Gary Anderson, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, gave a presentation at Southwest Minnesota State University on Thursday, September 19, 2002, in Charter Hall, 201. Part of his presentation was open to the public from 7:00-8:00 pm.

Dr. Anderson. specializes in Ethnohistory and the history of Native Americans of the Great Plains and American Southwest. He has wrote many books, including The Indian's Southwest 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Cultural Reinvention; Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862; and Little Crow, Spokesman for the Sioux. He has also edited Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 and wrote a biography of Sitting Bull for the Library of American Biography Series. His next book project will explore the connection between the Texas Revolution and Southern Plains Indian policy.

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