NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE
Selected Reference Sources

The University of Calgary Library has a good collection of material on the First Nations. This bibliography is intended to help students who take courses in literature by and about Native North American (Aboriginal) writers. Most of these titles include both Canadian and American writers.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

A Bibliograpical guide to the study of Western American literature / Richard W. Etulain. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1982.
PS271 .E68 1982

A Biobibliography of native America writers / Daniel F. Littlefield. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981. (Native American bibliography series; no. 2).
E77 .L56 1981

• Indian newspapers has made this a particularly valuable tool

A Biobibliography of native American writers, 1772-1924: a supplement / Daniel F. Littlefield. Metuchen, N.J. Scarecrow Press, 1985. (Native American bibliography series; no. 5).
E77 .L562 1985

A Canadian Indian bibliography, 1960-1970 / Thomas S. Abler, Sally M. Weaver; with Claire C. Veillette.  [Toronto]: University of Toronto Press, c1974.
E78 .C2 A24 1974

American ethnic literature: Native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian-American writers and their backgrounds: an annotated bibliography / David Peck. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1992.
PS153 .M56 P43 1992

American Indian and Eskimo authors: a comprehensive bibliography / Arlene B. Hirschfelder. New York: Association on American Indian Affairs, 1973.
E77 .H55 1973

• includes traditional and contemporary works of both fact and fiction

American Indian literatures: an introduction, bibliographic review, and selected bibliography / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1990.
PM155 .R86 1990

An Annotated bibliography of American Indian and Eskimo autobiographies / H. David Brumble. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska, 1981.
E89 .B77 1981

• indispensable for its thoroughness and useful annotations

Annotated bibliography of the literature on American Indians published in state historical society publications, New England and Middle Atlantic states / Arlene B. Hirschfelder.  Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus International Publications, 1982.
E75 .H57 1982

• includes Eskimo, Canadian, and Mexican tribal writers

Ethnic and native Canadian literature, 1850-1979: a bibliography of primary and secondary materials / JohnP. Miska.  Lethbridge, Alta.: Microform Biblios, 1980 (microfiche).
PS8089.5 .M5 M57 1980 (3LT)

Ethnic and native Canadian literature: a bibliography / John P. Miska. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990.
PS8089.5 .M5 M572 1990

Indian-Inuit authors: an annotated bibliography = auteurs indiens et unuit: bibliographie annotée.  Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1974.
PS8235 .I52 C34 1974

Native American folklore, 1879-1979: an annotated bibliography / William M. Clements.  Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 1984.
E98 .F6 C62 1984

The Native American in American literature: a selectively annotated bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
PS173 .I6 R62 1985

• includes books, scholarly and popular magazine articles, pamphlets, dissertations, microforms

The Native American in long fiction: an annotated bibliography / Joan Beam.  Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1996.
PS374 .49 B43 1996

Native American Literature / Andrew Wiget. Boston: Twayne, 1985.
PM155 .W53 1985

• a survey and critical history that includes oral traditions, the beginnings of written literature, modern fiction, contemporary poetry. Includes a chronology, selected primary and secondary bibliography, and index

Native American women: a contextual bibliography / Rayna Green.  Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1983.
E98 .W8 G72 1983

Native literature in Canada: from the oral tradition to the present / Penny Petrone. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990.
PS8089.5 .I5 P47 1990

BIOGRAPHIES

American Indian autobiography / H. David Brumble.  Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1988.
E89.5 .B78 1988

Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900 / Carl Waldman.  Rev. ed. New York: Facts on File, c2001.
E89 .W35 2001

Biographical dictionary of Indians of the Americas. 2nd ed. Newport Beach, Calif.: American Indian Publishers, 1991. 2 v.
E89 .B56 1991

Contemporary authors. Detroit: Gale Research, 1962-
PS128 .C65

• contains biographical information

Native American writers of the United States. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997. (Dictionary of literary biography; v.175).
PS129 .D52 1978

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. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.
PS508 .I5 N38 1994

Who was who in Native American history: Indians and non-indians from early contacts through 1900 / Carl Waldman. New York: Facts on File, 1989.
E89 .W34 1989

DICTIONARIES

Columbia literary history of the United States. New York: Columbia University, 1987.
PS92 .C64 1987

Dictionary of Native American literature / Andrew Wiget.  New York: Garland, 1994. (Garland reference library of the humanities, v.1815).
PM155 .D53 1994

• excellent dictionary for Canadian and American native literature. Lengthy articles conclude with primary and secondary bibliographies

Dictionary of Native American mythology / Sam D. Gill. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1992.
E98 .R3 G55 1992

Encyclopedia of North American Indians. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.
E76.2 .E53 1996

The Encyclopedia of the first peoples of North America. / Rayna Green.  Toronto: Groundwood Books, c1999.
E76.2 .G74 1999

The Gale encyclopedia of Native American tribes / edited by Sharon Malinowski.  Detroit: Gale, c1998. 4 v.
E77 .G237 1998

Macmillan encyclopdia of Native American tribes / Michael Johnson. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1999.
E76.2 .J64 1999

Native American literatures: an encyclopedia of works, characters, authors, and themes / Kathy J. Whitson.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1999.
PS153 .I52 W47 1999

Native Americans: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and peoples / Barry Pritzker. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, c1998.
E77 .P89 1998

The Oxford companion to Canadian literature. 2nd ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997.
PS8015 .O92 1997

Reference encyclopedia of the American Indian. 7th ed. Todd: West Nyack, N.Y.: 1995.
E77 .K55 1995

Smoke rising: the Native North American literary companion. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1995.
PS508 .I5 S6 1995

INDEXES

America, history and life on disc [computer file]. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 1991-
E18 .A52A

• also available online

• also available online

Humanities index. New York: Wilson, 1975-
AI3 .H84

• available online: Humanities Abstracts

Literary Index (Gale)

• available online

MLA international bibliography of books and articles on the modern languages and literatures. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1956-.
PB1 .M64

• available online

Readers' guide to periodical literature. New York: Wilson, 1901-
AI3 .R44

American Indian quarterly. Hurst, Tex.: Southwestern American Indian Society, 1974-
E75 .A499

• Library has: v.1, 1974-

• Library has: v.1, 1981-
• available online

Native American periodicals and newspapers, 1828-1982: bibliography, publishing record, and holdings / James Philip Danky. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984.
E77 .N35 1984

Western American literature. Logan, Utah: Western Literature Association, 1966-1986.
PS271 .W47

• Library has: v.1, 1966-

• Library has: v.4, 1986-

SOME WOMEN WRITERS

Acco, Anne, children's literature
Armstrong, Jeannette C., children's literature
Arnott, Joanne, 1960- , children's literature
Baker, Marie Annharte, 1942- , poetry
Brant, Beth, 1941- , fiction
Brass, Eleanor, 1905- , autobiography, tales
Campbell, Maria, history, biography, autobiography
Capek, Peggy, 1928- , children's literature
Cheechoo, Shirley, plays, illustrations
Chyrstos, 1946 , poetry
Clark, Ella Elizabeth, 1896- , legends
Cooper, Amy Jo, children's literature
Crate Taylor, Joan, 1953- , fiction, poetry
Culleton, Beatrice, 1949- , fiction, literature for young adults
Cuthand, Beth, 1949- , poetry
Damm, Kateri, poetry
Fife, Connie, 1961- , poetry
Freeman, Minnie Aodla, autobiography
Gaikesheyongai, Sally, children's literature
Greene, Alma, 1896- , children's literature, autobiography, legends
Halfe, Louise, 1953- , poetry
Joe, Rita, 1932- , poetry
Johnson, E. Pauline, 1861-1913 , poetry, history
Keeshig-Tobias, Lenore, children's literature
King, Edna, children's literature
LaRoque, Emma, 1949- , non-fiction
Maracle, Lee, 1950- , fiction, autobiography, essays, biography
Mojica, Monique, 1954- , plays
Slipperjack, Ruby, 1952- , children's literature
Sou-Good track, Kim, children's literature
Sterling, Shirley, children's literature
White, Ellen, 1922- , children's literature
Willis, Jane, 1940- , autobiography

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Shauna Rutherford
(Interim) Liaison Librarian for Canadian Studies
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Updated: January 31, 2006