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Amiieiriican Iinidiia\Ns <" l lt )~ BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND WRITINGS ON AMIIEIRIICAN IINIDIIA\NS RUSSELL THORNTON and MARY K.GRASMICK A publication of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 311 Walter Library, 117 Pleasant St. S.E., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 The content of this report is the responsibility of the authors and is not necessarily endorsed by CURA. Publication No. 79-1, 1979. Cover design by Janet Huibregtse. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction . 1 American and Ethnic Studies Journals. 3 Journals Surveyed •. 4 Bibliography 5 Economics Journals. 13 Journals Surveyed. • 14 Bibliography . 15 Geography Journals. 17 Journals Surveyed . 18 Bibliography 19 History Journals . 25 Journals Surveyed •. 26 Bibliography 28 Interdisciplinary Social Science Journals . .133 Journals Surveyed .. .134 Bibliography . .135 Political Science Journals. .1,.1 Journals Surveyed .. .142 Bibliography . .143 Sociology Journals. .145 Journals Surveyed . .146 Bibliography . .148 INTRODUCTION Social science disciplines vary widely in the extent to which they contain scholarly knowledge on American Indians. Anthropology and history contain the most knowledge pertaining to American Indians, derived from their long traditions of scholarship focusing on American Indians. The other social sciences are far behind. Consequently our social science knowledge about American Indian peoples and their concerns is not balanced but biased by the disciplinary perspectives of anthropology and history. The likelihood that American society contains little realistic knowledge about contemporary American Indians in comparison to knowledge about traditional and historical American Indians is perhaps a function of this disciplinary imbalance. This bibliography enumerates articles on American Indians published in the scholarly journals of history, sociology, geography, political science, economics, and American and ethnic studies through 1976. Articles in anthropology have been excluded from this bibliography because of the massive number of them and because they may be found in other, existing bibliographies. It has been compiled in an effort to both summarize existing social science knowledge on American Indians and facilitate the generation of new knowledge on American Indians in all of the various social sciences and related disciplines, but particularly in those which have in the past shown little interest in the study of American Indian peoples and societies. Russell Thornton American Indian Studies University of Minnesota December 1978 1 AMllEIRllCAN ANJD lETlHINllC STUIDlllES JOUlRNAlLS JOURNALS SURVEYED American Quarterly (1949 through 1976) American Scholar (1932 through 1976) American Studies (1971 through 1976); formerly Midcontinent American Studies Journal (1969 through 1970) American Studies in Scandinavia (1968 through 1976) Canadian Review of American Studies (1970 through 1976) Ethnicity (1974 through 1976) Journal of American Studies (1967 through 1976) Journal of Canadian Studies (1966 through 1976) Journal of Ethnic Studies (1973 through 1976) Phylon (1940 through 1976) Race and Class (1974 through 1976); formerly Race (1959 through 1974) 4 BIBLIOGRAPHY Aberle, David P. 1973 "The Sun Dance and reservation underdevelopment." Journal of Ethnic Studies 1(2): 66-73. Ablon, Joan 1965 "American Indian relocation: problems of dependency and management in the city." Phylon 26 (4): 362-371. Adams, Graham, Jr. 1976 "Frontier violence and the American mind?" Canadian Journal of American Studies 7(1): 102-106. Ahern, Wilbert H. 1976 "Assimilationist racism: the case of the 'friends of the Indian'." Journal of Ethnic Studies 4(2): 23-32. Amoss, Pamela T. 1976 "The Upper Skagit Indians of western Washington: an anthropologists viewpoint." Journal of Ethnic Studies 3(4): 74-77. Baker, Donald G. 1972 "Color, culture, and power: Indian-white relations in Canada and America." Canadian Review of American Studies 3(1): 3-20. 1974 "Identity, power and psychocultural needs: white responses to non­ whites." Journal of Ethnic Studies 1(4): 16-44. Berg, Philip 1975 "Racism and the Puritan mind." Phylon 36(1): 1-7. Berry, Brewton 1960 "The myth of the vanishing Indian." Phylon 21(1): 51-57. Bolt, Christine 1974 "Return of the native: some reflections on the history of American Indians." Journal of American Studies 8(2): 247-259. Browne, William P., and Michael Davis 1976 "Community control and the reservation: self-interest as a factor limiting reform." Ethnicity 3 (4): 368-377. Carrothers, A.W.R. 1967 "Canada: reluctant imperialist." Journal of Canadian Studies 2 (1): 11-23. Chadwick, Bruce A., Joseph Strauss, Howard M. Bahr, and Lowell K. Halverson 1976 "Confrontation with the law: the case of the American Indians in Seattle." Phylon 37(2): 163-171. Clifton, James A. 1965 "Culture change, structural stability, and factionalism in the Prairie Potawatomi reservation community.'' Midcontinent American Studies Journal 6(2); 101-123. 5 Cohen, Felix S. 1952 "Americanizing the white man." The American Scholar 21(2): 177-191. Coulson, Michael R.C. 1961 "Fact and fiction in the quest for Quivera." Midcontinent American Studies Journal 2(2): 80-92. Cracraft, Richard H. 1967 "The American West of Karl May." American Quarterly 19(2): 249-258. DeMallie, Raymond J. 1976 "Sioux ethnohistory: a methodological critique." Journal of Ethnic Studies 4(3): 77-83. Denton, Trevor 1972 "Migration from a Canadian Indian reserve." Journal of Canadian Studies 7(2): 54-62. Dippie, Brian W. 1969 "'His visage wild; his form exotic': Indian themes and cultural guilt in John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor." American Quarterly 21(1): 113-121. Dobyns, Henry F. 1965 "Therapeutic experience of responsible democracy." Midcontinent American Studies Journal 6(2): 171-186. Duffy, Dennis 1971 "In defense of North America: the past in the poetry of Alfred Purdy." Journal of Canadian Studies 6(2): 17-27. Fairfield, Robert C. 1967 "New towns in the far North." Journal of Canadian Studies 2(2): 18-26. Fischer, Ann 1965 "History and current status of the Houma Indian." Midcontinent American Studies Journal 6(2): 49-63. Flanagan, Thomas 1974 "Louis 'David' Riel: prophet, priest-king, infallible pontiff." Journal of Canadian Studies 9(3): 15-25. Fogelson, Raymond D. 1974 "On the varieties of Indian history: Sequoyah and Travellor Bird." Journal of Ethnic Studies 2(1): 105-112. Frideres, James S. 1975 "Prejudice towards minority groups: ethnicity or class." Ethnicity 2 (1): 34-42. 6 Giddings, J.L. 1962 "Eskimos and old shorelines." The American Scholar 31(4): 585-594. Griessman, G. Eugene 1976 "The Tukabatchi pow wow and the spirit of Tecumseh: or, how to hold a pow wow without Indians." Phylon 37(2): 172-173. Grindstaff, Carl F., Wilda Galloway, and Joanne Nixon 1973 "Racial and cultural identification among Canadian Indian children." Phylon 34(4): 368-377. Halliburton, R. Jr. 1975 "Black slave control in the Cherokee Nation." Journal of Ethnic Studies 3(2): 23-36. Hayne, Barrie 1969 "Ossian, Scott and Cooper's Indians." Journal of American Studies 3 (1): 73-87. Hickerson, Harold 1973 "Fur trade colonialism and the North American Indian." Journal of Ethnic Studies 1(2): 15-44. Hilbert, V. 1976 "The Upper Skagit Indians of western Washington: the Indian's view­ point." Journal of Ethnic Studies 3(4): 77-79. Hrdlicka, Ales 1932 "Advanced surgery found among Indians." The American Scholar 1(3): 374-376. 1935 "A leaf from the prehistory of Kodiac Island, Alaska." The American Scholar 4(4)~ 496-502. Iverson, Peter 1976 "Legal assistance and Navaro economic revitalization." Journal of Ethnic Studies 4(3): 21-34. Jennings, Francis 1971 "Virgin land and savage people." American Quarterly 23(4): 519-541. Johnson, Ronald M. 1974 "Schooling the Savage: Andrew S. Draper and Indian Education." Phylon 25(1): 74-82. Johnston, Thomas F. 1976 "Alaskan native social adjustment and the role of Eskimo and Indian· music." Journal of Ethnic Studies 3(4): 21-36. Kehoe, Alice B. 1975 "Dakota Indian ethnicity in Saskatchewan." Journal of Ethnic Studies 3(2): 37-42. 7 Kupferer, Harriet J. 1965 "The isolated Eastern Cherokee." Midcontinent American Studies Journal 6(2): 124-134. Lane, Lauriat 1975 "Thoreau's autumnal Indian." Canadian Review of American Studies 6 (2): 228-236. Lavender, Abraham D., and John M. Forsyth 1976 "The sociological study of minority groups as reflected by leading sociology journals: who gets studied and who gets neglected?" Ethnicity 3(4): 388-398. Levine, Stuart 1965 "The Indian as American: some observations from the editor's note­ book." Midcontinent American Studies Journal 6(2): 3-22. Leonard, Thomas C. 1974 "Red, white, and the army blue: empathy and anger in the American West." American Quarterly 26 (2): 176-190. Littlefield, Daniel F. Jr. 1975 "The decline of the ball play among the Civilized Tribes." Journal of Ethnic Studies 2(4): 56-70. Littlefield, Daniel F., Jr., and Lonnie E. Underhill 1971 "Renaming the American Indian: 1890-1913." American Studies 12(2): 33-45. 1974 "Ned Christie and his one-man fight with the United States marshalls." Journal of Ethnic Studies 1(4): 3-15. Lurie, Nancy Oestreich 1965 "An American Indian renascence?" Midcontinent American Studies Journal 6(2): 25-50. Malone, Patrick M. 1973 "Changing military technology among the Indians of southern New England, 1600-1677." American Quarterly 25(1): 48-63. Margan, Arthur 1976 "Indians and immigrants: a comparison of groups new to the city." Journal of Ethnic Studies 4(4): 17-28. Marshall, Peter 1967 "Sir William Johnson and the treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1768." Journal of American Studies 1(2): 149-179. 1971 "Colonial protest and imperial retrenchment: Indian policy, 1764- ' 1768." Journal of American Studies 5(1): 1-17. 8 Matthews, F.H. 1970 "The revolt against Americanism: cultural pluralism and cultural relativism as an ideology of liberation." Canadian Review of American Studies 1 (1): 4-31. Mays, John Bentley 1973 "The flying serpent: contemporary imaginations of the American Indian." Canadian Review of American Studies 4(1): 32-47. Melling, J. 1966 "Recent developments in official policy towards Canadian Indians and Eskimos." Race 7(4): 379-399. Meserve, Walter T.
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