Indian Slavery, Labor, Evangelization, and Captivity in the Americas: An Annotated Bibliography.

Not Race, but Grace: Presbyterian Missionaries and American Indians, 1837-1893

Race, writes George W. Stocking, Jr., was "a characteristically nineteenthcentury phenomenon." Historians of articulate racial thought in America generally believe that the optimism of the eighteenth century gave way in the nineteenth to pessimism in matters of race. Growing numbers of scientists, and perhaps nonscientists too, came to believe that certain races were innately inferior, retarded by inherited qualities that were unchangeable or changeable only over long periods of time, and that cultural manifestations were the product primarily of biological endowment. By late in the century, according to Stocking, "race and culture were linked in a single evolutionary hierarchy extending fr…

Joel Pfister. <italic>Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern.</italic> (New Americanists.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2004. Pp. xiv, 340. Cloth $84.95, paper $23.95

Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940

The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America.

With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s

Rosalyn R. LaPier and David R. M. Beck's <i>City Indian: Native American Activism in Chicago, 1893-1934</i>

Rifles, Blankets, and Beads: Identity, History, and the Northern Athapaskan Potlatch . William E. Simeone

Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923.

Representations of American Indians and the Irish in educational reports, 1850s–1920s

Modern colonialism, writes Gyan Prakash, ‘instituted enduring hierarchies of subjects and knowledges — the colonizer and the colonized, the Occidental and the Oriental, the civilized and the primitive, the scientific and the superstitious, the developed and the underdeveloped’. Such dichotomies ‘reduced complex differences and interactions to the binary (self/other) logic of colonial power’, and colonial rulers ‘constituted the “native” as their inverse image’. Such perceptions of difference as ‘other’ expressed what ‘civilized’ Westerners believed themselves not to be — but also what they feared they might become, should they lose rational self-control. The ‘other’, writes Eva Kornfelt, ‘t…

John Demos. The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic.

Promises of the Past: A History of Indian Education in the United States.