Bruce E Johansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 453484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce E Johansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce E |
| FAMILY NAME | Johansen |
| SIGNATURE | JOHANSEN B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840
Journal Article Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840 Get access Gray Gold: Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840. By Mark Milton Chambers. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2021. xiv, 258 pp. $65.00.) Bruce E Johansen Bruce E Johansen Emeritus, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic …
Resource Devastation on Native American Lands: Toxic Earth, Poisoned People
This monograph on environmental devastation among Native Americans focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America
Florida Explored: The Philadelphia Connection in Bartram's Tracks
Florida Explored: The Philadelphia Connection in Bartram's Tracks Florida Explored: The Philadelphia Connection in Bartram's Tracks. By Thomas Peter Bennett. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 2019. xxii, 398 pp. $40.00.) Bruce E Johansen Bruce E Johansen Emeritus University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 4, March 2021, Page 9…
Environmental Racism in the United States and Canada: Seeking Justice and Sustainability
From the 19th-century extermination of the buffalo in the American West to Alaska's Project Chariot (a Cold War initiative that planned to use atomic bombs to blast out a harbor on Eskimo land) to the struggle for recovery and justice in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in 2017, this book provides readers with an enhanced understanding of how poor and minority people are affected by natural and manmade environmental crises. Written for stude…
The Small Shall Be Strong: A History of Lake Tahoe's Washoe Indians
Smaller American Indian tribes, including the Washoe, are only now receiving professional historical attention, yet all have instructive historical stories to tell. The Washoe, for example, used the legal system, including the Dawes Act (1887), to protect eighty thousand acres of their land. Like the Osage, who used the law to protect their oil, the Washoe utilized their treaties as lockboxes to protect their rights and cultures—and their languag…
Clyde Warrior: Tradition, community, and Red Power
An important thinker, fiery orator, and activist in the “Red Power” movement, Clyde Merton Warrior (31 August 1939–7 July 1968) blazed an intellectual trail through Indian Country during the 1960s
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
This book is a retelling and, in the mind of the author, a corrective of well-trod ground: the history of the “Indian wars” in the middle of North America during the last half of the nineteenth century. The work being corrected, writes Peter Cozzens, is Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), which “has remained the standard popular work on the era” (p. 8). Brown made “no attempt at historical balance,” having openly admitted to his bia…
Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson, Lebensraum, and Manifest Destiny
President Donald Trump's admiration of President Andrew Jackson evokes a discussion of parallels between their ideologies, including a reluctance to repudiate white supremacy and a disregard for the rule of law. These attitudes are reflected both in Jackson's authorship of the Indian Removal Act (1830) and his refusal to acknowledge a judgment by the US Supreme Court in favor of the Cherokee Nation that might have averted the Trail of Tears. Jack…
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
Journal Article American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment Get access By Jason Edward Black. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. x, 214 pp. $65.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1195–1196, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav798 Published: 01 March 2016
Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement
A vivid description of the people, events, and issues that forever changed the lives of Native Americans during the 1960s and 1970s—such as the occupation of Alcatraz, fishing-rights conflicts, and individuals such as Clyde Warrior. Rising out of more than a century of poverty and pervasive repression, stoked by the example of the movement against the Vietnam War and the upheaval among black and Chicano civil-rights activists, the American Indian…
Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement
Details the struggles of the American Indian Movement from the beginnings in the early 1970s and includes the events and people most involved in the movement, such as the occupation and destruction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D. C.; the dramatic uprising at Wounded Knee; and the burning of the courthouse at Custer, South Dakota. Provides a chronology of the movement, followed by several hundred specific entries, a bibliography,…
Canoe Journeys and Cultural Revival
For the state of Washington's one-hundredth birthday, in 1989, Native peoples there decided to revive a distinctive mode of transportation—long-distance journeys by canoe—along with an entire culture associated with it. Born as the "Paddle to Seattle," during the past two decades these canoe journeys have become a summertime staple for Native peoples as well as for thousands of non-Indians who follow the "pullers" in Washington, Oregon, and Briti…
Encyclopedia of American Indian History: [4 Volumes]
This new four-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource available on the history of Native Americans, providing a lively, authoritative survey ranging from human origins to present-day controversies. From the origins of Native American cultures through the years of colonialism and non-Native expansion to the present,Encyclopedia of American Indian Historybrings the story of Native Americans to life like no other previo…
The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America: Linguistic, Ethnic, and Economic Revival
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Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise
Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise. By Steven Andrew Light and Kathryn R. L. Rand. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. 240p. $29.95. Is gambling the answer to reservation poverty—the “new buffalo,” as some Native Americans have called it? In some places, such as the Pequots' Foxwoods in Connecticut, small groups of American Indians have been enriched. In other places, such as the New York Oneida Nation in Upstate …
The Native Peoples of North America: A History [2 volumes]
From the earliest traces of first arrivals to the present, the Native peoples of North America represent a diverse and colorful array of cultures. From Central America to Canada, from recent archaeological discoveries to accounts of current controversies, this comprehensive study uses both traditional story telling and a powerful narrative to bring history to life. Johansen provides a critical narrative of European-American westward expansion thr…
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies
Treaties are so fundamental to the lives of Native Americans and their nations in the United States and Canada that life without them would be difficult to imagine. Most contemporary issues, from land claims to resource ownership to gambling permits, are rooted in laws that derive much of their sustenance from such documents. Treaties are, therefore, vibrant documents that define important issues in our time. This book is an attempt to maintain a…
Back from the (Nearly) Dead: Reviving Indigenous Languages across North America
The people of the Cochiti Pueblo were moved to revitalize their language after they conducted a survey that disclosed that all of its fluent speakers were thirty-five years of age or older. The few speakers under age thirty-five were semiliterate, according to Mary Eunice Romero, a Karas (Pueblo). Romero then asked, "What is going to happen to our language in 20-years when those [who are] 35-years old become 55? In 20 more years, when they're 75?…
The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future
Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson'sSilent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty signed by about 120 countries in December 2000. Among the twelve are the dioxins (the active ingredient in Agent Orange) and polychlorinated byphenyls (P…
Trials and Triumphs of Teaching Introduction to Native American Studies
Introduction to Native American Studies (NAMS 11ioo on our campus) has been, paradoxically, my most satisfying and most challenging teaching assignment in more than two decades as a university-level faculty member. As a former coordinator of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (uNo), I have heard many other faculty air their experiences with this course. I have come to realize, therefore, that I am not alone…
Reaching the Grassroots: The Worldwide Diffusion of Iroquois Democratic Traditions
After many years of intense debate, the idea that the Iroquois helped shape democracy has passed into the realm of general knowledge the length and breadth of “Turtle Island,” and beyond. Although a few brushfires of criticism remain in academia, many people and organizations have been applying Iroquois political principles in their daily lives. As of 21 November 2003 our roster of annotations had reached 1,404 items. According to our records, th…
Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations (review)
Emory Dean Keoke and Kay Marie Porterfield. Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations. New York: Facts on File, 2002. 384 pp. Cloth, $65.00, paper, $24.95
The Inuit's Struggle with Dioxins and Other Organic Pollutants
To environmental toxicologists, the Arctic by the 1990s was becoming known as the final destination for a number of manufactured poisons, including, most notably, dioxins and polyvinyl biphenyls (PCBs), which accumulate in the body fat of large aquatic and land mammals (including human beings), sometimes reaching levels that imperil their survival. Thus the Arctic, which seems so clean on the surface, has become one of the most contaminated place…
The New York Oneidas: A Case Study in the Mismatch of Cultural Tradition and Economic Development
One of the most important—and often most vexing—questions in Indian Country today concerns the creation of reservation economic bases, which produce necessary cash income while being culturally appropriate and sustainable. Casinos sometimes produce mountains of money as they transform parts of reservations into annexes of the non-Indian economy, with all of their imported artifices and vices.\nThirty years ago, the New York Oneidas’ landholdings …
Robert L. Berner's “Howlers”: A Reply
not tell us whether he has actually read Exemplar of Liberty (1991), or whether he has merely fished through the book's index in search of debating points. Berner's latest rebuttal indicates that he has not read the book in its entirety. He complains, for example, that we have committed a "howler" by placing John Adams at the Constitutional Convention. The "howler" is actually Berner's
Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped Shape Democracy
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
This book is a retelling and, in the mind of the author, a corrective of well-trod ground: the history of the “Indian wars” in the middle of North America during the last half of the nineteenth century. The work being corrected, writes Peter Cozzens, is Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), which “has remained the standard popular work on the era” (p. 8). Brown made “no attempt at historical balance,” having openly admitted to his bia…
The Inuit's Struggle with Dioxins and Other Organic Pollutants
To environmental toxicologists, the Arctic by the 1990s was becoming known as the final destination for a number of manufactured poisons, including, most notably, dioxins and polyvinyl biphenyls (PCBs), which accumulate in the body fat of large aquatic and land mammals (including human beings), sometimes reaching levels that imperil their survival. Thus the Arctic, which seems so clean on the surface, has become one of the most contaminated place…
Back from the (Nearly) Dead: Reviving Indigenous Languages across North America
The people of the Cochiti Pueblo were moved to revitalize their language after they conducted a survey that disclosed that all of its fluent speakers were thirty-five years of age or older. The few speakers under age thirty-five were semiliterate, according to Mary Eunice Romero, a Karas (Pueblo). Romero then asked, "What is going to happen to our language in 20-years when those [who are] 35-years old become 55? In 20 more years, when they're 75?…
Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise
Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise. By Steven Andrew Light and Kathryn R. L. Rand. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. 240p. $29.95. Is gambling the answer to reservation poverty—the “new buffalo,” as some Native Americans have called it? In some places, such as the Pequots' Foxwoods in Connecticut, small groups of American Indians have been enriched. In other places, such as the New York Oneida Nation in Upstate …
Life and Death in Mohawk Country
This book offers important insights into the internal procedures and values of a modern tribe divided against itself. Living in a land stripped and poisoned by the local industries, the Mohawks of Akwesasne turned to gambling in order to survive. Yet it soon became evident that only certain people were profiting, and the traditional Mohawks began to fear for their values, their safety, and for the future of their children
American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment
Journal Article American Indians and the Rhetoric of Removal and Allotment Get access By Jason Edward Black. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. x, 214 pp. $65.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 4, March 2016, Pages 1195–1196, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav798 Published: 01 March 2016
Sauce for the Goose: Demand and Definitions for "Proof" Regarding the Iroquois and Democracy
w51TTE would like to thank Philip A. Levy and Samuel Payne for engaging in this debate and the editors of the William and Mary vY v Quarterly for providing a forum. We are indebted to those who have taken strong exception to our views. help to make this vital debate possible. As authors, we know that spirited, fair-minded debate generates not only heat, but also light. It is also refreshing and novel to encounter two gentlemen who are vested with…
The Native Peoples of North America: A History [2 volumes]
From the earliest traces of first arrivals to the present, the Native peoples of North America represent a diverse and colorful array of cultures. From Central America to Canada, from recent archaeological discoveries to accounts of current controversies, this comprehensive study uses both traditional story telling and a powerful narrative to bring history to life. Johansen provides a critical narrative of European-American westward expansion thr…
Trials and Triumphs of Teaching Introduction to Native American Studies
Introduction to Native American Studies (NAMS 11ioo on our campus) has been, paradoxically, my most satisfying and most challenging teaching assignment in more than two decades as a university-level faculty member. As a former coordinator of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (uNo), I have heard many other faculty air their experiences with this course. I have come to realize, therefore, that I am not alone…
Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution
Forgotten Founders: How the American Indian Helped Shape Democracy
Native American Societies and the Evolution of Democracy in America, 1600-1800
Les influences du systeme politique iroquois sur la Constitution et les conceptions fondatrices de la democratie americaine
The Debate Regarding Native American Precedents for Democracy: A Recent Historiography
After fifteen years examining the native roots of American democracy, the authors have been intrigued, sometimes mystified, and often surprised as the subject has become a subject of intense debate in several scholarly circles, as well as in the popular press. Having surveyed a rich historical record associating colonial and revolutionary leaders with native peoples and their sociopolitical systems, as well as a similarly rich trail of suggestion…
Native American Roots for Freedom of Expression as a Form of Liberty
Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy
Journal Article Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy. By Donald A. Grinde, Jr., and Bruce E. Johansen. (Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991. xxvi + 320 pp. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-935626-35-2.) Get access Peter C. Mancall Peter C. Mancall University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Life and Death in Mohawk Country
This book offers important insights into the internal procedures and values of a modern tribe divided against itself. Living in a land stripped and poisoned by the local industries, the Mohawks of Akwesasne turned to gambling in order to survive. Yet it soon became evident that only certain people were profiting, and the traditional Mohawks began to fear for their values, their safety, and for the future of their children
Sauce for the Goose: Demand and Definitions for "Proof" Regarding the Iroquois and Democracy
w51TTE would like to thank Philip A. Levy and Samuel Payne for engaging in this debate and the editors of the William and Mary vY v Quarterly for providing a forum. We are indebted to those who have taken strong exception to our views. help to make this vital debate possible. As authors, we know that spirited, fair-minded debate generates not only heat, but also light. It is also refreshing and novel to encounter two gentlemen who are vested with…
Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples
Journal Article Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples Get access Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples. By Grinde Donald A. Johansen Bruce E.. (Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1995. 310 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.) Paul S. Sutter Paul S. Sutter University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Debating the Origins of Democracy: Overview of an Annotated Bibliography
Since the early 1990s, I have kept a running bibliography of commentary on assertions that the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and other Native American confederacies helped shape ideas of democracy in the early United States and Europe. By late 1995, the bibliography had reached 120 tightly packed pages, roughly 550 items from more than 130 books, as well as newspaper articles and book reviews numbering in the hundreds, academic journals, films, speech…
The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller
Journal Article The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller. By Bruce E. Johansen and Donald A. Grinde Jr. (New York: Holt, 1997. xvi, 463 pp. $50.00, ISBN 0-8050-3270-3.) Get access Clara Sue Kidwell Clara Sue Kidwell University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier
Journal Article John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier. By J. Russell Snapp. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xvi, 238 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-8071-2024-3.) Get access Bruce E. Johansen Bruce E. Johansen University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1040–1041, https://do…
"Notes from the "Culture Wars: More Annotations on the Debate Regarding the Iroquois and the Origins of Democracy
As to our aboriginal or Indian population ... I know it seem to be agreed that they must gradually dwindle as time rolls on, and in a few generations more leave only a reminiscence, a blank. But I am not at all clear about that. As America ... develop, adapts, entwines, faithfully identifies its own - are we to see it cheerfully accepting using all the contributions of foreign lands from the whole outside globe - and then rejecting the only ones …
Data or Dogma? A Reply to Robert L. Berner
Having now compiled roughly 1,325 items in my annotated bibliography of contentions regarding the Iroquois’ role in the development of democracy, I have become used to watching a large number of people bend the subject to fit their own biases as they accuse me of being a mythmaker. Professor Robert L. Berner seems irritated that I have acted as both advocate of the idea and compiler of a bibliography on the subject. Berner is welcome to tell me a…
Robert L. Berner's “Howlers”: A Reply
not tell us whether he has actually read Exemplar of Liberty (1991), or whether he has merely fished through the book's index in search of debating points. Berner's latest rebuttal indicates that he has not read the book in its entirety. He complains, for example, that we have committed a "howler" by placing John Adams at the Constitutional Convention. The "howler" is actually Berner's
Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations (review)
Emory Dean Keoke and Kay Marie Porterfield. Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World: 15,000 Years of Inventions and Innovations. New York: Facts on File, 2002. 384 pp. Cloth, $65.00, paper, $24.95
The Inuit's Struggle with Dioxins and Other Organic Pollutants
To environmental toxicologists, the Arctic by the 1990s was becoming known as the final destination for a number of manufactured poisons, including, most notably, dioxins and polyvinyl biphenyls (PCBs), which accumulate in the body fat of large aquatic and land mammals (including human beings), sometimes reaching levels that imperil their survival. Thus the Arctic, which seems so clean on the surface, has become one of the most contaminated place…
The New York Oneidas: A Case Study in the Mismatch of Cultural Tradition and Economic Development
One of the most important—and often most vexing—questions in Indian Country today concerns the creation of reservation economic bases, which produce necessary cash income while being culturally appropriate and sustainable. Casinos sometimes produce mountains of money as they transform parts of reservations into annexes of the non-Indian economy, with all of their imported artifices and vices.\nThirty years ago, the New York Oneidas’ landholdings …
The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future
Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson'sSilent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty signed by about 120 countries in December 2000. Among the twelve are the dioxins (the active ingredient in Agent Orange) and polychlorinated byphenyls (P…
Trials and Triumphs of Teaching Introduction to Native American Studies
Introduction to Native American Studies (NAMS 11ioo on our campus) has been, paradoxically, my most satisfying and most challenging teaching assignment in more than two decades as a university-level faculty member. As a former coordinator of the Native American Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (uNo), I have heard many other faculty air their experiences with this course. I have come to realize, therefore, that I am not alone…
Reaching the Grassroots: The Worldwide Diffusion of Iroquois Democratic Traditions
After many years of intense debate, the idea that the Iroquois helped shape democracy has passed into the realm of general knowledge the length and breadth of “Turtle Island,” and beyond. Although a few brushfires of criticism remain in academia, many people and organizations have been applying Iroquois political principles in their daily lives. As of 21 November 2003 our roster of annotations had reached 1,404 items. According to our records, th…
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies
Treaties are so fundamental to the lives of Native Americans and their nations in the United States and Canada that life without them would be difficult to imagine. Most contemporary issues, from land claims to resource ownership to gambling permits, are rooted in laws that derive much of their sustenance from such documents. Treaties are, therefore, vibrant documents that define important issues in our time. This book is an attempt to maintain a…
Back from the (Nearly) Dead: Reviving Indigenous Languages across North America
The people of the Cochiti Pueblo were moved to revitalize their language after they conducted a survey that disclosed that all of its fluent speakers were thirty-five years of age or older. The few speakers under age thirty-five were semiliterate, according to Mary Eunice Romero, a Karas (Pueblo). Romero then asked, "What is going to happen to our language in 20-years when those [who are] 35-years old become 55? In 20 more years, when they're 75?…
The Native Peoples of North America: A History [2 volumes]
From the earliest traces of first arrivals to the present, the Native peoples of North America represent a diverse and colorful array of cultures. From Central America to Canada, from recent archaeological discoveries to accounts of current controversies, this comprehensive study uses both traditional story telling and a powerful narrative to bring history to life. Johansen provides a critical narrative of European-American westward expansion thr…
Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise
Indian Gaming and Tribal Sovereignty: The Casino Compromise. By Steven Andrew Light and Kathryn R. L. Rand. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. 240p. $29.95. Is gambling the answer to reservation poverty—the “new buffalo,” as some Native Americans have called it? In some places, such as the Pequots' Foxwoods in Connecticut, small groups of American Indians have been enriched. In other places, such as the New York Oneida Nation in Upstate …
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