Native American / African-American

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Most Recommended:

  • Buffalohead, Priscilla K.
    Farmers, Warriors, Traders: A Fresh Look at Ojibway Women
    Minnesota History 48. (1983): 236-244
  • Mathes, Valerie Sherer
    Native American Women in Medicine and the Military
    Journal of the West 21.2 (1982): 41-48
  • Medicine, Beatrice
    ?Warrior Women? ? Sex Role Alternatives for Plains Indian Women
    The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women
    Eds. Medicine, Beatrice and Patricia Albers
    Washington: University Press of America, 1983. 267-280
  • Medicine, Beatrice and Patricia Albers, Eds.
    The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women
    Washington: University Press of America, 1983
  • Niethammer, Carolyn
    Daughters of the Earth: The Lives and Legends of American Indian Women
    New York: Collier, 1977
  • Stockel, H. Henrietta
    Women of the Apache Nation:
    Voices of Truth
    Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1991
  • Williams, Walter L.
    The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture
    Boston: Beacon, 1986

Additional:

  • Aleshire, Peter
    Warrior Woman: The Story of Lozen. Apache Warrior and Shaman
    St. Martin’s Press, 2000
  • Ball, Eve
    In The Days of Victorio:
    Recollections of a Warm Springs Apache
    Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981
  • Bataille, Gretchen M.
    American Indian Women
    Garland, 1991
  • Bataille, Gretchen M.
    Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1.
    Garland, 1994
  • Bellafaire, Judith A.
    The Women’s Army Corps: a Commemoration of World War II service
    CMH pub ; 72-15. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1993
  • Bernstein, Alison R.
    American Indians and World War II
    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991
  • Brust, James S.
    Into the Face of History
    American Heritage 43.7 (1992): 104-113
  • Brust, James S.
    John H. Fouch:
    First Photographer at Fort Keogh
    Montana, the Magazine of Western History 44.2 (1994): 2-17
  • Carrigan, Minnie Bruce
    Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota
    Forest City, SD: np, 1907
  • Davis, Mary B.
    Native
    America in the 20th Century
    New York: Garland Publishers, Inc., 1994
  • Delaney, Matilda
    A Survivor’s Recollections of the Whitman Massacre
    Spokane, WA: np, 1920
  • Denig, Edwin Thompson
    Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri
    Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961
  • Eastman, Mary
    Dahcotah, or Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
    New York: John Wiley, 1849
  • Ewers, John C.
    Deadlier than the Male
    American Heritage 26.4 (1965): 10-13
  • Fischer, Gayle V.
    Journal of Women’s History Guide to Periodical Literature
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992

  • Foreman, Carolyn Thomas
    Indian Women Chiefs
    Washington, DC: Zenger, 1976
  • Fuller, Emeline L.
    Left By the Indians: The Story of My Life
    Mt. Vernon, IA: np, 1892
  • Graymont, Barbara
    The Iroqouis in the American Revolution
    Syracuse, NY: 1972
  • Grinnell, George Bird
    The Fighting Cheyennes
    Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1915
  • Grinnell, George Bird
    The Cheyenne Indians:
    Their History and Ways of Life
    New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,, 1923. 2 vols.
  • Hammack, Bill
    Cherokee Phoenix
    Outdoors in Georgia Feb 1978: 18-22
  • Hanson, Elizabeth
    God’s Mercy Surmounting Man’s Cruelty Exemplified in the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson
    Philadelphia: np, 1728
  • Henderson, James D. and Linda Roddy Henderson
    Ten Notable Women of
    Latin America
    Chicago: Nelson-Hall Inc., 1978

  • Hopkins, Sarah Winnemucca
    Life among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
    New York: Putnam, 1883
  • Huey, Lois M. and Bonnie Pulis
    Molly Brant:
    A Legacy of Her Own
    Old Fort Niagara Association, 1997
  • Hungry Wolf, Beverly
    The Ways of My Grandmothers
    New York: Morrow, 1980
  • Josephy, Alvin M.
    The Patriot Chiefs: A Chronicle of American Indian Resistance
    New York: Viking, 1961
  • Karttunnen, Frances
    Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides and Survivors
    Rutgers University Press,
  • Klein, Laura F. and Lillian Ackerman
    Women and Power in Native North America
    U of Oklahoma P, 1995
  • Knaster, Merl
    Women in Spanish America: An Annotated Bibliography from Pre-Conquest to Contemporary Times
    Boston: G. K. Hall, 1977
  • Kurz, Rudolph Friederick
    Journals of Rudolph Friederick Kurz. 1937
    Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology., Bulltin 115
  • Landes, Ruth
    The Mystic Lake Sioux: Sociology of the Mdewakantonwan Santee
    Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968
  • Larimer, Sarah L. (Mrs)
    The Capture and Escape or Life Among the Sioux
    Philadelphia: np, 1870
  • Lewis, Gilbert
    Day of Shining Red: an essay on understanding ritual
    Cambridge: Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1980
  • Lewis, Oscar
    The Manly-Hearted Women among the Northern Piegan
    American Anthropologist 43. (1941): 173-87
  • Linderman, Frank B.
    Pretty Shield:
    Medicine Woman of the Crow
    New York, NY: John Day Company, 1972
  • Malone, Henry T.
    Cherokees of the Old South
    Athens, GA: 1956
  • Meeker, Josephine
    The Ute Massacre! Brave Miss Meeker’s Captivity! Her Own Account of It, Also the Narratives of Her Mother and Mrs. Price
    Philadelphia: np, 1879
  • Mitre, Bartolom?
    Historia de Belgrano. Vol. 2.
    Buenos Aire: 1902
  • O?Donnell, James H.
    Southern Indians in the American Revolution
    Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1973
  • Potter-Mackinnon, Janice
    While the Women Only Wept:
    Loyalist Regugee Women in Eastern Ontario
    1993
  • Powell, Father Peter John
    People of the Sacred Mountain:
    A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies 1830-1879 With an Epilogue 1969-1974
    San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1981. 2 vols.
  • Prentice, Alison, et al.
    Canadian Women:
    A History
    Toronto: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988
  • Robinson, Helen Caister
    Mistress Molly, The Brown Lady
    Toronto and Charlottetown: Dundurn Press, 1980
  • Robinson, Helen Caister
    ?Molly Brant:
    Mohawk Heroine.?
    Eleven Exiles:
    Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution
    Eds. Blakely, Phyllis R. and John N Grant
    Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1982
  • Robinson, Sherry
    (article on Lozan)
    Wild West Jun 1997: 52-
  • Seeley, Charlotte Palmer, Ed.
    American Women and the US Armed Forces: A Guide to the Records of Military Agencies in the National Archives Relating to American Women
    Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992
  • Smith, Mary
    An Affecting Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Mrs. Mary Smith
    Providence, RI: np, 1815
  • Stockel, H. Henrietta
    Lozen: Apache Warrior Queen
    Real West Magazine December 1982: 20-22
  • Stockel, H. Henrietta
    Survival of the Spirit:
    Chiricahua Apaches in Captivity
    Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1993
  • Tarble, Helen Mar
    The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862
    St. Paul, MN: np, 1904
  • Turney-High, Harry Holbert
    Primitive War: Its Practices and Concepts
    Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991
  • Vaughn, J. W.
    With Crook at the Rosebud
    Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1956
  • Wallis, Wilson D.
    The Canadian Dakota
    Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 41.Part 1 (1947)
  • Weinstein, Laurie and Christie White, Eds.
    Wives and Warriors: Women and the Military in the United States and Canada
    Bergin & Garvey, 1997

African-American

Most Recommended:

  • Blanton, DeAnne
    Cathay Williams, Black Woman Soldier 1866-1868
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 10.3-4 (1992): 1-21

  • Collier-Thomas, Dr. Bettye
    Recovering the Military History of Black Women
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 1.1 (1983): 76-80

  • Earley, Charity Adams
    One Woman?s Army: A Black Officer Remembers the WAC
    College Station, TX: Texas A&S University Press, 1989

  • Moore, Brenda L.
    To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas During World War II
    New York University Press, 1996

  • Putney, Martha S.
    When the Nation Was in Need: Blacks in the Women?s Army Corps during World War II
    Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1992

Additional:

  • Berry, Mary Frances and John W. Bassingame
    Long Memory: The Black Experience in America
    New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

  • Interview with Black Americans in Defense of Our Nation
    1985, Washington, DC.

  • Frankel, Noralee
    The Southern Side of ?Glory?: Mississippi African-American Women During the Civil War
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.3 (1990): 28-36

  • Hine, Darlene Clark
    The Call that Never Came: Black Women Nurses and World War I, an Historical Note
    Indiana Military History Journal 8. (1983): 23-27

  • Hoefer, Jean M.
    Harriet Tubman: A Heroine of the Underground Goes to War
    Civil War Times Illustrated February 1988: 37-41

  • Johnson, Jesse
    Black Women in the Armed Forces, 1942-1974
    New York: Hampton J. Johnson, 1974

  • King, Lisa Y.
    In Search of Women of African Descent who Served in the Civil War Union Navy
    Journal of Negro History 83.4 (1998): 302-309

  • Miller, Richard E.
    The Golden Fourteen, Plus: Black Navy Women in World War One
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 13.3-4 (1995)

  • Moore, Brenda L.
    African-American Women in the US Military
    Armed Forces & Society 17.3 (1991): 363-384.

  • Moore, Brenda L.
    Black, Female and in Uniform: An African-American Woman in the United States Army 1973-1979
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 8.2 (1990): 62-66

  • Nell, William C.
    The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, with Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons
    Boston: 1855

  • Newman, Debra L.
    The Propaganda and the Truth: Black Women and World War II
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 4.4 (1986): 72-92

  • Pitts, Lucia M.
    One Negro WAC?s Story
    Los Angeles: 1968

  • Stiehm, Judith Hicks, Ed.
    It?s Our Military, Too! Women and the U.S. Military
    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996

  • Taylor, Susie King
    Reminiscences of My Life in Camp
    New York: Arno, 1968