“The Language We Know” by Simon Ortiz. Reprinted from I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, edited by Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1987 by the University of Nebraska Press.
“The Warriors” by Anna Lee Walters from The Sun Is Not Merciful by Anna Lee Walters. Reprinted by permission of Firebrand Books, Ithaca, New York 14850. Copyright © 1985 by Anna Lee Walters.
Selection from Waterlily by Ella Cara Deloria. Reprinted by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1988 by the University of Nebraska Press.
Selection from Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims by Sara Winnemucca Hopkins. Originally published 1883. Copyright © 1969 by Sierra Media, Inc., Bishop, California. Originally published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
Selection from Night Flying Woman: An Ojibwa Narrative by Ignatia Broker. Reprinted, with permission, from Night Flying Woman: An Ojibwa Narrative by Ignatia Broker, copyright © 1983 by the Minnesota Historical Society.
Selection from Black Elk Speaks by John G. Neihardt. Copyright 1932, © 1959 by John G. Neihardt. Originally published by William Morrow & Co.
Selection from My Indian Boyhood by Luther Standing Bear. Reprinted from My Indian Boyhood by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1931 by Luther Standing Bear. Copyright © 1959 by May M. Jones.
Selection from The Middle Five: Indian Schooldays of the Omaha Tribe. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. Originally published in 1900. Copyright © 1963 by the Regents of the University of Wisconsin.
Selection from Lame Deer: Seeker of Visions by John Fire/Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. Copyright © 1972 by John Fire/Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
“Saint Marie” by Louise Erdrich. From Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. Copyright © 1984 by Louise Erdrich. Reprinted by Permission of Henry Holt and Co., Inc.
Selection from Indian School Days by Basil Johnston. Reprinted with permission from Indian School Days by Basil H. Johnston, published by Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto, Ontario. Copyright © 1988 Basil H. Johnston.
Selection from Sundown by John Joseph Mathews. Copyright © 1934 by John Joseph Mathews, assigned 1987 to the University of Oklahoma Press.
Selection from Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan. Reprinted with the permission of Atheneum Publishers, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Company. Copyright © 1990 by Linda Hogan.
Selection from The Names: A Memoir by N. Scott Momaday. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1976. Published by University of Arizona Press.
“Notes of a Translator’s Son” by Joseph Bruchac. Reprinted from I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays By Native American Writers, edited by Brian Swann and Arnold Krupat, by permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1987 by the University of Nebraska Press.
Selection from Bobbie Lee: Indian Rebel by Lee Maracle. Reprinted by the permission of Women’s Press, Toronto, Ontario. Copyright © 1990 by Lee Maracle.
“The Talking That Trees Does” by Geary Hobson. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1983.
“The Water Witch” by Louis Owens. Reprinted by permission of the author. Copyright © 1988.
“Grace” by Vickie Sears. From Spider Woman’s Grandaughters by edited Paula Gunn Allen. Reprinted by permission of Beacon press.
“Uncle Tony’s Goat” by Leslie Marmon Silko. Reprinted by permission of author. Copyright © 1974.
Selection from A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris. Copyright © 1987 by Michael Dorris. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Co., Inc.
“The Ballad of Plastic Fred” by Eric L. Gansworth. Printed by permission of the author.