American Indians

Some articles from the Kansas Historical Quarterly are available online and others will be added as available.


General

Herring, Joseph B. The Enduring Indians of Kansas: A Century and a Half of Acculturation. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Manzo, Joseph T. "Emigrant Indian Objections to Kansas Residence." Kansas History 4 (Winter 1981): 246-254.

Miner, H. Craig, and William E. Unrau. The End of Indian Kansas: A Study of Cultural Revolution, 1854-1871. Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1977.

Prucha, Francis Paul. A Bibliographical Guide to the History of Indian-White Relations in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977. A superb collection, fully indexed, listing more than 9,700 items.

__________. Indian-White Relations in the United States: A Bibliography of Works Published 1975-1980. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Supplement to 1977 edition, published by University of Chicago Press.

Unrau, William E. Indians of Kansas: The Euro-American Invasion and Conquest of Indian Kansas. Topeka: Kansas State Historical Society, 1991.


Chippewa

Herring, Joseph B. "The Chippewa and Munsee Indians: Acculturation and Survival in Kansas, 1850s-1870." Kansas History 6 (Winter 1983/84): 212-220.


Delaware Indians in Kansas

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Iowa

Meyer, Roy W. "The Iowa Indians, 1836-1885." Kansas Historical Quarterly 28 (Autumn 1962): 273-300.


Kickapoo

Stull, Donald D. Kiikaapoa: The Kansas Kickapoo. Horton, Kans.: Kickapoo Tribal Press, 1984. A history of tribe through the 1970s, including tribal organization and government on northeastern Kansas reservation.

__________, Jerry A. Schultz, and Ken Cadue, Sr. "Rights Without Resources: The Rise and Fall of the Kansas Kickapoo." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 10, 2 (1986): 41-59.


Munsee

Herring, Joseph B. "The Chippewa and Munsee Indians: Acculturation and Survival in Kansas, 1850s-1870." Kansas History 6 (Winter 1983/84): 212-220.


Miami Indians in Kansas

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Pawnee

Ashworth, Kenneth "Pawnee Art Style and Culture." Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, 1981

Dorsey, George A. Traditions of the Skidi Pawnee. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, 1904.

__________. The Pawnee: Mythology, Part I. Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C., 1906

Fradin, Dennis B. The Pawnee. Childrens Press, Chicago, 1988 .

Fussell, Betty The Story of Corn. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992

Hyde, George E. The Pawnee Indians. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1951

Murie, James R. Ceremonies of the Pawnee: Part II The South Bands. Edited by Douglas R. Parks. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 27. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1981

Reichman, O. J. Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1987

Wedel, Waldo R. Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1961

__________. "Native Astronomy and the Plains Caddoans." In Native American Astronomy, edited by Anthony F. Aveni, pp. 131-145. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1977

__________. Central Plains Prehistory: Holocene Environments and Culture Change in the Republican River Basin. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1986

Weltfish, Gene The Lost Universe. Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1965

Williamson, Ray A. Living the Sky: The Cosmos of the American Indians. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1984

Witty, Thomas A., Jr. "Along the Southern Edge: The Central Plains Tradition in Kansas." In The Central Plains Tradition: Internal Developments and External Relationships, edited by Donald J. Blakeslee, pp. 56-66. Office of the State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1978.


Pawnee Indians in Kansas

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Sac and Fox Indians in Kansas

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Shawnee Indians in Kansas

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Wyandotte (Huron) Indians in Kansas

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