Gary Clayton Anderson is an historian of the American Indian and the American West. His most recent book is Massacre in Minnesota: The Dakota War of 1862, the Most Violent Ethnic Conflict in American History (2019).
His other publications include Kinsman of Another Kind: Indian-White Relations on the Upper Mississippi River (1984), a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Little Crow, Spokesman for the Sioux (1986), Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 (ed., 1988), Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood (1996), The Indian Southwest: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention (1999), winner of the Angie Debo Prize, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land (2005), a nominated finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Will Rogers and “His” America (2010), Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian: The Crime That Should Haunt America, (2014), The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California: Reports of the Topographical Engineers, 1849-1851, (ed., 2015), and Gabriel Renville and the Creation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Indian Reservation (2018). He has also co-authored with Kathleen P. Chamberlain, Power and Promise: The Changing American West (2007).
