Native American Literature (ENGL/ETHN 245B; ENGL/ETHN 445E/845E)   Authors & Readings LINKS

Please excuse the fact that this page's intent got outa hand--in my best (and worst) monomaniacal manner. Excuse the fact that I've included several idiosyncratic contemporary figures, authors of poems I've admired in the past, but whose names few might deem worthy of inclusion in such a list. . . . Excuse my perhaps too great emphasis on Lakota authors?? . . . And excuse me while I go add a few more links! . . . The authors are arranged chronologically, by date of birth; the lists of "characteristic works" are also (usually) chronological--though also by genre; finally, information on dates and tribal affiliations are often my "interpolations" from a variety of sources.  --TCG P.S. (after extensive revision/additions in 2007): in an attempt at historical & encyclopedic inclusiveness, I have included several authors of–uh–questionable "authenticity"–cf. "[?]" after tribal affiliation claims–either because they've been read as "Native" by a lot of people or for a lot of years. (But, no, Forrest [Asa] Carter [erstwhile Cherokee], Jamake Highwater [erstwhile Blackfoot/Cherokee], and Nasdijj [erstwhile Navajo] are NOT included!) Also, check out my new page (as of May, 2006): Great "INDIAN" Moments in Pop Culture * All LINKS checked/updated, 6/08 (and page appearance made a little more user-friendly) . . . Instead of just deleting dead links, I've marked them as "defunct," because some of these (often excellent) resources are revived later under different URL's: this method reminds me to do a search for them at a later date. . . . And, in reaction to the many dead links, I've added more of my own TCG "resources" (poems, lesson plans, etc.–designated with a icon) that I know won't "go away." . . . I've also added some older Native writers I'd neglected, and some new up-and-comers achieving some fame in this decade (er, century).

NATIVE AMERICAN LIT.--GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS::::       NativeAuthors.com  --defunct    INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY: Native American Authors Project   --especially author bibliographies            Native American Authors Project: Index by Author            Native American Authors Project: Index by Book Title    WWW Virtual Library--American Indians   --"Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet"; with extensive author links (hanksville.org/Karen M. Strom)            STORYTELLERS: Native American Authors Online   (now part of NativeWiki)    VOICES FROM THE GAPS   --"North American women writers of color" (U of Minnesota)            Voices from the Gaps: Artist Biographies   --browse by name    Native Americans--Internet Resources   --links page (Internet School Library Media Center)            Native Americans--Teacher Resources   --including author links    VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: Minority Literatures--Native American/American Indian   --copious links    NATIVE AMERICAN BOOKS   --book reviews, etc. (Paula Giese/kstrom.net)    Native American Literature Chronology to 1969   (Miriam Schacht)    Weaving Webs Timeline   --"of Selected Native American Literary Texts" & "Historical Events" (Transcriptions Project)    Western American Indian Writers, 1854-1960   --literary-history essay, from Ridge & Winnemucca to McNickle & Ella Deloria (A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff)    "Place and Vision"   --essay on "place" in Momaday's House Made of Dawn, Silko's Ceremony, and Welch's Death of Jim Loney (Robert M. Nelson)    Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868   --complete text and list of signers thereof (Avalon Project/Yale Law School)    Wovoka: The Messiah Letter, 1891   --complete text (PBS: The West)    The Ghost Dance Movement   --by--uh--"Ghost Dancer"    The Legacy of Wounded Knee   --thorough set of articles on AIM's 1973 insurrection (originally Argus Leader [defunct]; now archived at Manataka)    "Indian" Sports Mascots and Logos: Looking Forward to Their History   --fine summary of the controversy (David Anthony Tyeeme Clark); defunct,     unfortunately . . . but do a Google search of the title: he may have put this excellent resource back up "elsewhere"      NOTE also the following (LITERARY) JOURNALS--    SAIL (Studies in American Literature) Home Page            SAIL Search Engine   --the online version of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures    Wicazo Sa Review: Journal of Native American Studies   --the online version of the journal    American Indian Quarterly   --the online version of the journal          EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NATIVE AUTHORS::::         SAMSON OCCOM ([or] Occum) (1723-1792)::::{Mohegan} Characteristic Work(s): A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian . . . (1772)    Samson Occum, 1723-1792   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Samson Occom or Occum (1723-1792)   --pict, links, bibliography (Donna Campbell)    Samson Occum, 1723-1792   --pict & other info, including study questions (Paul P. Reuben/Perspectives in American Literature)    Samson Occom   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct          EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY NATIVE AUTHORS::::         WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839)::::{Pequot} Characteristic Work(s): A Son of the Forest (1829; autobiography)    William Apess   --bio, bibliography (NativeWiki)    William Apess, 1798-1839   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    William Apess   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      GEORGE COPWAY (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh) (1818-1869[?])::::{Ojibwe [aka Chippewa; Anishinaabe]} Characteristic Work(s): The Life, History, and Travels, of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway), a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation . . . (1847; autobiography)    George Copway   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    George Copway (Kahgegagahhowh [Stands Fast]), 1818-1863   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    George Copway (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh); Ojibwe; (1818-1869)   --primary & secondary bibliography (Paul P. Reuben/Perspectives in American Literature)    George Copway   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (Yellow Bird) (1827-1867)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854; novel)    John Rollin Ridge   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird/Cheesquatalawny), 1827-1867   --brief bio, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)    John Rollin Ridge   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct          LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY/EARLY MODERN NATIVE AUTHORS::::         SIMON POKAGON (1830-1899)::::{Potawatomi} Characteristic Work(s): "The Red Man's Rebuke" (1893; essay); O-gi-maw-kwe Mit-i-gwa-ki (Queen of the Woods) (1899; autobiography)    Simon Pokagon   --bio, links (NativeWiki)    Simon Pokagon, 1830-1899   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Chief Simon Pokagon: 'Longfellow Of His Race'   --longer biography (A Pictoral History of Hartford, Michigan)    "The Future of the Red Man"'   --text of essay (U of Virginia Library)      SARAH WINNEMUCCA (HOPKINS) (1841[?]-1891)::::{Northern Paiute} Characteristic Work(s): Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883; autobiography)    Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Thocmetony, "Shell Flower")   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Sarah Winnemucca   --picts, bio, links (NativeWiki)    Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony (Shell flower)), 1844-1891   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Sarah Winnemucca   --pict, substantial bio (University of Nevada, Reno)    Sarah Winnemucca   --pict, bio, some quots. (Legendary Women with Causes)--defunct      FRANCIS LA FLESCHE (Zhogaxe) (1857-1932)::::{Omaha} Characteristic Work(s): The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe (1900; autobiography); The Osage Tribe (1921; anthropology)    Francis La Flesche   --pict, bio, links (NativeWiki)    Francis La Flesche (Zhogaxe), 1857-1932   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Francis La Flesche: American Indian Scholar   --biographical article, with picts (Library of Congress)            Omaha Indian Music   --collected by La Flesche, including audio (Library of Congress)    Francis La Flesche   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      CHARLES A. EASTMAN (Ohiyesha) ("oh-HEE-yay-shah") (1858-1939)::::{Santee Sioux [Dakota]}   Characteristic Work(s): Indian Boyhood (1902; autobiography); Old Indian Days (1907; folklore); The Soul of the Indian (1911; nonfiction)    Charles Eastman   --pict, bio, links (NativeWiki)    Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), 1858-1939   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Dr. Charles A. Eastman   --substantial biography (Paula Giese/kstrom.net)    Indian Boyhood   --text (U of Virginia Library)    The Soul of the Indian   --text (U of Virginia Library)    Charles A. Eastman   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      (EMILY) PAULINE JOHNSON (1861-1913)::::{Mohawk} Characteristic Work(s): The White Wampum (1895; poetry); The Moccasin Maker (1913; short stories)    Emily Pauline Johnson   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Emily Pauline Johnson   --picts, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), 1861-1913   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Emily Pauline Johnson   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      NICHOLAS BLACK ELK (Hehaka Sapa) ("hay-HAH-kah sah-pah") (1863-1950)::::{Oglala Lakota}   Characteristic Work(s): Black Elk Speaks (1932; autobiography; with John Neihardt)    Black Elk   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Black Elk, 1863-1950   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Black Elk (1863-1950); also known as Hehaka Sapa and Nicholas Black Elk   --pict, critical bibliography, study questions for Black Elk Speaks     (Paul P. Reuben/Perspectives in American Literature)    Black Elk--Study the Source: Black Elk Speaks   --background info, "study guide" to the book (C-SPAN American Writers)    "The Two Masks of Nicholas Black Elk" (Bruce A. Peterson)   --essay on Black Elk's religious syncretism   Black Elk Speaks: TCG's Class Notes (Outline/Commentary)   --In part to make up for all the dead links here, I've made a down-and-dirty version     of my rather extensive web notes/commentary to the book from a few years back. (In fact and sorry, but I didn't even delete the class dates.)     Includes some photos/scans and some "essential" background info in tabular form. (Oh, pardon, too, my sometime colloquial irreverence in these notes:     but my students get used to it soon enough. . . .    Black Elk's World   --incl. electronic text of Black Elk Speaks (U of Nebraska Press)--(very sadly) defunct            Forward to Black Elk Speaks   --by Vine Deloria, Jr.--defunct    Nicholas Black Elk   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct    Black Elk   --pict, brief bio, quots. from Black Elk Speaks (ritzlore.net)--defunct      S. ALICE CALLAHAN (1868-1894)::::{Muscogee [aka Creek]} Characteristic Work(s): Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891; novel)    S. Alice Callahan, 1868-1894   --brief bio, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)    "An Introduction to Wynema, A Child of the Forest"   --Annette Van Dyke, in SAIL (with excerpts from novel)      LUTHER STANDING BEAR (Mato Najin) ("mah-TOH NAH-jee[n]") (1868[?]-1939)::::{Oglala [or Sicangu] Lakota}   Characteristic Work(s): nonfiction/autobiography: My People, the Sioux (1928); My Indian Boyhood (1931); Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933)    Luther Standing Bear (Ota Kte, Mochunozhin), 1868-1939   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Luther Standing Bear   --excerpts/quots. (indigenouspeople.net)    Luther Standing Bear   --another quots. page, plus picts (Red Hawk's Lodge/siouxme.com)    The words of the early American Indian about nature   --quots. from Standing Bear (plus Geronimo and Black Elk) (VCU)    "Chief Standing Bear, Likens Scalping to Modern Day Trophy"   --fascinating 1928 article (Voices from the Western Frontier)    Standing Bear, Luther   --substantial biography (Encyclopedia of North American Indians)--defunct (or at least no longer "free")      ALEXANDER POSEY (1873-1908)::::{Muscogee} Characteristic Work(s): poetry    Alexander Lawrence Posey   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Alexander Lawrence Posey, 1873-1908   --brief bio, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)    Posey, Alexander Lawrence (1873-1908)   --bio (Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture)    Alexander Lawrence Posey   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      JOHN MILTON OSKISON (1874-1947)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): novels: Wild Harvest (1925); Black Jack Davy (1926); Brothers Three (1935); The Singing Bird (2007)    John Milton Oskison   --bio, bibliography, extensive links (NativeWiki)    John Milton Oskison, 1874-1947   --brief bio, links bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    "The Problem of Old Harjo"   --text of short story (U of Virginia Library)      ZITKALA-ShA (Red Bird) (Getrude Simmons Bonnin) (pronounced "zee[n]t-KHAH-lah SHAH") (1876-1938):::: {Yankton Sioux (Nakota)}   Characteristic Work(s): Old Indian Legends (1901; folklore); American Indian Stories (1921; biographical essays)    Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Zitkala-Sa   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Zitkala Sa, 1876-1938   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Images of Zitkala-Sa   --Catherine Lavender (CUNY)    Gertrude Bonnin--Zitkala Sha--Yankton Nakota   --biography (Paula Giese/kstrom.net)    Zitkala Sa--A Biography   --w/ picts (Roseanne Hoefel/Bucknell)    Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa) (1876-1938)   --links, including to works online (Donna Campbell/Gonzaga)    Zitkala-Sa (aka Gertrude Simmons) at Carlisle   --incl. original Carlisle "newsletter" references to Zitkala-Sa (Landis)    Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938)   --teaching strategies (Kristin Herzog/Heath Anthology Instructor Resources)    Old Indian Legends   --etext of her book (U of Virginia Library)    American Indian Stories   --etext of her book (upenn.edu)    "Why I Am a Pagan"   --text of her 1902 essay (U of Virginia Library)    "From New Woman to Sioux Wife: Zitkala-Sa Goes Home to Marry"   --essay by Susan Rose Dominguez (.pdf file)--defunct      WILL ROGERS (1879-1935)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): Autobiography (1949)    Will Rogers   --picts, bio, filmography, links (NativeWiki)    Will Rogers--The Cherokee Kid   --(rather fluffy) biography (All Things Cherokee)      MOURNING DOVE (Humishuma) (Christal Quintasket) (1885[?]-1936)::::{Okanogan/Colville}   Characteristic Work(s): Cogewea, the Half-Blood (1927; novel); Coyote Stories (1933; folklore)    Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket)   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma), 1888-1936   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Mourning Dove (Okanogan) (1888-1936)   --teaching strategies (Kristin Herzog/Heath Anthology Instructor Resources)    Mourning Dove   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct    Coyote Stories   --excerpts from Mourning Dove's book of the same name (headmap.org)--defunct      ELLA (CARA) DELORIA (1888[?]-1971)::::{Yankton Sioux (Nakota)} Characteristic Work(s): Dakota Texts (1932; folklore); Speaking of Indians (1944; nonfiction); Waterlily (1944 [p.1988]; novel)    Ella Cara Deloria   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Ella Cara Deloria   --bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Ella Cara Deloria, 1889-1971   links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Ella Cara Deloria   --pict, bio, map, links, bibliography (Celebration of Women Anthropologists [U of S Florida])    Ella Cara Deloria   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct    Ella Cara Deloria   --pict, bio (Kid's Castle)--defunct      JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS (1894-1979)::::{Osage} Characteristic Work(s): Sundown (1934; novel); Wah'Kon-Tah (1932; historical novel); Talking to the Moon (1945; naturist nonfiction)    John Joseph Mathews   --bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    John Joseph Mathews, 1894-1979   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    [review of reissue of] Wah'Kon-Tah   --Terry P. Wilson, in SAIL    John Joseph Mathews (Osage) (1894-1979)   --teaching strategies (Andrew O. Wiget/Heath Anthology Instructor Resources)    John Joseph Mathews   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      (ROLLIE) LYNN RIGGS (1899-1954)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): Green Grow the Lilacs (1931; drama)    Lynn Riggs   --bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Lynn Riggs, 1899-1954   --brief bio, link, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)    Riggs, Rollie Lynn (1899-1954)   --bio and bibliography (Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture)      (GEORGE) TODD DOWNING (1902-1974)::::{Choctaw} Characteristic Work(s): mystery novels (e.g., The Cat Screams (1934)    Downing, George Todd (1902-1974)   --bio and bibliography (Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture)    Mystery novels to Choctaw Pageant: Todd Downing and native American literature(s)     --essay by Wolfgang Hochbruck Sonderdrucke aus der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) (.pdf file)      JOHN LAME DEER (John Fire) (Tahcha Hushte) ("TAHK-chah [h]ooh-SHTAY") (1903[?]-1976)::::{Mniconjou Lakota}   Characteristic Work(s): Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (1972; autobiography; with Richard Erdoes)    John (Fire) Lame Deer, 1903-1976   --brief bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions   --treatment of the book from a postcolonialist view (Colonial & Postcolonial Literary Dialogues [W Michigan U])    Lame Deer--Seeker of Visions   --quots. from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (Head Heritage)    White Buffalo Calf Woman Brings The First Pipe--As told by: John Fire Lame Deer, in 1967   --Arvol Looking Horse (Paula Giese/kstrom.net)    Lame Deer, John Fire   --substantial bio (American National Biography Online)--defunct (or at least no longer "free")      D'ARCY McNICKLE (1904-1977)::::{Cree/Salish/Kootenai} Characteristic Work(s): Native American Tribalism: Indian Renewals and Survivals (1973; nonfiction); The Hawk Is Hungry and Other Stories (1992; short stories); novels: The Surrounded (1936); Runner in the Sun (1954); Wind from an Enemy Sky (1978)    D'Arcy McNickle   --bio, bibliography (incl. extentensive 2ndary sources), links (NativeWiki)    D'Arcy William McNickle, 1904-1977   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    D'Arcy McNickle (1904-1977)   --teaching strategies (John Lloyd Purdy/Heath Anthology Instructor Resources)    D'Arcy William McNickle   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct    Biography of D'Arcy McNickle     (Newberry Library/McNickle Center)--defunct (go figure)      THOMAS S. WHITECLOUD (1914-1972)::::{Ojibwe} Characteristic Work(s): poetry (e.g., "An Indian's Prayer"); short stories; "Blue Winds Dancing" (essay, 1938)    Thomas S. Whitecloud, 1914-1972   --link to poem, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)    Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa)   --bio, links (Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr./Heath Anthology Authors Page)    "Blue Winds Dancing" (by Tom Whitecloud)   --text of oft-anthologized essay (or short story, if you will; BTW, the reader comments are a hoot!)   "Thief"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)  [NOTE: I've subsequently determined that the writer of this poem may well not be the fellow above, author of "Blue Winds Dancing." But, being able to discover next to nothing about the second "Tom Whitecloud," I leave the link/poem here.]    "An Indian's Prayer"   --text of poem (AAIP)--defunct          MODERN/CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AUTHORS::::         LOUIS OLIVER (Little Coon) (1904-1991)::::{Muscogee/Yuchi} Characteristic Work(s): Caught in a Willow Net (1983; poetry)    Oklahoma Author: Louis (Little Coon) Oliver   --pict, brief bio, bibliography (Storytellers)            "I Do Not Waste What Is Wild . . . Louis (Little Coon) Oliver"   --Maurice Kenny's tribute to Oliver (and Harjo's elegy for Oliver, "Fishing") (Storytellers)    Louis (Little Coon) Oliver   --bio, bibliography (NativeWiki)    Louis Oliver (Little Coon), 1904-1991   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)      MARY TALL MOUNTAIN (1918-1994)::::{Koyukon Athabascan} Characteristic Work(s): poetry: There Is No Word for Goodbye (1981); Listen to the Night: Poems to the Animal Spirits of Mother Earth (1995)    Mary Tall Mountain, 1918-1994   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Mary Tall Mountain   --pict, brief bio, (dead) link (Nancy G. Patterson)      NORMAN H. RUSSELL (1921-)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): Indian Thoughts: My Journey (1980; poetry) –links?–WHAT links?!–yet one of the first Native poets I enjoyed, back in the 1970's . . .    Norman Hudson Russell (1921-)   (Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation[!])   "anna wauneka comes to my hogan"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)      RALPH SALISBURY (1924-)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): poetry: Pointing at the Rainbow (1980); Rainbows of Stone (2000; poetry); short stories: One Indian and Two Chiefs (1993); The Last Rattlesnake Throw and Other Stories (1998)    Ralph Salisbury: poet/professor/fiction writer   --his official web site    Ralph Salisbury   --bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Ralph Salisbury, 1924-   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)      THOMAS E. MAILS (Dallas Chief Eagle) (1925-1980)::::{Lakota} Characteristic Work(s): Winter Count (1967; novel)    Winter Count by Dallas Chief Eagle   --review of novel (Indian Country Today)      CARROLL ARNETT (1927-1997)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): poetry    Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi), 1927-1997   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett   --brief bio (in French), several poems--with French translations! (Sur le Dos de la Tortue)      NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER (1927-)::::{Tlingit} Characteristic Work(s): Droning Shaman (1988; poetry, translations)    Nora Marks Dauenhauer   --bio, bibliography (NativeWiki)    Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Keixwenei), 1927-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Nora Marks Dauenhauer   --pict, links, incl. seminar transcript (1992 Poetics and Politics Series [U of Arizona])            "How to Make Good Baked Salmon from the River"   --text (and vid) of one of my favorite poems (Poetics and Politics)    "'Listen for Sounds': An Introduction to Alaska Native Poets Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Fred Bigjim, and Robert Davis"   (The Northern Review, Summer 1993)    "A Poem for Jim Nagataak'w (Jakwteen) My Grandfather, Blind and Nearly Deaf"  --text of poem (worldofpoetry.org)      MAURICE KENNY (1929-)::::{Mohawk}   Characteristic Work(s): Backward to Forward: Prose Pieces (1997; essays); Rain and Other Fictions (1986; short stories); poetry: The Smell of Slaughter (1982); The Mama Poems (1984); Is Summer This Bear (1985); Between Two Rivers (1987); On Second Thought (1995); In the Time of the Present (2000)    Maurice Kenny   --pict, bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])            "Greyhounding to Billings, Montana"   --text of poem (Storytellers)            "I Do Not Waste What Is Wild . . . Louis (Little Coon) Oliver"   --Maurice Kenny's tribute to Oliver (and Harjo's elegy for Oliver, "Fishing") (Storytellers)    Maurice Kenny, 1929-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Kenny, Maurice (b. 1929)   --biography from a gay perspective (glbtq.com)   "wild turkey in massena, n.y."   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)      ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN (1930-)::::{Dakota}     --I met her! Characteristic Work(s): Then Badger Said This (1977; poems & stories); Aurelia: A Crow Creek Trilogy (1999; novellas); nonfiction: Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays; Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth (2001)    Elizabeth Cook-Lynn   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, & links (Voices from the Gaps)    Elizabeth Cook-Lynn   --pict, bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])    Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, 1930-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Elizabeth Cook-Lynn   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      OREN LYONS (1930-)::::{Onondaga Iroquois} Characteristic Work(s): "I See No Seat For The Eagles. . . ." (1992; speech); Dog Story (1973; children's fiction)    Oren Lyons, 1930-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Chief Oren Lyons   --pict, substantial bio, links (Reinhard Ponty [fraktali.travity.de])            Chief Oren Lyons' December 1992 address to the United Nations   --text of speech (Reinhard Ponty)      CARTER REVARD (1931-)::::{Osage/Ponca}   Characteristic Work(s): poetry: Ponca War Dancers (1980); An Eagle Nation (1993); Winning the Dust Bowl (2001)    Carter Revard   --picts, bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])            "Over By Fairfax, Leaving Tracks "   --text of poem (Storytellers)    Carter Revard (Nompehwahteh), 1931-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    The Salt Companion to Carter Revard   --pict of Revard, review of and excerpts from Arnold's book (Salt Publishing)    Carter Revard   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct    Profile: Carter Revard   --pict, bio (indigenations.com)--defunct      JIM BARNES (1933-)::::{Choctaw} Characteristic Work(s): poetry: The American Book of the Dead (1982); A Season of Loss (1985); La Plata Cantata (1989); The Sawdust War (1992)    Jim Barnes   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])    Jim Barnes, 1933-   --a few links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Jim Barnes   --pict, bio, and several poems (thehypertexts.com)    "The Good Dark"   --text of poem (Verse Daily)      VINE DELORIA, JR. (1933-2005)::::{{Yankton Sioux (Nakota)/Santee Sioux (Dakota)/Hunkpapa Lakota}   Characteristic Work(s): nonfiction (cultural criticism)--Custer Died for Your Sins (1969); God is Red (1994); For This Land: Writings on Religion in America (1999)    A Conversation With Vine Deloria, Jr.   --29-minute video (& transcript) of a young Vine Deloria     (Words & Place--Larry Evers/U of Arizona)    Vine Deloria, Jr.   --bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Vine Deloria Jr., 1933-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Vine Deloria Jr.   --picts, brief bio (indigenouspeople.net)    "Vine Deloria Jr., giant in Indian Country, dies at 72"   --obituary, w/ lots of links (indianz.com)   TCG: Deloria's Cultural Binaries   --In part to make up for all the dead links here, I've made a down-and-dirty version     of a tabular outline of Deloria's "Great Binary" (as I call it) that I made for students a few years back. . . .    Vine Deloria, Jr.   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct    Vine Deloria   --bio and thorough bibliography (Worlds of Thought [Mankato State])--defunct    Forward to Black Elk Speaks   --by Vine Deloria, Jr.--defunct      VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE (pronounced "SNAY-vee") (1933-)::::{Lakota} Characteristic Work(s): juvenile fiction/folklore (e.g., The Trickster and the Troll (1999); Completing the Circle (1995; nonfiction)    Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    >Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve   --bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Virginia Driving Hawk), 1933-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    The Annual Joseph Harper Cash Memorial Lecture, Fall 1997   --pict & bio for the lecture (U of SoDak)      N. SCOTT MOMADAY (1934-)::::{Kiowa/Cherokee}   Characteristic Work(s): House Made of Dawn (1968; novel); The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969; "folklore"); The Names: A Memoir (1976; autobiography); The Ancient Child (1989); In the Presence of the Sun (stories & poems; 1992); The Man Made of Words (1997; stories & essays); poetry: Angle of Geese (1974); The Gourd Dancer (1976); In the Bear's House (1999)    N. Scott Momaday (1934-)   --pict, extensive links (Modern American Poetry)            N. Scott Momaday: Biographical, Literary, and Multicultural Contexts   --substantial critical biography/bibliography (Modern American Poetry)    N. Scott Momaday   --picts (book covers), bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    N. Scott Momaday, 1934-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    N. Scott Momaday   --pict, links, incl. seminar transcript (1992 Poetics and Politics Series [U of Arizona])    N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (1934-)   --pict, primary & secondary bibliography (Paul P. Reuben/Perspectives in American Literature)    "N. Scott Momaday: Mandarin Tribal Voice"   --(at times refreshingly irreverent) critical essay (dancingbadger.com)            "Diamonds and Turquoise: The Poetry of N. Scott Momaday"   --essay (Mick McAllister, At Wanderer's Well [dancingbadger.com])    N. Scott Momaday Interview   --w/ Joanna Hearne (Native Networks)    "Place and Vision"   --essay on "place" in Momaday's House Made of Dawn, Silko's Ceremony, and Welch's Death of Jim Loney (Robert M. Nelson)   "Carriers of the Dream Wheel"   --text of perhaps Momaday's most famous poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)   "December 29, 1890"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)   "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)   "A Private Interview with N. Scott MOMADAY"   --translation of 2005 French interview by Anne Garrait-Bourrier (TCG [forthcoming])    N. Scott Momaday   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      CAROL LEE SANCHEZ (1934-)::::{Laguna Pueblo/Lakota} Characteristic Work(s): poetry: Excerpts from a Mountain Climber's Handbook: Selected Poems, 1971-1984 (1985); From Spirit to Matter: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1996 (1997)    Carol Lee Sanchez   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Carol Lee Sanchez, 1934-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    "Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: The Sacred Connection"   --poem ("Her Song"), and extended commentary      GERALD VIZENOR (1934-)::::{Ojibwe}   Characteristic Work(s): Interior Landscapes (1990; autobiographical essays); critical essays: Narrative Chance (1989); Manifest Manners (1994); Fugitive Poses (1998); novels: Griever (1986); The Trickster of Liberty (1988); Bearheart ([1978/]1990); The Heirs of Columbus (1991); Dead Voices (1992); Chancers (2000); Hiroshima Bugi (2003); poetry (especially haiku [e.g., Seventeen Chirps (1964); Almost Ashore: Selected Poems (2006)])    Gerald Vizenor   --pict, bio, extensive primary & secondary bibliography, links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])    Gerald Vizenor, 1934-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Gerald Vizenor   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (Minnesota Author Biographies Project)    Gerald Vizenor   --special issue devoted to Vizenor, in SAIL (Spring, 1997)    Gerald Vizenor in Dialogue with A. Robert Lee   --interview from Postindian Conversations (Weber Studies)    On Teaching: Gerald Vizenor   --as recounted by Mary Ellen Butler (UC Berkeley)      PETER BLUE CLOUD (1935-)::::{Mohawk} Characteristic Work(s): Elderberry Flute Song: Contemporary Coyote Tales (1982; folklore); Sketches in Winter, With Crows (1984; poetry)    Peter Blue Cloud   --bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Peter Blue Cloud (Aroniawenrate), 1935-   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Peter Blue Cloud: "Badger's Son"   --a Coyote story (Edge-ucation Council)      HYEMEYOHSTS STORM (1935-)::::{Cheyenne/Crow[?]} Characteristic Work(s): Seven Arrows (1972)    Hyemeyohsts (Wolf) Storm, 1935-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    "He Never Cries Wolf"   --article acknowledging the controversy regarding Storm's Native identity (Sarah Phelan)      DENNIS BANKS (1937-)::::{Ojibwe} Characteristic Work(s): Ojibwa Warrior (2005; autobiography; with Richard Erdoes)    Dennis Banks   --bio, (brief!) bibliography (NativeWiki)    Dennis J. Banks (Nowa Cumig)   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)      DUANE NIATUM (pronounced "NIGH-yuh-tum") (1938-)::::{Klallam} Characteristic Work(s): Drawings of the Song Animals (1991; poetry); Stories from the Land of Red Cedar (1999; folklore)    Duane Niatum   --pict, bio, extensive bibliography and links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])            "Drawings Of The Song Animals"   --text of poem (Storytellers)            "Snowy Owl Near Ocean Shores"   --text of poem (Storytellers)    Duane Niatum, 1938-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Profile: Duane Niatum   --pict, bio (indigenations.com)   "Snowy Owl Near Ocean Shores"   --(redundant) text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)    Duane Niatum   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      PAULA GUNN ALLEN (1939-)::::{Pueblo/Lakota}   Characteristic Work(s): poetry; The Sacred Hoop (1986; literary/cultural criticism); Life Is a Fatal Disease (poetry; 1996)    Paula Gunn Allen   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, & links (Voices from the Gaps)    Paula Gunn Allen   --pict, bio, extensive bibliography and links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])            "And Then, Twenty Years Later . . .": A Conversation with Paula Gunn Allen   --interview by John Purdy (Storytellers)    Paula Gunn Allen, 1939-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Paula Gunn Allen   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON (William Trogdon) (1939-)::::{Osage[??]} Characteristic Work(s): nonfiction: Blue Highways (1983); PrairyErth (1991)    William Least Heat-Moon   --bio, bibliography (NativeWiki)    William Least Heat-Moon, 1939-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    William Least Heat-Moon   --author's home page--defunct      MARIA CAMPBELL (1940-)::::{Metis} Characteristic Work(s): Halfbreed (1973; autobiography)    Maria Campbell   --bio, bibliography (NativeWiki)    Maria Campbell, 1940-   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Maria Campbell (Metis)   --substantial bio (cuny.edu)    Maria Campbell   --cultural background of Halfbreed (U of British Columbia)--defunct      ROBERT J. CONLEY (1940-)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): novels: Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1992); War Woman (1997); Cherokee Dragon (2000)--and LOTS of "pulp" Westerns; poetry    Robert Conley   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])    Robert J. Conley, 1940-   --pict, brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)      JIMMIE DURHAM (1940-)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): Columbus Day (1983; poetry)    Jimmie Durham   --bio, bib entry (NativeWiki)    Jimmie Durham, 1940-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Jimmie Durham: The Pursuit of Happiness   --photos (of his art), essay, interview (Heyoka Magazine)   "Columbus Day"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)    J i m m i e    D u r h a m   --brief bio, visual-art exhibits, bibliography (First Nations Art)--defunct      JAMES WELCH (1940-2003)::::{Blackfeet/Gros Ventre}   Characteristic Work(s): Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971; poetry); Killing Custer (1995; nonfiction); novels: Winter in the Blood (1974); The Death of Jim Loney (1979); Fools Crow (1987); The Indian Lawyer (1990); The Heartsong of Charging Elk (2000)    James Welch   --pict, bio, bibliography (NativeWiki)    James Welch, 1940-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    James Welch   --pict, links, incl. seminar transcript (1992 Poetics and Politics Series [U of Arizona])    James Welch ~ American Novelist, American Indian   --extensive critical biography/annotated bibliography (dancingbadger.com)    About James Welch: A Profile   --critical biography (Don Lee, in Ploughshares)    James Welch   --brief interview & picture (Colorado Springs Independent, 1999)    "The Death of Jim Loney"   --several brief scholarly essays on the novel (SAIL)    "Place and Vision"   --essay on "place" in Momaday's House Made of Dawn, Silko's Ceremony, and Welch's Death of Jim Loney (Robert M. Nelson)    TCG's Motifs & "Themes" in The Death of Jim Loney   --A down-and-dirty version of a thematic outline of the novel that I made for students a few years back. . . .    James Welch (1940-)   --scholarly treatment of Welch's style, themes, etc. (nativepubs.com)--defunct      BETH BRANT (1941-)::::{Mohawk} Characteristic Work(s): Food & Spirits (1991; short stories); Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk (1994; nonfiction)    Beth E. Brant (Degonwadonti)   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Beth Brant   --bio, bibliography (NativeWiki)    Beth E. Brant (Degonwadonti), 1941-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Beth Brant   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      DIANE GLANCY (1941-)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): poetry; drama; Offering: Poetry and Prose (1988; mixed-genre); Firesticks: A Collection of Stories (1993; short stories); novels: Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1996); Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea (2003)    Diane Glancy   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Diane Glancy   --pict, bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers [now NativeWiki])    Diane Glancy, 1941-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Diane Glancy   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct    Poets & Poems: Diane Glancy   --texts of three poems (Poetry Project)--defunct      GEARY HOBSON (1941-)::::{Cherokee/Quawpaw/Chickasaw} Characteristic Work(s): essays/literary criticism; Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990; poetry); The Last of the Ofos (2000; novel)    Geary Hobson   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Geary Hobson, 1941-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Geary Hobson   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      SIMON J. ORTIZ (1941-)::::{Acoma Pueblo}       --I met him! (mid-1970's) Characteristic Work(s): Howbah Indians (1978; short stories); poetry: Going for the Rain (1976); From Sand Creek (1981); Woven Stone (1992); After and Before the Lightning (1994)    Simon J. Ortiz   --bio, extensive primary & secondary bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Simon J. Ortiz, 1941-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Simon Ortiz   --pict, links, incl. seminar transcript (1992 Poetics and Politics Series [U of Arizona])    Simon J. Ortiz   --pict, brief bio, audio/video of readings (CounterBalance Poetry) [non-text media no longer there]    Simon Ortiz   --including .wav file of Ortiz reading (Writing the Southwest)    "Something Wicked This Way Comes: Warnings by Simon Ortiz and Martin Cruz Smith"   --by Gregg Graber (in Wicazo Sa Review)    "A Designated National Park"   --text of poem (Voyage to Another Universe: Karen M. Strom/hanksville.org)    "Many Farms Notes"   --text of poem (Voyage to Another Universe: Karen M. Strom/hanksville.org)   "Four Poems for a Child Son"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)    Simon J. Ortiz   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      JOSEPH BRUCHAC (pronounced "BROOH-shock") (1942-)::::{Abenaki}   Characteristic Work(s): poetry: Near the Mountains (1987); No Borders (1999); LOTS of children's literature/folklore (e.g., Iroquois Stories [1985]); The Wind Eagle and Other Abenaki Stories [1985]; A Boy Called Slow [1994]); children's eco-literature (i.e., the Keepers series [with Michael Caduto])    Joseph Bruchac Storyteller & Writer   --author's home page [but: I thought my web color scheme was unreadable!]    Joseph Bruchac   --bio, links (NativeWiki)    Joseph Bruchac, 1942-   --brief bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Meet the Author: Joseph Bruchac   (Houghton Mifflin)    An Interview with Joseph Bruchac   --by Eliza T. Dresang (CCBC)    "Love of reading inspired author Joseph Bruchac to write"   --interview, regarding his children's books (NEA)    Joseph Bruchac (1942-)   --pict, bibliography (Andrew O. Widget/Heath Anthology Instructor Resources)    Josseph Bruchac, III   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)--defunct      RAYNA GREEN (1942-)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): literary criticism, poetry    Rayna D. Green--Director, American Indian Program   --her page at the Smithsonian Institution    Rayna D. Green   --quot., critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)    Rayna Diane Green, 1942-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)      MARCOOSIE (Patsang) (1942-)::::{Inuit} Characteristic Work(s): Harpoon of the Hunter (1970; novella)    Marcoosie, 1942-   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    "Markoosie's Harpoon of the Huntier: a Story of Cultural Survival"   --excerpt from journal article by Seth Bovey     (Questia [originally from American Indian Quarterly])      MARTIN CRUZ SMITH (MARTIN WILLIAM SMITH) (1942-)::::{Senecú del Sur Pueblo/Yaqui} Characteristic Work(s): novels: The Indians Won (1970); Nightwing (1977); Gorky Park (1981)    Martin Cruz Smith, 1942-   --brief bio, link to interview, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    "Something Wicked This Way Comes: Warnings by Simon Ortiz and Martin Cruz Smith"   --by Gregg Graber (in Wicazo Sa Review)      THOMAS KING (1943-)::::{Cherokee} Characteristic Work(s): novels: Medicine River (1990); Green Grass, Running Water (1993); Truth and Bright Water (1999)    Thomas King   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (NativeWiki)    Thomas King, 1943-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)    Thomas King   --pict, brief bio (Canadian Literature Online)    "A Writer Without Reservations"   --"Profile" by Mary Dickieson (uoguelph.ca)    Green Grass, Running Water   --several editorial reviews of the novel at Amazon.com      LANCE HENSON (1944-)::::{Cheyenne/Oglala Lakota}     --I met him!