Here first : autobiographical essays by Native American writers / edited by Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann. - 1st ed. - New York : Modern Library, c2000. - xvii, 422 p. ; 20 cm.

Unauthorized autobiography of me / Ayanvdadisdi: I remember / Burying paper / In English I'm called Duane BigEagle: an autobiographical statement / Autobiography as spectacle: an act of liberation or the illusion of liberation? / Rituals of memory / Life woven with song / Good red road / Journey to the heart / Self-interview / Sherman Alexie -- Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi) -- Betty Louise Bell -- Duane BigEagle -- Gloria Bird -- Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- Charlotte Declue (Kawashinsay) -- Anita Endrezze -- Hanay Geiogamah. Entries into the autobiographical I / Displacements: performing Mestizaje / Soul like the sun / My mothers, my uncles, myself / Moment in my life / On the tip of my tongue: an autobiographical essay / Motion of fire and form: autobiographical reflections / In the garden of the gods / From a place called Santa Rosa / Wind circles / In the past's familiar tongue / Gordon Henry -- Patricia Penn Hilden -- Roberta Hill -- Leanne Howe -- Rex Lee Jim -- Evelina Zuni Lucero -- Louis Owens -- W.S. Penn -- Greg Sarris -- Vickie Sears -- John E. Smelcer. They moved over the mountain / Red echoes / Buffalo road / Child before memory: recognition of the "maker" / Autobiography / Luci Tapahonso -- Clifford E. Trafzer -- Anna Lee Walters -- Elizabeth Woody -- Ofelia Zepeda.

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Indians of North America--Biography.
Autobiographies--Indian authors.
American literature--Indian authors.

E 89.5 / .E84 2000