Articles
Community and Institution among American Indian Groups, Interculture (1984)
Description of modern North American Indian community life. This article may have also been published...
The Tribe as an Ideal Type, Varieties of Man and Society, Journal of University Studies (1975)
Following in the tradition of Max Weber (ideal type) and Robert Redfield (forms of social...
Colonialism: Classic and Internal, New University Thought (1969)
This is one of the core papers used in the curriculum at Monteith College, Wayne...
Powerless Politics, New University Thought (1969)
This is one of the core papers used in the curriculum at Monteith College, Wayne...
The Role of the Church in Indian Adjustment, Kansas Journal of Sociology (1967)
Prepared for the National Council of Churches to help the church evaluate the modern mission...
American Indians and White People, Phylon (1961)
Written by Rosalie Wax and R.K. Thomas, this paper is an attempt to describe what...
The Redbird Smith Movement, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 180, Symposium of Cherokee and Iroquois Cultures (1961)
This is a brief synopsis of R.K. Thomas' Master's Thesis. The complete thesis can be...
Fiesta of St. Francis at San Francisquito, Sonora, The Kiva 18 (1952)
One of R.K. Thomas' earliest articles. Written with John Schweitzer, Thomas was the junior author.
Books
The People and the Strangers: Narratives and a Theory of American Indian Life (with Robert Cooter), Robert Cooter (1995)
Chapters in this unfinished manuscript alternative between theory and narratives -- Thomas's theory of individuation...
Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Collected Letters and Papers (1990)
This collection of some of the writings of Robert (Bob) Thomas, Cherokee elder, practitioner of...
The Prophecy Manuscript - Part 1 (1986)
The Prophecy Manuscript by Robert K. Thomas is not an academic volume. Instead it is...
The Prophecy Manuscript - Part 2 (1986)
The Prophecy Manuscript by Robert K. Thomas is not an academic volume. Instead it is...
The Prophecy Manuscript - Part 3 (1986)
The Prophecy Manuscript by Robert K. Thomas is not an academic volume. Instead it is...
The Prophecy Manuscript - Part 4 (1986)
The Prophecy Manuscript by Robert K. Thomas is not an academic volume. Instead it is...
A History of the True People - The Cherokee Indians - Chapter 1 (1979)
Written under the pseudonym of G.P. Horsefly, Robert Thomas wrote this volume for Indian kids...
A History of the True People - The Cherokee Indians - Chapter 2 (1979)
Written under the pseudonym of G.P. Horsefly, Robert Thomas wrote this volume for Indian kids...
A History of the True People - The Cherokee Indians - Chapter 3 (1979)
Written under the pseudonym of G.P. Horsefly, Robert Thomas wrote this volume for Indian kids...
A History of the True People - The Cherokee Indians - Chapter 4-5 (1979)
Written under the pseudonym of G.P. Horsefly, Robert Thomas wrote this volume for Indian kids...
Contributions to Books
Individuals and Relatives (with robert cooter), A Good Cherokee, A Good Anthropologist: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Thomas (1998)
In this paper, a narrative of a Cherokee childhood precedes and a theory of child...
Nationalism, Who Is the Chairman of this Meeting? A collection of Essays (1972)
Written under the pseudonym of Anderson Dirthrower, R.K. Thomas writes of 'how it feels to...
The Prophecy, Who Is the Chairman of this Meeting? A collection of Essays (1972)
Written under the pseudonym of Anderson Dirthrower, tells of a prophecy that Bob Thomas heard...
Unpublished Papers
Next Step, Social Oblivion? (1987)
This short position paper will consider three questions. First, what are the social and cultural...
Position Paper for the 1986 Tavertet Spain Colloquium on Cultural Resistance (1986)
For most minority peoples in the world today, cultural resistance and cultural survival is dependent...
To the Committee for the Second Chicago Indian Conference (1985)
A Position Paper written by Robert K. Thomas to the Committee for the Second Chicago...
The Social and Cultural History of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1840-1980 (with Kenneth Fink), xerox (1979)
The Social and Cultural History of the Five Civilized Tribes was commissioned by the Smithsonian...
Cherokee Communities of the South, unpublished (1978)
Cherokee Communities of the South was written by Mr. Thomas in the mid-70's. It includes...
The Role of the Church in Indian Adjustment (1970)
A paper prepared to help the church evaluate the modern mission effort among American Indians.
Development of the Concept of Colonialism (1966)
This paper was used as a teaching tool within the Monteith College (Wayne State University)...
Cherokee Values and World View, Unpublished MS, University of North Carolina (1958)
Cherokee Values and World View is one of Thomas’ earliest papers. Though unpublished, It has...
The Origin and Development of the Redbird Smith Movement - Part I (1953)
Robert K. Thomas' Master Thesis for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona....
The Origin and Development of the Redbird Smith Movement - Part II (1953)
Robert K. Thomas' Master Thesis for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona....
The Origin and Development of the Redbird Smith Movement - Part III (1953)
Robert K. Thomas' Master Thesis for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona....
The Origin and Development of the Redbird Smith Movement - Part IV (1953)
Robert K. Thomas' Master Thesis for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona....
Presentations
Letters, Sermons, Communications, Other
Retrospective Bibliography (2006)
Stan Thomas prepared this retrospective bibliography for his father, Robert K. Thomas, in 2006.