Steve Amerman, History
BOOKS PUBLISHED:
“Making an Indian Place in Urban Schools: Native
Americans and Education in Phoenix,
Arizona, 1941-1984."
Manuscript to be sent to University of Nebraska Press for consideration.
CHAPTERS/SECTIONS PUBLISHED IN BOOKS:
None.
PAPERS PUBLISHED IN PROCEEDINGS:
None.
JOURNAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED:
▪ “ ‘I Should Not be Wearing a Pilgrim Hat’: Making an Indian Place in Urban Schools, 1945-1975.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 31, no. 1 (2007): 39-62.
▪ “ ‘Let’s Get in and Fight!’: American Indian Political Activism in an Urban Public School System, 1973.” American Indian Quarterly 27 (Summer/Fall 2003): 607-638
▪ “ ‘This is Our Land’: The White Mountain Apache Trophy Elk Hunt and Tribal Sovereignty.” Journal of Arizona History 43 (Summer 2002): 133-152
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
▪ “List of Dissertations,” (with James Feldman) Western Historical Quarterly 26 (Autumn 1995)
EXHIBITS/SHOWS/PERFORMANCES OF CREATIVE
WORKS:
Not really applicable.
BOOK REVIEWS:
▪ Review essay of The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee, by Jeffrey Ostler, and Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900, by Andrew Denson for the Journal of American Ethnic History 26 (Winter 2007): 100-102.
▪ Review of “Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You”: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860-1975, by Eva Tulene Watt (with assistance from Keith H.Basso) for the Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies (forthcoming)
▪ Review of Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement, by Dennis Banks (with Richard Erdoes) for Journal of the West 45 (Spring 2006): 82.
▪ Review of Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, in Connecticut History 43 (Fall 2004): 187-189.
▪ Review of Land, Wind, and Hard Words: A Story of Navajo Activism, by John Sherry, in the Western Historical Quarterly 34 (Summer 2003).
▪ Review of Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1887-1934 by Katherine M. Osburn, in the Western Historical Quarterly 30 (Spring 1999)
CONFERENCE PAPERS ORALLY DELIVERED:
“I Should Not Be Wearing a Pilgrim’s Hat”: A 20th-Century Indian’s Encounters With the Thanksgiving Story,” American Society for Ethnohistory Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, Nov 1-5, 2006
“Urban Public Schools and Ethnic Assimilation: A Late-20th Century Native American Perspective” New England Historical Association Meeting, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, October 14, 2006.
“Making a Native Place in Urban Schools:
American Indians and Education in Phoenix, Arizona, 1970-1980"
American Society for Ethnohistory, Tucson, October 2001
“Controlling their Land:
The Development of the White Mountain Apache Trophy Elk Program,
1974-1981” Arizona Historical Convention, 2001
“An Urban Education:
American Indians and Public Schools in Phoenix, 1940-2000” Graduate
Student Conference on American Indian Research, 2001
“American Indians and Public Schools in Phoenix, Arizona, 1945-98" American Society for Ethnohistory, Minneapolis, 1998
WORKSHOP LEADERSHIP:
None.
RECENT GRANTS RECEIVED:
RESEARCH INTERESTS IN GENERAL:
American Indian history
CURRENT/FUTURE SPECIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS:
Experiences of American Indians
regarding urbanization and education in the late twentieth century
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT/COLLABORATION IN MY RESEARCH:
MASTER'S THESES ADVISEMENT:
Served as adviser for Jennifer Horbal, who completed her MA thesis, “The Best Intentions: Richard Henry Pratt and his Savior Mentality, 1870-1900,” in June 2005
Adviser for Michael Ruegger's MA thesis: “The Western Abenaki Nations and the Land Claims in New England and Canada.” Proposal approved by Graduate School in early Spring 2007; completed thesis has approved by history department in May 2007; awaiting Graduate School approval.
DISSERTATION TITLE:
“Making an Indian Place in Urban Schools: Native Americans and Education in Phoenix, Arizona, 1941-1984"
INSTITUTION GRANTING Ph.D.:
Arizona State University,2002