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Recommended Books on Native American Literature:

Anthologies

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

Marriott, Alice and Carol Rachin. American Indian Mythology. 1968 New York: Crowell.

Swann, Brian, editor. Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America. 1994 New York: Random House.

Thompson, Stith. Tales of the North American Indians. 1980 Bloomington: Indiana University.

Literary Criticism

Kroeber, Karl, et al., Traditional American Indian Literatures. 1981 Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Radin, Paul. The Trickster. 1956, 1972 New York: Schoken Books.

Swan, Brian, and Arnold Krupat, editors. Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature. 1987 Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California.

Prepared by the Resource Center, National Museum of the American Indian,
in cooperation with the Public Inquiry Mail and Telephone Information Services,

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