Daniel F. Littlefield Jr.’s Seminole Burning and the Historiography of the Lynching of Native Americans

• Published in: The journal of the gilded age and progressive era Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 81 - 86
• Main Author: Pfeifer, Michael J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, USA Cambridge University Press 01.01.2021
• Subjects: 19th century; African Americans; Archives & records; Historiography; Littlefield, Daniel L Jr; Lynchings; Massacres; Murders & murder attempts; Native North Americans; Rape; Special Forum: Lynching in the New South A Quarter of a Century Later; Violence; Texas; Oklahoma

[...]a significant number of lynchings of Native Americans occurred in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, as white settlers moved into areas of the developing Midwest and West and clashed with Native American communities, antedating the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries’ chro...