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Brief Biography Volumes on North American Indians:
Bataille, Gretchen M. (Edited by)
1993 Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary.
New York: Garland Publishing.
Edmunds, R. David
1980 American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity.
Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.
Johansen, Bruce E. and Donald A. Grinde, Jr.
1997 The Encyclopedia of Native American Biography: Six Hundred Life Stories of Important People, from Powhatan to Wilma Mankiller.
New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Malinowski, Sharon and George H. J. Abrams (Edited by)
1995 Notable Native Americans.
New York: Gale Research, Inc.
Markowitz, Harvey (Edited by)
1999 American Indian Biographies.
Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, Inc.
Waters, Frank
1993 Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten.
Santa Fe, NM: Clear Light Publishers.
Ethnographic Works:
Aleshire, Peter
2001 Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
2001 Warrior Woman: The Story of Lozen: Apache Warrior and Shaman.
New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Allen, Charles Wesley
1997 Autobiography of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas.
Helena, Mont.: Montana Historical Society Press.
Anderson, Gary Clayton
1986 Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux.
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Baird, W. David
1972 Peter Pitchlyann: Chief of the Choctaws.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Black Hawk
1994 (1916) Life of Black Hawk.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Blackman, Margaret B.
1982 During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson a Haida Woman.
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
1989 Sadie Brower Neakok: An Inupiaq Woman.
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.
Canfield, Gae Whitney
1983 Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Carter, Harvey Lewis
1987 The Life and Times of Little Turtle: First Sagamore of the Wabash.
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Chief Buffalo Child
1938 Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief.
London: Faber and Faber Limited.
Coel, Margaret
1981 Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Colson. Elizabeth (Recorded and Edited by)
1974 Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women.
Berkeley, CA: Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of California.
Crapanzano, Vincent
1969 The Fifth World of Enoch Maloney: Portrait of a Navajo.
New York: Random House, Inc.
Dempsey, Hugh A.
1978 Charcoal’s World. [Blood, Blackfoot]
Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.
Eckert, Allan W.
1992 A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh.
New York: Konecky and Konecky.
Edmunds, R. David
1983 The Shawnee Prophet.
Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.
Ford, Clellan S.
1968 (1941) Smoke from Their Fires: The Life of a Kwakiutl Chief.
Hamden, CT: Archon Books.
Hagan, William T.
1981 Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Jones, David E.
1972 Sanapia: Comanche Medicine Woman.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
Kroeber, Theodora
1961 Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Larson, Robert W.
1997 Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Leighton, Alexander H. and Dorothea C. Leighton
1992 Lucky: The Navajo Singer.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Linderman, Frank B.
1972 (1932) Pretty Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows.
Lincoln, NB : University of Nebraska Press.
Lurie, Nancy Oestreich
1961 Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian.
Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Marriott, Alice
1948 Maria: The Potter of San Ildefonso.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
McWhorter, L. V.
1983 (1940) Yellow Wolf: His Own Story, Revised & Enlarged Edition. [Nez Perce]
Caldwell, ID: The Claxton Printers, Ltd.
Nabokov, Peter
1967 Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior.
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Qoyawayma, Polingaysi
1964 No Turning Back: A True Account of a Hopi Indian Girl’s Struggle to Bridge the Gap Between the World of Her People and the World of the White Man.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Radin, Paul
1963 (1920) The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Rice, Julian
1991 Black Elk's Story: Distinguishing Its Lakota Purpose.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Sajna, Mike
2000 Crazy Horse: The Life Behind the Legend.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Smith, P. David
1986 Ouray, Chief of the Utes.
Ouray, CO: Wayfinder Press.
Spradley, James P.
1969 Guest Never Leave Hungry: The Autobiography of James Sewid, a Kwakiutl Indian.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Steltenkamp, Michael F.
1993 Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
Sugden, John
1997 Tecumseh: A Life. [Shawnee]
New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
2000 Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees.
Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press.
Sun Chief (Edited by Leo W. Simmons)
1942 Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Utley, Robert M.
1993 The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull.
New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
Yava, Albert
1978 Big Falling Snow: A Tewa-Hopi Indian’s Life and Times and the History
of the Traditions of His People.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Yellowtail
1991 Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
