What follows is a brief list of primary and secondary sources one might consult to begin learning more about Indian autobiography during this period. The best, single overview of available texts (up to 1980) is Brumble's bibliography.
Primary Texts:
Barrett, S.M., ed. Geronimo's Story of His Life. NY: Duffield and Co, 1906.
Brumble, H. David III. An Annotated Bubliography of American Indian and Eskimo Autobiographies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.
Eastman, Charles. Indian Boyhood. 1902. New York: Dover, 1971.
Eastman, Charles. From the Deep Woods to Civilization. 1916. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977.
Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca. Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. Ed. Mrs. Horace Mann. 1883. Los Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 1994.
LaFlesche, Francis. The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe. 1900. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
Linderman, Frank B., ed. Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows. 1930. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.
Linderman, Frank B., ed. Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows. 1932. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972.
McWhorter, L.V., ed. Yellow Wolf: His Own Story. Caldwell, ID: Caxton, 1940.
Patterson, J.B. Black Hawk: An Autobiography. 1833. Ed. Donald Jackson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 1964.
Standing Bear, Luther. My People, the Sioux. Ed. A. E. Brinninstool. 1928. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1975.
Zitkala-Sa. American Indian Stories. 1921. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.
Secondary Texts:
Bataille, Gretchen and Kathleen Mullen Sands. American Indian Women: Telling Their Lives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Brumble, H. David III. American Indian Autobiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Berkhofer, Robert F. The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian From Columbus to the Present. New York: Random House, 1978.
Kartunnen, Frances. Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
Krupat, Arnold. For Those Who Come After: A Study of Native American Autobiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Krupat, Arnold. The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.