Indigenous Peoples' Literature Index
These articles are part of a collection of writings celebrating the rich and diverse cultures of Indigenous Peoples' that thoughtfully assert the sovereign rights of the Peoples' of North and South America. This body of work was researched and cataloged by Glenn Welker and graciously shared with and first published on Indians.org.
- Rediscovering What Has Always Been
- Abenaki Literature
- Abenaki Literature
- Aborigine Literature
- Aborigine Picture Gallery
- Acoma Literature
- Additional Poetry
- An Address to Mother Corn
- Alabama Literature
- Aleut Literature
- Algonquian Literature
- American Horse
- The Americas
- Indigenous Languages
- Anasazi Echoes
- The Ancient One
- How Antelope Carrier Saved the Thunderbirds
- Inde (Apache) Literature
- Homage to Mildred I. Cleghorn
- An Apology
- Arapaho Literature
- Arch Rock on Mackinac Island
- Arikara (Sahnish) Literature
- Art
- Online Art References
- Enough of White Man's ASCII
- Ashochimi Literature
- Athapaskan Nations
- The Aztecs/Mexicas
- Aztec Creation Story
- Aztec Poems
- Badger and the Green Giant
- Ball Game of the Birds and the Animals
- Battle With the Snakes
- Bear Stories
- The Legend of the Bear Family
- The Bear Man
- How Bear Lost His Tail
- In the Beginning
- Black Elk Speaks, in Italiano
- Using the Berry Plants for Nutrition and Medicine
- Big Bear - Cree Chief
- Legend of the Big Bird
- The Snake with the Big Feet
- Bigfoot
- Coyote and the Monsters of the Bitterroot Valley
- Blackfoot Piegan Literature
- Black Elk: Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
- Seeing More Than Black & White
- Bluebird and the Coyote
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- Chief Abel Bosum
- Boy Stolen by Thunderbird
- Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), Mohawk
- Bridal Veil Fall
- Bridge of the Gods
- Story of the Two Brother-Cousins
- Buffalo Help Heal the Spirit
- Buffalo and the Mouse
- Origin of the Buffalo Dance
- Buffalo, the Life and Spirit of the American Indian
- How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth
- Buffalo Woman, A Story of Magic
- The Buffalo Dance
- Buffalo and Eagle Wing
- How the Buffalo Hunt Began
- The Buffalo Rock
- Running With The Buffalo
- Rabbit and Otter, The Bungling Host
- Burial Poem
- How Buzzard Got His Feathers
- GOODBYE COLUMBUS!
- Caddo Literature
- Aboriginal Peoples of Canada
- Other Canadian Sites
- Carlos Fuentes on Chiapas
- George Catlin - Tribute to Native Americans
- The Celestial Canoe
- Gaelic Culture/Beliefs/Customs/Clans
- Celt Leaders
- Chelan Literature
- Cherokee Bear Legend
- Tsalagi (Cherokee) Letteratura
- Tsalagi (Cherokee) Literature
- Tse-tsehese-staestse (Cheyenne) Literature
- Chiapas Menu
- The CHIAPAS-L Mailing List
- Protest Letters
- Chiapas Uprising and Human Rights Abuses
- The Wise Man of Chief Mountain
- Chinook Literature
- Chipmunk and Bear
- Chippewa/Ojibway/Anishinabe Literature
- Choctaw Literature
- Chumash Literature
- Homage to Mildred I. Cleghorn
- Climbing the Mountain
- Cochise
- Christopher Columbus
- Comanche Literature
- Commanche Creation Story
- Conflict, Chaos and Choices
- The Corn Ceremony
- Coyote and the Another One
- Coyote vs. Duck
- Fire Race (Karuk)
- Coyote Kills a Giant
- A Coyote's Tales
- Coyote Stories/Poems
- Coyote's Adventures in Idaho
- Coyote's Salmon
- The Coyote and the Hen
- Crazy Horse Malt Liquor Protest
- Crazy Horse Malt Liquor Protest
- Crazy Horse/Tashunkewitko, Oglala
- California Creation Story (Yokut)
- When the Animals and Birds Were Created
- Apache Creation Story
- Cree Literature
- Muskokee (Creek) Literature
- Absarokee (Crow) Literature
- Crow and Hawk
- Hunter and the Dakwa
- Dance to Heal the Earth
- Chief Dan George
- The Two Daughters
- DECLARATION* of Indigenous Peoples
- The Jaguar and the Deer
- Lenape (Delaware) Literature
- Dieguenos Literature
- Holy Wind and Natural Law
- How Dogs Came to the Indians
- The Dogs Who Saved their Master
- Magical Sweet-Grass Doll
- Dull Knife
- Eagle Stories
- Where Eagles Fly
- Symbolism of the Eagle Feather
- Eagle War Feathers
- Earl's Dead Dog
- Mother Earth Prayers
- Ecuador Inkas
- Educational Awards
- Conversation of Four Elements
- Honor and Respect for Our Elders
- Enough is Enough
- The Declaration of a Global Ethic
- A Faithful Response
- Falling-Star
- The Winter When the Stars Fell
- Father of Indian Corn
- Fields of Dreams
- Fiesta Tu-Chai-Pai
- How Grandmother Spider Brought Fire to the People
- How Fire Came to the Six Nations
- First People and the First Corn
- The First Fire
- How a Piegan Warrior Found the First Horses
- Creation of the First Indians
- First Journey Through Grand Canyon
- How the First White Man Came to the Cheyennes
- Fish Dog Skin
- The Legend of the First Pearl Fish Hook
- Which Flag?
- Flathead/Salish Literature
- The Flying Canoe
- Chief Frank Fools Crow
- Forsaken Brother
- How Glooscap Found Summer
- The Four Flutes
- The Giant and the Four Wind Brothers
- Leaping Frog Rocks
- Gaelic History
- Gaelic (Celtic) Peoples Literature
- Other Gaelic Homepages
- Gaidhlig agus Gaeilge
- Gaelic Poetry (In Gaelic)
- Gaelic Myths/Legends
- Gaelic Bibliography
- Gall
- Garbage People/Children of the Street
- Death of Hero Recalls Anti-Discrimination Struggles
- Human Genome Diversity Project
- Geronimo
- Geronimo's Song
- The Legend of the Geysers
- Land of the Ghost Dance
- Water Spirit's Gift of Horses
- The Girl Who Married the Moon
- The Girl Who Searched for Her Lover
- Godasiyo the Woman Chief
- Chiapas is Global
- The Great Flood
- The Only Good Indian
- Grandfather Stories
- Kip a ta ki (Old Woman)
- European Islands Homepages
- Mayan, Quichean-Mamean, Greater Quichean
- Great Serpent and the Great Flood
- The Green Corn Festival
- The Sacred Seven Prayers
- How Half Dome Was Formed
- Indigenous Greetings/Salutations
- Heavy Collar and the Ghost Woman
- Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiían) Literature
- Hawai'ian Book of Days
- List of Hawaiian Organizations
- Honeyed Words Can't Sweeten Evil
- He-Dog
- The Girl Who Climbed to the Sky
- De-Ka-Nah-Wi-Da and Hiawatha
- Hidatsa Literature
- Larry Hill - Seneca from the Six Nations
- Glooscap and His People
- Hodadenon: The Last One Left and the Chestnut Tree
- Hole-in-the-Day
- Holy Song
- Hopi Literature
- Hero with the Horned Snakes
- How Day and Night Were Divided
- How Rabbit Brought Fire to the People
- How the Great Chiefs Made the Moon and the Sun
- How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World
- Huichol Literature
- The Hula School - Laka, Goddess of the Hula
- The Hummingbird
- The Hungry Fox and the Boastful Suitor
- Four Iroquois Hunters
- The Hunting of the Great Bear
- Nokome and the Ice King
- Return of Ice Man
- NA NI INDIO/Yo soy indio/I am Indian
- Indians and Mestizos in the Americas
- Running for Peace and Dignity
- Latino Children Wonder About Their Future
- Mexico's Indigenous Peoples United by Shared History
- Fear Grips the Nation
- Millennium of the Chile
- Husband and Wife Team Heal the Spirit
- It Takes a Pillage
- (Barbed) Wired for Controversy
- Defying the Census
- A Woman Warrior Recalls the Birth of a Movement
- Indigenous Women
- In the Beginning
- MCLR - 1994 Roundtable Introduction
- Innu Nation Literature
- Oochigeas and the Invisible Boy
- How Ioscoda and His Friends Met the White Men and Journeyed
- Baxoje Ukiche (Ioway Nation) Literature
- The Constitutiion of the Iroquois Nations
- The Origin of the Iroquois Nations
- Iroquois Oral Traditions
- Iroquois Literature
- Letteratura dei Popoli Indigeni
- The Jaguar and the Little Skunk
- Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
- Chief Joseph
- Dizeres do Chefe Joseph
- The Blessed Gift of Joy is Bestowed Upon Man
- Karuk Literature
- Katlian and the Iron People
- Kiowa Literature
- Badger and the Koondao
- Tales of Lake Tahoe
- The Lame Warrior and the Skeleton
- Indigenous Languages
- Latin America
- Chicano/Latino Studies Videotapes in the Media Resources Center
- Zapata Vive en Chiapas!
- Latvia/Livonia
- Ableegumooch, the Lazy Rabbit
- Great Chiefs & Leaders
- Creation/Migration/Origin Stories
- Lipan Apache (Tindi)
- Lipan Apache Bibliography
- Three Lipan Apache Songs
- Tehuacana Creek Treaty
- Treaty Between Texas and the Lipan Indians
- Little Crow
- Some Adventures of the Little Hare
- The Gifts of the Little People
- Little Wolf
- The Boy Who Lived With the Bears
- The Loon
- Lost In Mexico
- The Loyal Sweetheart
- Luiseno Literature
- The Man Who Was Made a Magician
- Big Magwis and Little Magwis
- Mandan Literature
- An Indigenous Manifesto
- Maori Literature
- Why We Must March
- Many Faces of Mexico
- Marginal Man
- North High Redskins Mascot
- Indian Logo Themes: Why They Are Racist!
- A Mashpee Ghost Story
- Mayan Civilization
- Maya Indians No Longer HideAncient Faith Behind Catholicism
- The Maya Culture
- A Mayan Life
- The Mayas
- The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project
- Mayan
- How Medicine Man Resurrected Buffalo
- Origin of the Medicine Man
- An Apache Medicine Dance
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Quiche Mayan
- Meaning of UN Decade of Indigenous Peoples
- Interview with Rigoberta Menchu Tum
- Despite Everything, We Are Moving Forward
- Comunicado de Rigoberta Menchu
- Carta al Pueblo Innu
- Human Rights in an Interdependent World
- Indigenous Women Are Being Marginalized
- Las Mujeres Indígenas Están siendo marginadas
- Menominee Literature
- Men Visit the Sky
- Indigeous Mexican Books
- Mexica
- Mexican Languages
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous Nations of Mexico
- Indigenous Nations of Mexico
- Ballad of Mexico City
- Mexican Poetry/Songs/Dances
- Gente indígena de Méjico
- Stories about/by Native Mexicans
- MicMac Literature
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples of Mexico
- The Changing of Mikcheech
- The Milky Way
- MCLR - Mission
- Miwok (Yosemite) Literature
- The First Moccasins
- Modern Day Mexico
- Mohawk Literature
- Mooin, the Bear's Child
- The Morning Star
- Sacred Instructions
- How Corn Came to the Earth
- Why Mount Shasta Erupted
- Why the Mouse Is So Silky
- Mt. Shasta Grizzly Legend
- Coyote and Multnomah Falls
- Indigenous Music and Dance
- The Mysterious Butte
- Náhuatl Bibliography
- The Náhuatl Language of the Aztecs
- Native Peoples Internet Affairs Council
- How the Blackfoot got the Buffalo Jump (Piskun)
- Narragansett Literature
- Native Activists
- A Meal for Nata'Yowa
- Indigenous Nations of North America
- Native Journals/Magazines
- Native American Newspapers
- Native American Organizations
- Native Television and Radio Broadcasting Systems
- Dine (Navajo) Literature
- We Will Never Forget
- Related Stories About Mexico
- Poetry
- Nez Perce Literature
- Niagara Falls
- Legend of the Night Chant
- Nihancan and the Dwarf's Arrow
- Prayer of the Night Chant
- Why the North Star Stands Still
- Ode to Chiapas
- Ohiyesa (Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman)
- Ohlone Literature
- The Story of Okteondon or the Workers of Evil
- The Old Man
- Omaha Literature
- Onondaga Literature
- Why the Opussum's Tail Is Bare
- Oren Lyons
- Origin of the Animals
- Origin of the Buffalo
- The Strange Origin of Corn
- The Origin of Earth
- Origin of Fire
- The Origin of Game and of Corn
- Origins of Mexico
- The Origin of Medicine
- The Origin of Summer and Winter
- The Origin of the Thunderbird
- Returning to the Lake
- Otavaleño Literature (Ecuador)
- Other Mexican WWW Sites
- Additional Awards
- Oto Nation
- Ottawa Literature
- Pah-To, The White Eagle
- Paiute Literature
- Tohono O'odham (Papago) Literature
- Passamaquoddy Girl
- Passamaquoddy Literature
- Pawnee Literature
- Origin of the Lakota Peace Pipe
- Penobscot Literature
- How the Old Man Made People
- Pequot Literature
- Legend of the Piasa
- Pima Literature
- Indian Pledge of Allegiance
- Poetry
- Indigenous Poetry
- Pope {poh-pay'}
- Porcupine Hunts Buffalo
- Origin of the Prairie Rose