Indian Creators: Subject Terms

American literature -- Indian authors
Indian authors -- United States
Indian artists
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life

Document Collections/Anthologies

North American Indian drama offers over 200 plays written by American Indian playwrights of the 20th century. Includes Cherokee, Métis, Creek, Choctaw, Pembina Chippewa, Ojibway, Hawaiian/Samoan, Comanche, Cree, Navajo, Rappahannock, and other dramatists. Some of the plays have never been published before.

Tribal Writers Digital Library

New voices in native American literary criticism, ed. by Arnold Krupat. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, 555 p.
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The third woman: minority women writers of the United States, ed. by Dexter Fisher. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980, 594 p.
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Harper's anthology of twentieth century Native American poetry. San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1988, 396 p. 
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Nothing but the truth : an anthology of Native American literature, by John Purdy, James Ruppert. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 2001, 640 p.
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The winged serpent; an anthology of American Indian prose and poetry, edited, and with an introductory essay, ed. by Margot Astrov. New York, The John Day company, 1946, 366 p.
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Context and Background

The Native American Indian artist directory, by Robert Painter. Albuquerque, N.M. : First Nations Art Pub., 1998, 280 p.
--Includes over 2,100 artists, sculptors, potters, rug weavers, basket makers, kachina carvers, bead workers, clothing designers, silversmiths, jewelry makers, and other crafts people
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St. James guide to native North American artists, ed. by Roger Matuz. Detroit : St. James Press, 1998, 691 p.
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A Celebration of Women Writers: First Nations Writers

Encyclopedia of Native American artists, by Deborah Everett and Elayne Zorn. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008, 267 p.
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Encyclopedia of American Indian literature, ed. by Jennifer McClinton-Temple, Alan Velie. NY: Facts on File, 2007, 466 p.
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Native American literatures: an encyclopedia of works, characters, authors, and themes, by Kathy J. Whitson. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1999, 295 p.
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Dictionary of Native American literature, ed. by Andrew Wiget. NY: Garland, 1994, 598 p.
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Native North American literature: biographical and critical information on native writers and orators from the United States and Canada from historical times to the present, ed. by Janet Witalec, Jeffery Chapman, Christopher Giroux. New York : Gale Research, 1994, 706 p.
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Contemporary Native American authors: a biographical dictionary, by Kay Juricek, Kelly J. Morgan. Juricek, Kay. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum Pub., 1997, 287 p.  
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NativeTech : Native American Technology and Art

Bibliographies

Voices from the Gaps (University of Minnesota)

Annotated bibliography of American Indian painting, Doris Ostrander Dawdy. NY:Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1968, 27 p.
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American ethnic literatures: native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American writers and their backgrounds: an annotated bibliography, by David R. Peck. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1992, 218 p.
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American Indian and Eskimo authors; a comprehensive bibliography, by Arlene B. Hirschfelder. NY: Association on American Indian Affairs,1973, 99 p.
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American Indian authors, by Natachee Scott Momaday. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1971, 151 p.
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The American Indian language and literature, by Jack W. Marken. Arlington Heights, Ill. : AHM Pub. Corp., 1978, 204 p.
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American Indian literatures: an introduction, bibliographic review, and selected bibliography, by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1990, 200 p.
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American Indian novelists: an annotated critical bibliography, by Tom Colonnese, Louis Owens. NY: Garland Pub., 1985 [i.e. 1984], 161 p.
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American Indian prose and poetry : we wait in the darkness, ed. by Gloria Levitas, Frank Robert Vivelo, Jacqueline J. Vivelo. NY: Putnam, 1974, 325 p.
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A biobibliography of native American writers, 1772-1924, by Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. and James W. Parins. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1981, 343 p.
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Contemporary Native American literature: a selected & partially annotated bibliography, by Angeline Jacobson. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1977, 262 p.
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American Indian Women offers a list of books by and about native American women authors.  Call numbers refer to the Arizona State University library, so look the titles up in HOLLIS.