Survey of American History
Bibliography of Sources on the American Indian



National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar
Saddleback College
Summer 1997

Scott Howlett, PhD
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Saddleback College

This webpage complements the assignments described in the Survey of U.S. History (Saddleback College
History 22) page on this site.





Bibliography
American Indian History





Pre-Columbian

Fagen, Brian M. Ancient North America. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1991.

Josephy, Alvin Jr. and Frederick E. Hoxie, eds. America in 1492. New York: Knopf, 1992.





Columian Encounter

Bray, Warwick, ed. Meeting of Two Worlds: Europe and Americas, 1492-1650. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492. Westport: Greenwood, 1992.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbus Legacy. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Stanard, David. American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.





European Images of American Indians

Berkhofer, Robert Jr. The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present. New York: Knopf, 1979.

Drinnon, Robert. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.





Historical Demography

Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.





Colonial Era

Axtell, James. After Columbus: Essays on the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Axtell, James. The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial America. New York, Oxford University Press, 1985.

Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Culture in Colonial America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

Demos, John. Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. New York: Knopf, 1984.

Grinde, Donald Jr. and Bruce E. Johansen. Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1991.

Gutierrez, Ramon. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

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.

Merrell, James. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact Through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Nash, Gary. Red, White and Black: The Peoples of Colonial America. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.

Salisbury, Neal. Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Steele, Ian. Warpaths: Invasions of North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Under, Daniel H. Jr. Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.





From the Revolutionary Era to the Civil War Era

Cook, Sherbune. The Conflict Between the California Indians and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Dowd, Gregory E. A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership. Boston: Little Brown, 1984.

Ehle, John. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Gaines, W. Craig. The Confederate Cherokee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

McLoughlin, William. Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

McLoughlin, William. Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Rogin, Michael P. Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian. New York: Knopf, 1975.

Wallace, Anthony F. C. The Long Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.





Post Civil War Era to the 20th Century

Blaine, Martha Royce. Pawnee Passage, 1870-1875. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Cleman, Michael C. American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

Hoig, Stanley. The Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

Hoxie, Frederick E. A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Kehoe, Alice Beck. The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization. New York: Holt and Winston, 1989.

McPherson, Robert S. The Northern Navajo Frontier, 1860-1900: Expansion Through Adversity. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1988.

Riley, Glenda. Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Roberts, David. Once They Moved Like the Winds: Coshise, Geronimo, and the Apache Wars. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993.

Svaldi, David. Sand Creek and the Rhetoric of Extermination. Lanham: University Press of America, 1989.

Utley, Robert. The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.

Weeks, Philip. Farewell My Nation: The American Indian and the United States. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1990





Twentieth Century

Bernstein, Alison R. American Indians and World War II. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.

Churchill, Ward. Fantasies of the Master Race: Literature, Cinema, and the Colonization of American Indians. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1992.

Cornell, Stephen. Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence. New York: Oxford, 1988.

Davis, Mary B., ed. Native America in the Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994.

Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. London: MacMillan, 1989.

Kelly, Lawrence C. The Assault on Assimilation: John Collier and the Origins of Indian Policy Reform. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.

Lindquist, Mark A. and Martin Zanger, eds. Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds: The Survival of American Indian Life Story, History and Spirit. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1995.

O'Conner, John. The Hollywood Indian: Stereotypes of Native Americans in Films. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1980.

Stern, Kenneth. Loudhawk: The United States Versus the American Indian Movement. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.



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