Literature

Online Databases | Internet Resources | Primary Sources | Anthologies | Graphic Novels

Online Databases

Electric Library. This database includes magazine and newspaper articles, newswire items and television transcripts.

Literature Resource Center. Full-text journal articles, literary criticism, reviews, biographical information, and overviews on over 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Content from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography and LitFinder.

Internet Resources

Academy of American Poets offers essays and interviews about poetry and biographies.
URL: http://www.poets.org/.

Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet
URL: http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAbooks.html.

Internet Public Library: Biographies
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/ref15.00.00/

Internet Public Library: Native American Authors. Expanded author and artist biographies, links to additional resources and online texts. Search by author name, title, or tribal affiliation.
URL: http://www.ipl.org/div/searchresults/?words=native+american+authors&searchtype=traditional.

Native American Mysteries
Mysteries with Native American authors, protagonists, and/or setting
URL: http://www.wakefieldlibrary.org/zranativeamericanmys.htm.

Poetry Foundation.

Storytellers: Native American Authors Online includes biographies and online texts.
URL: http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/.

Primary Sources (the work itself)

To locate books BY a particular author, search the library catalog by author.
To locate an essay or short work, or an author included in an anthology, search the library catalog by keyword using words from the title and/or author's name.
To locate general American Indian literature resources, search the library catalog by subject for subject headings about American Indian literature, as follows:

American Fiction -- Indian Authors.	American Literature -- Indian Authors.
Indian Literature.*	Indian Poetry.*
Indians -- Literary Collections.*	Indians of North America -- Folklore.
Indians of North America -- Literary Collections.	Indians of North America -- Women -- Literary Collections.

* May include works by and about literature of India.

There are also subject headings about the literature of individual Nations, such as:

Cherokee Indians -- Folklore.	Kiowa Indians in Literature.
Navajo Indians -- Literary Collections.	Osage Indians -- Fiction.

Notable American Indian Authors

Anthologies

(The links below are links to the Library's catalog.)

American Indian Voices edited by Karen D. Harvey. Millbrook Press, c1995.

Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience edited by Clifford E. Trafzer. Anchor Books, 1993.

Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology edited by Gerald Vizenor. Longman, c1995.

Reclaiming the Vision: Past, Present and Future: Native Voices for the Eighth Generation edited by Lee Francis and James Bruchac. Greenfield Review Press, c1996.

Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America edited by Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird. W.W. Norton, c1997.

Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival edited by Joseph Bruchac. University of Arizona Press, c1994.

Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans selected by Arlene B. Hirschfelder and Beverly R. Singer. Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.

Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1974-1994 edited by Paula Gunn Allen. Ballantine Books, 1996.

Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature edited by Paula Gunn Allen. Ballantine Books, 1994.

Voices under one sky: contemporary Native literature edited by Trish Fox Roman. Crossing Press, 1994.

Graphic Novels

Super Indian

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