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Oral Histories:
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Books:

 

Butterfield, Herbert. The Origins of History. Edited with an introduction by Adam Watson. New York: Basic Books, 1981.

 

Erdoes, Richard and Alfonso Ortiz, eds. American Indian Myths and Legends. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

 

________.  American Indian Trickster Tales. New York: Penguin and Viking, 1998.

 

Evers, Larry and Barre Toelken, eds.  Native American Oral Traditions: Collaboration and Interpretation.  Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001.

 

Garbarino, Merwyn S. and Robert F. Sasso. Native American Heritage. Prospect Heights: Waveland Press, 1994.

 

Gill, Sam D. Native American Traditions: Sources and Interpretations. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1983.

 

Henige, David.  Oral Historiography.  London: Longman, 1982.

 

Krupat, Arnold, ed. Native American Autobiography: An Anthology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

 

Nabokov, Peter, ed. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-1992. New York: Penguin, 1991.

 

Oswalt, Wendell. This Land Was Theirs: A Study of North American Indians.  7th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

 

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes. The Old Man Told Us: Excerpts from Micmac History, 1500-1950. Halifax: Nimbus, 1991.

 

Wilson, Waziyatawin Angela.  Remember This!: Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor narratives.  Translations from the Dakota text by Wahpetunwin Carolynn Schommer.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

 

 

Articles:

 

Cohen, David W. "The Undefining of Oral Tradition." Ethnohistory 36 (1989): 9-18.

 

Dorson, Richard. "Oral Tradition and Written History: The Case for the United States." In American Folklore and the Historian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971.

 

Evans, Larry and Paul Pavich. "Native Oral Traditions." In A Literary History of the American West. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1987.

 

Fontana, Bernard.  “American Indian Oral History: An Anthropologist’s Note.”  History and Theory 8, no. 3 (1969): 370.

 

Helm, June and Beryl Gillespie "Dogrib Oral Tradition as History: War and Peace in the 1820s," Journal of Anthropological Research 37 (1981): 8-7.

 

LaGrand, James B.  “Whose Voices Count? Oral Sources and Twentieth-Century American Indian History.”  American Indian Culture and Research Journal  21, no.1 (1997): 75-76.

 

Moss, William.  “Oral History: What Is It and Where Did It Come From?” In The Past Meets the Present: Essays on Oral History, eds.  David Strickland and Rebecca Sharpless.  Lanham: University Press of America, 1988.

 

Portelli, Alessandro. "Oral Testimony, the Law, and the Making of History." History Workshop Journal 20 (Autumn 1985): 5-35.

 

Spear, Thomas. "Oral Traditions: Whose History?" Journal of Pacific History 16 (1981): 133-48.

 

Tonkin, Elizabeth. "Investigating Oral Tradition." Journal of African History 27 (1986): 203-13.

 

Wilson, Angela Cavender.  “Power of the Spoken Word: Native Oral Traditions in American Indian History.”  In Rethinking American Indian History, ed.  Donald L. Fixico.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. 

 

________.  “Walking into the Future: Dakota Oral Tradition and the Shaping of Historical Consciousness.”  The Forum 19-20 (1999-2000).

 




 

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