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Listen to an interview with Louise Erdrich, with Michael Krasny of Forum

Online Magazines and Journals

Tribal Law Journal 

Zone Zero Magazine 

Digital Collections (Photographic, Audio and Textual)

Edward S. Curtis' The North American Indian  

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest 

Map Collections: 1500:2002 

Native Americans on the Northern Great Plains: 1880-1920 

Omaha Indian Music 

Western History & Genealogy at the Denver Public Library 

Books and Articles with full text online

"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 

full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts.

(Re)Invention And Contextualization In Contemporary Native American Fiction  by Wendy J. Rohrbacher (M.A. Thesis)

1491  by Charles C. Mann, in The Atlantic Unbound

An Oklahoman Abroad  by Carrie LeFlore Perry

Brief History of the Pequot War , Written by Major John Mason

Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts  Harry Hoijer

Collection of translated Innu stories and other cultural information 

Dahcotah, or, Life and legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling   by Mary H. Eastman from Canadiana.org

Debunking Myths for Species Survival  by Glenn Morris

Dumbarton Oaks Electronic Texts in Pre-Columbian Studies  (Big! in PDF format)

Early Canadiana Online , with a strong collection of Native American relevant texts.

Excerpt from On the Rez, by Ian Frazier, from The Atlantic Monthly 

Feature Articles from News from Native California are online 

For the Next Seven Generations: Indigenous Americans and Communalism  by Glenn Morris

Frontier In American History  by Frederick Jackson Turner

Genius of Sequoyah  by Jim Parins

History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman  by David Levin

History of the Conquest of Mexico  by William Hickling Prescott

Hopi Nation: Essays on Indigenous Art, Culture, History, and Law 

Indian Land Cessions in the United States , United States Congressional Serial Set #4015

Inuktitut: In the Way of the Inuit 

Iroquois Constitution 

James Roane Gregory:   Additional Texts - Yuchi

James Roane Gregory:  Part I

Leather-stocking as Myth and Symbol 

Man Between Nations: The Diary of Peter Pitchlynn 

Newspaper Writings of Susette La Flesche 

Osage: A Historical Sketch , George E. Tinker

Peter Pitseolak (1902-1973)  Inuit Historian of Seekooseelak

Pioneering the Upper Midwest Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910 

138 first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works.

Poems of John Rollin Ridge 

Romancing the Indian  by Adriana Rissetto

Selected Works of Charles Gibson 

The Newspaper Writings of Susette La Flesche A Selected Edition

Three California Writers , Alfred C. Gillis, Wa-Wa Chaw, Samuel J. Rice

Travel and Westward Expansion  from The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books

U.S. Indian Policy: Extermination and Assimilation  by Glenn Morris

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth  by Henry Nash Smith

White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings The First Pipe  As told by: Joseph Chasing Horse

Native American Testimony at the Poison Fire, Sacred Earth,

The World Uranium Hearing, Salzburg 1992

Thomas Banyacya Sr. Hopi

James Garrett Lakota

Laurie Goodman Diné (Navajo)

Philipp Harrison Diné (Navajo)

Russel Jim Yakima

Gloria Lewis Laguna

Suwimi Lewis Laguna

Manuel Pino Acoma(Discussion of slide presentation)

Anna Rondon Diné (Navajo)

Austin Sam Diné (Navajo)

Rex Tilousi Havasupai

Carletta Tilousi Havasupai

Alveno Waconda Laguna

Floyd Red Crow Westerman Dakota

Ian Zabarte Western Shoshone

Articles from The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Weekly, Scribner's Magazine, Century Magazine, St. Nicolas Magazine in the period 1880 - 1905

An Apache Medicine Dance  Frank Russell

Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives Harriet Beecher Stowe

HeadHunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure  Fritz W. Up de Graff

'The Quality of Mercy': A Story of the Indian Territory  John M. Oskison

A Chiricahua Apache`s Account of the Geronimo Campaign of 1886  Morris Opler and Samuel E. Kenoi

A Prairie Borgia  by John G. Neihardt

Aboriginal America  by Jacob Abbott

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  Mark Twain

An Indian Allotment  by Francis La Flesche

An Indian Boy's Story  by Ah-nen-la-de-ni (La France, Daniel)

An Indian on the Problems of His Race  Simon Pokagon

An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs  Young Joseph

An Interesting Representative of a Vanishing Race  B. O. Flower

Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior  by Albert D. Hagar

Chief Joseph  Anonymous

Custer's Last Battle  Captain Charles King

Diverse Tongues: A Sketch  John M. Oskison

Diverse Tongues: A Sketch  John M. Oskison

Drifting Crane  by Hamlin Garland

Friends of the Indian  John M. Oskison

Gray Wolf's Daughter  Hinook-Mahiwi-Kilinaka (Angel de Cora)

Have We Failed with the Indian?  Henry L. Dawes

Hiawatha  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahroc  John Vance Cheney

In the Name of His Ancestor  William Jones

Indian Songs  by Mary Austin

Indian Superstitions and Legends  Simon Pokagon

Indian Why Stories  Frank B. Linderman

Jimville: A Bret Harte Town  Mary Austin

Labor Among Primitive Peoples  George J. Engelmann

Legends of Vancouver  E. Pauline Johnson

Life at an Indian Agency  Rufus F. Zogbaum

Little Coyote  Mary Austin

Little Friend Coyote  George Bird Grinnell

Little Wolf  by John G. Neihardt

Mahala Joe  Mary Austin

Many Swans: Sun Myth of the North American Indians  Amy Lowell

Medicine Song: To Be Sung in Time of Evil Fortune  by Mary Austin

Medicine Songs  by Mary Austin

Minnehaha  Eva Wilder McGlasson

Myths and Legends of the Sioux  by Marie L. McLaughlin

Naming the Indians  Simon Pokagon

Naming the Indians  by Frank Terry, Superintendent, U.S. Boarding School

Noqoìlpi, the Gambler: A Navajo Myth  Washington Matthews

Notes Among the Indians  Vincent Colyer

Omaha, the Prairie City by William R. Lighton

Only the Master Shall Praise  John M. Oskison

Recent Writings By American Indians  Elisabeth Luther Cary

Remaining Causes of Indian Discontent  John M. Oskison

Songs of the Pueblo Indians  Amy Lowell

The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas  John M. Oskison

The Art of War and Newspaper Men  Frederic Remington

The Basket Maker  Mary Austin

The Biologist's Quest  John M. Oskison

The Cities That Were Forgotten Charles F. Lummis

The Deer-star (A Paiute Legend)  by Mary Austin

The Dime Novel in American Life  by Charles M. Harvey

The End of the Dream  by John G. Neihardt

The Fading of Shadow Flower  by John G. Neihardt

The Future of the Red Man 

The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego  Frederick A. Cook

The Girl Who Was the Ring.  by George Bird Grinnell

The Indian of Commerce  Anonymous

The Indian on the Reservation  by George Bird Grinnell

The Indian Territory  Henry L. Dawes

The Indian Who Is Not Poor  Charles F. Lummis

The Land of Little Rain  by Mary Austin

The Last of the Five Tribes  by Grant Foreman

The Last of the Mohicans  James Fenimore Cooper

The Last Protest: A Story of Montana  Henry Oyen

The Last Thunder Song  by John G. Neihardt

The Lost City  Joseph E. Badger Jr.

The Man Who Interfered  John M. Oskison

The Man Who Would Not Be Saved  Henry Oyen

The Medicine Grizzly Bear  by George Bird Grinnell

The Navajo Indians by William M. Edwardy

The New Indian Messiah  Marion P. Maus

The North American Indian--The Disappearance of the Race A Popular Fallacy  by J. Worden Pope, U.S. Army

The Problem of Old Harjo  John M. Oskison

The Pueblo of Acoma  by Clarence Pullen

The Red Man's Last Roll-Call  by Charles M. Harvey

The Sick Child  Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka (Angel De Cora)

The Singing of the Frog  by John G. Neihardt

The Smile of God: An Omaha Indian Story  by John G. Neihardt

The Song-Makers  Mary Austin

The Spirit of Crow Butte  by John G. Neihardt

The Story of a Vision   by Francis La Flesche

The Sun-Dance of the Sioux  by Frederick Schwatka

The Triumph of Seha  by John G. Neihardt

The True Story of the Wallowa Campaign  General O. O. Howard

The Wanderings of Cochiti Charles F. Lummis

The Wards of the United States Government  H. H.

The White Hour  Mary Austin

The Wild Indian  George Bird Grinnell

Three Noted Chiefs of the Sioux  Anonymous

Two Stories of Oklahoma  by Hamlin Garland

When the Grass Grew Long  John M. Oskison

When the Snows Drift  by John G. Neihardt

Young Henry and the Old Man by John M. Oskison

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology   John Fiske

Myths of the Jicarilla Apache   Frank Russell

The Jicarilla Genesis   James Mooney

Contemporary Native American Writing Online

Introduction to the Ken Lopez catalog of Native American Literature  by Leslie Marmon Silko

Selected full text articles  from the Saskatchewan Indian

Selections from work in progress that speaks from years with the Zunis in New Mexico  by Dennis Tedlock

SpruceRoots , a monthly journal providing

perspectives and promoting discussion on issues that affect Haida Gwaii.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online 

Turtle Goes to War: Of Military Commissions, the Constitution and American Indian Memory 

Scholarly Articles & Document Archives

"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

The Cherokee Phoenix searchable archive  from the Univ. of Georgia

Distant Relations , Chicano, Irish and Mexican Art. Critical Writing.

Eleuterio Escobar Collection , primary source materials which document the struggle of Mexican Americans to obtain educational equality.

La Identidad Édentidad en el Refranero Mexicano  Herón Pérez Martínez 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

Redeeming Riel  by Lois Drew from Canadian Poetry

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842  from the Univ. of Georgia

Speeches and Interviews

An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko 

by Thomas Irmer (Alt-X Berlin/Leipzig correspondent)
Part 2

Louise Erdrich interview in Salon  [Missing 7/16/12]

Newspaper Articles and Journalism

Dark Days on Black Mesa 

Part 2: People Betrayed from the Phoenix New Times

Return of the Natives: 

An eight-part series from The Hartford Courant

Stories from the High Country News: 

Seeking justice for all on the Colorado Plateau

Native Stories and Their Keeperby John Dougherty
Native Americans move ahead politically
We are the story, this time
The sacred comes home
Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
Why Native Americans look at Lewis and Clark with different eyes
A Utah rancher’s secret was a gift to us
Run before dawn and other advice from a Native American elder
Project puts tribal lands back on the map
Sometimes you have to fight
Native Waters
Letting their lights shine
Looters beware: Tribes are fighting back

Stories from the Tucson Weekly: 

The O'odham saguaro harvest.

Unre$t on the Re$ervation

Crossing the Line

Growing Concern

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