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227 Introduction 1. George P. Lee, Silent Courage an Indian Story: The Autobiography of George P. Lee a Navajo (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret, 1987), xii. 2. R. Douglas Hurt, The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011). 3. Vincent Crapanzano, The Fifth World of Forester Bennett: Portrait of a Navajo (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003 [1972]), 25. 4. Leslie Silko, Ceremony (New York: New American Library, 1977), 47. 5. For wild west shows, see L. G. Moses, Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians 1883–1933 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996) and Louis S. Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America (New York: Random House, 2005). 6. Elwell S. Otis, The Indian Question (New York: Sheldon and Co., 1878). 7. George Manypenny, Our Indian Wards (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke and Co., 1880). 8. Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the U.S. Government ’s Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881). 9. Francis E. Leupp, The Indian and His Problem (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1910). 10. Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture (New York: J.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1871). 11. Lewis Henry Morgan, Ancient Society (London: Macmillan, 1877). 12. Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (New York: Henry Holt, 1970). 13. Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001). 14. Donald L. Fixico, The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (New York: Routledge, 2003). 15. Donald Parman, Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994). Notes 228 · Notes to Pages 12–21 16. Peter Iverson, “We Are Still Here”: American Indians in the Twentieth Century (Wheeling, IL: Harland Davidson, 1998). 17. James S. Olsen and Raymond Wilson, Native Americans in the Twentieth Century (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1984). 18. Joel S. Migdal, State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001). 19. David Chandler, Empire in Denial: The Politics of State-building (London: Pluto Press, 2006). 20. Dominik Zaum, The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). 21. Nathan Hodge, Armed Humanitarians: The Rise of Nation Builders (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011). 22. David E. Wilkins, American Indian Politics and the American Political System (Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). 23. Dean Howard Smith, Modern Tribal Development: Paths to Self-sufficiency and Cultural Integrity in Indian Country (Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000). 24. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nationalism and the Imagination (London: Seagull, 2010). Chapter 1 1. “Treaty with the Creeks, 1832,” March 24, 1832, in Charles J. Kappler, comp. and ed., Indian Treaties 1778–1883 (New York: Interland, 1975), 341–343. The 1832 agreement was followed by the Treaty of Fort Gibson in 1833 to define the boundaries of their new homeland in the West. “Treaty with the Creeks, 1833,” February 14, 1833, ibid., 388–391. 2. Brian W. Dippie, The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1982), 122–138. 3. Donald L. Fixico, “Introduction,” in Donald L. Fixico, ed., Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty (Santa Barbara , CA: ABC-CLIO, 2007), vol. 1, xxi. 4. Felix Cohen, “Original Indian Title,” Minnesota Law Review, vol. 32 (1947), 28–59. Political agreements of Uncas are in Alden T. Vaughan, New England Frontier : Puritan and Indians 1620–1675 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1965), 154–167. 5. The legal basis for creating reservations involves sovereign and trust relations. Klaus Frantz, Indian Reservations in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 45–50. 6. “[Sitting Bull Surrenders], July 20, 1881,” New York Post, July 22, 1881, in Mark Diedrich, Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches (Rochester, MN: Coyote, 1998), 139. Fort Buford in North Dakota was located at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers. The classic biography of Sitting Bull is Stanley Vestal, Sitting Bull: Champion of the Sioux (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957 [1932]). An updated biography is Robert M. Utley, The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull (New York: Ballantine, 1993). 7. George W. Webb, Chronological List of Engagements between the Regular Army of the United States and Various Tribes of Hostile Indians Which Occurred dur- [3.139.238.76...

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