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{{Infobox person
| name=Gary Clayton Anderson
(Historian and professor at the University of Oklahoma)
| birth_date =April 2, 1948
| birth_place=Place of birth missing<br>
'''Residence''':<br>
Norman, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States|USA]]
| spouse=Laura Lee Anderson
| children=Kari Anderson Harding<br> Evan Anderson<br> John Anderson<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Concordia College (Moorhead, [[Minnesota]])<br>
[[University of South Dakota]]<br>
University of Toledo
}}
'''Gary Clayton Anderson''' (born April 2, 1948) is a [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[University of Oklahoma]] at Norman, [[Oklahoma]], known for his studies of the [[Native America]]s of the [[Great Plains]] and the American Southwest.
==Background==
Anderson received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, [[Minnesota]]. He received his [[Master of Arts]] from the [[University of South Dakota]] in Vermillion, [[South Dakota]]. Anderson procured his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Toledo]] in [[Toledo]], [[Ohio]].<ref name=anderson>{{cite web|url=http://augnet.augsburg.edu/news-archives/2006/claytonanderson.html|title=Inside Augsburg|publisher=augsburg.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> From 1981 to 1991 Anderson was a member of the history faculty at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], [[Texas]].
In 2010, Anderson released a book on native Oklahoman [[Will Rogers]], the "Cowboy Philosopher" and humorist who perished with aviator Wiley Post in an airplane crash in 1935 near Point Barrow, [[Alaska]]. Anderson is also working on the history of the Great Plains Wars from 1830 to 1890, culminating with the [[Massacre of Wounded Knee]] in South Dakota.<ref name=ouedu>{{cite web|url=http://history.ou.edu/gary-anderson|title=Gary Anderson, Professor United States history|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma]]|accessdate=December 27, 2015}}</ref>
==Publications==
===''The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land''===
Anderson's most recent book is ''The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1830-1875,'' published in 2005 by the [[University of Oklahoma Press. The book repudiates traditional historians, such as [[Walter Prescott Webb]] and Rupert N. Richardson, who viewed the settlement of Texas by the displacement of the native populations as a healthful and inevitable development. Anderson writes that at the time of the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]], when the Texas population was nearly 600,000, the still new state was "a very violent place. . . . Texans mostly blamed Indians for the violence -- an unfair indictment, since a series of terrible droughts had virtually incapacitated the Plains Indians, making them incapable of extended warfare."<ref name=conquest>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKGt7CMROmgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Professor+Gary+Clayton+Anderson&source=bl&ots=6V_9qmE4Bk&sig=1udznMusarKcxHR8iqRws9s3ttQ&hl=en&ei=-wDDTNnIOcX_lgf6lowE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Professor%20Gary%20Clayton%20Anderson&f=false|title=The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1830-1875|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|last=Anderson |first=Gary Clayton |year=2005 |page=9 (quotation) |isbn=0-8061-3698-7|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> ''The Conquest of Texas'' was nominated for a [[Pulitzer Prize]]. Anderson lectures across the country, including an appearance at Augsburg College in Minneapolis on the theme that the displacement of the American Indians constituted [[ethnic cleansing]], a term that had appeared on the international scene in the middle 1990s with the American intervention in [[Kosovo]].<ref name=anderson/><ref name=conquest/>
===''Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood''===
Anderson's ''Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood'' is a revisionist examination of the Lakota Sioux medicine man, [[Sitting Bull]]. Anderson stresses the [[Battle of the Little Big Horn]] not so much as a mishap by Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer]] but in terms of the past successes of the Lakota Nation and the merit of Sitting Bull himself.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.indiaplaza.in/sitting-bull-paradox-of-lakota-nationhood-anderson-gary-clayton/books/9780321421920.htm|title=Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood|author=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-321-42192-0|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
===''Kinsman of Another Kind''===
Another Anderson work is ''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|last=Anderson |first=Gary Clayton |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|date=15 September 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/>
===The Indian Southwest===
Anderson's ''The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention,'' was awarded a prize by the San Antonio Conservation Society in [[San Antonio]], Texas. The work notes that the native tribes overcame conquest, drought, and disease. Many Indians became prosperous despite the odds they faced. Some of tribes joined [[Spain|Spanish]] missions, and others assimilated with other native peoples. The Indians also developed significant economic systems which continued in essence for three centuries afterwards.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Southwest-1580-1830-Clayton-Anderson/dp/0806140674|title=The Indian Southwest 1580-1830|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |date=28 January 1999 |last=Anderson |first=Gary Clayton |isbn=978-0-8061-4067-4 |accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
===Little Crow===
Anderson also has written a book on the Sioux chief Little Crow, entitled ''Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux,'' published in 1986 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.<ref name="crow">{{cite book|url=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/94dakota.html|title=Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |year=1986 |author=Gary Clayton Anderson |isbn=0-87351-196-4|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> A contributor to ''New Mexico Historical Review'' calls ''Little Crow'' a "major contribution to our understanding of an Indian tribe that profoundly influenced the course of history in the upper Mississippi Valley, partly at least through the personal role played by its most famous leader."<ref name="crow" />
Still another Anderson work is ''Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862,'' an anthology of thirty-six essays of the Indians' experiences in a conflict previously known only from the viewpoint of whites.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1338839.Through_Dakota_Eyes|title=Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862|name=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|isbn=978-0-87351-216-9|date= May 15, 1988|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
===''Power and Promise: The Changing American West''===
Anderson is co-author with Kathleen P. Chamberlain of [[Eastern Michigan University]] in Ypsilanti, [[Michigan]], of the textbook, ''Power and Promise: The Changing American West.'' A reviewer describes the book, accordingly: "An in-depth look at the United States west of the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]], the narrative combines a strong chronology with a region-by-region analysis to show how different areas have transformed in terms of population, economic status, and urban development. . . . Detailed and comprehensive coverage of Native Americans appears throughout the text . . . "<ref name=text>{{cite book|url=http://www.flipkart.com/power-promise-gary-clayton-anderson-book-0321080629|title=Power and Promise: the Changing American West|name=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Longman Publishers |isbn=0-321-08062-9|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> The textbook also examines the myths of the American West of the popular imagination through films, literature, and culture.<ref name=text/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Minnesota]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:American Authors]]
| name=Gary Clayton Anderson
(Historian and professor at the University of Oklahoma)
| birth_date =April 2, 1948
| birth_place=Place of birth missing<br>
'''Residence''':<br>
Norman, [[Oklahoma]], [[United States|USA]]
| spouse=Laura Lee Anderson
| children=Kari Anderson Harding<br> Evan Anderson<br> John Anderson<br>
'''Alma mater''':<br>
Concordia College (Moorhead, [[Minnesota]])<br>
[[University of South Dakota]]<br>
University of Toledo
}}
'''Gary Clayton Anderson''' (born April 2, 1948) is a [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[University of Oklahoma]] at Norman, [[Oklahoma]], known for his studies of the [[Native America]]s of the [[Great Plains]] and the American Southwest.
==Background==
Anderson received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, [[Minnesota]]. He received his [[Master of Arts]] from the [[University of South Dakota]] in Vermillion, [[South Dakota]]. Anderson procured his [[Ph.D.]] from the [[University of Toledo]] in [[Toledo]], [[Ohio]].<ref name=anderson>{{cite web|url=http://augnet.augsburg.edu/news-archives/2006/claytonanderson.html|title=Inside Augsburg|publisher=augsburg.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> From 1981 to 1991 Anderson was a member of the history faculty at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], [[Texas]].
In 2010, Anderson released a book on native Oklahoman [[Will Rogers]], the "Cowboy Philosopher" and humorist who perished with aviator Wiley Post in an airplane crash in 1935 near Point Barrow, [[Alaska]]. Anderson is also working on the history of the Great Plains Wars from 1830 to 1890, culminating with the [[Massacre of Wounded Knee]] in South Dakota.<ref name=ouedu>{{cite web|url=http://history.ou.edu/gary-anderson|title=Gary Anderson, Professor United States history|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma]]|accessdate=December 27, 2015}}</ref>
==Publications==
===''The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land''===
Anderson's most recent book is ''The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1830-1875,'' published in 2005 by the [[University of Oklahoma Press. The book repudiates traditional historians, such as [[Walter Prescott Webb]] and Rupert N. Richardson, who viewed the settlement of Texas by the displacement of the native populations as a healthful and inevitable development. Anderson writes that at the time of the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]], when the Texas population was nearly 600,000, the still new state was "a very violent place. . . . Texans mostly blamed Indians for the violence -- an unfair indictment, since a series of terrible droughts had virtually incapacitated the Plains Indians, making them incapable of extended warfare."<ref name=conquest>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KKGt7CMROmgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Professor+Gary+Clayton+Anderson&source=bl&ots=6V_9qmE4Bk&sig=1udznMusarKcxHR8iqRws9s3ttQ&hl=en&ei=-wDDTNnIOcX_lgf6lowE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=Professor%20Gary%20Clayton%20Anderson&f=false|title=The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1830-1875|publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]]|last=Anderson |first=Gary Clayton |year=2005 |page=9 (quotation) |isbn=0-8061-3698-7|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> ''The Conquest of Texas'' was nominated for a [[Pulitzer Prize]]. Anderson lectures across the country, including an appearance at Augsburg College in Minneapolis on the theme that the displacement of the American Indians constituted [[ethnic cleansing]], a term that had appeared on the international scene in the middle 1990s with the American intervention in [[Kosovo]].<ref name=anderson/><ref name=conquest/>
===''Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood''===
Anderson's ''Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood'' is a revisionist examination of the Lakota Sioux medicine man, [[Sitting Bull]]. Anderson stresses the [[Battle of the Little Big Horn]] not so much as a mishap by Colonel [[George Armstrong Custer]] but in terms of the past successes of the Lakota Nation and the merit of Sitting Bull himself.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.indiaplaza.in/sitting-bull-paradox-of-lakota-nationhood-anderson-gary-clayton/books/9780321421920.htm|title=Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood|author=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-321-42192-0|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
===''Kinsman of Another Kind''===
Another Anderson work is ''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|last=Anderson |first=Gary Clayton |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|date=15 September 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/>
===The Indian Southwest===
Anderson's ''The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention,'' was awarded a prize by the San Antonio Conservation Society in [[San Antonio]], Texas. The work notes that the native tribes overcame conquest, drought, and disease. Many Indians became prosperous despite the odds they faced. Some of tribes joined [[Spain|Spanish]] missions, and others assimilated with other native peoples. The Indians also developed significant economic systems which continued in essence for three centuries afterwards.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.amazon.com/Indian-Southwest-1580-1830-Clayton-Anderson/dp/0806140674|title=The Indian Southwest 1580-1830|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |date=28 January 1999 |last=Anderson |first=Gary Clayton |isbn=978-0-8061-4067-4 |accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
===Little Crow===
Anderson also has written a book on the Sioux chief Little Crow, entitled ''Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux,'' published in 1986 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.<ref name="crow">{{cite book|url=http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/94dakota.html|title=Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |year=1986 |author=Gary Clayton Anderson |isbn=0-87351-196-4|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> A contributor to ''New Mexico Historical Review'' calls ''Little Crow'' a "major contribution to our understanding of an Indian tribe that profoundly influenced the course of history in the upper Mississippi Valley, partly at least through the personal role played by its most famous leader."<ref name="crow" />
Still another Anderson work is ''Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862,'' an anthology of thirty-six essays of the Indians' experiences in a conflict previously known only from the viewpoint of whites.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1338839.Through_Dakota_Eyes|title=Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862|name=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|isbn=978-0-87351-216-9|date= May 15, 1988|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
===''Power and Promise: The Changing American West''===
Anderson is co-author with Kathleen P. Chamberlain of [[Eastern Michigan University]] in Ypsilanti, [[Michigan]], of the textbook, ''Power and Promise: The Changing American West.'' A reviewer describes the book, accordingly: "An in-depth look at the United States west of the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]], the narrative combines a strong chronology with a region-by-region analysis to show how different areas have transformed in terms of population, economic status, and urban development. . . . Detailed and comprehensive coverage of Native Americans appears throughout the text . . . "<ref name=text>{{cite book|url=http://www.flipkart.com/power-promise-gary-clayton-anderson-book-0321080629|title=Power and Promise: the Changing American West|name=Gary Clayton Anderson|publisher=Longman Publishers |isbn=0-321-08062-9|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> The textbook also examines the myths of the American West of the popular imagination through films, literature, and culture.<ref name=text/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Gary Clayton}}
[[Category:Oklahoma]]
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Minnesota]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:American Authors]]