The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk: Race and Ethnic Images in American Children's Literature, 1880-1939

St. Nicholas Magazine

Native American

"A Moose Hunt in the Maine Woods" by C.A. Stephens
St. Nicholas Magazine, February 1874

"The Comanches' Trail" by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens
St. Nicholas Magazine, December 1874

"An Indian Story" by Kate Foote
St. Nicholas Magazine, September 1875

"Lacrosse" by Charles Barnard
St. Nicholas Magazine, November 1880

"Nedawi (An Indian Story from Real Life)" by "Bright Eyes"
St. Nicholas Magazine, January 1881

"Onawandah: A Fourth Spinning-Wheel Story" by Louisa M. Alcott
St. Nicholas Magazine, April 1884

"A Fourth of July among the Indians" by W.P. Hooper
St. Nicholas Magazine, July 1884

"Another Indian Invasion" by Mrs. Lizzie Chamkney
St. Nicholas Magazine, October 1884

"A Fox and a Raven" by Rebecca Harding Davis
St. Nicholas Magazine, February 1885

"The White and the Red" by Alice Maude Ewell
St. Nicholas Magazine, December 1889

"A Little Brown Witch" by Kate W. Hamilton
St. Nicholas Magazine, September 1890

"Recollections of the Wild Life: IV. An Indian Boy's Training" by Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman
St. Nicholas Magazine, March 1894

"The Algonquin Medicine-Boy" by Francis S. Palmer
St. Nicholas Magazine, June 1901

"A Miniature Chieftain" by E.W. Deming
St. Nicholas Magazine, March 1903

"Fun Among the Red Boys" by Julian Ralph
St. Nicholas Magazine, June 1904

"How Ellen Came to Steal the Indian Baby" by David MacGregor Cheney
St. Nicholas Magazine, March 1906

"A Little Indian School" by T.R. Porter
St. Nicholas Magazine, May 1906

"An Indian Letter" by T.R. Porter
St. Nicholas Magazine, January 1907

"Famous Indian Chiefs: Alaska Indian Chiefs: Fernandeste, Sitka Jack, and Anahootz" by Major-General O.O. Howard
St. Nicholas Magazine, May 1908

"Famous Indian Chiefs: The Great War-Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces" by Major-General O.O. Howard
St. Nicholas Magazine, June 1908

"Famous Indian Chiefs: Winnemucca, Chief of the Piutes" by Major-General O.O. Howard
St. Nicholas Magazine, July 1908

"Famous Indian Chiefs: Lot, a Spokane Chief" by Major-General O.O. Howard
St. Nicholas Magazine, August 1908

"Famous Indian Chiefs: Cut-Mouth John" by Major-General O.O. Howard
St. Nicholas Magazine, September 1908

"Famous Indian Chiefs: Sitting Bull, the Great Dakota Leader" by Major-General O.O. Howard
St. Nicholas Magazine, October 1908

African American

"How Jube Waked the Elephant" by Mrs. M. Sheffey Peters
St. Nicholas Magazine, February 1881

"A Chapter on Soap-Bubbles" by Daniel C. Beard
St. Nicholas Magazine, May 1881

"A Little Contraband" by Charles McIlvaine
St. Nicholas Magazine, September 1890

"Marth' Ann of the Evergreens, a Leader of a Band of Piccaninnies" by Ruth McEnery Stuart
St. Nicholas Magazine, January 1901

"Lady-Baby" by Ruth McEnery Stuart
St. Nicholas Magazine, December 1902

"The Watermelon Stockings" by Alice Caldwell Hegan
St. Nicholas Magazine, December 1902

"The Sports of Negro Children" by Timonthy Saller Williams
St. Nicholas Magazine, September 1903

"Reversed Perpetual Motion" by Norman D. Gray
St. Nicholas Magazine, August 1904

"The Crimson Sweater" by Ralph Henry Barbour
St. Nicholas Magazine, May 1906

"Christmas Without the Christmas Tree" by May Snyder
St. Nicholas Magazine, January 1907

African

"African Fashions" by Olive Thorne
St. Nicholas Magazine, December 1874

"Mumbo Jumbo" by John Lewees
St. Nicholas Magazine, April 1881

"The White Pasha" by Noah Brooks
St. Nicholas Magazine, October 1888

"Six Years in the Wilds of Central Africa" by E.J. Glave
St. Nicholas Magazine, April 1890

Asian

"Tsang Tsan and the Man-Eater" by John R. Coryell
St. Nicholas Magazine, April 1883

"Wong Ning's Ideas" by Wong Ning
St. Nicholas Magazine, Month Year

"The Animal Ship" by P.W. Humphreys
St. Nicholas Magazine, February 1904

"Chao Chahng and the Man Eater" by Clarence Pullen
St. Nicholas Magazine, October 1904

"Kibun Daizin or From Shark-Boy to Merchant Prince" by Gensai Murai
St. Nicholas Magazine, November 1904

"The Little Brother of Loo-lee Loo" by Margaret Johnson
St. Nicholas Magazine, November 1904

"Child Life in China and Japan" by Bertha Runkle
St. Nicholas Magazine, January 1905

"Totsi and the Cherry-bough" by Margaret Johnson
St. Nicholas Magazine, October 1905

"The Magic Teapot" by Florence Peltier"
St. Nicholas Magazine, July 1906

Other

"Queer People (For Home or School Representation)" by Lucy B. Wiggin
St. Nicholas Magazine, April 1876

"The Floating Prince" by Frank R. Stockton
St. Nicholas Magazine, December 1880

"In Nature's Wonderland; or, Adventures in the American Tropics: Chapter 1" by Felix L. Oswald
St. Nicholas Magazine, December 1880

"In Nature's Wonderland; or, Adventures in the American Tropics: Chapter 2" by Felix L. Oswald
St. Nicholas Magazine, January 1881

"The Boomeo Boy" by Wm. W. Newton
St. Nicholas Magazine, September 1881

"Lady Jane: Chapter XIII - Chapter XV" by Mrs. C.V. Jamison
St. Nicholas Magazine, August 1890

"Lady Jane: Chapter XVIII - XIX" by Mrs. C.V. Jamison
St. Nicholas Magazine, October 1890

"The Wanderers" by William B. MacHarg
St. Nicholas Magazine, January 1903

"A Tale of the Cannibal Islands" by Herbert Baird Stimson
St. Nicholas Magazine, March 1904

"Caradoc" by Margaret Johnson
St. Nicholas Magazine, June 1904

"Johnniky Van and the Cannibal Man" by Ellen Manly
St. Nicholas Magazine, June 1904

"Lloyd's Luck" by Fred Lockley, Jr.
St. Nicholas Magazine, July 1904

"The New Doll" by M.M.D.
St. Nicholas Magazine, July 1905

"The Stone of Success" by Mary E. Mitchell
St. Nicholas Magazine, July 1906