Books:

Bataille, Gretchen M., ed. and Laurie Lisa, editorial assistant.  Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1993.  [Offers over 270 entries on Native American women from 1499 to 1965. 

Over 85 contributors provide details on popular and lesser known individuals, and helpful appendixes organize names by birth date, location, tribal affiliation, and sphere of activism.

Capps, Benjamin. Woman Chief.  Garden City: Doubleday, 1979.   

Fictionalized account of an Indian heroin on the northern plains.  Narrates the life of an Indian woman who emerged from captivity to eventually rise up to become a female warrior chief.  Her romanticized life of struggle, love, and war follows typical fiction archetypes but also conveys a historically authentic late nineteenth century Plains context.

Ewers, John Canfield.  Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. 

Collection of articles examines a variety of aspects of Plains Indian history and culture.  Ewers draws on diverse archival and oral history sources to debunk long held myths and introduce revolutionary insights on a wide range issues from gender roles to tribal politics and diplomacy.

Heinze, Ruth-Inge.  The Bear Knife, and other American Indian Tales.  Norfolk: Bramble Books, 1993. 

Collection of forty-eight stories, most from Native American origins.  They include myths, hero tales, ghosts, allegories, and humor.

Long Standing Bear Chief with Harold, Gary E.  Ni-Kso-Ko-Wa: Blackfoot Spirituality, Traditions, Values and Beliefs.  Browning, MT: Spirit Talk Press, 1992.   

Explores the traditional beliefs of the Blackfoot people.  It discusses practices and institutions including name giving, fasting and visions, painted lodges, kinship, songs, and more.

Taylor, Colin F. and Hugh Aylmer Dempsey.  The Plains Indians of North America: Military Art, Warfare and Change: Essays In Honor of John C. Ewers.  Wyk auf Foehr, Germany: Tatanka, 2003. 

Collection of essays divided into five sections: research; military art; warfare; symbolism; and memories and change.  Focusing largely on art and symbolism within the context of war, the text includes quite a few photographs of Indian maps, robes, drums, and other items.

Articles:

Lewis, Oscar.  Manly-Hearted Women among the North Piegan The American Anthropologist, vol. 43, no. 2 pt. 1 (April-June 1941), pp. 173-87. 

Presents a new paradigm for interpreting Indian women.  Lewis introduces the “manly-hearted woman” as an alternative personality type for Blackfoot women and asserts that they were not as restricted as previously thought.