Native American Autobiography: An Anthology

Editor: Arnold Krupat Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press (1994) Native American Autobiography is the first collection to bring together the major autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present. The thirty narratives included here cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years. From the earliest known written memoir—a 1768 narrative by the Reverend Samson Occom, a Mohegan, reproduced as a chapter here—to recent reminiscences by such prominent writers as N. Scott Momaday and Gerald Vizenor, the book covers a broad range of Native American experience.  The sections include “Traditional Lives”; “The Christian Indians, from the Eighteenth Century to Indian Removal, 1830”; “The Resisting Indians, from Indian Removal to Wounded Knee, 1830-90”; “The Closed Frontier, 1890-”; “The Anthropologists' Indians, 1900-”; “‘Native American Renaissance,’ 1968-”; and “Traditional Lives Today.” Editor Arnold