Donald J Berthrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 684572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald J Berthrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Berthrong |
| SIGNATURE | BERTHRONG D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes
This odyssey was violent and brutal as Dull Knife (Morning Star) and Little Wolf tried to lead their people back to their Powder River homeland. Transfer a year earlier to a reservation occupied in part by Southern Cheyennes led immediately to problems. Hunger, malaria, pressure to place their children in agency schools, and clashes with southern council chiefs over leadership issues led Dull Knife and Little Wolf to undertake their perilous jour…
The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869
Journal Article The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867–1869. By John H. Monnett. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1992. xii, 235 pp. $22.50, ISBN 0-87081-267-5.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 287–288, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Struggle for Power: The Impact of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho "Schoolboys" on Tribal Politics
O0N MAY 25, 1929, THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO tribes of Oklahoma adopted their first written constitution. It predated by eight years a better-known constitution that grew out of 1937 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA). The 1929 constitution was a brief document containing only four articles. A general was empowered discuss all tribal matters and conditions leading to uplift and advancement and to securing of the rights of citizenship and justice to…
Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers
Kenekuk, the Kickapoo Prophet
The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History
Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians
Journal Article The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians Get access The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. By Prucha Francis Paul. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Vol. 1: xxxii + 608 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes. Vol. 2: 609–1320 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliographical essay, index. $60.00, boxed set.) Donald J. Berthrong Donald J.…
Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority
This important, seminal work has been impressively researched and extremely well written. Fowler has effectively combined the fruits of intensive fieldwork with an eleven-year study of primary ethnohistorical documents. - Journal of American History Destined to be a major study of a Plains Indian tribe. - Choice Scholars of the Northern Plains and the people will find this work of long-standing value. Historians and anthropologists, especially th…
Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho
Journal Article Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho Get access Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho. By Coel Margaret. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $15.95.) Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1983, Pages 201–202, https://doi…
The Lumbee Problem: The Making of an American Indian People
Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1865-1907
Nations Remembered is a collection of excerpts from oral interviews with members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and others, between the Civil War years and Oklahoma statehood in 1907.The interviews were originally conducted in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration and later selected and annotated by Theda Perdue.The collection provides a candid study of acculturation through the reflections of southeastern Native Americans in the years ju…
Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company
Journal Article Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company and Gilpin County Gold: Peter McFarlane, 1848–1929, Mining Entrepreneur in Central City, Colorado Get access Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company. By Ragsdale Kenneth Baxter. Foreword by Joe B. Frantz. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1976. xvi, 327 p. Illustrations, map, appendixes, bibliography, index. $12.50.)Gilpin County Gold: Peter McFarlane,…
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
Comanches: The Destruction of a People
Journal Article Comanches: The Destruction of a People. By T. R. Fehrenbach. (New York: Knopf, 1974. xxx + 557 pp. Maps, illustrations, selected bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 413–414, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903307 Published: 01 Sep…
Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the "Friends of the Indian," 1880-1900
Journal Article Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the “Friends of the Indian,” 1880–1900 Get access Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the “Friends of the Indian,” 1880–1900. Edited by Prucha Francis Paul. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 358 p. Bibliographical note, index. $12.50.) Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
The Mystic Warriors of the Plains
Journal Article The Mystic Warriors of the Plains. By Thomas E. Mails. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. xvii + 618 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 2, September 1973, Pages 462–464, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936822 Published: 01 Sep…
Battle Drums and Geysers: The Life and Journals of Lt. Gustavus Cheney Doane, Soldier and Explorer of the Yellowstone and Snake River Regions
Navajo Roundup: Selected Correspondence of Kit Carson's Expedition Against the Navajo, 1863-1865
Journal Article Navajo Roundup: Selected Correspondence of Kit Carson's Expedition Against the Navajo, 1863–1865. By Lawrence C. Kelly. (Boulder: Pruett, 1971. 192 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $8.95.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 4, March 1972, Pages 1022–1023…
The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie
A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields
Journal Article A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields. By Daniel Ellis Conner. Ed. by Donald J. Berthrong and Odessa Davenport. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. xiii + 186 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $6.95.) Get access William S. Greever William S. Greever University of Idaho Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 1, June 1971, P…
A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields
A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields Get access A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields. By Conner Daniel Ellis. Edited by Berthrong Donald J. Davenport Odessa. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. xiii, 186 p. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. $6.95.) Duane A. Smith Duane A. Smith Fort Lewis College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 2,…
The Indians of Texas in 1830
Navaho Neighbors
Journal Article Navaho Neighbors. By Franc Johnson Newcomb. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. ix + 236 pp. Illustrations and index. $5.95.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 3, December 1967, Page 696, https://doi.org/10.2307/2937490 Published: 01 December 1967
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge: The Story of the Great Treaty Council as Told by Eyewitnesses
Journal Article The Treaty of Medicine Lodge: The Story of the Great Treaty Council as Told by Eyewitnesses. By Douglas C. Jones. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. xv + 237 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.95.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 2, Septem…
Being and Becoming Indian: Biographical Studies of North American Frontiers
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians
Journal Article The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians Get access The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. By Prucha Francis Paul. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Vol. 1: xxxii + 608 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes. Vol. 2: 609–1320 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliographical essay, index. $60.00, boxed set.) Donald J. Berthrong Donald J.…
Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority
This important, seminal work has been impressively researched and extremely well written. Fowler has effectively combined the fruits of intensive fieldwork with an eleven-year study of primary ethnohistorical documents. - Journal of American History Destined to be a major study of a Plains Indian tribe. - Choice Scholars of the Northern Plains and the people will find this work of long-standing value. Historians and anthropologists, especially th…
Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West
The Mystic Warriors of the Plains
Journal Article The Mystic Warriors of the Plains. By Thomas E. Mails. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. xvii + 618 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 2, September 1973, Pages 462–464, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936822 Published: 01 Sep…
Struggle for Power: The Impact of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho "Schoolboys" on Tribal Politics
O0N MAY 25, 1929, THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO tribes of Oklahoma adopted their first written constitution. It predated by eight years a better-known constitution that grew out of 1937 Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act (OIWA). The 1929 constitution was a brief document containing only four articles. A general was empowered discuss all tribal matters and conditions leading to uplift and advancement and to securing of the rights of citizenship and justice to…
The Southern Cheyennes
Federal Indian Policy and the Southern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, 1887-1907
Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure
Journal Article Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure. By Daniel Ellis Conner. Edited by Donald J. Berthrong and Odessa Davenport. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. xxii + 364 pp. Map, illustrations, bibliography, and index. $5.00.) Get access Andrew F. Rolle Andrew F. Rolle Occidental College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 44, Issue 1, June 1957,…
General James Henry Carleton, 1814-1873: Western Frontier Dragoon
Journal Article Major General James Henry Carleton, 1814–1873: Western Frontier Dragoon. By Aurora Hunt. (Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1958. 390 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.00.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 45, Issue 3, December 1958, Pages 506–507, https:/…
The Southern Cheyennes
Journal Article The Southern Cheyennes. By Donald J. Berthrong. The Civilization of the American Indian Series, Volume 66. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. xvi + 442 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.95.) Get access Ernest Wallace Ernest Wallace Texas Technological College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 50, Issue 3, December 1963, P…
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Southern Cheyennes
Navaho Neighbors
Journal Article Navaho Neighbors. By Franc Johnson Newcomb. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. ix + 236 pp. Illustrations and index. $5.95.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 3, December 1967, Page 696, https://doi.org/10.2307/2937490 Published: 01 December 1967
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge: The Story of the Great Treaty Council as Told by Eyewitnesses
Journal Article The Treaty of Medicine Lodge: The Story of the Great Treaty Council as Told by Eyewitnesses. By Douglas C. Jones. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. xv + 237 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $5.95.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 2, Septem…
The Indians of Texas in 1830
The Great Platte River Road: The Covered Wagon Mainline via Fort Kearny to Fort Laramie
A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields
Journal Article A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields. By Daniel Ellis Conner. Ed. by Donald J. Berthrong and Odessa Davenport. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. xiii + 186 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $6.95.) Get access William S. Greever William S. Greever University of Idaho Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 1, June 1971, P…
A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields
A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields Get access A Confederate in the Colorado Gold Fields. By Conner Daniel Ellis. Edited by Berthrong Donald J. Davenport Odessa. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970. xiii, 186 p. Illustrations, photographs, maps, bibliography, index. $6.95.) Duane A. Smith Duane A. Smith Fort Lewis College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 2,…
Battle Drums and Geysers: The Life and Journals of Lt. Gustavus Cheney Doane, Soldier and Explorer of the Yellowstone and Snake River Regions
Navajo Roundup: Selected Correspondence of Kit Carson's Expedition Against the Navajo, 1863-1865
Journal Article Navajo Roundup: Selected Correspondence of Kit Carson's Expedition Against the Navajo, 1863–1865. By Lawrence C. Kelly. (Boulder: Pruett, 1971. 192 pp. Map, illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $8.95.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 58, Issue 4, March 1972, Pages 1022–1023…
The Mystic Warriors of the Plains
Journal Article The Mystic Warriors of the Plains. By Thomas E. Mails. (Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. xvii + 618 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 60, Issue 2, September 1973, Pages 462–464, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936822 Published: 01 Sep…
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
Comanches: The Destruction of a People
Journal Article Comanches: The Destruction of a People. By T. R. Fehrenbach. (New York: Knopf, 1974. xxx + 557 pp. Maps, illustrations, selected bibliography, and index. $12.50.) Get access Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 2, September 1975, Pages 413–414, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903307 Published: 01 Sep…
Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the "Friends of the Indian," 1880-1900
Journal Article Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the “Friends of the Indian,” 1880–1900 Get access Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the “Friends of the Indian,” 1880–1900. Edited by Prucha Francis Paul. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973. 358 p. Bibliographical note, index. $12.50.) Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Schol…
Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company
Journal Article Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company and Gilpin County Gold: Peter McFarlane, 1848–1929, Mining Entrepreneur in Central City, Colorado Get access Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company. By Ragsdale Kenneth Baxter. Foreword by Joe B. Frantz. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1976. xvi, 327 p. Illustrations, map, appendixes, bibliography, index. $12.50.)Gilpin County Gold: Peter McFarlane,…
The Lumbee Problem: The Making of an American Indian People
Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1865-1907
Nations Remembered is a collection of excerpts from oral interviews with members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and others, between the Civil War years and Oklahoma statehood in 1907.The interviews were originally conducted in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration and later selected and annotated by Theda Perdue.The collection provides a candid study of acculturation through the reflections of southeastern Native Americans in the years ju…
Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crises of Authority
This important, seminal work has been impressively researched and extremely well written. Fowler has effectively combined the fruits of intensive fieldwork with an eleven-year study of primary ethnohistorical documents. - Journal of American History Destined to be a major study of a Plains Indian tribe. - Choice Scholars of the Northern Plains and the people will find this work of long-standing value. Historians and anthropologists, especially th…
Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho
Journal Article Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho Get access Chief Left Hand, Southern Arapaho. By Coel Margaret. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. xiv + 338 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $15.95.) Donald J. Berthrong Donald J. Berthrong Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1983, Pages 201–202, https://doi…
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians
Journal Article The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians Get access The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. By Prucha Francis Paul. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. Vol. 1: xxxii + 608 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes. Vol. 2: 609–1320 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliographical essay, index. $60.00, boxed set.) Donald J. Berthrong Donald J.…
Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West
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