David D. Smits Professor Phone: (609) 771-2208 Email: smits@tcnj.edu Office: www.tcnj.edu/~smits

PhD, Northern Illinois University, 1971

A specialist on Latin America and the American West, Professor Smits teaches courses about Mexico, Central America, and American Indians.

Publications

• "'Fighting Fire With Fire': The Frontier Army's Use of Indian Scouts and Allies in the Trans-Mississippi Campaigns, 1860-1890," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 22 (1998)
• "Death Wind on the Plains: The Frontier Army's Role in the Destruction of the Buffalo, 1865-1883" [Video: Big Sky Western Heritage Productions, 1997]
• "More on the Army and the Buffalo," Western Historical Quarterly 26 (1995)
• "The Frontier Army and the Destruction of the Buffalo, 1865-1883," Western Historical Quarterly 25 (1994)
• "'Squaw Men,' `Half Breeds,' and Amalgamators: Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Attitudes toward Indian-White Race-Mixing," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15 (1991)
• "`We Are Not to Grow Wild': Seventeenth-Century New England's Repudiation of Anglo-Indian Intermarriage," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 11 (1987)

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