August 2023
Colonial America and the United States
Barr, Juliana. “A Spectrum of Indian Bondage in Spanish Texas.” In Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, 277-317. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Barr, Juliana. “From Captives to Slaves: Commodifying Indian Women in the Borderlands.” Journal of American History 92, no. 1 (June 2005): 19 – 46.
Baszile, Jennifer. “Apalachee Testimony in Florida: A View of Slavery from the Spanish Archives.” In Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, 185-205. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Calloway, Colin G. and Neal Salisbury. “Introduction: Decolonizing New England History.” In Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, edited by Colin G. Calloway and Neal Salisbury, 13-23. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne adapted by Jean Menoza and Debbie Reese. An Indigenous Peoples’s History of the United States – For Young People. Boston: Beacon Press, 2019.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne adapted by Jean Menoza and Debbie Reese. Teacher’ Guide: An Indigenous Peoples’s History of the United States – For Young People here.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne adapted by Jean Menoza and Debbie Reese. An Indigenous Peoples’s History of the United States – For Young People, Companion Website here.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne and Dina Gilio-Whitaker. “All the Real Indians Died Off” and 20 other Myths about Native Americans. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016.
Ekberg, Carl J. Stealing Indian Women: Native Slavery in the Illinois Country. Urbana: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Alan Gallay, “South Carolina’s Entrance into the Indian Slave Trade.” In Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, 109-145. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Gallay, Alan, ed. Indian Slavery in Colonial America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Herndon, Ruth Wallis and John E. Murray, eds. Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009.
Herndon, Ruth Wallis. Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
Herndon, Ruth Wallis and Ella Wilcox Sekatau. “Colonizing the Children: Indian Youngsters in Servitude in Early Rhode Island.” In Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, edited by Calloway, Colin G. and Neal Salisbury, 137-173. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003.
Herndon, Ruth Wallis and Ella Wilcox Sekatau. “The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era.” In After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England, edited by Colin G. Calloway, 114-142. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.
Kawashima, Yasuhide. “Indian Servitude in the Northeast.” In History of Indian-White Relations, Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 4, edited by Wilcomb Washburn, 404-410. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1988.
La Vere, David. The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Lamar, Howard. “From Bondage to Contract: Ethnic Labor in the American West, 1600-1890.” In The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America, edited by Steven Hahn and Jonathon Prude, 293-324. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Lauber, Almon Wheeler. Indian Slavery in Colonial Times within the Present Limits of the United States. Williamstown: Cornerhouse Publishiers, 1979. Reprint of 1913 edition.
Miller, Alan N. East Tennessee’s Forgotten Children: Apprentcies from 1778 to 1911. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc., 2001.
Morris, Richard B. Government and Labor in Early America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946.
Morris, Thomas D. Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Newell, Margaret Ellen. Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
Newell, Margaret Ellen. “Indian Slavery in Colonial New England.” In Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, 33-66. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Newell, Margaret Ellen. “The Changing Nature of Indian Slavery in New England, 1670-1720.” In Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, edited by Colin G. Calloway and Neal Salisbury, 106-136. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003.
O’Brien, Jean M. “‘Divorced’ from the Land: Resistance and Survival of Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century New England.” In After King Philip’s War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England, edited by Colin G. Calloway, 144-161. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997.
Ramsey, William L. The Yamasee War: A Study of Culture, Economy, and Conflict in the Colonial South. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Reséndez, Andrés. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Richmond, Trudie Lamb and Amy E. Den Ouden. “Recovering Gendered Political Histores: Local Struggles and Native Women’s Resistance in Colonial Southern New England.” In Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, edited by Calloway, Colin G. and Neal Salisbury, 174-213. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 2003.
Schroeder, Albert H. and Omer C. Stewart. “Indian Servitude in the Southwest.” In History of Indian-White Relations, Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 4, edited by Wilcomb Washburn, 410-413. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1988.
Sleeper-Smith, Susan, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker and Scott Manning Stevens, eds. Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Steinfeld, Robert J. Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Steinfeld, Robert J. The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment Relation in English & American Law and Culture, 1350-1870. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.
Thirsk, Joan. Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England. Oxford: Claredon Press, 1978.
Tomlins, Christopher. Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Usner, Jr., Daniel H. Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Waldstreicher, David. Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Weber, David J. The Spanish Frontier in North America, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992
Wood, Peter H. “Indian Servitude in the Southeast.” In History of Indian-White Relations, Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 4, edited by Wilcomb Washburn, 407-409. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1988.
Zipf, Karin L. Labor of Innocents: Forced Apprenticeship in North Carolina, 1715-1919. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
California
Amaguer, Tomás. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Bauer, William J., Jr. We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Bauer, William J., Jr. California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016.
Brown, John Henry. Reminiscences and Incidents of Early Days of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933.
Camp, Charles L., ed. James Clyman: American Frontiersman, 1792-1881. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1928.
Carranco, Lynwood and Estle Beard. “The Northern California Vendetta.” Journal of the West 11, no. 4, (October 1972): 670-674.
Carranco, Lynwood and Estle Beard. Genocide and Vendetta: The Round Valley Wars of Northern California. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981.
Carrico, Richard. Strangers in a Stolen Land: Indians of San Diego County from Prehistory to the New Deal. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2008.
Carrico, Richard L. “Sociopolitical Aspects of the 1775 Revolt at Mission San Diego de Alcala: an Ethnohistorical Approach.” Journal of San Diego History 43, no. 3 (Summer 1997).
Castillo, Edward D., trans. and ed. “The Assassination of Padre Andres Quintana by the Indians of Mission Santa Cruz in 1812: The Narrative of Lorenzo Asisara.” California History (Fall 1989): 117-125.
Castillo, Edward D. “The Native Response to the Colonization of Alta California.” In Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West, vol. 1, edited by David Hurst Thomas, 377-394. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.
Castillo, Edward D. “An Indian Account of the Decline and Collapse of Mexico’s Hegemony over the Missionized Indians of California.” American Indian Quarterly 13, no.4 (Fall 1989): 391-408.
Castillo, Edward D. “The Other Side of the ‘Christian Curtain’: California Indians and the Missionaries.” The Californians 10 no.2 (Sept./Oct. 1992): 8-17.
Castillo, Elias. A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions. Fresno: Craven Street Books, 2015.
Chandler, Robert. “The Failure of Reform: White Attitudes and Indian Response in California During the Civil War Era.” Pacific Historian 24, no. 3 (Fall 1980): 284-294.
“Communications – California Mission Indians: Two Perspectives.” California History 70 no. 2 (Summer 1991): 206-215.
Colley, Charles C. “The Missionization of the Coast Miwok Indians of California.” California Historical Society Quarterly 49, no. 2 (June 1970): 143-162.
Conners, Pamela A. The Chico Round Valley Trail of Tears. Unpublished Report Prepared for Mendocino National Forest, 1993.
Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Cook, Sherburne F. “The Destruction of the California Indian.” California Monthly 79, no. 3 (December 1968): 14-19.
Cook, Sherburne F. “The American Invasion, 1848-1870” reprinted in The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Costo, Rupert and Jeannette Henry Costo, eds. The Missions of California: A Legacy of Genocide. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1987.
Douglass, Belle. The Last of the Oustomahs. Nevada City, December 1921.
Gillis, Michael J. and Michael F. Magliari. John Bidwell & California: The Life & Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900. Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004.
Gonzalez, Michael J. “’The Child of the Wilderness Weeps for the Father of Our Country’: The Indian and the Politics of Church and State in Provincial California.” In Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush/California History, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, 147-172. Berkeley: University of California Press/California Historical Society, Summer/Fall 1997.
Finkelman, Paul. “The Law of Slavery and Freedom in California, 1848-1860.” California Western Law Review 17, no. 3 (1981): 437-64.
Haas, Lisbeth. Conquest and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.
Hackel, Steven W. “The Staff of Leadership: Indian Authority in the Missions of Alta California.” William and Mary Quarterly 54, no. 2 (April 1997): 347-376.
Hackel, Steven W. “Land, Labor, and Production: The Colonial Economy of Spanish and Mexican California.” In Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush/California History, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, 111-146. Berkeley: University of California Press/California Historical Society, Summer/Fall 1997.
Hackel, Steven W. “Sources of Rebellion: Indian Testimony and the Mission San Gabriel Uprising of 1785.” Ethnohistory 50, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 643-669.
Harlan, Jacob Wright. California ’46 to’88. San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1888.
Heizer, Robert F. and Alan F. Almquist. The Other Californians: Prejudice and Discrimination under Spain, Mexico, and the United States to 1920. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Heizer, Robert F. The Destruction of California Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974.
Heizer, Robert F. “Indian Servitude in California.” In History of Indian-White Relations, Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 4, edited by Wilcomb, Washburn, 414-416. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution, 1988.
Hislop, Donald Lindsay. The Nome Lackee Indian Reservation, 1854-1870. Chico: Association for Northern California Records and Research, 1978.
History of Lake County. Fresno: Valley Publishers, 1974; separate reprinting from History of Napa and Lake Counties. San Francisco: Slocum, Bowen & Co., 1881.
Hurtado, Albert L. “Controlling California’s Indian Labor Force: Federal Administration of California Indian Affairs during the Mexican War.” Southern California Quarterly 61, no. 3 (1979): 217-238.
Hurtado, Albert L. “California Indians and the Workaday West: Labor, Assimilation, and Survival.” California History 69, no. 1 (Spring 1990): 2-11.
Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Ignoffo, Mary Jo. Gold Rush Politics: California’s First Legislature. Sacramento: California State Senate, 1999.
Jackson, Robert H. and Edward Castillo. Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Johnston-Dodds, Kimberly. Early California Laws and Policies Related to California Indians. Sacramento: California Research Bureau, September 2002.
Lindsay, Brendan C. Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Lorimer, Michelle M. Resurrecting the Past: The California Mission Myth. Pechanga: Great Oaks Press, 2016.
Magliari, Michael F. “Free State Slavery: Bound Indian Labor and Slave Trafficking in California’s Sacramento Valley, 1850 -1864.” Pacific Historical Review 81, no. 2 (May 2012): 155-192.
Magliari, Michael, J. “Free Soil, Unfree Labor: Cave Johnson Couts and the Binding of Indian Workers in California, 1850-1867.” Pacific Historical Review 73, no. 3, (2004): 349-389.
Middleton Manning, Beth Rose, and Steven Gayle. “Enslaved in a Free Country: Legalized Exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans in Early California and the Post-Emancipation South,” Journal of Law and Political Economy Volume 3, Issue 2, 2022, online access.
Norton, Jack. Genocide in Northwestern California: When Our Hearts Cried. San Francisco: Indian Historian Press, 1979.
Patterson, Victoria. The Singing Feather: Tribal Remembrances from Round Valley. Ukiah: Mendocino County Library, 1990.
Phillips, George Harwood. Chiefs and Challengers: Indian Resistance and Cooperation in Southern California (2nd Edition). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
Phillips, George Harwood. Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771 – 1877. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010.
Phillips, George Harwood. Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in California. 1849-1852. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
Phillips, George Harwood. Indians and Intruders in Central California, 1769-1849. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Phillips, George Harwood. “Indians and the Breakdown of the Spanish Mission System in California.” In New Spain’s Northern Frontier: Essays on Spain in the American West 1540-1821, edited by David J. Weber, 256-270. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1979.
Rawls, James J. Indians of California: The Changing Image. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.
Rawls, James J. “Gold Diggers: Indian Miners in the California Gold Rush.” California Historical Quarterly 55, no. 1 (Spring 1976): 28-45.
Ray, Ernestine in Victoria Patterson, ed, The Singing Feather, Tribal Remembrances from Round Valley. Ukiah: Mendocino County Library, 1990.
Rizzo-Martinez, Martin. We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstruction in Nineteenth-Century California. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022.
Sandos, James A. “Between Crucifix and Lance: Indian-White Relations in California, 1769-1848.” In Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush/California History, Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi (eds). Edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, 196-229. Berkeley: University of California Press/California Historical Society, Summer/Fall 1997.
Scafidi, Susan. “Native Americans and Civic Identity in Alta California.” North Dakota Law Review 75, no. 3 (1999): 423-448.
Shipek, Florence C. “California Indian Reactions to the Franciscans.” The Americas 41, no. 4 (1985): 480-491.
Silliman, Stephen W. Lost Laborers in Colonial California; Native Americans and the Archaeology of Rancho Petaluma. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.
Simmons, William S. “Indian Peoples in California.” In Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush/California History, edited by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, 48-77. Berkeley: University of California Press/California Historical Society, Summer/Fall 1997.
Smith, Stacey L. Freedom’s Frontier: California and the Struggle over Unfree Labor, Emancipation, and Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013.
Smith, Stacey L. “Remaking Slavery in a Free State: Masters and Slaves in Gold Rush California.” Pacific Historical Review 80, no. 1 (February 2011): 28-63.
Street, Richard Steven. Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California’s Farmworkers, 1769-1913. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Trafzer, Clifford and Joel R. Hyer, eds. Exterminate Them! Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Enslavement of Native Americans during the California Gold Rush. East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1999.
“Slavery in California,” The Californian, March 15, 1848, 2:1-2.