NEH Summer Institute for Teachers The Early Republic and Indian Country, 1812-1833 July 16 to August 10, 2012 Professor R. David Edmunds, History, University of Texas at Dallas Professor John W. Hall, U.S. Military History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Ann Durkin Keating, History, North Central College Professor Susan Sleeper-Smith, History, Michigan State University Dr. Scott Manning Stevens, Director, McNickle Center, Newberry Library (Co-Director) Frank Valadez, Executive Director, Chicago Metro History Education Center (Co-Director) This summer institute will examine the transformation of the lands between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River from ―Indian Country‖ to ―U.S. territory,‖ from North to South, between 1812 and 1833. The Newberry Library has long been in the forefront of the study of Native America, in both its collections and sponsored scholarship, and it is the perfect place to host an institute that bridges the divide between American Indian history and traditional narratives of U.S. history by exploring the borderlands and backcountry of the trans-Appalachian west. Participating teachers and educational professionals will benefit not only by working with top-flight scholars and the resources available at the Newberry Library, and in other archives and museums in the Chicago area, but also by providing an opportunity to investigate more deeply an all-too-often overlooked topic in American history—the cultural, political, social, and economic interactions among the diverse groups of people who occupied and travelled through Indian Country during the era of the Early Republic. Schedule and Arriving at the Institute The institute will begin on Monday, July 16 with an introduction and orientation at 9:00 am in 2-West, 2nd floor of the Newberry Library. Unless specified otherwise, all sessions run from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm. Since the library reading rooms and reference areas are closed on Mondays, we will hold a library orientation and tour on Tuesday, July 16 from 1:30 to 3:00pm. At that time we will show you the location of your carrel and how to page books to them. All participants should lock up their outerwear and bags in the first floor lockers and only bring what they need for their research (laptops, notebooks, pens and pencils) beyond the security kiosk. Lockers require one quarter to lock and your quarter is returned when you insert the key to unlock the door. These lockers are not intended for overnight storage and may be emptied nightly by facilities staff. WEEK ONE Monday, July 16: Meet in 2-West (second floor) 9:00 – 12:30 Dr. Scott Stevens, Introduction to Institute and discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Workshop on Maps by Jim Ackerman, 2-West Required White, Richard. "The middle ground." The Middle Ground. Cambridge University Press, 1991. pp.50-93. Tuesday, July 17 9:00 – 12:30 Dr. Scott Stevens, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Newberry Library Orientation and Tour by Lisa Schoblasky and Jo Ellen Dickie Required Willig, Timothy D. "British-Indian Relations in the North, 1796-1802" Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783-1815. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Ch. 3. 91-122. Starna, William A. ―’The United States will protect you’: The Iroquios, New York, and the 1790 Nointercourse Act.‖ New York History. Winter 2002, vol. 83, pp. 4-33. Wednesday, July 18 9:00 – 12:30 Dr. Scott Stevens, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Manuscripts Show-and-Tell Required Wala, Michael. ―From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National Identity.‖ Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Bergahn Books, 2001. pp. 74–90. Thursday, July 19 10:00 – 1 pm: FIELD MUSEUM, Logistics for the field trip to be determined Friday, July 20 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Ann Keating, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Teaching Discussions with Frank Valadez Required Andrew Cayton, "The Meaning of the Wars for the Great Lakes" as in David Curtis Skaggs and Larry L. Nelson, eds. The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814 (East Lansing, 2001), 380-81. Recommended Milo M. Quaife, Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 (Urbana, IL, 2001), Ch. 13 WEEK TWO Monday, July 23 9:00 – 12:30 Scott Forsythe, Archivist, National Archive and Records Administration Tuesday, July 24 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Ann Keating, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Research Newberry Collections Required Thomas Forsyth to William Clark, December 23, 1812, as in Dorothy Libby, Ethnohistory, 8, no 2 (Spring 1961): 179-195. James A. Clifton, "Personal and Ethnic Identity on the Great Lakes Frontier: The case of Billy Caldwell, Anglo-Canadian," Ethnohistory, 25 no. 1 (Winter 1978) Recommended Elmore Barce, "Topenbee and the Decline of the Pottawattomie Nation," Indiana Magazine of History, 14, no. 1 (March 1918): 3-12. Wednesday, July 25 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Susan Sleeper-Smith, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Research Newberry Collections Required Peace, Theodore Calvin, ed. ―Memoirs of DeGannes Concerning the Illinois Country.‖ Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library. Springfield, Ill.: The H.W. Rokker co., printers, 1911. pp. 302–396. Thursday, July 26 9:00 – 12 pm Research Newberry Collections 2:00 – 5:30 pm Prof. Susan Sleeper-Smith, discussion of readings Required Spencer, Oliver M. The Indian Captivity of O. M. Spencer. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1917. Friday, July 27 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Susan Sleeper-Smith, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Teaching Discussions with Frank Valadez Required Sleeper-Smith, Susan, Women, kin, and Catholicism: New perspectives on the fur trade. Ethnohistory, 47, no. 2 (Spring 2000), p423-452. WEEK THREE Monday, July 30 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Dave Edmunds, discussion of readings Required Edmunds, R. David. ―Herons Who Wait at the Speleawee-Thepee: The Ohio River and the Shawnee World." The Register Of The Kentucky Historical Society, 91 (Summer, 1993). 249-259. Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership. New York: Pearson- Longman, 2007 (2nd. Edition). 1-68. United States Congress. ―Minutes of a Treaty with the Indians: June-August, 1795,‖ Indian Affairs (1789-1827) American State Papers, 1. 564-582. Tuesday, July 31 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Dave Edmunds, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Research Newberry Collections Required Edmunds, R. David. Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership. New York: Pearson- Longman, 2007 (2nd. Edition). 69-222. ―Speech by Tecumseh to Harrison, August 20, 1810.‖ Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison. Ed. Logan Esarey. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1922. Vol. 1, 463- 469. "Harrison to the Secretary of War, August 7, 1811." Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison. Ed. Logan Esarey. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1922. Vol. 1, 548- 551. "Speech by Tecumseh, September 18, 1813." Messages and Letters of William Henry Harrison. Ed. Logan Esarey. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Commission, 1922. Vol. 2, 541-543. Wednesday, August 1 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Dave Edmunds, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Research Newberry Collections Required Edmunds, R. David. ―Main Poc: Potawatomi Wabeno.‖ American Indian Quarterly, 9.3 (Summer, 1985): 259-272. Owsley, Frank. ―Prophet of War: Josiah Francis and the Creek War.‖ American Indian Quarterly 9.3 (Summer 1985): 273-293. Edmunds, R. David. ―’A Watchful Safeguard to Our Habitations: Black Hoof and the Loyal Shawnees,‖ Native Americans in the Early Republic Eds. Frederick Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman, Peter Albert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1999. 162-199. Thursday, August 2 10:00 – 1 CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM, Logistics for the field trip to be determined Friday, August 3 9:00 – 12:30 Prof. Ann Keating, discussion of readings 1:30 – 3pm Teaching Discussions with Frank Valadez Required Mrs. John H. (Juliette) Kinzie, Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" in the Northwest (Chicago, 1932), ch. 18-19. Mentor L. Williams, "John Kinzie's Narrative of the Fort Dearborn Massacre," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 46 (Winter 1953). Simon Pokagon, "The Massacre of Fort Dearborn at Chicago," Harper's New Monthly Magazine (March 1899). Recommended H.A. Musham, "Where did the Battle Take Place?" Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 36, no. 1 (March 1943) WEEK FOUR Monday, August 6 Prof. John Hall, discussion of readings 9:00 – 10:30 The Erosion of the “Middle Ground” [1815 to eve of Black Hawk War] Required Hall, Uncommon Defense, 1-119 Satz, Ronald N. "Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era: The Old Northwest as a Test Case." In An Anthology of Western Great Lakes Indian History, edited by Donald L. Fixico, 233-269. Milwaukee: American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987. Recommended Horsman, Reginald. "The Indian Policy of an 'Empire for Liberty'." In Native Americans and the Early Republic, edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert, 37-61. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. 11:00-10:30 Indian Leadership [Black Hawk, Keokuk, White Crow, Billy Caldwell] Required Hall, Uncommon Defense, 120-144. Black Hawk. Life of Black Hawk, Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1916. Lappas, Thomas J. "'A Perfect Apollo': Keokuk and Sac Leadership during the Removal Era " In The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850, edited by Daniel P. Barr, 219-235. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2006. Recommended Warren, Stephen. "The Ohio Shawnee's Struggle Against Removal, 1814-30." In Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest, edited by R. David Edmunds, 72-93. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Tuesday, August 7: Prof.