Electronic Text Center:  Native Americans.  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/Native-American.html

This text library of scanned documents from the University of Virginia provides access to some older Native American writers, including a few women from the turn of the century.  There are also white writers who have written about Native Americans listed on this site.

Internet Public Library’s Native American Authors.  http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/

Provides comprehensive information on Native North American authors with bibliographies of their published works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. 

Native Americans:  Internet Resources.  http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm

Part of James Madison University’s Internet School Library Media Center, this resource is focused on providing teachers access to lesson plans and materials for teaching Native American literature in their classrooms, from the elementary level to the introductory college level.  This page provides a wealth of links to historical, background, authors’ pages, bibliographies, directories, online texts, and general sites.  The authors include links to and informational pages about 43 authors, 22 of them women.   

NativeWeb:  Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World.  http://www.nativeweb.org/

This website offers a wide variety of resources, from news about native peoples to legal information, from food or genealogy to obituaries or tribal websites—and a searchable database.  Wide-ranging in scope, the mission statement from NativeWeb says that it is an “international, nonprofit, educational organization” dedicated to, among other goals, disseminating information by and about native peoples, fostering communication, and providing resources for study of indigenous peoples. 

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Storytellers:  Native American Authors Online.  http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/

This resource offers biographical and bibliographical webpages for authors, as well as reviews, awards, and a calendar of readings by authors.  Created by Karen Strom, Storytellers is indexed by personal name and by tribe.  Some author webpages include Real audiofiles of the author reading the selected literature.  Associated with this Storytellers website is another Karen Strom website:  Index of Native American Resources on the Internet < http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/>.

Voice of the Shuttle.  http://vos.ucsb.edu/

This database of humanities resources available through the University of California at Santa Barbara includes a section on Native American writers (available at http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2746#id1890), as well as many other subject specialties.  Users may sign up for accounts, or search the database for resources intended to help with teaching and research. 

Voices from the Gaps:  Women Writers of Color.  http://voices.cla.umn.edu/

Produced by the University of Minnesota’s Department of English and Program in American Studies, this resource represents a collaboration between students and faculty to focus on the lives and works of women writers of North America.  Each author’s page includes biographical information, lists of works, critical interpretation, and links.  Each author may be accessed by name, significant date, state/province of birth, or ethnicity.

UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University Libraries’ Online Databases:

• Literature Online (LION) by Chadwyck-Healey.  Search authors by limiting to female, native-american ethnicity (returns 15 authors) or search by author’s name.
• Modern Language Association International Bibliography.  Search by or about author, title, or subject, or search via descriptors, like de:  by Native American novelists, or de:  by women novelists, or de:  by Native American women poets.  Descriptors are searchable and hot-linked, but do not necessarily overlap, making the search a little more difficult.
• Literature Resource Center.  This very helpful Infotrac database can be searched for author, title, or subject, or the user can search for author by type, and limit to female and Native American.  This search returns twelve women writers.  The returns are divided by biography, bibliography, literary criticism, additional (online) resources, and literary-historical time-line.  Links point to full-text resources.

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Links checked; page updated 05 May 2002