Texts By & About Natives

 

Texts

1. Sherman Alexie, “One Little Indian Boy,” in Edge Walking on the Western Rim: New Works by 12 Northwest Writers, ed. Mayumi Tsutakawa. Seattle: One Reel, 1994.

2. Sherman Alexie, “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me,” in Here First: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, ed. Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann. New York: The Modern Library, 2000.

3. Sherman Alexie, "The Business of Fancydancing"

4. Sherman Alexie, "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel"

5. Chief Joseph, "An Indian's View of Indian Affairs"

6. Chief Seattle, Speech

7. Ella Clark, "Thunder and His Son-in-Law"

8. Livingston Farrand, "The Tale of Thunder and Sisemo" (field notes)

9. Livingston Farrand, "How Sisemo Won Thunder's Daughter"

10. Janet Campbell Hale, “The Only Good Indian,” in Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter. New York: Random House, 1993.

11. Melville Jacobs, Santiam Kalapuya Ethnologic Texts

12. Mourning Dove, "Chipmunk and Owl-Woman"

13. Mourning Dove, Cogewea, The Half-Blood

14. Duane Niatum, "Son, This Is What I Can Tell You"

15. Ted Perry, Chief Seattle's Speech

16. Inez Peterson, “Missing You,” in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America, ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

17. Archie Phinney, "The Maiden and Salmon"

18. Jarold Ramsey, "Joshua Creation Story"

19. Jarold Ramsey, "Four Accounts of Simon Fraser's Canoe"

20. James Willard Schultz, "The 'Pis-Kan' of the Blackfeet"

21. James Willard Schultz, "Life Among the Blackfeet"

22. James Welch, "Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat"

23. James Welch, "The Only Bar in Dixon"

24. James Welch, "Riding the Earthboy 40"

25. James Welch, "Thanksgiving at Snake Butte"

26. James Welch, Fools Crow: A Novel

27. Elizabeth Woody, "By Our Hand, through the Memory, the House is More Than Form"

 
 
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