Curious Story of Reformers and the American
Indian”

Population Shifts [Maps]
 Luther Standing Bear “Indian Wisdom”
Period 8: 1945-80
 Paul VanDevelder: “What Do We Owe the Indians?” from American History ,
June 2009.
 W. Richard West, Jr. and Kevin Glover: “The Struggle for Indian Civil Rights”

Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States “Surprises”