Native American Literary Atlas

THE native AMERICAN LITERARY ATLAS

[This website is the product of a grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the project “Mapping Native Intellectual Networks of the Northeast,” which concluded at the end of the 2024 calendar year. Without ongoing staffing to continue to develop this website, it will remain as it was at the conclusion of the grant; it will not be added to or updated.]

Welcome to the Native American Literary Atlas, a digital atlas that shares, explores, visualizes, and connects communities and researchers to the literary networks of Indigenous authorship. The atlas highlights Native-authored books from the Collection of Native American Literature at Amherst College, revealing patterns of intersection and relationships across more than 250 years of Native writing and publishing.

The atlas features publications by authors from the Native Northeast, including tribal histories, political writings, sermons, stories and poetry by Northeastern Indigenous Peoples, which are intended for a public audience.

Search and browse the atlas by place-of-publication and locations of Northeast Indigenous knowledge centers, such as tribal archives, libraries, and museums.