Alvin M. Josephy Jr.
Alvin M. Josephy Jr. | |
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Born | Alvin M. Josephy Jr. May 18, 1915 |
Died | October 16, 2005 | (aged 90)
Nationality | American |
Alvin M. Josephy Jr. (May 18, 1915 – October 16, 2005) was an American historian who specialized in Native American issues. New York Times reviewer Herbert Mitgang called him in 1982 the "leading non-Indian writer about Native Americans".[1]
Early life
Josephy was born in Woodmere, New York. His mother was a daughter of publisher Samuel Knopf and a sister of Alfred A. Knopf.[1]
Career
Early career
Early in his career, Josephy worked as a
Time magazine
Around 1952, the Josephys moved to
American Heritage magazine
In 1960, he joined the
Literary works
Josephy's works include The Patriot Chiefs (1961); Chief Joseph's People and Their War (1964); The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest (1965); The Indian Heritage of America (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968); Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom (1971); and Now That the Buffalo's Gone (1982);[1] also Black Hills, White Sky; The Civil War in the American West and History of the Congress of the United States.[3]
Government advisor
Josephy served as a senior advisor on
Personal life
Alvin and Elizabeth "Betty" Peet Josephy were married for 56 years, until her death in 2004. He died at his home in Greenwich, Connecticut, a year later. He was survived by one child from his first marriage, three from his second, and their descendants.[1]
Legacy
In Joseph, Oregon, where Alvin and Betty owned a ranch and hosted a camp for Nez Perce children,
Publications
Books
Book title | Date | Publisher | Subject |
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The Long and the Short and the Tall | 1946 | Knopf | U.S. Marines in the Pacific during WWII |
The Patriot Chiefs | 1962 | Viking | Portraits of Native American leaders |
Chief Joseph's People and Their War | 1964 | Yellowstone | A very brief version of Nez Perce history |
The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest | 1965 | Yale | Comprehensive history of the Nez Perce tribe |
The Indian Heritage of America | 1968 | Knopf (American Heritage Books) | Comprehensive overview of Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere |
The Artist Was A Young Man | 1970 | Amon Carter Museum | Peter Rindisbacher, first artist of the Plains Indians, early 1820s |
Black Hills, White Sky | 1978 | New York Times Books | Dakota tribes (narrative and historic photographs) |
On the Hill | 1979 | Simon & Schuster | History of the United States Congress |
Now That the Buffalo's Gone | 1982 | Knopf | Case studies in contemporary Native American issues (water, sovereignty, religion) |
The Civil War in the American West | 1991 | Knopf | The American Civil War in the West |
500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians | 1994 | Knopf | (accompanied a CBS television series) |
Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom, 2nd Rev. Ed. | 1999 | University of Nebraska Press | Documentary history of the American Indian activist movement |
A Walk Toward Oregon | 2000 | Knopf | Autobiography |
Nez Perce Country | 2007 | Bison | Condensed version of Nez Perce history |
Magazine articles
Magazine title | Date | Issue | Article title | Page | Subject |
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New York Times
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March 19, 1973 | "What the Indians Want" | 18 | Indian-US government relations & recent protests | |
Life | July 2, 1971 | Vol 71; No. 1 | "The Custer Myth" | 49 | The battle of Little Bighorn
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Digest | October 23, 1937 | Vol 1; No. 15 | "Cardenas, Indian Idol" | 18 | Mexican President Cardena's relationship with native Indians |
Ken | May 5, 1938 | Vol 1; No. 3 | "Bomb in a Pail of Water" | 24 | Interview with Leon Trotsky |
American Heritage | April 1, 1958 | Vol 6; No. 3 | "Was America Discovered Before Columbus?" | 16 | Portuguese discovery of the New World by 1424 |
American Heritage | February 1, 1956 | Vol 7; No. 2 | "First 'Dude Ranch' Trip to the Untamed West" | 8 | Sir William Stewart's hunting party of 1843 |
American Heritage | February 1, 1958 | Vol 9; No. 2 | "The Last Stand of Chief Joseph" | 36 | Nez Perce's great 1,300 miles fighting retreat |
American Heritage | October 1, 1960 | Vol 11; No 6 | "A Man to Match the Mountains" | 60 | David Thompson, explorer and land geographer of the New World |
American Heritage | June 1, 1961 | Vol 12; No 4 | "Revolt in the Pueblos" | 65 | Pueblo uprising of 1680 |
American Heritage | August 1, 1961 | Vol 12; No 5 | "These lands are ours ..." | 14 | Tecumseh's leadership greatness |
American Heritage | October 1, 1965 | Vol 16; No 6 | "A Most Satisfactory Council" | 27 | Walla Walla Council of 1855
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American Heritage | December 1, 1966 | Vol 18; No 1 | "Ordeal in Hell's Canyon" | 72 | John Jacob Astor's fur traders' discover the chasm of Idaho's Snake River |
American Heritage | December 1, 1968 | Vol 20; No 1 | "Cornplanter, Can You Swim?" | 4 | Kinzua Dam floods the Senecas' ancestral lands |
American Heritage | February 1, 1970 | Vol 21; No 2 | "The Boy Artist of Red River" | 30 | Peter Rindisbacher, 19th-century artist, captured lives of Indians and white pioneers |
American Heritage | June 1, 1970 | Vol 21; No 4 | "Here in Nevada a Terrible Crime ..." | 93 | Nevada's Pyramid Lake, victim of the plundering of natural resources |
American Heritage | February 1, 1973 | Vol 24; No 2 | "The Hopi Way" | 49 | Traditionalists' prescription for a happier, more meaningful life & the threat of strip mining on their communities |
American Heritage | February 1, 1974 | Vol 25; No 2 | "The Splendid Indians of Edward S. Curtis" | 40 | Curtis's corpus, The North American Indian |
American Heritage | June 1, 1981 | Vol 32; No 4 | Iwo Jima | 92 | "Marine combat correspondent recalls the deadliest battle of the Pacific war" |
American West | November 1, 1986 | Vol 23; No 6 | "Looking for Finegayan" | 44 | A marine returns to Guam |
American West | January 1, 1986 | Vol 23; No 1 | "Andy Warhol Meets Sitting Bull" | 42 | Warhol's silk-screen prints, "Cowboys and Indians" |
American West | July 1, 1985 | Vol 22; No 4 | "Those Pants that Levi Gave Us" | 30 | History of Levi Strauss and his world-famous pants |
American West | March 1, 1984 | Vol 21; No 2 | "View from the West" | 6 | Impact of media attitude to natural resource policies |
American West | May 1, 1983 | Vol 20; No 3 | "The Blood of Abel" | 31 | 1863 murder of Lloyd Magruder and swift justice in frontier Idaho |
American West | November 1, 1982 | Vol 19; No 6 | "Whose Old West Is Disappearing?" | 32 | Celebration of cowboys, cow ponies, and cow country |
American West | September 1, 1982 | Vol 19; No 5 | "One Way to Spell Man" | 64 | Review of Wallace Stegner's One Way to Spell Man: Essays with a Western Bias |
Audubon | March 1, 1976 | Vol 78; No 2 | "Kaiparowits: the ultimate obscenity" | 64 | Impact of powerplants in the four-state corner of the West |
Audubon | March 1, 1975 | Vol 77; No 2 | "Dr. Strangelove builds a canal" | 76 | Impact of Bureau of Reclamation's irrigation plans on North Dakota farmers |
Audubon | July 1, 1973 | Vol 75; No 4 | "Agony of the Northern Plains" | 68 | Impact on northern plains of the 1971 "North Central Power Study" |
Audubon | July 1, 1971 | Vol 73; No 4 | "The Murder of the Southwest" | 52 | Impact on Indian lands of Dept. of the Interior approved strip-mining for coal |
Westerners | January 1, 1971 | Vol 18; No 4 | "The Hudson's Bay Company and the American Indians - III" | 78 | History of the company's relationship with & treatment of American Indians |
Westerners | January 1, 1971 | Vol 18; No 3 | "The Hudson's Bay Company and the American Indians - II" | 59 | History of the company's relationship with & treatment of American Indians |
Westerners | January 1, 1971 | Vol 18; No 2 | "The Hudson's Bay Company and the American Indians" | 28 | History of the company's relationship with & treatment of American Indians |
Westerners | January 1, 1968 | Vol 15; No 2 | "Two Gamy Letters from Fort Yuma" | 28 | Sylvester Mowry, Arizona pioneer |
Westerners | January 1, 1968 | Vol 15; No 1 | "Reply to Dr. Haines" | 15 | Nez Perce and the Appaloosa |
Westerners | January 1, 1967 | Vol 14; No 4 | "Nez Perces and The Appaloosa Horse ... False History:" | 73 | Nez Perce and the Appaloosa |
Westerners | January 1, 1967 | Vol 14; No 1 | "Early Man in the Americas" | 8 | Origin of early mankind in the Americas |
Westerners | January 1, 1965 | Vol 12; No 3 | "New Light on the Early Northwest" | 49 | La Gasse and Le Blanc, first white men known to have entered the Upper Basin of the Columbia River |
Westerners | January 1, 1964 | Vol 11; No 3 | "Tom Fitzpatrick, 1848" | 57 | 1848 letter by Tom Fitzpatrick, mountain man, emigrant guide, and Indian agent, edited by A. Josephy |
Westerners | January 1, 1963 | Vol 10; No 4 | "Another Letter from Broken Hand" | 75 | 1847 letter by Tom Fitzpatrick to Thomas H. Harvery, Supt. of Indian Affairs, edited by A. Josephy |
Westerners | January 1, 1963 | Vol 10; No 2 | "A Letter from Broken Hand" | 25 | 1847 letter by Tom Fitzpatrick, early Indian agent appointed to the western plains, edited by A. Josephy |
Westerners | January 1, 1962 | Vol 9; No 3 | "The Funeral of Peter Dan Moses" | 64 | The funeral of Peter Dan Moses marked the passing of another colorful, prominent NW Indian leader |
Westerners | January 1, 1958 | Vol 4; No 4 | "The Lolo Trail" | 82 | Trader-explorer David Thompson and the history of Lolo Trail
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Atlantic | June 1, 1970 | Vol 225; No 6 | "Indians in History" | 67 | White historians' failure to know Indian history and nature |
Blue Book | June 1, 1951 | Vol 93; No 2 | "Condors Don't Pay Taxes" | 52 | California condor |
Great Plains Journal | September 1, 1969 | "Everybody's Talking" | 1 | Historians, challenges and role | |
Montana | October 1, 1955 | Vol 5; No 4 | "The Naming of the Nez Perce" | 1 | History of the naming of the Nez Perce |
Natural History | February 1, 1977 | Vol 86; No 2 | "A Sojourn Among the Indians" | 94 | Review of People of the First Man, edited by Davis Thomas and Karin Ronnefeldt |
Journal of the West | June 1, 2000 | Vol 39; No 3 | "A Responsibility of Western Historians" | 6 | Avoiding stereotypes to provide a true knowledge of transition from Old West to New West |
Journal | March 1, 1985 | Vol 4; No 1 | "The Blood of Abel" | 4 | 1863 murder of Lloyd Magruder and swift justice in frontier Idaho |
Idaho Yesterdays | March 1, 1962 | Vol 6; No 1 | "Origins of the Nez Perce People" | 2 | Aboriginal wanders from Asia settled among Clearwater, Salmon, and Wallowa Country |
On the Sound | January 1, 1972 | Vol 2; No 1 | "120 Centuries of a Noble Heritage, Part 1" | 80 | History of American Indians along Long Island Sound |
On the Sound | February 1, 1972 | Vol 2; No 2 | "Indians of the Sound, Part 2" | 72 | History of American Indians of Long Island Sound from the 17th century on |
Oregon Humanities | December 1, 1992 | "In Search of the Old West" | 2 | A. Josephy reflects on the transitioning Old West beginning with his 1934 cross-country bus ride | |
Proceedings | September 1, 1978 | "Keynote Address" | 2 | A. Josephy's speech to conference of environmentalists and sheep producers | |
Smithsonian | July 1, 1976 | Vol 7; No 4 | "Book Recommendations" | 127 | A. Josephy recommends The Closing Circle by Barry Commoner
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American West | September 1, 1972 | Vol 9; No 5 | "By Fayre and Gentle Means" | 4 | The Hudson's Bay Company and the American Indian |
Critic
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September 1, 1973 | Vol 32; No 1 | "Freedom for the American Indian" | 18 | Summary of Indian-White relations since earliest contact |
Col. Heinl 1982 Mem. Award | January 1, 1982 | "Iwo Jima" | 37 | Marine combat correspondent recalls deadliest battle of the Pacific war | |
History News | June 1, 1982 | Vol 37; No 6 | "Awesome Space" | 26 | Speculations on interpretations of the Old West |
Western Historical Quarterly
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March 1, 1995 | Vol 26; No 1 | "I Have Seen the Elephant" | 4 | Presidential address at Western History Association's 34th annual conference |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "American Indian Historian Alvin Josephy Jr. Dies", Adam Bernstein, The Washington Post, October 18, 2005.
- ^ Citation for Sergeant Alvin M. Josephy, Junior, United States Marine Corps Reserve, by Lt. General H.M. Smith, Headquarters Fleet Marine Force, Pacific
- ^ a b c d "Alvin Josephy (1915-2005)", Rich Wandschneider, The Oregon Encyclopedia.
- ^ "The Captive City". The American Cinemateque. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Alvin Josephy: A gentle, graceful advocate for sovereignty", Rebecca A. Miles, High Country News, December 12, 2005.
- ^ Josephy, Alvin. "Bio and article list". American Heritage. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
- ^ a b c The Alvin M. and Betty Josephy Library of Western History and Culture
- ^ Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission website