BEGINNINGS: FOUR FIRST NOVELS OF NATIVE AMERICA
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Beidler, Peter G. and Marion F. Egge.  The American Indian in Short Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography.  
Metuchen, N.J. :Scarecrow Press, 1979.
Reference   PS374.I49 B4

A Bibliography of North American Folklore and Folksong.
New York, Dover Publications, 1961.
GR105.H38  2 vols.

Clements, William M. ,and  Frances M. Malpezzi, comp.  Native American Folklore, 1879-1979: An Annotated Bibliography.
Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 1984.
Reference E98.F6 C6 1984

Clements, William M. comp. Native American Folklore in Nineteenth-century Periodicals.
Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 1986.
E98.F6 N38 1986

Colonnese, Tom , and Louis Owens.  American Indian Novelists: An Annotated Critical Bibliography.
New York : Garland Pub.,1985.
Reference  PS153.I52 C65

Jacobson, Angeline, comp. Contemporary Native American Literature: A Selected & Partially Annotated  Bibliography.
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1977.
Reference  PS153.I52 J3

MacDonald, Margaret Read, ed. Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.
Reference GR72.3.T73 1999

Peck, David R.  American Ethnic Literatures: Native American, African American,
Chicano/Latino, and Asian American Writers and Their Backgrounds: An Annotated
Bibliography.  Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 1992.
Reference  PS153.M56 P43 1992

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review,
and Selected Bibliography.
New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1990.
Reference  PM155.R86 1990
 

BIOGRAPHIES

Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris: Searching for a Native American Identity.
Produced and directed by Catherine Tatge; Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1994.
Wilson 2W Video Collection  E98.E85 S42 1994
  
  Bill Moyers interviews husband and wife writing team Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris who
discuss their literary collaboration, their shared thinking based upon their like backgrounds as
mixed-blood Native Americans, and the Native American  characters who people their novels.

Native American Authors / Internet Public Library
 
   "Provides information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published
works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts
and tribal websites. Currently the website primarily contains information on contemporary Native
American authors, although some historical authors are represented."

Native American Writers of the United States / edited by Kenneth M. Roemer. Detroit, MI : Gale, 1997.
Reference  PN451 .D54 v. 175  Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 175

Witalec, Janet, ed.   Native North American Literature: Biographical and Critical Information on Native
Writers  and Orators from the United States and Canada from Historical Times to the Present.
New York: Gale Research, 1994.
Reference  PS508.I5 N38 1994
 

    DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, &  HANDBOOKS
Fritze, Ronald H.  Legend and Lore of the Americas Before 1492: An Encyclopedia of Visitors,
Explorers,  and Immigrants.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1993.
Reference E61.F75 1993

Ortiz, Simon J., ed.  Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing. Tucson:
U of Arizona Press, 1998.
PS153.I52 S75 1998
     An encyclopedia of Native American literatures featuring articles on individual authors,
on individual works, on important characters in works, and on terms and events of historical
significance that figure in many of the works.

Roemer, Kenneth M.  Native American Writers of the United States.  Detroit, MI:  Gale, 1997.
Reference PN 451.D54  Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 175

Whitson, Kathy J. Native American Literatures: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters,
Authors, and Themes.  Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1999.
Reference  PS153.I52 W47 1999

Wiget, Andrew ed.  Handbook of Native American Literature.  New York: Garland, 1996.
Reference PM155.D53 1996

    LITERARY CRITICISM

Berner, Robert L.  Defining American Indian Literature:  One Nation Divisible.  Lewiston, N.Y.:
Mellen Press, 1999.
PS 153.I2 B47 1999

Brotherston, Gordon. Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through
Their Literature.   New York, NY.: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
PM155.B76 1992

Chadwick, Allen.  Blood Narrative:  Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activists Texts.
PS153.I52 A45 200

Eversten Lundquist, Suzanne.  Native American Literatures:  An Introduction.
PS153.I52  L86 2004

Goebel, Bruce A.  Reading NAtive American Literature:  A Teacher's Guide.
PS153.I52 G64 2004

Heflin, Ruth.  I Remain Alive:  The Sioux Literary Renaissance.
PS153.I52 H44 2000

Hernandez-Avila, Inés.  Reading Native American Women:  Critical/Creative Representations.
PS153.I52 R425 2005

Horne, Dee.  Contemporary American Indian Writing:  Unsettling Literature.
PS153.I52 H67 1999

Katanski, Amelia.  Learning to Write "Indian":  the Boarding School Experience and American Indian Literature.
PS153.I52 K38 2005

Kroeber, Karl, ed.  Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations.
Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1981.
PM155.T7

Krupat, Arnold .  Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature.
Berkeley: U of California Press, 1992.
GN345.K78 1992

Krupat, Arnold . The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon.
Berkeley: U of California Press, 1989.
PS153.I52 K78 1989

Parker, Robert Dale.  The Invention of Native American Literature.
PS153.I52 P37 2003.

Pulitano, Elvira.  Toward a Native American Critical Theory.
PS153.I52 P85 2003

Rader, Dean, and Janice Gould, eds.  Speak to Me Words:  Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry.
PS153.I52 S64 2003

Shanley, Kathryn W., ed.  Native American Literature: Boundaries and Sovereignties.
PS153.I52  N385 2001

Sidner, Larson J.  Captured in the Middle:  Tradition and Experience in Contemporary
Native American Writing.  Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2000.
PS 153.I52 L37 2000

Smith, Carlton.  Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmodernism and Contemporary Fictions of the
Transcultural Frontier.   Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College U P, 2000.
PS374.F73 S65 2000

Susag, Dorothea M.  Roots And Branches: A Resource Of Native American Literature:
Themes, Lessons, and Bibliographies .
PS153.I52 S87 1998

Studies in American Indian Literatures: Newsletter of the Association for Study of American
Indian Literatures.   New York: The Association.
Wilson 5E Periodicals   PN151.A87 1992-

Vizenor, Gerald.  Fugitive Poses:  Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence.
PS153.I52 V59 1998

Wiget, Andrew.  Native American Literature.  Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985.
PM155.W54 1984

Witalec, Janet,  ed. Native North American Literature: Biographical and Critical Information
on Native Writers and Orators from the United States and Canada from Historical Times to the
Present.  New York: Gale Research, 1994.
Ref. PS508.I5 N38 1994
 

ANTHOLOGIES - MYTH & FOLKLORE

Bataille, Gretchen M. American Indian Women, Telling Their Lives.  Lincoln:
U of Nebraska Press, 1984.
E98.W8.B37 1984

Blanche, Jerry D., ed.   Native American Reader: Stories, Speeches, and Poems .
Juneau, Alaska, USA : Denali Press, 1990.
E98.F6 N385 1990

The Box of Daylight: A Tlingit Myth of Creation.  Sealaska Heritage Foundation.
Juneau, AK: Pacific Communications and Marketing, 1990.
Video  E99.T6 B69 1990

Dunn, Carolyn, and Carol Comfort, eds.  Through the Eye of the Deer:  An Anthology of Native American Women Writers.
San Francisco : Aunt Lute Books, 1999
PS508.15 T48 1999

Lesley, Craig, ed.  Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories.
New York, N.Y. : Laurel, 1991.
PS508.I5.T35 1991

Lincoln, Kenneth.  Native American Renaissance. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1983.
PS153.I52.L6 1983

Niatum, Duane, ed. Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry.
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988.
PS591.I55 H37 1988

Peyer, Bernd, ed.  The Elders Wrote: An Anthology of Early Prose by North
American Indians, 1768-1931.  Berlin: Reimer, 1982.
E77.2.E43 1982

Purdy, John.  Nothing But the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001.
PS508.I5 N67 2001

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. Literatures of the American Indian.
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1991.
E77.4.R96 1991
 

DATABASES

America: History and Life  Online
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United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. The scope includes
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Anthropology Plus
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)  Online
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sketches in more than 2,700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference
books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world

EBSCO - Academic Search Complete

Ethnic Newswatch
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MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
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linguistics, folklore, journalism, communications, film, media and theater. MLA indexes
journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and bibliographies.

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Oxford Reference Online
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Scribner's American History & Culture 
Reference CD-ROM E173 .S55 1998
An interactive multimedia database, containing the full text of the Dictionary of
American History; The Presidents, A Reference History;  Encyclopedia of American
Social History; and the Dictionary of American Biography, with supplements. Also
includes a timeline of key events, more than 600 photographs and over 50 primary
source documents to illuminate the text. Available on individual computers within the library.

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American Indians: A Research Guide


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