Jeffrey Ostler
Biographic Data
| ID | 454832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Ostler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostler |
| SIGNATURE | OSTLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America
On 2 November 2020, just hours before a slim majority of Americans rejected his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing a “1776 Commission” designed to counter “one-sided an
Denial of Genocide in the California Gold Rush Era: The Case of Gary Clayton Anderson
This article critically examines historian Gary Clayton Anderson’s attempt to deny that the treatment inflicted upon California’s Indigenous people during the Gold Rush Era was genocide. Not only a matter of academic interest, this examination is also important to ongoing discussions following both California Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2019 apology to California’s Indigenous peoples for genocide and the creation of the Indigenous-led California Trut…
Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
Richard Henry Pratt, first superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, is touted as the architect of the U.S. assimilationist campaign of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famous for the slogan "kill the Indian, save the man." We question the degree he is credited with building a federal bureaucracy that he bitterly criticized. We examine the historical record to illuminate how and why Pratt broke with racialized ideologies of his day; how Ca…
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Jeffrey Ostler, Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression, Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 79-100
God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. By Louis S. Warren
Not since 1896, when James Mooney published his classic work, The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, has anyone attempted to write a comprehensive history of the Ghost Dance throughout the American West. Most scholarship has focused either on Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson), the Paiute founder of the religion, or specific reservations, especially the Lakota Sioux reservations where the U.S. Army slaughtered over two hundred G…
California and the American genocide debate
In 1998, at the time of the California Gold Rush sesquicentennial, Patricia Nelson Limerick, one of the founders of the new western (US) history, observed that: I would never use the word genocide
Just and lawful war’ as genocidal war in the (United States) Northwest Ordinance and Northwest Territory, 1787–1832
This article focuses on the United States Northwest Ordinance of 1787's profession of ‘utmost good faith’ towards Indians and its provision for ‘just and lawful wars’ against them. As interpreted by US officials as they authorized and practised war against native communities in the Northwest Territory from 1787 to 1832, the ‘just and lawful wars’ clause legalized wars of ‘extirpation’ or ‘extermination’, terms synonymous with genocide by most def…
The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and state formation in America's Old Northwest by Bethel Saler
Reviewed by: The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and state formation in America’s Old Northwest by Bethel Saler Jeffrey Ostler The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and state formation in America’s Old Northwest By Bethel Saler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. The US Northwest Ordinance of 1787 has often been seen as a brilliant solution to the need of a postcolonial United States to reconcile the metropolitan priority of regulati…
To Extirpate the Indians: An Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide in the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, 1750s-1810
“To Extirpate the Indians”:An Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide in the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, 1750s–1810 Jeffrey Ostler (bio) IN September 1778 at Fort Pitt, U.S. commissioners met with Delaware leaders and negotiated the first written Indian treaty in U.S. history. In so doing, they felt compelled to counter the charge that their government and its people intended “to extirpate the Indians and take possession of their country.”1 T…
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America
Book Review| April 01 2015 Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America. By Anderson, Gary Clayton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. $26.96 cloth.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 389–391. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2855630 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Shar…
The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West
Journal Article The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West Get access The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West. By Graybill Andrew R.. (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013. xix + 312 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. $28.95.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 3, Autum…
The Comanche Empire
Journal Article The Comanche Empire Get access The Comanche Empire. By Hämäläinen Pekka. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. viii + 500 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 2009, Pages 504–505, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/40.4.504 Publishe…
Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands
Journal Article Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands Get access Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands. By McCrady David G.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi + 168 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, £34.50.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
Journal Article The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee Get access The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism, from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. By Ostler Jeffrey. (Cambridge, ENG: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $21.99, paper.) Sherry L. Smith Sherry L. Smith Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
They Regard Their Passing As Wakan: Interpreting Western Sioux Explanations for the Bison's Decline
This essay considers Lakota and Nakota thought about the decline of the bison and their possible return through the Ghost Dance. The author emphasizes the difficulties in interpreting Native thought, while arguing that Indians had multiple views that changed over time and were not always incommensurable with western understandings
Conquest and the State: Why the United States Employed Massive Military Force to Suppress the Lakota Ghost Dance
Research Article| May 01 1996 Conquest and the State: Why the United States Employed Massive Military Force to Suppress the Lakota Ghost Dance Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 217–248. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639984 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892
The Plains states in the late 1800s flung open their political doors to the Populist party while their fellow midwestern neighbors to the east left it standing on the porch. Why the contrasting receptions? Traditionally the disparity has been attributed solely to economic differences. A superficially logical answer, says Jeffrey Ostler, but too simple. Ostler contends that the distinction historians have made between hardship on the Plains and pr…
Why Populism did not Flourish in Iowa
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892
Journal Article Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880–1892. By Jeffrey Ostler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii, 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0606-8.) Get access Gregg Cantrell Gregg Cantrell Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1331…
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892
Journal Article Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880–1892 Get access Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880–1892. By Ostler Jeffrey. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii + 256 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Worth Robert Miller Worth Robert Miller Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works …
Populism, Its Rise and Fall
Journal Article Populism, Its Rise and Fall Get access Populism, Its Rise and Fall. By Peffer William A.. Edited by Argersinger Peter H.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. vi + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, August 1993, Pages 413–414, https://doi.or…
Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa
Journal Article Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa Get access Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler assistant professor of history and author of The Fate of Populism University of Oregon, University Press of Kansas. The author would like to thank Peter Argersinger, Elizabeth Sanders, and Shelton Stromquist for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this essay. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
Journal Article The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee Get access The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism, from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. By Ostler Jeffrey. (Cambridge, ENG: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $21.99, paper.) Sherry L. Smith Sherry L. Smith Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Just and lawful war’ as genocidal war in the (United States) Northwest Ordinance and Northwest Territory, 1787–1832
This article focuses on the United States Northwest Ordinance of 1787's profession of ‘utmost good faith’ towards Indians and its provision for ‘just and lawful wars’ against them. As interpreted by US officials as they authorized and practised war against native communities in the Northwest Territory from 1787 to 1832, the ‘just and lawful wars’ clause legalized wars of ‘extirpation’ or ‘extermination’, terms synonymous with genocide by most def…
Conquest and the State: Why the United States Employed Massive Military Force to Suppress the Lakota Ghost Dance
Research Article| May 01 1996 Conquest and the State: Why the United States Employed Massive Military Force to Suppress the Lakota Ghost Dance Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 217–248. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639984 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa
Journal Article Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa Get access Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler assistant professor of history and author of The Fate of Populism University of Oregon, University Press of Kansas. The author would like to thank Peter Argersinger, Elizabeth Sanders, and Shelton Stromquist for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this essay. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
The Comanche Empire
Journal Article The Comanche Empire Get access The Comanche Empire. By Hämäläinen Pekka. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. viii + 500 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 2009, Pages 504–505, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/40.4.504 Publishe…
Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa
Journal Article Why the Populist Party Was Strong in Kansas and Nebraska but Weak in Iowa Get access Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler assistant professor of history and author of The Fate of Populism University of Oregon, University Press of Kansas. The author would like to thank Peter Argersinger, Elizabeth Sanders, and Shelton Stromquist for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this essay. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Populism, Its Rise and Fall
Journal Article Populism, Its Rise and Fall Get access Populism, Its Rise and Fall. By Peffer William A.. Edited by Argersinger Peter H.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. vi + 208 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 3, August 1993, Pages 413–414, https://doi.or…
Why Populism did not Flourish in Iowa
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892
Journal Article Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880–1892. By Jeffrey Ostler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii, 256 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0606-8.) Get access Gregg Cantrell Gregg Cantrell Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1331…
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892
Journal Article Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880–1892 Get access Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880–1892. By Ostler Jeffrey. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993. xii + 256 pp. Maps, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Worth Robert Miller Worth Robert Miller Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works …
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892
The Plains states in the late 1800s flung open their political doors to the Populist party while their fellow midwestern neighbors to the east left it standing on the porch. Why the contrasting receptions? Traditionally the disparity has been attributed solely to economic differences. A superficially logical answer, says Jeffrey Ostler, but too simple. Ostler contends that the distinction historians have made between hardship on the Plains and pr…
Conquest and the State: Why the United States Employed Massive Military Force to Suppress the Lakota Ghost Dance
Research Article| May 01 1996 Conquest and the State: Why the United States Employed Massive Military Force to Suppress the Lakota Ghost Dance Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1996) 65 (2): 217–248. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639984 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook T…
They Regard Their Passing As Wakan: Interpreting Western Sioux Explanations for the Bison's Decline
This essay considers Lakota and Nakota thought about the decline of the bison and their possible return through the Ghost Dance. The author emphasizes the difficulties in interpreting Native thought, while arguing that Indians had multiple views that changed over time and were not always incommensurable with western understandings
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee
Journal Article The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee Get access The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism, from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee. By Ostler Jeffrey. (Cambridge, ENG: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xviii + 387 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $65.00, cloth; $21.99, paper.) Sherry L. Smith Sherry L. Smith Southern Methodist University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic…
Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands
Journal Article Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands Get access Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands. By McCrady David G.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xvi + 168 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, £34.50.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
The Comanche Empire
Journal Article The Comanche Empire Get access The Comanche Empire. By Hämäläinen Pekka. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. viii + 500 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 4, Winter 2009, Pages 504–505, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/40.4.504 Publishe…
The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West
Journal Article The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West Get access The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West. By Graybill Andrew R.. (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013. xix + 312 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. $28.95.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 3, Autum…
To Extirpate the Indians: An Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide in the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, 1750s-1810
“To Extirpate the Indians”:An Indigenous Consciousness of Genocide in the Ohio Valley and Lower Great Lakes, 1750s–1810 Jeffrey Ostler (bio) IN September 1778 at Fort Pitt, U.S. commissioners met with Delaware leaders and negotiated the first written Indian treaty in U.S. history. In so doing, they felt compelled to counter the charge that their government and its people intended “to extirpate the Indians and take possession of their country.”1 T…
Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America
Book Review| April 01 2015 Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America. By Anderson, Gary Clayton. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. $26.96 cloth.) Jeffrey Ostler Jeffrey Ostler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 389–391. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2855630 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Shar…
Just and lawful war’ as genocidal war in the (United States) Northwest Ordinance and Northwest Territory, 1787–1832
This article focuses on the United States Northwest Ordinance of 1787's profession of ‘utmost good faith’ towards Indians and its provision for ‘just and lawful wars’ against them. As interpreted by US officials as they authorized and practised war against native communities in the Northwest Territory from 1787 to 1832, the ‘just and lawful wars’ clause legalized wars of ‘extirpation’ or ‘extermination’, terms synonymous with genocide by most def…
The Settlers' Empire: Colonialism and state formation in America's Old Northwest by Bethel Saler
Reviewed by: The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and state formation in America’s Old Northwest by Bethel Saler Jeffrey Ostler The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and state formation in America’s Old Northwest By Bethel Saler. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. The US Northwest Ordinance of 1787 has often been seen as a brilliant solution to the need of a postcolonial United States to reconcile the metropolitan priority of regulati…
California and the American genocide debate
In 1998, at the time of the California Gold Rush sesquicentennial, Patricia Nelson Limerick, one of the founders of the new western (US) history, observed that: I would never use the word genocide
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
Richard Henry Pratt, first superintendent of Carlisle Indian School, is touted as the architect of the U.S. assimilationist campaign of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famous for the slogan "kill the Indian, save the man." We question the degree he is credited with building a federal bureaucracy that he bitterly criticized. We examine the historical record to illuminate how and why Pratt broke with racialized ideologies of his day; how Ca…
Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression
K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Jeffrey Ostler, Reconsidering Richard Henry Pratt: Cultural Genocide and Native Liberation in an Era of Racial Oppression, Journal of American Indian Education, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 79-100
God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. By Louis S. Warren
Not since 1896, when James Mooney published his classic work, The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, has anyone attempted to write a comprehensive history of the Ghost Dance throughout the American West. Most scholarship has focused either on Wovoka (also known as Jack Wilson), the Paiute founder of the religion, or specific reservations, especially the Lakota Sioux reservations where the U.S. Army slaughtered over two hundred G…
Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
Denial of Genocide in the California Gold Rush Era: The Case of Gary Clayton Anderson
This article critically examines historian Gary Clayton Anderson’s attempt to deny that the treatment inflicted upon California’s Indigenous people during the Gold Rush Era was genocide. Not only a matter of academic interest, this examination is also important to ongoing discussions following both California Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2019 apology to California’s Indigenous peoples for genocide and the creation of the Indigenous-led California Trut…
After 1776: Native Nations, Settler Colonialism, and the Meaning of America
On 2 November 2020, just hours before a slim majority of Americans rejected his presidency, Donald Trump issued an executive order establishing a “1776 Commission” designed to counter “one-sided an
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