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Native American Literature

House Made of Dawn: * Way to Rainy Mountain: * The Ancient Child: * In the Presence of the Sun:
     The Man Made of Words: * The Names: * Conversations With N. Scott Momaday:
     Novels, stories, poems and memoirs by Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author N. Scott Momaday
Smoke Signals: * The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: * Reservation Blues: * Ten Little Indians:
     First Indian on the Moon: * The Business of Fancydancing: * Indian Killer: * Toughest Indian in the World:
     Screenplay, stories and poems by acclaimed Spokane/Coeur d'Alene writer Sherman Alexie
Custer Died For Your Sins: * Spirit and Reason: * Red Earth, White Lies: * Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties:
     Essays and criticism by Standing Rock Lakota thinker Vine Deloria Jr.
Fools Crow: * The Heartsong of Charging Elk: * Winter in the Blood: * The Indian Lawyer:
     The Death of Jim Loney: * Riding the Earthboy 40:
     Novels and poems by Blackfoot/Gros Ventre writer James Welch
Love Medicine: * Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: * Original Fire: * Baptism of Desire:
     The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year: * The Birchbark House: * Tracks: * The Beet Queen:
     The Bingo Palace: * Tales of Burning Love: * The Antelope Wife:
     Novels, poetry, and stories by Turtle Mountain Chippewa writer Louise Erdrich.
The Hiawatha: * Little:
     Novels by Leech Lake Ojibwe writer David Treuer.
Walking the Rez Road: * Rez Road Follies:
     Stories by Fond du Lac Ojibwe writer Jim Northrup.
Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives: * Remnants of the First Earth: * The Invisible Musician:
     The Rock Island Hiking Club: * Winter of the Salamander:
     Poetry and stories by Meskwaki author Ray A. Young Bear
We Are The Dreamers:
     Recent and early poetry by Mi'kmaq poet Rita Joe.
Indian Singing:
     Poems by Onondaga-Micmac writer Gail Tremblay.
Absentee Indians and Other Poems : * Trailing You:
     Poems by White Earth Ojibwe writer Kimberly Blaeser.
Briefcase Warriors: * Survivor's Medicine:
     Stories and plays by Fond du Lac Ojibwe writer E. Donald Two-Rivers.
The Surrounded: * Wind From an Enemy Sky: * Runner in the Sun: * The Hawk Is Hungry:
     Books on Indian life by prominent Cree author D'Arcy McNickle.
The Rez Sisters: * Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing: * Kiss of the Fur Queen:
     Contemporary plays and a novel by Cree author Tomson Highway.
In Search of April Raintree: * Spirit of the White Bison: * Unusual Friendships: * In the Shadow of Evil:
     Novels and stories by Canadian Metis author Beatrice Mosionier.
Sojourners and Sundogs: * Bent Box: * Daughters Are Forever: * Ravensong:
     Stories, poems and novels by Metis author Lee Maracle.
Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth: * The Baby Blues: * Bootlegger Blues: * Buz'Gem Blues:
     Curve Lake Ojibwe playwright/essayist Drew Hayden Taylor.
Fugitive Colors: * Not Vanishing: * Dream On: * Fire Power:
     Mixed-blood lesbian poet Chrystos
Halfbreed:
     Wrenching autobiography of Metis writer Maria Campbell.
Dirt Road Home:
     Poems by Abenaki writer Cheryl Savageau.
Molly Molasses and Me:
     Stories by Penobscot author Ssipsis.

Literature From Specific Native American Tribes and Nations

Abenaki Algonquin Apache Arapaho Arikara Assiniboine Beothuk
Blackfoot Caddo Calusa Catawba Cayuga Cayuse Chehalis
Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Chinook Choctaw Chumash Coeur d'Alene
Comanche Cree Delaware Flathead Garifuna Gros Ventre Haida
Ho-Chunk Hoopa Hopi Huichol Illini Innu Iroquois
Kansa Kickapoo Kiowa Kwakiutl Lakota Sioux Lumbee Lummi
Maidu Makah Mandan Mapuche Menominee Miccosukee Mi'kmaq
Miwok Mohawk Mohegan Mohican Mojave Munsee Muscogee
Nanticoke Narragansett Natchez Navajo Nez Perce Nootka Ohlone
Ojibwe Okanagan Oneida Onondaga Osage Otoe Papago
Pawnee Passamaquoddy Penobscot Ponca Pomo Potawatomi Powhatan
Pueblo Quinault Sac and Fox Seminole Shawnee Shoshone Susquehannock
Taino Tanana Tarahumara Tigua Timucua Tlingit Tonkawa
Towa Tsimshian Umatilla Ute Walla Walla Wampanoag Washoe
Wiyot Wyandotte Yakama Yavapai Yurok Zapotec Zuni



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