Native American Biographies


Dog, Mary Crow and Richard Erdoes. Lakota Woman. New York: Harper 
Perennial, 1990.

• Chronicle of a Sioux South Dakota Native American woman and the violence 
  against Native Americans during the 1960s and 1970s.

Eastman, Charles A. Indian Boyhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 
1992.

• One of the first Indian biographies is an account of the childhood of a Dakota 
  Sioux Indian from 1858-1873.

Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild 
Indian of North America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961.

• The last remnants of a lost Indian civilization is discovered in 1911 in 
  California.

Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man
Of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979.

• The story of Black Elk and his experiences during the Battle of Little Big Horn 
  and the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Nequatewa, Edmund. Born a Chief: The Nineteenth Century Hopi Boyhood
Of Edmund Nequatewa. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993.

• An example of oral literature, this traces the authors life until age twenty-
  two.

Niethammer, Carolyn. Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of 
American Indian women. New York: Collier Books, 1977.

• A collection of essays on notable Native American Women that convey the 
  notion of what it means to be a Native American Woman.

Perdue, Theda. Sifters: Native American Women's Lives. New York: 
Oxford University Press, 2001.

• Discusses the lives of the more famous Native American women including 
  Pocahontas, Maria Martinez, Molly Brant, and Sacagawea.

Sandoz, Mari. Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas. University of 
Nebraska Press, 1961.

• Biography of the famous Sioux Indian-chief.
  

Simmons, Leo W. Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.

• The account of Don C. Talayesva who was born a Hopi, and later became an 
  American citizen. Conveys the struggles of a man wavering between two 
  very different cultures. 

Steltenkamp, Michael F. Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala. Normani:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1993.

• Sioux life in the late 1800s.

Udall, Louise. Me and Mine: The Life Story of Helen Sekaquaptewa. 
Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1969.

• Account of the Maricopa Indians of Phoenix, Arizona.

   

  Updated 02/08/2007