Native Peoples, Native Influences

DALA: Digital American Literature Anthology
Edited by Michael O'Conner, Millikin University

Unit 1: Native Peoples, Native Influences Resources

Resources for Lecture Building and Extended Study - Copyrighted Materials

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Unit Background, Secondary Sources

Early Native American Literature, A Brief Outline and Guide by Donna Campbell

Perspectives in American Literature, Chapter 1: Native American Oral Literatures by Paul P. Reuben

Wiget: Teaching Native American Oral Literatures

American Passages: Native Voices, "Overview"

American Passages: Native Voices, "Stories of the Beginning of the World"

Primary Sources

Native Selections

Digital Commons: David Cusick's Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations (1828)

Iroquois Creation Myth, 1816, from the Journal of John Norton

Dakota Texts, by Ella Deloria. New York: G. E. Stechert & Company, 1932.

Winnebago Trickster Cycle