Native American "Insider/Outsider" Sources Bibliography
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A sampling of potential insider and outsider sources at the MATC Libraries, as well as some links to online digital collections. Be sure to check the dates, notes, references, and citations to make sure the selection is appropriate for your assignment. In some cases you may want to track down the original source. Click on a title to see if it is available in the library; a new window will open when you click a title.
Books at the MATC Libraries: Insider sources
299.7 EA13
The soul of an Indian and other writings from Ohiyesa (CharlesAlexander Eastman)
/ edited and arranged by Kent Nerburn (writings from 1911-1915)
Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939.
398.2089 C545
Choctaw Tales / collected and annotated by Tom Mould.
398.208997 AM512
American Indian Trickster Tales / selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.
Erdoes, Richard, 1912-
398.208997 IN39
The Indians' Book : an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race / recorded and edited by Natalie Curtis.
Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921.
398.208997 J93
Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley / selected and edited by Katharine B. Judson ; introduced by Peter Iverson. Originally published: Myths and legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes. Chicago : A.C. McClurg, 1914
398.208997 Z82
American Indian stories, legends, and other writings / Zitkala-Ša ; edited with an introduction and notes by Cathy N. Davidson and Ada Norris
Zitkala-*Sa, 1876-1938.
920.073 EA13
Indian boyhood / by Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman) / illustrated by E. L. Blumenschein Eastman, Charles Alexander, 1858-1939.
970.072 T13
Sun Chief; the autobiography of a Hopi Indian / edited by LewW. Simmons. Foreword by Robert V. Hine
Talayesva, Don C., b. 1890.
970.00497 G786
Great documents in American Indian history / edited by Wayne Moquin with Charles Van Doren
970.00497 N27
Native American testimony : from prophecy to the present,1492-1992 / edited by Peter Nabokov ; with a foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr (check notes on sources p. 450)
970.00497 W811
The wisdom of the Native Americans / Compiled and edited by Kent Nerburn
970.004970092 N278
Native American autobiography : an anthology / edited by Arnold Krupat
Krupat, Arnold.
970.00497092 B65
Crashing Thunder : the autobiography of an American Indian / edited by Paul Radin ; with a foreword and appendix by Arnold Krupat (1926)
Blowsnake, Sam.
970.00497092 SI62
Mountain Wolf Woman, sister of Crashing Thunder : the autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
Mountain Wolf Woman, 1884-1960.
970.072 T13
Sun chief; the autobiography of a Hopi Indian / edited by LewW. Simmons. Foreword by Robert V. Hine (c. 1942)
Talayesva, Don C., b. 1890.
970.1 B62
Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow); illustrated by Standing Bear
Black Elk, 1863-1950.
970.3 F52 1976
Lame Deer, seeker of visions / by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
Fire, John.
970.3 F52 1994
Lame Deer, seeker of visions / by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes
Fire, John.
970.3 R312
The memoirs of Chief Red Fox / With an introd. by Cash Asher
Red Fox, Chief, b. 1870. (note: authenticity has been challenged)
970.3 R53
Fighting Tuscarora; the autobiography of Chief Clinton Rickard / Edited by Barbara Graymont
Rickard, Clinton, 1882-1971.
971.004973 J66
Indian school days / Basil H. Johnston (1939 -)
Johnston, Basil.
973.0497 T531
Through Dakota eyes : narrative accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 / edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Alan R. Woolworth
973.00497092 G37
Geronimo's story of his life
Geronimo, 1829-1909.
973.04972092 L495
Left Handed, son of Old Man Hat : a Navajo autobiography / recorded by Walter Dyk ; foreword by Edward Sapir
Left Handed, 1868- (c.1938)
973.04975 B565
With my own eyes : a Lakota woman tells her people's history / Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner ; edited and introduced by Emily Levine
Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux, 1857-1945.
973.56092 B628
Black Hawk : an autobiography / edited by Donald Jackson
Black Hawk, Sauk chief, 1767-1838.
Reprint. Originally published: 1833.
973.82 IN39
Indian views of the Custer fight : a source book / compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff
Hardorff, Richard G.
974.00497 AP641
On our own ground : the complete writings of William Apess, aPequot / edited and with an introduction by Barry O'Connell
Apess, William, b. 1798.
974.00497 AP641S
A son of the forest and other writings / by William Apess, a Pequot ; edited and with an introduction by Barry O'Connell
Apess, William, b. 1798.
973.0497 W927
The World turned upside down : Indian voices from early America / edited with an introduction by Colin G. Calloway
Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953-
974.7004973 J67
To do good to my Indian brethren : the writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776 / edited by Laura J. Murray
Johnson, Joseph, 1751?-1777.
974.7004975 B631
Chainbreaker : the Revolutionary War memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams
/ edited and with an introduction and notes by Thomas S. Abler ; with a new preface by the editor
Blacksnake, Governor, ca. 1753-1859.
975.00497 T627
To marry an Indian : the marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in letters, 1823-1839 / edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul
975.00497092 OW97
A Cherokee woman's America : memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907 / edited and introduced by Karen L. Kilcup ; preface and notes by Karen L. Kilcup and Stephen Brandon
Owen, Narcissa, 1831-1911.
977.5004 ON58
Oneida lives : long-lost voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas / edited by Herbert S. Lewis with the assistance of L. Gordon McLester III
978.00497 OU93
Our hearts fell to the ground : Plains Indian views of how the West was lost / edited with an introduction by Colin G. Calloway
Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953-
978.033092 H796
Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims / by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins ; foreword by Catherine Fowler
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca, 1844?-1891. Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam, 1883
978.39 ST78
My people the Sioux / by Luther Standing Bear ; edited by E.A. Brininstool ; with an introd. by Richard N. Ellis. Reprint of the 1928 ed.
Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?-1939.
979.1004972 F583
"For our Navajo people" : Diné letters, speeches & petitions, 1900-1960 / edited by Peter Iverson ; photo editor, Monty Roessel
979.5004970092 J83
Chief Joseph's own story / as told by Chief Joseph in 1879 photos courtesy of the Nez Percé Tribe
Joseph, Nez Percé Chief, 1840-1904.
979.86 T458
Crow is my boss : the oral life history of a Tanacross Athabaskan elder / Kenny Thomas Sr. (b. 1922)
; edited by Craig Mishler ; translations by Irene Arnold ; transcriptions by Gary Holton
Books at the MATC Libraries: Possible outsider sources
266.008997 EL42
The Eliot Tracts : with letters from John Eliot to Thomas Thorowgood and Richard Baxter / edited with an introduction by Michael P. Clark
Eliot, John, 1604-1690.
917.8 L67
The Lewis and Clark Expedition / Introd. by Archibald Hanna ; edited by Nicholas Biddle and Paul Allen
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. 1814 ed. Unabridged
917.8042 L675
The Lewis and Clark Expedition : selections from the journals, arranged by topic / edited with an introduction by Gunther Barth
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.
917.8042 L675J 2003
The Lewis and Clark journals : an American epic of discovery : the abridgment of the definitive Nebraska edition / Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and members of the Corps of Discovery ; edited and with an introduction by Gary E. Moulton
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.
918.8042 L675D 1997
The journals of Lewis and Clark / edited by Bernard DeVoto ; foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose ; maps by Erwin Raisz
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. Based on the Reuben Gold Thwaites ed., published in 1904-1905.
917.8042 L675J 2003
The Lewis and Clark journals : an American epic of discovery : the abridgment of the definitive Nebraska edition / Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and members of the Corps of Discovery ; edited and with an introduction by Gary E. Moulton
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809.
940.2534 W318AN
George Washington remembers : reflections on the French and Indian War / edited by Fred Anderson ; with contributions by Philander D. Chase ... [et al.]
Washington, George, 1732-1799.
970.1 W31
The Indian and the white man / Edited with an introduction by Wilcomb E. Washburn.
970.00497 D413
Chippewa customs / by Frances Densmore ; with an introd. by Nina Marchatti Archabal
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957. (original 1929)
970.3 B66
Kwakiutl ethnography
/ Edited by Helen Codere
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. (previously unpublished manuscripts, 1897-1927)
970.3 SCH38
My life as an Indian / by J. W. Schultz
Schultz, James Willard, 1859-1947. (1935)
970.494 H47
They were only Diggers : a collection of articles from California newspapers, 1851-1866, on Indian and White relations / assembled and edited by Robert F. Heizer
Heizer, Robert Fleming, 1915-
970.5 P97D
Documents of United States Indian policy / edited by FrancisPaul Prucha
Prucha, Francis Paul.
973.0497 F724
The five civilized tribes-- Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek,Seminole / Foreman, Grant, 1869-1953. c.1934
973.04975 M8
James Mooney's history, myths, and sacred formulas of theCherokees : containing the full texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900) and The sacred formulas of the Cherokees (1891) as published by the Bureau of American Ethnology : with a new biographical int / by George Ellison
Mooney, James, 1861-1921.
973.0497 J12
A century of dishonor : a sketch of the United States government's dealings with some of the Indian tribes / by Helen HuntJackson ; foreword by Valerie Sherer Mates (c. 1885)
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885.
973.0497 P796
The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834 / SamuelW. Pond ; with an introduction by Gary Clayton Anderson (first published in 1908)
Pond, Samuel W. (Samuel William)
973.2 C719
The colonizers
/ collected and edited by T.J. Stiles ; with an introduction by Daniel B. Botkin
Stiles, T. J.
973.56 B336
The Battle of Wisconsin Heights : an eye-witness account by participants / compiled and edited by Crawford B. Thayer
973.56 H948
Hunting a shadow, the search for Black Hawk : an eye-witness account of the Black Hawk War of 1832 / compiled and edited by Crawford Beecher Thayer
973.56 M414
Massacre at Bad Axe : an eye-witness account of the Black Hawk War of 1832 / compiled and edited by Crawford Beecher Thayer
973.6092 F872
Memoirs of my life / by John Charles Frémont ; new introduction by Charles M. Robinson, III
Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
973.68 JK57
Indian war in the Pacific Northwest: the journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip / introduction to the Bison Books edition by Clifford E. Trafzer
Kip, Lawrence, 1836-1899.
973.81 B85
Conquest of the southern plains; uncensored narrative of the battle of the Washita and Custer's southern campaign ... / by Charles J.Brill ( 1938)
Brill, Charles J.
973.82 C987
Boots and saddles / Elizabeth B. Custer
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon, 1842-1933.
973.82092 C987
My life on the plains or, personal experiences with Indians
Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876.
974.7004975 IN35
In Mohawk country : early narratives about a Native people / edited by Dean R. Snow, Charles T. Gehring, and William Starna
975.00497 H393
The collected works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1810 / edited by Thomas Foster
Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816. (indian agent)
976.604092 D645K
The Indian territory journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge / edited by Wayne R. Kime
Dodge, Richard Irving, 1827-1895. ( Cheyenne, Arapaho)
977.02 K56
Wau-Bun : the "early day" in the North-west / Juliette M. Kinzie
Kinzie, John H., Mrs., 1806-1870. Originally published: New York : Derby, 1856.
977.500497 K79
Kitchi-Gami : life among the Lake Superior Ojibway
Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg), 1808-1878. Originally published: London : Chapman and Hall, 1860.
978 P243
Journal of an exploring tour beyond the Rocky Mountains ; under the direction of the A.B.C.F.M. containing a description of the geography, geology, climate, productions of the country, and the numbers, manners, and customs of the natives / by Rev. Samuel Parker, A.M
Parker, Samuel, 1779-1866.
978 W64
People of the first man : life among the Plains Indians intheir final days of glory : the firsthand account of Prince Maximilian'sexpedition up the Missouri River, 1833-34 / edited and designed by DavisThomas and Karin Ronnefeldt
Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867.
978.02 R239
Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852 / by Weldon Willis Rau ; as told by Mary Ann and Willis Boatman and augmented with accounts by other overland travelers
Rau, Weldon W.
978.02092 B774
The diaries of John Gregory Bourke. Vol. 1, November 20, 1872 - July 28, 1876 / edited by Charles M. Robinson III
Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896.
?978.202 SA224 (amount of relevant info.?)
Mollie : the journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado territories, 1857-1866 / Mollie Dorsey Sanford ; with an introduction and notes by Donald F. Danker
Sanford, Mollie Dorsey 1838 or 9-1915.
979.403092 AM481
Californio voices : the oral memoirs of José María Amador and Lorenzo Asisara ; translated and edited by Gregorio Mora-Torres
Amador, José Mariá, 1794-1883. (based on original manuscripts – 1877)
See also: Writings of Grant, Franklin, Jefferson, Jackson, Sherman, Eastman,… or JSTOR articles
Books at the MATC Libraries: Collections with both insider and outsider sources
920.073 N882
The Norton book of American autobiography / edited and introduced by Jay Parini and with a preface by Gore Vidal
Parini, Jay. (some selections may be appropriate)
970.1 V87
This country was ours : a documentary history of the American Indian / by Virgil J. Vogel
970.3 L73
Cheyenne and Sioux; the reminiscences of four Indians and a white soldier / compiled by Thomas B. Marquis. Edited by Ronald H.Limbaugh
Marquis, Thomas Bailey, 1869-1935.
973.0497 AM512SH
American Indians / edited by Nancy Shoemaker
973.00497 V889
Voices from the Trail of Tears / edited by Vicki Rozema
973.04975 C522P
The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents / edited with an introduction by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green
Perdue, Theda, 1949-
973.04975092 R312P
Autobiography of Red Cloud : war leader of the Oglalas / edited by R. Eli Paul
Allen, Charles Wesley, 1851-1942.
Written by Charles Wesley Allen from Red Cloud's reminiscences told to Sam Deon, and repeated to Allen
973.82 IN39
Indian views of the Custer fight : a source book / compiled and edited by Richard G. Hardorff
Hardorff, Richard G.
973.83 T476
I will tell of my war story : a pictorial account of the Nez Perce War / Scott M. Thompson. (pictorial with interpretations)
974.402 C254
Captive Histories: English, French, and Native narratives of the 1704 Deerfield raid / edited by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney
Haefeli, Evan, 1969-
975.00497 C522
Cherokee voices : early accounts of Cherokee life in the East / [compiled by Vicki Rozema] Rozema, Vicki, 1954-
978 G786
A Great Plains reader / edited by Diane D. Quantic and P. Jane Hafen
Quantic, Diane Dufva.
978 W295
Warriors and pioneers / collected and edited by T.J. Stiles ; with an introduction by Richard Maxwell Brown
Stiles, T. J.
979.7004979 SE441
Answering Chief Seattle / Albert Furtwangler
Furtwangler, Albert, 1942-
Online Digital Collections
An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs by Young Joseph, Chief of the Nez Perces and Right Rev. W. H. Hare, D.D.: pp. 412-434. Article originally published in The North American review. / Volume 128, Issue 269 April 1879. Digital collection: Making of America - Cornell University Library http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ABQ7578-0128-41
Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts. Edited by Harry Hoijer. Ethnological Notes by Morris Opler. Editor of electronic edition, M. Eleanor Culley. Originally published by University of Chicago Press, © 1938 The texts were collected in the summers of 1930 and 1931, and in
the spring of 1934. Digital collection: Electronic Text Center from Unviersity of Virginia http://etext.virginia.edu/apache/
The Black Hawk War of 1832 [electronic resource]
Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project. http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/index.html
The journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition [electronic resource] / edited by Gary E. Moulton
Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809. Nebraska edition. http://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/
Wau-bun, the "early day" in the North-west [electronic resource]/ by Mrs. John H. Kinzie
Kinzie, John H., Mrs., 1806-1870. New York : Derby & Jackson ; Cincinnati : Derby, 1856. http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/wright2/wright2-1481
American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection - University of Washington
Check Documents collection for over 1,500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855. http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
American Journeys: Documents - The Wisconsin Historical Society
http://www.americanjourneys.org/texts.asp
American Memory - Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Documenting the American South - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Ebook Subject Collections: Native American - University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-natam.html
Electronic Text Center: Native Americans - University of Virginia
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Native-American.html
First Nations Tribal Collection – Southern Oregon Digital Archives
http://soda.sou.edu/tribal.html
Göttingen- GDZ
Check Early North-Americana and Travel collections http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/index.html
Internet Modern History Sourcebook : Native Americans http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html#Native%20Americans
Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties - Oklahoma State University.
"Historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S.treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes" (1778-1970) http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
Making of America – University of Michigan
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ (antebellum to reconstruction)
Nineteenth-Century European-American views on Life in and the Peoples of the American West - University of Wisconsin
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/History/subcollections/SetIndAbout.shtml
Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842 - University of Georgia
http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?_id=7f000001&dbs=ZLNA
Other bibliographies to check:
016.97000497 B582
Bibliography of native American books. Akwesasne Library Cultural Center.
016.97000497 W587
American Indian studies : a bibliographic guide / Phillip M. White
978.00497 SM659
The view from officers' row : Army perceptions of western Indians / Sherry L. Smith
970.004970092 N278
Native American autobiography : an anthology / edited by Arnold Krupat
973 Z78V
Voices of a people's history of the United States / Howard Zinn (chapter 7)
Bibliography by Donna Marconnet dmarconnet@matcmadison.edu
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