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RATINGS: Sites are rated from 1 owl (good) to a high of 5 owls. Read more- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (1876-1938)
This site offers many links to e-texts by Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, or Zitkala-Sa. The texts include articles from the literary journals Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Monthly, as well as copies of Bonnin's Old Indian Legends.
- Native American Author Page
An excellent resource! This website enables you to search for "biography, bibliography, lesson plans, online etexts and critical reviews" of numerous Native American writers and poets. The range? From Sequoyah, creater of the Cherokee alphabet, to John Trudell, contemporary activist and musician.
- Multicultural American West
An exit for websites on the information superhighway involving the different ethnic groups of the American West. A wide range of resources, including connections to virtual museums and natural history sites, is at your fingertips at this Washington State University page.
- Coyote Stories / Poems
Native American literature is filled with tales of the coyote, a fellow wanderer across the American plains. Here is an eclectic collection of stories and poems dedicated to this wild creature of the West. They represent a range of tribes, as well as a variety of perspectives on the coyote.
- Ohiyesa (Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman)
Get the Sioux perspective on the White Man from Charles A. Eastman, or Ohiyesa. In works like Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, Indian Boyhood and Old Indian Days, Eastman sets straight the many misconceptions of his people held by the conquering settlers.
- Wounded Knee — Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance movement, though it was actually a peaceful Native American religious ceremony, inspired fear and suspicion among white settlers and ultimately contributed to the massacre at Wounded Knee. How? This website provides a history lesson, maps and a RealAudio description of the Ghost Dances to help answer that question.
Ghost Dance Songs Click here and read the lyrics to several Ghost Dance songs from the Sioux, Kiowa and Paiute tribes.
- Ghost Dance Religion
"Ha ti waka i taraha..." Read the Ghost Dance song "The Buffalo Are Coming" in Sioux as well as English, or play the tune on your keyboard. This introductory webpage on the Ghost Dances is part of a comprehensive project on the Wounded Knee Massacre by the American Culture Studies Program at Bowling Green State University.
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