Prepared by a major participant in the debate, this is the first bibliography on the controversial issue of the Native American influence on American democracy.
Preface Acknowledgments Bibliographic Entries 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1975-1986 1900-1974 Index
BRUCE E. JOHANSEN is Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He has been a participant in the debate over Native American precendents for democracy for 20 years, completing his Ph.D. dissertation on the topic in 1979. He is the author of Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois and the Rationale for the American Revolution (1982), coauthor of Exemplar of Liberty: Native America and the Evolution of Democracy (1991), and author of Debating Democracy: The Native American Role (forthcoming, 1996).
?The debate concerning whether the Haudenosaunce (Iroquois) and
other Native American confederacies helpd shape ideas of democracy
in the early US has taken place in both the academic and popular
press. This volume of annotated references traces that debate in
both arenas, 1900-1995.... a timely issue that is currently part of
the larger debate concerning how history is written. Recommended
for all libraries with interests in American history studies,
Native Americans, communication, or journalism.?-Choice
"The debate concerning whether the Haudenosaunce (Iroquois) and
other Native American confederacies helpd shape ideas of democracy
in the early US has taken place in both the academic and popular
press. This volume of annotated references traces that debate in
both arenas, 1900-1995.... a timely issue that is currently part of
the larger debate concerning how history is written. Recommended
for all libraries with interests in American history studies,
Native Americans, communication, or journalism."-Choice
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