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'''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 American]]s of the [[Great Plains]] and the American Southwest.
 
'''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 American]]s of the [[Great Plains]] and the American Southwest.
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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|date 2006|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</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|date 2006|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</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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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 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/>​
 
|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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===''The Indian Southwest''===
 
===''The Indian Southwest''===
 
For his ''The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention'' received 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 |author=Gary Clayton Anderson|isbn=978-0-8061-4067-4|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</ref>​
 
For his ''The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention'' received 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 |author=Gary Clayton Anderson|isbn=978-0-8061-4067-4|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</ref>​
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===''Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux''===
 
===''Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux''===
 
Anderson is the author of a book on the Sioux chief Little Crow (1810-1863), 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; site has a different text (U.S.-Dakota War of 1862: Overview) than in 2010}}</ref> A contributor to ''The 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" />​
 
Anderson is the author of a book on the Sioux chief Little Crow (1810-1863), 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; site has a different text (U.S.-Dakota War of 1862: Overview) than in 2010}}</ref> A contributor to ''The 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" />​
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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 15, 2019}}</ref>​
 
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 15, 2019}}</ref>​
  
 
===''Power and Promise: The Changing American West''===
 
===''Power and Promise: The Changing American West''===
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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; no longer on-line}}</ref> The textbook further examines the myths of the American West of the popular imagination through films, literature, and culture.<ref name=text/>​
 
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; no longer on-line}}</ref> The textbook further examines the myths of the American West of the popular imagination through films, literature, and culture.<ref name=text/>​
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Gary Clayton Anderson​

(Historian of the American Indian;
University of Oklahoma Professor)

Gary Clayton Anderson of OK.jpg

Born April 2, 1948​
Place of birth missing

Residence:
Norman, Oklahoma, USA

Spouse Laura Lee Anderson​

Children:
Kari Anderson Harding
Evan Anderson
John Anderson​
Alma mater:
Concordia College (Moorhead, Minnesota)
​ University of South Dakota
​ 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 Americans 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.[1] From 1981 to 1991, Anderson was a member of the history faculty at Texas A&M University in 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 (1898-1935) in an airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska. Anderson has studied the history of the Great Plains Wars from 1830 to 1890, culminating with the Massacre of Wounded Knee in South Dakota.[2]

Publications

The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land

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."[3]

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.[1][3]

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 (1831-1890). Anderson stresses theBattle of the Little Big Horn, Montana not so much as a mishap by Colonel and former General George Armstrong Custer but in terms of the past successes of the Lakota Nation and the merit of Sitting Bull himself.[4]

Kinsman of Another Kind

Through his work in Kinsman of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862,[2] Anderson is considered the first scholar to employ an ethnohistorical approach to his discipline.[5] 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.[5]

The Indian Southwest

For his The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention received 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 Spanish missions, and others assimilated with other native peoples. The Indians also developed significant economic systems which continued in essence for three centuries afterwards.[6]


Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux

Anderson is the author of a book on the Sioux chief Little Crow (1810-1863), entitled Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux, published in 1986 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press.[7] A contributor to The 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."[7]

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.[8]

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, 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 . . . "[9] The textbook further examines the myths of the American West of the popular imagination through films, literature, and culture.[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Inside Augsburg. augsburg.edu. Retrieved on October 15, 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Faculty: Gary Anderson. University of Oklahoma. Retrieved on October 15, 2019.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Gary Clayton Anderson (2005). The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1830-1875. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3698-7. Retrieved on October 15, 2019. 
  4. Gary Clayton Anderson. Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-321-42192-0. Retrieved on October 23, 2010; no longer on-line. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 (September 15, 1997) Kinsman of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87351-353-1​. Retrieved on October 15, 2019. 
  6. Gary Clayton Anderson (28 January 1999). The Indian Southwest 1580-1830. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4067-4. Retrieved on October 15, 2019. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Gary Clayton Anderson (1986). Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-87351-196-4. Retrieved on October 23, 2010; site has a different text (U.S.-Dakota War of 1862: Overview) than in 2010. 
  8. (May 15, 1988) Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87351-216-9. Retrieved on October 15, 2019. 
  9. 9.0 9.1 Power and Promise: the Changing American West. Longman Publishers. ISBN 0-321-08062-9. Retrieved on October 23, 2010; no longer on-line. 

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