Primary Texts:
Copway, George. Life, Letters, and Speeches. 1847. Ed. A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Donald B. Smith. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Goddard, Ives and Kathleen Bragdon, eds. Native Writings in Massachusetts. 2 Vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1988.
McCallum, James Dow, ed. The Letters of Eleazar Wheelock's Indians. Hanover: Dartmouth College Manuscript Series, 1932.
Murray, Laura, ed. To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson, 1751-1776. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
O'Connell, Barry, ed. On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.
Peyer, Bernd, ed. The Elder's Wrote: An Anthology of Early Prose by North American Indians, 1768-1931. Berlin: Deitrich Reimer Verlag, 1982.
Secondary Texts:
Elliot, Michael. "'This Indian Bait': Samson Occom and the Voice of Liminality." Early American Literature. 29.3 (1994): 233-253.
Elrod, Eileen Razzari. "'I Did Not Make Myself So. . .': Samson Occom and Religious Autobiography." Christian Encounters with the Other. Ed. John C. Rawley. New York: New York University Press, 1998: 135-149.
Gustafson, Sandra. "Nation of Israelites: Prophesy and Cultural Autonomy in the Writings of William Apess." Religion and Literature. 26.1 (1994): 31-54.
Haynes, Carloyn. "'A Mark for them All to. . . Hiss At': The Formation of Methodist and Pequot Identity in the Conversion Narrative of William Apess." Early American Literature. 31.1 (1996): 25-44.
Jaskoski, Helen, ed. Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Love, W. DeLoss. Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England. Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1899.
McCarthy, Keely. "Conversion, Identity, and the Indian Missionary." Early American Literature. 36.3 (2001): 353-370.
McQuaid, Kim. "William Apess, Pequot: An Indian Reformer of the Jackson Era." The New England Quarterly. 50-4 (1977): 605-625.
Moon, Randall. "William Apess and Writing White." SAIL. 2nd Series. 5.4 (1993): 45-54.
O'Connell, Barry. "Once More Let Us Consider": William Apess and the Writing of New England Native American History." After King Philip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Ed. Colin G. Calloway. Hanover: UPNE, 1997: 162-177.
Peyer, Bernd. "Samson Occom: Mohegan Missionary and Writer of the 18th Century." American Indian Quarterly. 6. 3-4 (1982): 208-217.
Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. "Three Nineteenth-Century American Indian Autobiographers." Redefining American Literary History. Eds. A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. New York: Modern Language Association, 1990: 251-269.
Sayre, Gordon. "Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 11.1 (1996) 1-18.
Shea, Daniel B. Spiritual Autobiography in Early America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.
Wyss, Hilary. Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.