Autobiography anthology series

An Anthology
Edited by Arnold Krupat




"Arnold Krupat is the leading scholar in the study of autobiographies, and this collection is one of the most comprehensive representations of life stories by Native Americans."
—Gerald Vizenor, University of California–Berkeley

Native American Autobiography is the first collection to bring together the major autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present.

The thirty narratives included here cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years.

From the earliest known written memoir—a 1768 narrative by the Reverend Samson Occom, a Mohegan, reproduced as a chapter here—to recent reminiscences by such prominent writers as N.

Scott Momaday and Gerald Vizenor, the book covers a broad range of Native American experience. The sections include "Traditional Lives;" "The Christian Indians, from the Eighteen