What follows is a brief list of primary and secondary sources one might consult to begin learning more about Indian autobiography during this period. Again, the best, single overview of available texts (up to 1980) is Brumble's bibliography (which is listed elsewhere).
Primary Texts:
DeMallie, Raymond, ed. The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt. Lincoln: University of Nebraksa Press, 1984.
Dyk, Walter. Son of Old Man Hat: A Navajo Autobiography. 1938. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.
Lurie, Nancy Oestreich. Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
Neihardt, John. G. Black Elk Speaks. 1932. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
Miller, Jay. Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Radin, Paul. The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. 1920. New York: Dover, 1963.
Radin, Paul. Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian. New York: Appleton and Co., 1926.
Simmons, Leo. Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian. 1942. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
Underhill, Ruth. Papago Woman. 1936. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1979.
Secondary Texts:
Works by Brumble, Krupat, and Wong, listed elsewhere.
Clifford, James. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Deloria, Vine Jr. Ed. A Sender of Words: Essays in Memory of John G. Neihardt. Salt Lake City: Howe Brothers, 1984.
Kluckhohn, Clyde. "The Personal Document in Anthropological Science." The Use of Personal Documents in History, Anthropology, and Science. New York: Social Science Research Council, 1945.
Krupat, Arnold. Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
Langness, L.L. The Life History in Anthropological Science. New York: Holt, Reinhart, 1965.
McClusky, Sally. "Black Elk Speaks and So Does John Neihardt." Western American Literature 6 (1979): 231-42.
Mihesuah, Devon, ed. Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About Native Americans. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
Powers, William K. "When Black Elk Speaks, Everybody Listens." Religions in Native North America. Ed Christopher Vecsey. Moscow: University of Idaho Press, 1990: 135-51.
Rice, Julian. Black Elk Speaks: Discerning its Lakota Purpose. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
Steltenkamp, Michael F. Black Elk: Holy Man of the Lakota. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
Thornton, Russell, ed. Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.