
Literature
Online Databases | Internet Resources | Primary Sources | Anthologies | Graphic Novels
Online DatabasesElectric 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. |
Websites
- Academy of American Poets offers essays and interviews about poetry and biographies.
- American Indians in Children’s Literature
- Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet
- Native American Authors
- Poetry Foundation.
- Storytellers: Native American Authors Online includes biographies and online texts.
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.
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:
* May include works by and about literature of India.
There are also subject headings about the literature of individual Nations, such as:
Notable American Indian Authors
Anthologies
(The links below are links to the Library's catalog.)
Footpaths & bridges : voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive by Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
Humor in contemporary Native North American literature : reimagining nativeness by Gruber, Eva. Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, c2008.
Listening to the land : Native American literary responses to the landscape by Schweninger, Lee. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2008.
Native storiers : five selections Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2009.




