NativeWiki pages for the authors we've been studying
Sherman Alexie; also see Alexie's own website
LeAnne Howe; also see LeAnne's blog
Official Tribal Websites
Spokane Tribe of Indians; also see Wellpinit School District pages on the Spokan
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians; The Minnesota Chippewa Tribe
Native Languages of the Americas: Preserving and Promoting American Indian languages
Native-Languages.org pages on Navajo, tribes of New York, Spokane/Salish, Ojibwe--also see Ojibwemowin.com; Choctaw
Journals available online
Studies in American Indian Literatures (SAIL) --Robert Nelson maintains an archive of issues, available as web versions and as pdf facsimiles (I recommend that you use the pdf versions
Through the e-journals portal of the Purdue Libraries, you can access other important scholarly journals in Native literary studies and American Indian studies:
American Indian Quarterly
Wicazo-Sa Review
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
The Project Muse interface often provides the most issues of these journals, but most of the interfaces (ProQuest and Wilson Web are especially user friendly) allow you to do a keyterm search, which is very helpful for tracking down articles of specific relevance to the topic you are researching.
Other Useful Resources
Poetics and Politics--online transcriptions of a 1992 series at the University of Arizona, organized by Larry Evers and Ofelia Zepeda, which brought 13 acclaimed American Indian writers to campus.
Words & Place: Native Literature from the American Southwest--a powerful online video collection of Navajo and Laguna songs, Yaqui deer songs, Hopi philosophy, Apache and Hopi trickster tales, as well as conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko and Vine Deloria Jr.
American Indians in Children's Literature, which critically discusses American Indians in children's books, the school curriculum, popular culture, and society-at-large, is a valuable and insightful blog authored by Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Online lectures from Craig Womack: "Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story" (on the short story "Summer Water and Shirley"); "Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" (on the "complex historical relationship between African Americans and the Creek Confederacy").
Native Feminisms: Without Apology, a conference held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in April 2006, has made presentations by the keynote speakers available online.
This page was last updated on 17 November 2009. Direct questions/comments to Nancy J. Peterson.