The Autobiographies & Biographies of the Most Influential Native Americans
Life Narratives of Indigenous Leadership, Resistance, Sovereignty, and SurvivalBy Geronimo, Charles A. Eastman, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Black Hawk, Charles M. Scanlan
Length35h 52m
About this audiobook
This wide-ranging anthology gathers autobiographical testimony and biographical narrative to examine Native American leadership, resistance, adaptation, and historical memory. Moving between translated or mediated life writing, nineteenth-century popular biography, political reminiscence, and culturally inflected self-representation, it reveals how Indigenous lives were recorded, interpreted, and contested in print. Accounts of warfare, diplomacy, removal, education, and survival give the volume both documentary force and literary variety, while also inviting attention to the editorial frameworks through which Native voices reached broad audiences. Its contributors represent sharply different positions within the literary and historical record. Geronimo, Black Hawk, and Charles A. Eastman bring Indigenous experience, recollection, and public advocacy into dialogue with the biographical approaches of John Stevens Cabot Abbott and Charles M. Scanlan. Together, these texts illuminate the fraught intersection of Indigenous oral traditions, American autobiography, settler historiography, and the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century impulse to memorialize Native leaders. Their differences are central: the collection exposes not a single Native past, but competing modes of narration, authority, and commemoration. Recommended for students and general readers of Native American history, American literature, and life writing, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare perspectives within one archive. Its breadth encourages critical reading of both testimony and biography, fostering a sustained dialogue about voice, mediation, sovereignty, and historical representation.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length35 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 20, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
150 Spiritual Classics
26V. An Adventurous Journey
2Charles Eastman: Indian Boyhood & From the Deep Woods to Civilization
27XI. The Laughing Philosopher
3Indian Boyhood
28XII. First Impressions of Civilization
4I. Hadakah, “The Pitiful Last”
29From the Deep Woods to Civilization
5II. Early Hardships
30Foreword
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6III. My Indian Grandmother
31I The Way Opens
7IV. An Indian Sugar Camp
32II My First School Days
8V. A Midsummer Feast
33III On the White Man's Trail
9II. An Indian Boy’s Training
34IV College Life in the West
10I. Games and Sports
35V College Life in the East
11II. My Playmates
36VI A Doctor Among the Indians
12III. The Boy Hunter
37VII The Ghost Dance War
13IV. Hakadah’s First Offering
38VIII War with the Politicians
14I. A Visit to Smoky Day
39IX Civilization as Preached and Practised
15II. The Stone Boy
40X At the Nation's Capital
16I. Evening in the Lodge
41XI Back to the Woods
17II. Adventures of My Uncle
42XII The Soul of the White Man
18VII. The End of the Bear Dance
43King Philip: War Chief of the Wampanoag People
19VIII. The Maidens’ Feast
44Preface
20I. A Legend of Devil’s Lake
45Chapter I. Landing of the Pilgrims
21II. Manitoshaw’s Hunting
46Chapter II. Massasoit
22I. Life in the Woods
47Chapter III. Clouds of War
23II. A Winter Camp
48Chapter IV. The Pequot War
24III. Wild Harvests
49Chapter V. Commencement of the Reign of King Philip
25IV. A Meeting on the Plains
50Chapter VI. Commencement of Hostilities
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