LibGuides: Native American and Indigenous Studies: Native American and Indigenous Literature

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MLA International Bibliography
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Updated ten times per year. Indexes critical materials on literature, criticism, drama, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from over 4,400 journals, series, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies. Produced by the Modern Language Association.

Studies in American Indian Literatures
Peer-reviewed journal published by the Association for Study of American Indian Literatures
Transmotion
Transmotion is a biannual, fully, and permanently open-access journal. Transmotion publishes new scholarship focused on theoretical, experimental, postmodernist, and avant-garde writing produced by Native American and First Nations authors, as well as book reviews on relevant work in Indigenous Studies.

Indigenous Popular Materials & Resources
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English Literature
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Mexican American Literature
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Internet Public Library Native American Authors Projects
A site with information on Native North American authors, bibliographies, and biographical information.
Oyate
A Native organization dedicated to seeing fair portrayals of Natives in Literature and the Arts.
PALABRA Indigenous Voices Project
PALABRA Indigenous Voices seeks to highlight contemporary authors from Indigenous communities around Latin America who are writing today in their native languages and who are working to preserve their heritage, worldviews, and cultural identities through their craft.
The People and the Text: Indigenous Writing in Northern North America to 1992
An open-access bibliography of Indigenous texts and related secondary materials including a curated blog and the on-line publication of texts, where legally and ethically permissible.
Tribal Writers Digital Library
Hosted by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock this digital library features out of print works by American Indians, Alaska Natives, and First Nations people of Canada. The project seeks to broaden what the term "Native writing" means.
Wordcraft Circle
An organization working to promote Native Writers and their craft.
Yellow Medicine Review
Indigenous literature, thought and art.