Biography & Autobiography

Book reviews of: The Allegany Senecas and Kinzua Dam: Forced Relocation Through Two Generations by Joy A.

Book reviews of: America Is Indian Country: Opinions and Perspectives from Indian Country Today edited by José Barreiro and Tim Johnson. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast by Paige Raibmon. Bibliography of Native American Bibliographies compiled by Phillip M. White. The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750–1850 edited by Daniel P.

Book reviews of: 2000 Years of Mayan Literature by Dennis Tedlock. Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick. Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowie. Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation by Brice Obermeyer. Demons, Saints, & Patriots: Catholic Visions of Indian America through The Indian Sentinel (1902–1962) by Mark Clatterbuck.

Book reviews of: Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America edited by Brian Swann. Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota by Sally J. Southwick. The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature edited by Joy Porter and Kenneth M.

Book reviews of: On the Translation of Native American Literatures edited by Brian Swann a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 7.2 (Fall 1992) with guest editor, Hertha Wong Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts by David Murray Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives by Ray A. Young Bear Another Distance: New and Selected Poems by Lance Henson Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Book reviews of: The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage by Gerald Vizenor. Nairne's Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River edited by Alexander Moore. The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna annotated and illustrated by Hilary Stewart. A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson edited by W. David Baird. Native American Baskertry: An Annotated Bibliography complied by Frank W.

Book reviews of: A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians by Joan Mark. Blackfoot Dictionary of Stems, Roots and Affixes by D. G. Frantz and N. J. Russell. The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact Through the Era of Removal by James H. Merrell. American Women Writing Fiction edited by Mickey Pearlman. New Voices From the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing edited by Joseph Bruchac. Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, 1620-1984 by William S.

Book reviews of: The American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Beck. The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad. Assimilation’s Agent: My Life as a Superintendent in the Indian Boarding School System by Edwin L. Chalcraft. Coming to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions edited by Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin, and Sergei Kan. Every Day Is a Good Day by Wilma Mankiller. Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania edited by William A.

Book reviews of: American Indians and National Parks by Robert H. Keller and Michael F. Turek. Ancient West Mexico: Art and Archeology of the Unknown Past edited by Richard F.

Book reviews of: Beyond the Lodge of the Sun: Inner Mysteries of the Native American Way by Chokecherry Gall Eagle. Chippewa Families: A Social Study of White Earth Reservation, 1938 by. M. Inez Hilger. David Zeisberger: A Life Among the Indians by Earl P.

Book reviews of: American Indian Activism: Alcatraz to the Longest Walk edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity edited by William S. Penn. Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World edited by Timothy R. Pauketat and Thomas E.

Book reviews of: Mat Hekid O Ju/When It Rains edited by Ofelia Zepeda. The Navajo Nation by Peter Iverson. Historic Hope Ceramics: The Thomas V. Keam Collection of the Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University by Edwin L. Wade and Lea S. McChesney. The George Rogers Clark Adventure in the Illinois, and Selected Documents of the American Revolution at the Frontier Posts by Katherine Wagner Seineke. Life Is With People: Household Organization of the Contemporary Southern Paiute Indians by Martha C.

Book reviews of: American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta by Dene Wodih Society California Indian Nights by Edward W. Gifford and Gwendoline Harris Block Bighorse the Warrior by Tiana Bighorse and edited by Noël Bennett Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Folk Tales Retold by Charles A.

Book reviews of: A Study of Pueblo Architecture in Tusayan and Cibola by Victor Mindeleff. The Faithful Hunter: Abnaki Stories by Joseph Bruchac. Navajo Coyote Tales by William Morgan. Secrets From the Center of the World by Joy Harjo and Stephen Strom. Kickapoo Vocabulary by Paul H. Voorhis. An Ojibwe Text Anthology edited by John D. Nichols. "Statement Made by the Indians": A Bilingual Petition of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, 1864 edited by John D. Nichols. Pisiskiwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik/Talking Animals told by L. Beardy.

Book reviews of: The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat The Good Red Road: Passages into Native America by Kenneth Lincoln, with Al Logan Slagle The Singing Spirit edited by Bernd C. Peyer The Droning Shaman by Nora Marks Dauenhauer The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories by Robert Conley Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as Told to Benjamin Williams edited by Thomas S. Abler Another View [Blacksnake] edited by Thomas S.

Book reviews of: Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary and Activist edited, with introduction and epilogue by Jay C. Fikes; foreword by James Botsford; afterword by Walter Echo-Hawk. Solar Storms by Linda Hogan. Red Earth: Two Novellas by Philip H. Red Eagle. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.

Part two of W.O. Mitchell's article on the life of Louis Riel, beginning with the start of the Northwest Resistance in March 1885, details of the various battles, and ending with a lengthy account of Riel's last days and eventual hanging of Riel on 16 November 1885.

File contains a letter written by Diefenbaker regarding Louis Riel's conviction and execution, as well as Dumont's involvement, a photocopied photograph of Gabriel Dumont and "The Halfbreed General" from the History Magazine, an article entitled "Gabriel Dumont and Friends Meet Dr. Gatling's Travelling Salesman, or Plainsman Versus Mechanical Man", and a copy of the Canadian Historical Review containing Dumont's account of the North-West Resistance.

This file contains five booklets related to the history of the 1885 Riel Rebellion. Diary of Francis Dickens by Vernon LaChance (1930), Four Months Under Arms by H. S. Nelson (nd), Twelve Days With The Indians by Neil Brodie (1932), War-Peace in Canada: The Invader Responsible for the Death of the Patriot Louis Riel by Jules Sioui (1943), and Saskatchewan Guide to Historic Sites of the North West Rebellion (1985).

Book review of: The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture by Albert Braz.

Book review of: Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke.

Interview with Roland Cotton about different kinds of dances and Blackfoot traditions. Duration: 59:55.

George Lutz recounts stories while living at Mandan, North Dakota and helping his father Rolland produce thousands of postcards of Native Americans. Includes photographs.

Book review of: The Manager's Tale by Hugh Mackay Ross.

Book review of: Roundtrip: The Inuit Crew of the Jean Revillon by Michelle Daveluy.

Talks about commissioner Pat Dodson, appointed to study issues surrounding Aboriginal deaths in custody including social, cultural and legal influences.

File includes the opening prayer and opening remarks from the sitting of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples at Mani-Utenam, Sept-Iles, Quebec, Friday, November 20, 1992. Opening remarks by Rene Dussault give an overview of the Commissions activities, its mandate, and goals. Commissioner Wilson addresses the "tremendous lack of knowledge in white society about native people" and the Commission's educational function, while Commissioner Chartrand discusses his own background and hopes for the Commission's work.

Website features indigenous news, music, interviews, podcasts and artist profiles from around the world.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 1998.

Author recounts stories about his writing partner of twenty years.

Book review of: The Salish People edited with introduction by Ralph Maud. Scroll down to page 60 to read review.

Describes two Inuit youth who walked from British Columbia to Ontario to raise awareness about suicide in Aboriginal communities.

Book review of: The Salvado Memoirs translated and edited by E. J. Stormon. to access review, scroll down to page 185.

Describes Russel (Sam) Badger's acting career.

Book review of: Sam Sixkiller Cherokee by Chris Enss and Howard Kazaniiand.

Presents reminiscences of Jack Sullivan, from 1880 to his early childhood. Abridged version of a chapter in life history titled, Banggaiyerri: the Story of Jack Sullivan.

A study of audio recording by Santu Toney, a Beothuk Indian, recorded in 1910 by Frank Speck, American anthropologist.

Contends Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844?-1891) first Native American autobiographer, is often regarded as an assimilationist, which contradicts her championing Paiute and tribal survival.

Book review of The Sasquatch at Home by Eden Robinson.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2014.

Communications Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2014.

Argues that rather than being an "Indian informant", Eastman tried to explain the complexity of American Indian cultural practices, while also making it clear that complete understanding was impossible.

Highlights the life of a man who successfully negotiated between two worlds, European and Aboriginal, in the early 1900s.

Discusses successful writing project of grade five students in Winnipeg who collaborated with parents to write about the parent's life experiences in a positive way.

Symposium honoring Kay WalkingStick held at the National Museum of the American Indian November 5, 2015. Features 12 symposium videos divided into 2 sessions. The first session discusses Kay's personal approach to making art. The second session discusses the larger context of her work in art, history, society and culture. Session 1 - Duration: 81:40 Session 2 - Duration: 127.25

Current as of 1997.

Lists general resources as well those focused on Wisconsin.

Brief biography of Andrew Paul, the Salish lawyer, political activist, and leader.