Selective, partially annotated bibliography of the Native American in American literature

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Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, &
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1983
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Roger O. Rock
The University of Montana
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A SELECTIVE, PARTIALLY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
By
Roger 0. Rock
B.A., University of Montana, 1969
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for the degree of
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1983
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A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography of the Native
American in American Literature (416 pp.)
Director: Dr. William Bevis
Researching the large and ever-increasing supply of liter­
ature by and about Native Americans is time-consuming and tedious.
Until recently, little bibliographical control has been exercised
over this diffuse body. Using the services of an outpost public
library and its affiliated library networks, this body of liter­
ature was examined over a period of five years: works were col­
lected through interlibrary loan, read, and described. This
paper is the culmination of that study; it gathers many scattered
references into one place where they are more accessible so that
students may spend more time reading books and articles than
looking for them. The focus is on North American Indians; however
some references!)to other Native Americans and to Mexican, Central
and South American Indians are included. A general introduction
provides1 bibliographical background for doing research in the
field. Works are listed alphabetically by author's or editor's
last name in each of five categories: bibliographies (261 titles)•,
works about the Indian in literature (304 titles), examples of and
works about Indian literature (468 titles), critical'works about
Indian literature and literature with Indian characters (87 ti­
tles), and works treating the conflicts between Indians and
whites in some way (179 titles). Annotations describe the con­
tents of 492 of the works cited. A cross-referenced subject index
facilitates topic research. Each item in the bibliography is
numbered serially, and the index refers to each work by item
number.
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PREFACE
Several years ago, when I undertook to write a
critical paper on the role of the Indian in American
fiction, my first trips to the library turned up tew
references to the Native American in literature and even
fewer references to Native American literature. However, I
soon discovered that the problem was not that there wasn't
such information—indeed, there turned out to be a large
and ever-increasing supply of it—but that little
bibliographical control had been exercised over it (a
situation which seems to be improving as a result of such
collective efforts as the Newberry Library Center for the
History of the American Indian Bibliographical Series, for
example, and such individual efforts as Jack Marken's The
American Indian^ L^!09y§9^ Literature, published as a
part of the Goldentree Bibliographies in Language and
Literature by AHM, and Anna Lee Stensland's Literature by
§Qd_abgut. ..the_ Amer i can_ Ind i an, published by NCTE>.
The body of scholarship on the Native American in
literature is diffuse. scattered throughout the vast body
of literature on the Indian—the way the Indians themselves
are dispersed across the continent—all but swallowed up
and forgotten in larger works, compacted into small,
obscure collections, tagged onto collections in other
subject areas. It would seem American scholars, in an
attempt to understand the Indian, have contributed to his
demise by stealing his 1iterature and then losing it.
The purpose of this paper is not to add to the tangle
of literature that already exists on the subject, but to
bring some organization to it, at least to gather many
scattered references into one place where they are more
accessible so that students may spend more time reading
books than looking for them.
To make this list I have plundered titles from
collections great and small, from the Library of Congress
Catalog to mimeographed sheets printed up by high school
teachers for their students. I have obtained listings from
universities, high schools, museums, public and private
libraries. government agencies and individuals. I have
used the lists of anthropologists, literature students,
theology students, folklorists, psychologists,linguists,
historians, and students of probably a dozen other
disciplines. In short, I have ranged as far and as wide as
I could in mv search for materials in an effort to make
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this selected bibliography as comprehensive as possible. My
methodology has embraced one doctrine: if it relates to the
Indian in literature, record it. I did not specifically
seek out works on Eskimos or Canadian or Mexican Indians or
Hawai ian5, although these people might be considered Native
Americans—The focus here is on North American Indians—
however, references to other Native Americans (and to some
extent, to other minorities) were not deliberately avoided
either — if they related to the Indian in 1i terature or to
Indian literature, I included them. I went outside the
criterion on occasion to include works by or about foreign
authors when their work involved American Indians.
A need perhaps exists to clarify what some of the
labels used in this work mean. "Indian in literature"
refers generally to all literature in which the Indian
appears as a character. "Indian literature" refers
specifically to literature produced by Indians. The title,
"Indian—white relations," is admittedly a kind of
catch-all, but no better term seems to exist to cover works
concerned with that conflict between dark—skinned Native
Americans and 1ight—skinned European Americans that itself
spills into so many areas.
All bibliographies, all works on the Indian in
literature, and some works on Indian—white relations I
endeavored to acquire and read in order to better describe.
I was not, for a variety of reasons—including interlibrary
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loan problems, lack at money and lack of time—totally
successful in either acquiring the works I requested or in
getting them all read. My annotations, offered in those
cases where I could get my hands on the item cited— or
where, if I couldn't, annotations in several separate
references coincided on certain points of
description—simply describe the contents as they pertain
to the Indian in literature. While I have in a few cases
used descriptions offered by other bibliographers, I have
not borrowed anyone's evaluations, nor have I made any of
my own. In some cases, where the title "says it all,"
annotations were felt unnecessary. In any case, the need
for annotations is probably obviated to some extent by the
subject index. In a very few cases only incomplete
bibliographical data was obtainable, but this, too, was
passed on—better a slim lead than none at all, I figured.
Further, not everything here will prove useful; one purpose
in including some titles was merely to save students the
time and trouble of finding them only to reject them. This
is true primarily in cases where the title of the work, or
the author's name, might suggest appropriateness to the
study of the Indian in literature, but the work itself be
unrelated or extremely brief and general.
I did not set out to examine general critical works
such as books on American literature or western American
literature, nor works dealing with genres of literature,
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