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Through his work in ''Kinsman of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862,''<ref name=ouedu/> Anderson is considered the first scholar to employ an ethnohistorical approach to his discipline.<ref name=kinsman>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sskfzMIi7kcC&pg=PT1 |title=Kinsman of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley|name=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|date=September 15, 1997 |isbn=978-0-87351-353-1​

Through his work in ''Kinsman of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862,''<ref name=ouedu/> Anderson is considered the first scholar to employ an ethnohistorical approach to his discipline.<ref name=kinsman>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sskfzMIi7kcC&pg=PT1 |title=Kinsman of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley|name=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|date=September 15, 1997 |isbn=978-0-87351-353-1​

|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> He finds that originally the Dakota developed a friendly kinship with whites, some of whom intermarried with the tribe. As economic conditions worsened and the whites defrauded the Indians of their property and possessions, the Dakotas or Eastern Sioux began to view the whites as enemies who must be driven from Minnesota.<ref name=kinsman/>​

|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</ref> He finds that originally the Dakota developed a friendly kinship with whites, some of whom intermarried with the tribe. As economic conditions worsened and the whites defrauded the Indians of their property and possessions, the Dakotas or Eastern Sioux began to view the whites as enemies who must be driven from Minnesota.<ref name=kinsman/>​

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