These resources include a sampling of potential Native American "insider" and "outsider" sources at the Madison Area Technical College Libraries, as well as some links to online digital collections. You will find more titles in our collection by searching the library catalog. Be sure to check the dates, notes, references, and citations to make sure the selection is appropriate for your assignment. In some cases you may want to track down the original source. For more resources, check the Native American History Research Guide and your assignment instructions.
A sampling of "Insider" sources at our libraries. Be sure to carefully evaluate any source will be appropriate for your research.
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties; an Indian declaration of independence
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Choctaws and Missionaries in Mississippi, 1818-1918
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Fighting Tuscarora: ; the autobiography of Chief Clinton Rickard
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Indian boyhood
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The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox
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The Nations Within
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Of utmost good faith
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On Our Own Ground
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The Osages : children of the middle waters
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A Pima Past
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Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief
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Some examples of books at our libraries that may be useful as "outsider" sources from particular time periods.
The Cherokee Nation of Indians
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A Political History of the Navajo Tribe
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My life as an Indian / by J. W. Schultz- 1907 version is available as an e-book from Cornell- My Life as an Indian-The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (PDF)
See also: Writings of Grant, Franklin, Jefferson, Jackson, Sherman, Eastman,… or JSTOR articles.
A few examples of insider/outsider full-text titles that can be found in online digital collections.
Anthologies are collections of selected writings. Consider length and comprehensiveness when evaluating a selection from an anthology for your research paper. You might also try to locate the original source that these excerpts were selected from.
Books at the Madison Area Technical College Libraries: Collections with both insider and outsider sources. Consider length and comprehensiveness when evaluating a selection for your research paper. You might also try to locate the original source that these excerpts were selected from.
May be helpful for locating titles of insider and outsider sources: