Although faced with the seemingly impossible task of getting thier voices heard, in the last decades of the nineteenth century many Native Americans succeeded in finding thier way into the world of the printed and published word. Although thier opinions about the incorporation of thier cultures were as different as thier backgrounds, thier voices when taken as a whole paint a brutal and ethnocentric portrait of their peoples incorporation . Thier voices reveal the forced assimilation of America's first peoples into the culture of mainstream, middle class, white America. This section of the site allows Native American voices to speak for themselves, to tell the story of incorporation from the perspective of the Native American.
 

An Indian Boy's Story 30 July 1903- This autobiographical sketch tells the story of Ah-nen-la-de-ni's experience as a young Native American during the period of incorporation that surrounded the passing of the Dawes Severalty Act in  1887.

Geronimo:His own story

An Indian Allotment. The Story of a Vision

"Nedawi." (An Indian Story from Real Life.) 1881

Angel De Cora An Autobiography The Sick Child 1899 Gray Wolf's Daughter 1899

The Soul of the Indian 1911    The Madness of Bald Eagle 1905    Indian Boyhood 1902    Old Indian Days 1907

The Future of the Red Man August 1897    An Indian on the Problems of His Race [a machine-readable transcription] 1895    Indian Superstitions and Legends. 1898    Naming the Indians September 1897  The Red Man's Rebuke- an essay written in response to the treatment (or lack thereof) of Native Americans at the 1893 Columbian Exposition. (Coming Soon)

	An Indians View of Indian Affairs
Zitkala-Sa [Gertrude Bonnin]

The Soft-Hearted Sioux 1901    A Warrior's Daughter 1902    Impressions of an Indian Childhood 1900    The Trial Path October 1901    Old Indian Legends 1901

Life Among the Piutes: Thier Wrongs and Claims 1883 (Coming Soon).