HIST 606: Graduate Readings in Native American History
Professor: Mikaëla M. Adams
Semester: Fall, 2012
Classroom: Bishop 333
Class Hours: Wednesdays, 1-3:30 pm
Office: Bishop 328 C
Office Hours: Mondays 1-1:50 pm and by appointment
Email: mmadams@olemiss.edu
Course Description:
This seminar will introduce graduate students to the field of Native American history and
to the methodology of ethnohistory. For every meeting, students will read the article assigned
for that week, read a book selected from a topical list, write a response paper, and discuss both
the book and the article in the seminar. Response papers should be 2-3 pages, critical, analytical,
and thoughtful. Three times during the semester, students will write a formal book review in lieu
of a response paper. The reviews should be 4-5 pages, and they must assess the book as a work
of individual scholarship and locate it in the larger body of literature. The reviews must also
consider and cite at least three published reviews of the book. Students must attend all meetings
of the seminar and participate actively in discussion. Participation counts in the final grade. As a
final project, students will develop a comprehensive syllabus for an undergraduate course on
Native history, including book and article choices, detailed assignments, and a weekly schedule.
Required Readings:
For the first week of class, all students will read Francis Paul Prucha’s The Great Father:
The United States Government and the American Indians, Abridged Edition (Lincoln: The
University of Nebraska Press, 1984) and Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green’s North American
Indians: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). These books will
provide students with a general overview of the historic relations between the United States and
Indian tribes, which will serve as context for the subsequent readings. They will also showcase
different interpretive approaches to Indian history. Both books will be available in the campus
bookstore.
During the subsequent weeks of the semester, each student will read a different book
every week selected from a topical list. Books may be borrowed from the library or through
interlibrary loan, or purchased through Amazon.com.
Students will also read an article in common each week, which will help frame our
discussion. Many of the articles are available on JSTOR. Others will be posted on the course
website or put on library reserve.
Assignments:
Book Responses— Each week, students will prepare a response paper based on their chosen
reading for the week. These papers will be 2 to 3 pages in length. They should include a concise
summary of the key points of the book, as well as critical analysis of the author’s approach,
argument, and use of evidence. Students should also identify key themes present in the book
related to American Indian history and should consider how these themes relate to other
discussions we have had in the class. These response papers need not be polished works, but they
should have a clear, organized structure (no bullet-points), and should be free of grammatical and
spelling errors. Book response papers must be emailed to the entire class by 5 pm on the
Tuesday before our weekly class meeting. Students are expected to read each other’s responses
before class. These response papers will help students organize their thoughts and will provide a
springboard for our class discussions. There will be 10 book response papers over the course of
the semester. Each response will could for 3% of the final grade, for a total of 30% of the final
grade.
Book Reviews—Three times during the semester, students will submit a formal book review in
lieu of a weekly response paper based on their chosen reading for the week. These reviews will
be 4 to 5 pages long and should critically analyze the book as a work of scholarship, and locate it
in the larger body of literature. Students must consult and cite at least three published book
reviews of the book in their review. Published book reviews can often be found on JSTOR. Book
reviews must be emailed to the entire class by 5 pm on the Tuesday before our weekly class
meeting. Students are expected to read each other’s reviews before class. These reviews will
help students learn how to critically analyze historical monographs and will provide practice for
writing book reviews for journals. They will also provide students with a bank of information
that may be useful in preparation for graduate exams. There will be 3 book reviews over the
course of the semester. Each review will count for 10% of the final grade, for a total of 30% of
the final grade.
Class Discussion—Students are expected to attend all classes and actively participate in
discussion. Each student will take a turn as a discussion “facilitator” and as a class “scribe.” The
facilitator will help move the discussion forward and serve as a moderator, while the scribe will
take notes on the blackboard to highlight key themes of the discussion. As the instructor, I will
help guide the discussion if we move off-topic, but I consider this your class and I am interested
in what you have to say about the readings. Participation in class discussion will count for 20%
of the final grade.
Undergraduate Syllabus—As a final project, students will develop a syllabus for an
undergraduate course on Native American history of their choice. Students may choose to
develop a one-semester survey of Native history, the first or second half of a two-semester
survey class, or an upper-level specialty course. Students must write a detailed course
description, carefully choose the readings they would assign each week, outline the topics that
they would cover in each class, and develop at least 3 written assignments and 2 exams that they
would use to evaluate undergraduate students. This assignment will help prepare students for
teaching courses of their own. It will also help them prepare for the job market when they may
be asked to provide a sample syllabus. The undergraduate syllabus will count for 20% of the
final grade.
Grade Scale:
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD
F
93-100 %
90-92 %
87-89 %
83-86 %
80-82 %
77-79 %
73-76 %
70-72 %
60-69 %
59 % and
below
Note: Borderline grades will be rounded to the nearest percentage. For example, if you have a
92.5 %, I will round it up to a 93 %, or an “A” grade. If you have 92.4 %, however, it will round
down to a 92 %, or an “A-” grade.
Class Schedule:
WEEK 1, Wednesday, August 22— Ethnohistory and Policy History
Assigned Articles:
 Axtell, James. “Ethnohistory: An Historian’s Viewpoint.” Ethnohistory, 26:1 (Winter,
1979): 1-13.
Assigned Books:
 Prucha, Francis Paul. The Great Father: The United States Government and the
American Indians, Abridged Edition. Lincoln: The University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
 Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green. North American Indians: A Very Short
Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
WEEK 2, Wednesday, August 29— Ethnogenesis
Assigned Articles:
 Merrell, James H. “The Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience.” The William
and Mary Quarterly, 41: 4 (Oct., 1984), pp. 537-565.
Book Choices:
 Galloway, Patricia Kay. Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
P, 1995.
 Hudson, Charles M. Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the
South's Ancient Chiefdoms. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997.

La Vere David. The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 7001835. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
 Wright, J. Leitch. Creeks & Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the
Muscogulge People. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.
 Moore, John H. The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
 Hall, Thomas D. Social Change in the Southwest, 1350-1880. Lawrence, Kan.:
University Press of Kansas, 1989.
 Hahn, Steven C. The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763. Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 2004.
 Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn. From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the
Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina
P, 2010.
 Axtell, James. Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America. New
York: Oxford UP, 2001.
 Merrell, James Hart. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from
European Contact Through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P,
2009
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 3, Wednesday, September 5— War and Empire
Assigned Articles:
 Parmenter, Jon. “After the Mourning Wars: The Iroquois as Allies in Colonial North
American Campaigns, 1676-1760.” The William and Mary Quarterly, 64:1 (Jan., 2007),
pp. 39-76.
Book Choices:
 Jennings, Francis. The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire: The Covenant Chain Confederation
of Indian Tribes with English Colonies from Its Beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of
1744. New York: Norton, 1984.
 Trigger, Bruce G. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to
1660. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 1976.
 Hämäläinen, Pekka. The Comanche Empire. New Haven: Yale UP, 2008.
 DuVal, Kathleen. The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the
Continent. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006.
 White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes
Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
 Malone, Patrick M., and Plantation Inc. Plimoth. The Skulking Way of War: Technology
and Tactics Among the New England Indians. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1991.
 Cave, Alfred A. The Pequot War. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996.
 Mandell, Daniel R. King Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the
End of Indian Sovereignty. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2010.
 Drake, James David. King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 16751676. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1999.

Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and
Reinvention. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1999.
 Blackhawk, Ned. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American
West. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2006.
 Rollings, Willard H. The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairieplains. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1992.
 Morrison, Kenneth M. The Embattled Northeast: The Elusive Ideal of Alliance in
Abenaki-Euramerican Relations. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.
 Jacoby, Karl. Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of
History. New York: Penguin P, 2008.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 4, Wednesday, September 12— European Settlement
Assigned Articles:
 Silverman, David J. “Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating
Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha’s Vineyard.” The William and
Mary Quarterly, 62:2 (Apr., 2005), pp. 141-174.
Book Choices:
 Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New
England, 1500-1643. New York: Oxford UP, 1982.
 Trigger, Bruce G. Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age"
Reconsidered. Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 1985.
 Merrell, James Hart. Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania
Frontier. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
 Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New
England. New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
 Dennis, Matthew. Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in
Seventeenth-century America. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.
 Mancall, Peter C. Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture Along the Upper
Susquehanna, 1700-1800. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1991.
 Melvoin, Richard I. New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Frontier
Deerfield, Massachusetts. New York: Norton, 1989.
 Richter, Daniel K. The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in
the Era of European Colonization. Chapel Hill: the U of North Carolina P, 1992.
 O'Brien, Jean M. Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick,
Massachusetts, 1650-1790. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
 Mandell, Daniel R. Behind the Frontier: Indians in Eighteenth-century Eastern
Massachusetts. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1996.
 Gleach, Frederic W. Powhatan's World and Colonial Virginia: A Conflict of
Cultures. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
 Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of
Conquest. New York: Norton, 1976, 1975.
 Shoemaker, Nancy. A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-century
North America. New York: Oxford UP, 2004.

Calloway, Colin G. One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and
Clark. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2003.
 Piker, Joshua Aaron. Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard UP, 2004.
 Calloway, Colin G. White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and
Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 5, Wednesday, September 19— Trade and Economics
Assigned Articles:
 Usner, Daniel H., Jr. “The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley
in the Eighteenth Century.” The William and Mary Quarterly, 44:2 (April, 1987): 165192.
Book Choices:
 Reid, John Phillip. A Better Kind of Hatchet: Law, Trade, and Diplomacy in the
Cherokee Nation During the Early Years of European Contact. University Park:
Pennsylvania State UP, 1976.
 Braund, Kathryn E. Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America,
1685-1815. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008.
 Ray, Arthur J. Indians in the Fur Trade: Their Role as Trappers, Hunters, and
Middlemen in the Lands Southwest of Hudson Bay, 1660-1870. Toronto: U of Toronto P,
1998.
 White, Richard. The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change
Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1983.
 Mancall, Peter C. Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, 1995.
 Anderson, Gary Clayton. Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-white Relations in the Upper
Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862.Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1984.
 Hosmer, Brian C. American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation
Among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1999.
 Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld. A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Metis, and Mining in the
Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832.Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000.
 Usner, Daniel H. Indians, Settlers & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower
Mississippi Valley Before 1783. Chapel Hill: the U of North Carolina P, 1992.
 Ishii, Izumi. Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol & the Sovereignty of the Cherokee
Nation. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008.
 Young, Mary E. Redskins, Ruffleshirts and Rednecks; Indian Allotments in Alabama and
Mississippi, 1830-1860.Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1961.
 Hudson, Angela Pulley. Creek Paths and Federal Roads: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves
and the Making of the American South. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010.
 Usner, Daniel H. Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American
History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2009.

Bauer, William J. We Were All like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and
Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941. Chapel Hill: U of North
Carolina P, 2009.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 6, Wednesday, September 26— Women and Gender
Assigned Articles:
 White, Bruce M. “The Woman Who Married a Beaver: Trade Patterns and Gender Roles
in the Ojibwa Fur Trade.” Ethnohistory, 46:1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 109-147.
Book Choices:
 Fowler, Loretta. Wives and Husbands: Gender and Age in Southern Arapaho
History. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2010.
 Anderson, Karen L. Chain Her by One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in
Seventeenth-century New France. New York: Routledge, 1993.
 Devens, Carol. Countering Colonization: Native American Women and Great Lakes
Missions, 1630-1900. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1992.
 Sleeper-Smith, Susan. Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in
the Western Great Lakes. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2001.
 Brown, Jennifer S. Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Company Families in Indian
Country. Vancouver: U of British Columbia P, 1980
 Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-trade Society, 1670-1870. Norman:
U of Oklahoma P, 1983.
 Powers, Marla N. Oglala Women: Myth, Ritual, and Reality. Chicago: U of Chicago P,
1986.
 Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: U
of Nebraska P, 1999.
 Hill, Sarah H. Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their
Basketry. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997.
 Osburn, Katherine. Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the
Reservation, 1887-1934. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008.
 Albers, Patricia, and Beatrice Medicine. The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian
Women. Washington, D.C.: UP of America, 1983.
 Pesantubbee, Michelene E. Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World: The Clash of Cultures
in the Colonial Southeast. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2005.
 Mihesuah, Devon A. Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee
Female Seminary, 1851-1909.Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993.
 Cobb, Amanda J. Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for
Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949.Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000.
 Gutiérrez, Ramón A. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went away: Marriage,
Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 1991.
 Barr, Juliana. Peace Came in the Form of a Woman : Indians and Spaniards in the Texas
Borderlands. Chapel Hill: the U of North Carolina P, 2007.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 7, Wednesday, October 3—Indians, Race, & Slavery
Assigned Articles:
 Perdue, Theda. “Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South.”
Ethnohistory, 51:4 (Fall, 2004), pp. 701-723.
 Saunt, Claudio, et al. “Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South.” Ethnohistory,
53:2 (Spring, 2006), pp. 399-405.
 Perdue, Theda. “A Reply to Saunt et al.” Ethnohistory, 53:2 (Spring, 2006), p. 407.
Book Choices:
 Snyder, Christina. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early
America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010.
 Yarbrough, Fay A. Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth
Century. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2008.
 Perdue, Theda. Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866. Knoxville: U
of Tennessee P, 1979.
 Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American
South, 1670-1717. New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.
 Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf: 1994.
 Brooks, James. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest
Borderlands. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina P, 2002.
 Perdue, Theda. "Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South. Athens:
U of Georgia P, 2005.
 Miles, Tiya. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and
Freedom. Berkeley: U of California P, 2005.
 Zellar, Gary. African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation. Norman: U of Oklahoma P,
2007.
 Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American
Family. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
 Naylor, Celia E. African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens. Chapel
Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2008.
 Chang, David A. The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership
in Oklahoma, 1832-1929.Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010.
 Forbes, Jack D. Black Africans and Native Americans: Color, Race, and Caste in the
Evolution of Red-Black Peoples. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
 Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside: Indians, Colonists, and Slaves in South
Atlantic Forests, 1500-1800.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
 Bowne, Eric E. The Westo Indians: Slave Traders of the Early Colonial
South. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005.
 Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn., and Sheri Marie. Shuck-Hall. Mapping the Mississippian
Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American
South. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2009.
 Kelton, Paul. Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native
Southeast, 1492-1715. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2007.

Ramsey, William L. The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the
Colonial South. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2008.
 Miles, Tiya. The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story. Chapel Hill: U
of North Carolina P, 2010.
 Mandell, Daniel R. Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England,
1780-1880. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 8, Wednesday, October 10—United States: Establishment and Expansion
Assigned Articles:
 O'Brien, Greg. “The Conqueror Meets the Unconquered: Negotiating Cultural
Boundaries on the Post-Revolutionary Southern Frontier.”The Journal of Southern
History, 67:1 (Feb., 2001), pp. 39-72.
Book Choices:
 Wishart, David J. An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska
Indians. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994.
 West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to
Colorado. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 1998.
 Hatley, M. Thomas. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the
Era of Revolution. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.
 Hinderaker, Eric. Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 16731800. Cambridge ;: Cambridge UP, 1997.
 McConnell, Michael N. A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its Peoples,
1724-1774. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1992.
 McLoughlin, William Gerald. Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton UP, 1986.
 Calloway, Colin G. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in
Native American Communities. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
 Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New
York: W.W. Norton, 2008.
 Taylor, Alan. The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers and the Northern Borderland of the
American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
 Sheehan, Bernard W. Seeds of Extinction; Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American
Indian. Chapel Hill: the U of North Carolina P, 1973.
 Carson, James Taylor. Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from
Prehistory to Removal. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
 Saunt, Claudio. A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the
Creek Indians, 1733-1816.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.
 O'Brien, Greg. Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P,
2002.
 Hall, John W. Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard UP, 2009.
 Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. New Haven: Yale UP,
1988.

Nichols, David Andrew. Red Gentlemen & White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the
Search for Order on the American Frontier. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2008.
 Cumfer, Cynthia. Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and
Whites on the Tennessee Frontier.Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 9, Wednesday, October 17— Religion and Resistance
Assigned Articles:
 Dowd, Gregory E. “Thinking and Believing: Nativism and Unity in the Ages of Pontiac
and Tecumseh.” American Indian Quarterly, 16:3 (Summer, 1992), pp. 309-335.
Book Choices:
 Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for
Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins UP, 1992.
 Dowd, Gregory Evans. War Under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations & the British
Empire. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002.
 Edmunds, R. David. The Shawnee Prophet. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1983.
 Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership. New York: Pearson
Longman, 2007.
 Sugden, John. Tecumseh: A Life. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1998.
 Wallace, Anthony F., and Sheila C. Steen. The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. New
York: Knopf, 1970.
 Martin, Joel W. Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle for a New World. Boston:
Beacon P, 1991.
 Knaut, Andrew L. The Pueblo Revolt of 1680: Conquest and Resistance in Seventeenthcentury New Mexico. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1995.
 Utley, Robert Marshall. The Last Days of the Sioux Nation. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.
 Thornton, Russell. We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as
Demographic Revitalization. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986.
 Silva, Noenoe K. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American
Colonialism. Durham [N.C.]: Duke UP, 2004.
 Rushforth, Scott, and Steadman Upham. A Hopi Social History. Austin: U of Texas P,
1992.
 Kan, Sergei. Symbolic Immortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the Nineteenth
Century. Washington: Smithsonian Institution P, 1989.
 Wenger, Tisa Joy. We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy
and American Religious Freedom. Chapel Hill: the U of North Carolina P, 2009.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 10, Wednesday, October 24— Education & Missionaries
Assigned Articles:
 Ahern, Wilbert H. “An Experiment Aborted: Returned Indian Students in the Indian
School Service, 1881-1908.” Ethnohistory, 44: 2 (Spring, 1997), pp. 263-304.
Book Choices:

Szasz, Margaret. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in
the Eighteenth-century Atlantic World. Norman, Okla.: U of Oklahoma P, 2007.
 Axtell, James. The Invasion within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North
America. New York: Oxford UP, 1985.
 Berkhofer, Robert F. Salvation and the Savage: An Analysis of Protestant Missions and
American Indian Response, 1787-1862. New York: Atheneum, 1972.
 McLoughlin, William Gerald. Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839. New Haven:
Yale UP, 1984.
 McLoughlin, William Gerald. Champions of the Cherokees: Evan and John B.
Jones. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1990.
 Lomawaima, K. Tsianina. They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian
School. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994.
 Child, Brenda J. Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 19001940. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1998.
 Ellis, Clyde. To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain
Boarding School, 1893-1920. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1996.
 Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding
School Experience, 1875-1928.Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 1995.
 Lindsey, Donal F. Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923. Urbana: U of Illinois P,
1995.
 Szasz, Margaret. Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783. Lincoln: U of
Nebraska P, 2007.
 Trennart, Robert A. The Phoenix Indian School: Forced Assimilation in Arizona, 18911935. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1988.
 Milner, Clyde A. With Good Intentions: Quaker Work Among the Pawnees, Otos, and
Omahas in the 1870s. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1982.
 Kan, Sergei. Memory Eternal: Tlingit Culture and Russian Orthodox Christianity
Through Two Centuries. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1999.
 Hackel, Steven W. Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis : Indian-Spanish
Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850. Chapel Hill: the U of North Carolina P,
2005.
 Milanich, Jerald T. Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and
Southeastern Indians. Washington [D.C.]: Smithsonian Institution P, 1999.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 11, Wednesday, October 31—Removal, Indian Territory, and Reservations
Assigned Articles:
 Perdue, Theda. “The Conflict Within: The Cherokee Power Structure and Removal.”The
Georgia Historical Quarterly, 73:3 (Fall 1989), pp. 467-491.
Book Choices:
 Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. New
York, N.Y.: Viking, 2007.
 Wallace, Anthony F. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. New
York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

DeRosier, Arthur H. The Removal of the Choctaw Indians. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P,
1970.
 Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a
People. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1986.
 Green, Michael D. The Politics of Indian Removal: Creek Government and Society in
Crisis. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1982.
 Moulton, Gary E. John Ross, Cherokee Chief. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1978.
 McLoughlin, William Gerald. After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for
Sovereignty, 1839-1880. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1993
 Debo, Angie. And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized
Tribes. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1940.
 Miner, H. Craig. The Corporation and the Indian: Tribal Sovereignty and Industrial
Civilization in Indian Territory, 1865-1907. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1976.
 Wilson, Terry P. The Underground Reservation: Osage Oil. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P,
1985.
 Unrau, William E. White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in
Indian Country, 1802-1892.Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 1996.
 Littlefield, Daniel F. Seminole Burning: A Story of Racial Vengeance. Jackson: UP of
Mississippi, 1996.
 Faiman-Silva, Sandra L. Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class
and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1997.
 Warde, Mary Jane. George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 18431920. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1999.
 Lancaster, Jane F. Removal Aftershock: The Seminoles' Struggles to Survive in the West,
1836-1866. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1994.
 Berthrong, Donald J. The Cheyenne and Arapaho Ordeal: Reservation and Agency Life
in the Indian Territory, 1875-1907. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1976.
 Larson, Robert W. Red Cloud: Warrior-statesman of the Lakota Sioux. Norman: U of
Oklahoma P, 1997.
 Anderson, Gary Clayton. Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood. New York:
Pearson/Longman, 2007.
 Josephy, Alvin M. The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest. New
Haven: Yale UP, 1965.
 Kidwell, Clara Sue. The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 18551970. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2007.
 Mihesuah, Devon A. Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884-1907. Norman: U of
Oklahoma P, 2009.
 Thorne, Tanis C. The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal over Jackson Barnett's Oil
Fortune. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 12, Wednesday, November 7—Law and Politics
Assigned Articles:

Price, Catherine. “Lakotas and Euroamericans: Contrasted Concepts of "Chieftainship"
and Decision-Making Authority.” Ethnohistory, 41:3 (Summer, 1994), pp. 447-463.
Book Choices:
 Fenton, William N. The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the
Iroquois Confederacy. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1998.
 Reid, John Phillip. A Law of Blood; the Primitive Law of the Cherokee Nation. New
York: New York Univ. P, 1970.
 Norgren, Jill. The Cherokee Cases: Two Landmark Federal Decisions in the Fight for
Sovereignty. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2004.
 Garrison, Tim Alan. The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the
Sovereignty of Native American Nations. Athens, Ga.: U of Georgia P, 2002.
 Wilkinson, Charles F. American Indians, Time, and the Law: Historical Rights at the Bar
of the Supreme Court. New Haven: Yale UP, 1987.
 Harring, Sidney L. Crow Dog's Case: American Indian Sovereignty, Tribal Law, and
United States Law in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1994.
 Wunder, John R. "Retained by the People": A History of American Indians and the Bill of
Rights. New York: Oxford UP, 1994.
 Price, Catherine. The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History. Lincoln: U of
Nebraska P, 1996.
 Strickland, Rennard. Fire and the Spirits: Cherokee Law from Clan to Court. Norman: U
of Oklahoma P, 1975.
 Champagne, Duane. Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments
Among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek. Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford UP, 1992.
 Fowler, Loretta. Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority. Lincoln
[Neb.]: U of Nebraska P, 1982.
 Williams, Robert A. Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and
Peace, 1600-1800. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
 Kugel, Rebecca. To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe
Politics, 1825-1898. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State UP, 1998.
 Biolsi, Thomas. Organizing the Lakota: The Political Economy of the New Deal on the
Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1992.
 Asher, Brad. Beyond the Reservation: Indians, Settlers, and the Law in Washington
Territory, 1853-1889. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1999.
 Wilkinson, Charles F. Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian Nations. New York:
Norton, 2005.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 13, Wednesday, November 14—Identity & Modernity
Assigned Articles:
 Tall Bear, Kimberly. “DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe.” Wicazo Sa Review, 18:1
(Spring, 2003), pp. 81-107.
Book Choices:

Foster, Morris W. Being Comanche: A Social History of an American Indian
Community. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1991.
 Hoxie, Frederick E. Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in
America, 1805-1935. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.
 Fowler, Loretta. Shared Symbols, Contested Meanings: Gros Ventre Culture and History,
1778-1984. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1987.
 Harmon, Alexandra. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities
Around Puget Sound. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1999.
 Sturm, Circe. Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of
Oklahoma. Berkeley: U of California P, 2002.
 Lowery, Malinda Maynor. Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and
the Making of a Nation. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2010.
 Deloria, Philip Joseph. Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2004.
 Garroutte, Eva Marie. Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native
America. Berkeley: U of California P, 2003.
 Huhndorf, Shari M. Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, 2001.
 Kauanui, J. Kehaulani. Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and
Indigeneity. Durham: Duke UP, 2008.
 Meyer, Melissa L. The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota
Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1994.
 O'Brien, Jean M. Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New
England. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2010
 Edmunds, R. David. Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest. Urbana: U of
Illinois P, 2008.
 Blu, Karen I. The Lumbee Problem: The Making of an American Indian People. Lincoln:
U of Nebraska P, 2001.
 Miller, Bruce Granville. Invisible Indigenes: The Politics of Nonrecognition. Lincoln: U
of Nebraska P, 2003.
 Miller, Mark Edwin. Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal
Acknowledgment Process. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2004.
 Lyons, Scott Richard. X-marks: Native Signatures of Assent. Minneapolis: U of
Minnesota P, 2010.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
WEEK 14—THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY (no class)
WEEK 15, Wednesday, November 28— Allotment, Indian New Deal, and SelfDetermination
Assigned Articles:
 Cattelino, Jessica R. “Fungibility: Florida Seminole Casino Dividends and the Fiscal
Politics of Indigeneity.”American Anthropologist, 111: 2 (Jun., 2009), pp. 190-200.
Book Choices:

Hoxie, Frederick E. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 18801920. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2001.
 Ruppel, Kristin T. Unearthing Indian Land: Living with the Legacies of
Allotment. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2008.
 Philp, Kenneth R. John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954. Tucson: U of
Arizona P, 1977.
 Philp, Kenneth R. Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Selfdetermination, 1933-1953. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
 Kelly, Lawrence C. The Assault on Assimilation: John Collier and the Origins of Indian
Policy Reform. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1983.
 Deloria, Vine, and Clifford M. Lytle. The Nations within: The Past and Future of
American Indian Sovereignty. Austin: U of Texas P, 1998.
 Fixico, Donald Lee. Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 19451960. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1986.
 Fixico, Donald Lee. The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American
Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources. Boulder: UP of Colorado, 2012.
 Johnson, Troy R. The Occupation of Alcatraz Island: Indian Self-determination and the
Rise of Indian Activism. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.
 Smith, Paul Chaat., and Robert Allen. Warrior. Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement
from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee. New York: New P, 1996.
 Cowger, Thomas W. The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding
Years. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
 Bernstein, Alison R. American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian
Affairs. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1991.
 Cattelino, Jessica R. High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty. Durham:
Duke UP, 2008.
 Rosier, Paul C. Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P,
2001.
 Finger, John R. Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth
Century. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1991
 Hauptman, Laurence M. The Iroquois and the New Deal. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP,
1981.
 Iverson, Peter. The Navajo Nation. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1981.
 Kersey, Harry A. The Florida Seminoles and the New Deal, 1933-1942. Boca Raton:
Florida Atlantic UP, 1989.
 Cobb, Daniel M. Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for
Sovereignty. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2008.
 Lambert, Valerie. Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence. Lincoln: U
of Nebraska P, 2007.
 Stremlau, Rose. Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an
Indigenous Nation. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2011.
Written Assignment: Book Response/Review DUE by Tuesday at 5 pm
FINAL PROJECT (Undergraduate Syllabus) DUE Wednesday, December 5, 12 pm (please
bring printed, stapled copy to my office)
Students may find the following two textbooks useful as they prepare their syllabus:
 Calloway, Colin G. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian
History. Fourth Edition. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011.
 Edmunds, R. David, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Neal Salisbury. The People: A History of
Native America. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006.