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Welcome to North American Indian Drama

This edition of North American Indian Drama contains 172 plays by 33 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Please click here to read an introductory essay about this collection written by Native American drama scholar Christy Stanlake.

The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource, containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.

The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of scholars and the playwrights themselves.
North American Indian Drama uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database. 
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FEATURED ITEMS



War Cries by Diane Glancy 

Includes “Bull Star,” “Mother of Mosquitoes,” “One Horse,” “Segwohi,” “The Truth Teller,” and four other plays by this award-winning Cherokee playwright, poet, and educator.



Briefcase Warriors: Stories for the Stage by E. Donald Two-Rivers 

Includes “Forked Tongues,” “Chili Corn,” “Coyote Sits in Judgment,” “Shattered Dream,” and two other plays by this Anishinaabe playwright, performer, and poet.



New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah

Includes this Oklahoma-born Kiowa playwright and professor’s “Body Indian,” “Foghorn,” and “49.” 



Where the Pavement Ends: Five Native American Plays  by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.

Includes “The Star Quilter,” “The Body Guards,” “Rez Politics,” and two other plays by this Montana-born Assiniboine playwright and theater director.

 


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