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==Background==​

==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]].​

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]].​

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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>​

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>​

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==Publications==​

==Publications==​

===''The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land''===

===''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/>​

Anderson's ''The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1830-1875,'' was 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|author=Gary Clayton Anderson|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/>​

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===''Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood''===​

===''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>​

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 (1839-1876) 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>​

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===''Kinsman of Another Kind''===​

===''Kinsman of Another Kind''===​