Articles Written About Native Americans

Articles and books about and by Native Americans

Writing from College Writing Programs

The Creativity Corner at College of the Menominee Nation
Writing from Aurora College, Fort Resolution, NWT, Canada.

Books and Articles with full text online

A Man Between Nations: The Diary of Peter Pitchlynn
For the Next Seven Generations: Indigenous Americans and Communalism by Glenn Morris
U.S. Indian Policy: Extermination and Assimilation by Glenn Morris
Debunking Myths for Species Survival by Glenn Morris
The Books of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa): Indian Boyhood as a single large file or the Table of Contents of a segmented version; Old Indian Days as a single large file or the TOC of a segmented version; The Soul of the Indian as a single large file or the TOC of a segmented version
Impressions of an Indian Childhood: Zitkala-Sa: Taken from the Atlantic Monthly . New York 1900 Volume 85; Section 1: Impressions of an Indian Childhood; Section 2: The School Days of an Indian Girl; Section 3: An Indian Teacher Among Indians
and: A Warrior's Daughter; Why I am a Pagan; The Soft-Hearted Sioux; The Trial Path; Old Indian Legends: Full text or Table of Contents
Writings of Emily Pauline Johnson
The Iroquois Constitution
Native American Testimony at the Poison Fire, Sacred Earth,: The World Uranium Hearing, Salzburg 1992; James Garrett, Lakota Nation; Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Dakota Nation; Thomas Banyacya Sr., Hopi Nation; Manuel Pino, Acoma Nation(Discussion of slide presentation); Alveno Waconda, Laguna Nation; Gloria Lewis, Laguna Nation; Suwimi Lewis, Laguna Nation; Austin Sam, Diné (Navajo) Nation; Philipp Harrison, Diné (Navajo) Nation; Anna Rondon, Diné (Navajo) Nation; Laurie Goodman, Diné (Navajo) Nation; Ian Zabarte, Western Shoshone Nation; Rex Tilousi, Havasupai Nation; Carletta Tilousi, Havasupai Nation; Russel Jim, Yakima Nation
The Preface to Freedom With Reservation by S. Verna Fowler, President College of the Menominee Nation
The Preface to Sustaining the Forest, the People, and the Spirit
Eskimo Songs and Stories
Peter Pitseolak's Escape from Death
Search for Nanook
Peter Pitseolak (1902-1973), Inuit Historian of Seekooseelak
Story Time at Rankin Inlet
Writing in Inuktitut: An Historical Perspective
Articles from The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Weekly, Scribner's Magazine, Century Magazine, St. Nicolas Magazine in the period 1880 - 1905: Aboriginal America by Jacob Abbott; An Indian Boy's Story by Ah-nen-la-de-ni [La France, Daniel]; The Basket Maker by Mary Austin; The White Hour or How Evaly John, the Paiute Girl, Briefly Realized the Ambition of Her Father, the Medicine Man. by Mary Austin; The Song-Makers by Mary Austin; A Land of Little Rain (article) by Mary Austin; The Land of Little Rain (entire book)Table of Contents (with links) or A single large file with images from the original edition; Jimville: A Bret Harte Town by Mary Austin; Mahala Joe by Mary Austin; The Little Coyote by Mary Austin; Notes Among the Indians by Vincent Colyer; The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego by Frederick A. Cook; Have We Failed with the Indian? by H. L. Dawes; The Indian Territory by Henry L. Dawes; The Navajo Indians by William M. Edwardy; An Interesting Representative of a Vanishing Race by B. O. Flower; The Last of the Five Tribes by Grant Foreman; Two Stories of Oklahoma by Hamlin Garland; Little Friend Coyote by George Bird Grinnell; The Indian on the Reservation by George Bird Grinnell; The Medicine Grizzly Bear by George Bird Grinnell; The Wild Indian by George Bird Grinnell; The Girl Who Was the Ring. by George Bird Grinnell; Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior by Albert D. Hagar; Chief Joseph Anonymous; Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux Anonymous; The Red Man's Last Roll-Call by Charles M. Harvey; The Dime Novel in American Life by Charles M. Harvey; Gray Wolf's Daughter by Hinook-Mahiwi-Kilinaka (Angel de Cora); Nedawi by Suzette La Flesche (Bright Eyes); The Story of a Vision by Francis La Flesche; An Indian Allotment by Francis La Flesche; Omaha, the Prairie City by William R. Light; The New Indian Messiah by Marion P. Maus; Minnehaha by Eva Wilder McGlasson; The Fading of Shadow Flower by John G. Neihardt; The Spirit of Crow Butte by John G. Neihardt; The Smile of God: An Omaha Indian Story by John G. Neihardt; When the Snows Drift by John G. Neihardt; The Last Thunder Song by John G. Neihardt; The End of the Dream by John G. Neihardt; Little Wolf by John G. Neihardt; A Prairie Borgia by John G. Neihardt; The Singing of the Frog by John G. Neihardt; Only the Master Shall Praise by John M. Oskison; Friends of the Indian. by John M. Oskison; Remaining Causes of Indian Discontent by John M. Oskison; When the Grass Grew Long by John M. Oskison; 'The Quality of Mercy': A Story of the Indian Territory by John M. Oskison; The Problem of Old Harjo by John M. Oskison; The Last Protest: A Story of Montana by Henry Oyen; An Indian on the Problems of His Race by Simon Pokagon; Indian Superstitions and Legends by Simon Pokagon; The Future of the Red Man by Simon Pokagon; The North American Indian--The Disappearance of the Race A Popular Fallacy by J. Worden Pope, U.S. Army; The Pueblo of Acoma by Clarence Pullen; The Art of War and Newspaper Men by Frederic Remington; The Sun-Dance of the Sioux by Frederick Schwatka; Naming the Indians by Frank Terry, Superintendent of U. S. Boarding School for Crow Indians, Montana; Life at an Indian Agency by Rufus F. Zogbaum
The above articles are provided by The Modern English Collection at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
A collection of translated Innu stories and other cultural information
White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings The First Pipe As told by: Joseph Chasing Horse

Scholarly Articles & Document Archives

Distant Relations, Chicano, Irish and Mexican Art. Critical Writing.
How Inuit find their way in the trackless Arctic, By David F. Pelly
Towards A Holotropic Pedagogy: A Metaphor For Cross-Cultural Communication, Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Native Education in Canada by Robert Luke
An excerpt from Eagle Down is Our Law: Witsuwit'en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims by Antonia Mills
The Eleuterio Escobar Collection, primary source materials which document the struggle of Mexican Americans to obtain educational equality.
Review of Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing & Representation in North American Indian Texts: by David Murray by M.E. Sokolik in PostModern Culture
"The Only Good Indian is a Dead Indian": History and Meaning of a Proverbial Stereotype by Wolfgang Mieder in De Proverbio An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies
Proverbs and prejudice: El Indio In Hispanic Proverbial Speech, Shirley L. Arora: in De Proverbio An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies
La Identidad Édentidad en el Refranero Mexicano Herón Pérez Martínez in De Proverbio An Electronic Journal of International Proverb Studies

Speeches and Interviews

The Indigenous Women's Network Our Future, Our Responsibility: Winona LaDuke
An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko: by Thomas Irmer (Alt-X Berlin/Leipzig correspondent)
Chiapas: Latin America's First Post-Communist Rebellion: a New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) interview with Carlos Fuentes, Spring 1994

Newspaper Articles and Journalism

More Love Medicine An article on Louise Erdrich in the online edition of the Minnesota Daily
Louise Erdrich interview in Salon
The Native American Journalists Association with: The Native Voice, A newspaper created by student and professional journalists onsite at the 11th Annual Convention of the Native American Journalists Association in Bismarck, North Dakota, May 24-28, 1995
Return of the Natives:: An eight-part series from The Hartford Courant
Stumbling Along the Walk for Justice: Free Peltier! By Ciara Torres
Hold Your Tongue by Alicia Moretti and
Another Broken Promise: Budget Cuts and Native American Health By Ciara Torres
Unfit to Print? Selective American Reporting on Guatemalan Atrocities By Carl Elkin: from Perspective, Harvard-Radcliffe's Liberal Monthly.
A Tucson Weekly story on The O'odham saguaro harvest.
An Albuquerque Weekly Alibi story: A Road Runs through It on Petroglyph National Monument, its importance to the Pueblo Indians and plans to run a major highway through the park.
A Phoenix New Times story: Part 1: Dark Days on Black Mesa
Onipa`a: Hawai'ian Sovereignty BBS by David Hakala, in Boardwatch Magazine.
From the High Country News: Native American category index plus these other articles:; Making a mountain into a starbase: The long, bitter battle over Mount Graham by John Dougherty