Contemporary Native American Leaders
Selected Resources from O’Neill Library
General Resources
Dreaming the dawn: conversations with native artists and activists / E.K. Caldwell ;
introduction by Elizabeth Woody.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
E98.A7 C15 1999
Indian lives: essays on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Native American leaders / edited by
L.G. Moses and Raymond Wilson.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1985.
E89 .I43 1985
The new warriors: Native American leaders since 1900 / edited by R. David Edmunds.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
E89 .N48 2001
Of Earth and elders: visions and voices from native America / Serle Chapman.
Missoula, MT: Bear Print, 1998.
E77 .C42 1998
Our chiefs and elders: words and photographs of native leaders / David Neel.
Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992.
E99.K9 N44 1992
Shapers of the great debate on Native Americans--land, spirit, and power: a biographical
dictionary / Bruce E. Johansen.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.
E98.L3 J65 2000
Women of white earth / photographs and interviews by Vance Vannote.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
E99.C6 V37 1999
Online Databases
American National Biography
http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html
BC users only; limit search to “American Indian Heritage”
BC Libraries O’Neill Exhibit -We Are Still Here
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/news-events-pub/exhibits/
Biography Resource Center
http://proxy.bc.edu/login?url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mlin_m_bostcoll?db=BioRC
BC users only; limit ethnicity search to “Native American”
Internet Public Library: Native American Authors
http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/
SACNAS Biography Project: Native American Scientists:
http://www.sacnas.org/biography/listsethnicity.asp#a2
WWW Virtual Library - American Indians, Index of Native American Artist Resources on the
Internet
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAartists.html
Selected Biographies
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, an American warrior / by Herman J. Viola.
New York: Orion Books, 1993.
E99.C53 C35 1993
David Burgess
Professor of Biology at Boston College
http://www.sacnas.org/biography/Biography.asp?mem=33&type=2
Esther Ross, Stillaguamish champion / by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
E99.S75 R677 2001
I’ll go and do more: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo leader and activist / Carolyn Niethammer.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
E99.N3 W385 2001
LaDonna Harris: a Commanche life / by LaDonna Harris ; edited by H. Henrietta Stockel.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
E99.C85 H284 2000
Mankiller: a chief and her people / Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
E99.C5 M335 1993b
Maria Tallchief: America’s prima ballerina / Maria Tallchief with Larry Kaplan.
New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
GV1785.T32 A3 1997
Ojibwa warrior: Dennis Banks and the rise of the American Indian Movement / Dennis Banks
with Richard Erdoes.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.
E99.C6 B258 2004
BC Libraries O’Neill Exhibit - We Are Still Here
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/news-events-pub/exhibits/
Where white men fear to tread: the autobiography of Russell Means / Russell Means, with
Marvin J. Wolf.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
E99.O3 M386 1995
The Winona LaDuke reader: a collection of essential writings / foreword by Ralph Nader.
Stillwater, MN: Voyageur Press, c2002.
E99.C6 L255 2002
For research assistance in this area, contact Boston College Librarian, Shari Grove:
grove@bc.edu; 617-552-4481.
BC Libraries O’Neill Exhibit - We Are Still Here
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/news-events-pub/exhibits/