What follows is a brief list of sources one might consult to learn more about pre-contact Indian autobiography. The list includes mostly primary sources (places where examples of the narrative modes themselves can be found). It also lists a few secondary, scholarly works on the subject. As mentioned elsewhere, many of the pre-contact autobiographical "genres" appear as elements in the subsequent written tradition. However, for reasons of scope, this bibliography does not address such transformations of the oral tradition.
Primary Texts:
Bad Heart Bull, Amos. A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.
"Crows Heart's Reminiscences and Personal Experiences." Rpt. in Alfred E. Bowers. Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950: 169-173.
Cruikshank, Julie. Life Lived Like a Story. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
Dunn, Dorothy, ed. Plains Indian Sketch Book of Zo-Tom and Howling Wolf. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1969.
Halifax, Joan, ed. Shamanic Voices: A Survey of Visionary Narratives. New York: Dutton, 1979.
Howard, James H. The Warrior who Killed Custer: The Personal Narrative of Chief Joseph White Bull. Trans. and ed. James H. Howard. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968.
Krupat, Arnold. Native American Autobiography: An Anthology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. (See pages 19-90).
Mooney, James. Calendar History of the Kiowa Indians. Washington: Smithsonian, 1979.
Nabokov, Peter, ed. Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1967.
Peterson, Karen Daniels, ed. Howling Wolf: A Cheyenne Warrior's Graphic Interpretation of His People. Palo Alto: American West, 1968.
Peterson, Karen Daniels. Plains Indian Art from Fort Marion. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
Schulz, James W. Why Gone Those Times? Blackfoot Tales. Ed. Eugene Lee Silliman. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974.
Secondary Texts:
Brumble, H. David III. American Indian Autobiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Mallery, Garrick. "Picture Writing of the American Indians." Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89. Ed. J. Powell. 2 Vols. 1892, 1893. New York: Dover, 1972.
O'Brien, Lynn Woods. Plains Indian Autobiographies. Boise: Boise State College, 1973.
Wong, Hertha Dawn. Sending My Heart Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.