CORE LIST OF NATIVE AMERICAN PRINTED MATERIALS



LITERATURE AND FICTION


Achtenberg, Anya. I know What the Small Girl Knew. Holy Cow P, 1983. ISBN 0930100115

Alexie, Sherman. The Business of Fancydancing.

Alexi, Sherman. Indian Killer. New York: Warner Books, 1998. ISBN 0446673706

Alexie, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.

Alexie, Sherman. Reservation Blues. Grove/Atlantic. 1995.

Allen, Paula G. Spider Woman's granddaughters: Traditional tales and contemporary writings by Native American women. Beacon Press, 1989.

Allen, Paula G. Studies in Native American Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1983.

Allen, Paula G., ed. Voice of the turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970. New York: Ballentine, 1994.

Beatty, Willard W., ed. Life in the Pueblos. Ancient City Press, 1991.

Bell, Betty Louise. Faces in the Moon. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1994.

Brant, Beth, ed. A Gathering of Spirit: Writing and Art of North American Indian Women. Montepelier, VT: Sinister Wisdom Books, 1994.

Brooks, Drex. Sweet Medicine: Sites of Indian Massacres, Battlefields, & Treaties. U of New Mexico P, 1995.

Bruchac, Joseph. Dawnland.

Bruchac, Joseph, ed. Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writer's Festival. University of Arizona Press, 1994.

Bruchac, Joseph. Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred. Fulcrum Publishing, 1996.

Bruchac, Joseph, Janet, Witalec, and Sharon Malinowski. Smoke Rising: The Native North American Literary Companion. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1995.

Bruchac, Joseph. Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Greenfield Review Press, 1983.

Bruchac, Joseph. Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets. University of Arizona Press, 1987.

Bruchac, Joseph. Turtle Meat.

Bruchac, Carol, Linda Hogan, and Judith McDaniel, eds. The Stories We Hold Secret: Tales of Women's Spiritual Development. Greenfield Review Literary Center, 1987. I

Canon, A.E. The Shadow Brothers. New York: Dell, 1990.

Chiaventone, Frederick J. A Road We Do Not Know: A Novel of Custer at the Little Bighorn. University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Coltelli, Laura. Native American Literatures. Pisa: Serrizo Editoriale Universitario, 1989.

Coltelli, Laura. Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak. University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. The Power of Horses and Other Stories.

Culleton, B. In search of April Raintree. Winnipeg: Pemmican, 1987.

Craven, Margaret. I Heard the Owl Call My Name. Dell, 1973.

Deloria, Ella Carr. Waterlily.
DeMallie, Raymond J., and Alfonso Ortiz, eds. North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society & Culture. U of Oklahoma P, 1996.

Dorris, Michael. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. New York: Holt and Co., 1987.

Erdrich, Louise. The Antelope Wife. New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998.

Erdrich, Louise. Beet Queen.

Erdrich, Louise. Bingo Palace.

Erdrich, Louise. Love medicine: A novel. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984.

Erdrich, Louise. Tales of Burning Love. London: Flamingo, 1997.

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks.

Garland, Sherry. Indio. Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Geiogamah, H. New Native American drama: Three plays. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980.

Glancy, Diane. Trigger Dance.

Glancy, Diane. Firesticks. University of Oklahoma Press.

Grant, A., ed. Our bit of truth: An anthology of Canadian Native literature. Winnipeg: Pemmican, 1990.

Green, Rayna, ed. That's What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native American Women. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Hale, Janet Campbell. The Owl's Song. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.

Hale, Janet Campbell. The Jailing of Cecilia Capture. University of New Mexico Press.

Hanson, Elizabeth I. Forever There: Race and Gender in Contemporary Native American Fiction. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.

Harjo, Joy. In Mad Love & War. U P of New England, 1990.

Harjo, Joy. She Had Some Horses.

Harjo, Joy. Secrets from the Center of the World. U of Arizona P, 1989.

Harjo, Joy and Gloria Bird, eds. Reinventing the enemy's language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

Highway, Tomson. The Rez Sisters.(Play)

Highway, Tomson. Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapushkasing. (Play)

Hillerman, Tony. Skinwalkers. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

Hirschfelder, Arlene and Beverly Singer. Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans. Scribner's, 1992.

Hobbs, Will. Bearstone. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.

Hobson, Geary, ed. The remembered earth: An anthology of contemporary Native American literature. Red Earth Press, 1979.

Hogan, Linda. The Book of Medicines. (Poetry) Coffee House Press, 1993.

Hogan, Linda. Dwellings. Simon & Schuster Trade, 1996.

Hogan, Linda. From Women's Experience to Feminist Theology. CUP Services, 1995.

Hogan, Linda. Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women & Animals. Fawcett Book Group, 1998.

Hogan, Linda. Mean Spirit. Ivy Books, 1992.

Hogan, Linda. Power. Norton, 1998.

Hogan, Linda. Red Clay. Greenfield Review Literary Center, 1991.

Hogan, Linda. Savings. (Poetry) Coffee House Press, 1988.

Hogan, Linda. Seeing Through the Sun. (Poetry) U of Massachusetts P, 1985.

Hogan, Linda. Solar Storms. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Johnson, E. Pauline. The Moccasin Maker. Tucson: University of Arizona Press,

Kazimiroff, Theodore L. The Last Algonquin. Walker & Company, 1997.

Kenny, Maurice. On Second Thought: A Compilation. University of Oklahoma Press.

King, Thomas, ed. All My Relations: An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Native Fiction. U of Oklahoma P, 1992.

King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water. Toronto: HarperPerennial, 1994.

King, Thomas. Medicine River. New York: Penguin, 1995.

Kroeber, Karl. Traditional Literatures of the American Indian: Texts and Interpretations. University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

La Farge, Oliver. Laughing Boy. Reprint. Harmony Raine & Co, 1981.

LaDuke, Winona. Last Standing Woman. Voyageur Press, 1997.

Larson, Sidner J. Catch Colt. University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Lerner, A. Dancing on the Rim of the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Northwest Native American writing. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990.

Lesley, Craig. River Song.

Lesley, Craig. Winterkill. Dell, 1984

Lesley, Craig and Katheryn Stavrakis, eds. Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories. Laurel, 1991.

Lincoln, Kenneth. Native American Renaissance. University of California Press, 1983.

Linderman, Frank B. Blackfeet Indians. Random House Value Publishing, 1995.

Linderman, Frank B. Indian Lodge-Fire Stories. Homestead Publishing, 1997.

Linderman, Frank B. Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire. U of Nebraska P, 1996.

Linderman, Frank B. Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire. U of Nebraska P, 1996.

Linderman, Frank B. Kootenai Why Stories: The Authorized Edition. U of Nebraska P, 1997.

Linderman, Frank B. The Montana Stories of Frank B. Linderman: the Authorized Edition. U of Nebraska P, 1997.

Linderman, Frank B. Old Man Coyote. U of Nebraska P, 1996.

Linderman, Frank B. Pretty-Shield. Reprint. Time-Life, 1993.

Linderman, Frank B. Wolf & the Winds. U of Oklahoma P, 1986.

Littlefield, Daniel F. A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924. Metchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981.

Lippard, Lucy R., and et al. The Submuloc Show-Columbus Wohs: A Visual Commentary on the Columbus Quincentennial from the Perspective of America's First People. Atlatl, 1992.

Louis, Adrian C. Skins. New York: Crown Pub, 1995.

Louise, Adrian C. Wild Indians & Other Creatures. Reno, NV: U of Nevada P, 1996.

Marken, Jack W. The American Indian: Language and Literature. Arlington Heights, IL: AHM, 1978.

Mathews, John Joseph. Sundown. Reprint of 1934. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1988.

Mathews, John Joseph. Wah'kon-tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road. Reprint of 1932. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1981.

McNickle, D'Arcy. The Hawk is Hungry & Other Stories. U of Arizona P, 1992.

McNickle, D'Arcy. Runner in the Sun. U of New Mexico P, 1987.

McNickle, D'Arcy. The Surrounded. U of New Mexico P, 1978.

McNickle, D'Arcy. Wind from an Enemy Sky. U of New Mexico P, 1988.

Miller-Lachmann, Lyn. Our Family, Our Friends, Our World: An Annotated Guide to Significant Multi cultural Books for Children and Teenagers. R.R. Bowker, 1992.

Momaday, N. Scott. The Ancient Child.

Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn. Harper & Row, 1968.

Momaday, N. Scott. The Names.

Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press.

Mourning Dove. Cogewea, the half-blood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Mourning Dove. Mourning Dove: A Salishan Autobiography, ed. By Jay Miller. University of Nebraska Press, 1990.

Native American in American Literature: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 1985.

Niatum, Duane, ed. Harper's Anthology of Twentieth Century Native American Poetry. Harper & Row, 1988.

Northrup, Jim. Walking the Rez Road. Voyageur Press, 1993.

Northrup, Jim. The Rez Road Follies: Canoes, Casinos, Computers and Birch Bark Baskets. New York: Kodansha International, 1997.

Ortiz, Alfonso. Tewa World: Space, Time, Being, & Becoming in a Pueblo Society. U of Chicago P, 1972.

Owens, L. Bone Game. University of Oklahoma Press.

Owens, L. Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. University of Oklahoma Press.

Owens, L. The Sharpest Sight. University of Oklahoma Press.

Owen, L. Wolfsong: A Novel. University of Oklahoma Press.

Pearlman, Mickey, ed. American Women Writing Fiction: Memory, Identity, Family, Space. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Penn, W. S. The Absence of Angels. Barnes & Noble, 199?

Penoi, C. R. Indian Time. Yukon, OK: Pueblo Publishing, 1987.

Pitts, Paul. The Shadowman's Way. New York: Avon Books, 1992.

Power, Susan. The Grass Dancer. New York: Putnam, 1994.

Purdy, J. L. The Legacy of D'Arcy McNickle: Writer, Historian, Activist. University of Oklahoma Press.

Querry, Ronald B. Bad Medicine. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.

Querry, Ronald B. The Death of Bernadette Lefthand. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

Richter, Conrad. The Light in the Forest. New York: Bantam Books, 1953.

Rockwood, Joyce. To Spoil the Sun. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1976.

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. American Indian Literatures: An Introduction, Bibliographic Review, and Selected Bibliography. Modern Language Association, 1990.

Sandoz, Mari. Hostiles & Friendlies: Selected Short Writing of Mari Sandoz. U of Nebraska P, 1959.

Sears, Vickie. Simple Songs. FireBrand Books, 1990.

Seyersted, Per. Leslie Marmon Silko. Boise, ID: Boise State University, 1980.

Silko, Leslie. Almanac of the Dead. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Viking Press, 1977.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. The storyteller. New York: Arcarde, 1981.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today. Simon and Schuster, 1996.

Standing Bear, Luther. Stories of the Sioux. U of Nebraska P, 1988.

Stensland, Anna Lee. Literature by and about the American Indian: An Annotated Bibilography. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1979.

Swann, Brian and Arnold Krupat, eds. I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Swann, Brian and Arnold Krupat, ed. Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature. University of California Press, 1987.

Tapahonso, Luci. A Breeze Swept Through. University of New Mexico Press.

Velie, Alan R., ed. American Indian Literature: an Anthology. Norman, OK: U of Oklahoma P, 1991.

Velie, Alar R., ed. The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction. U of Nebraska P, 1991.

Velie, Alan R., ed. Native American Perspectives on Literature and History. University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. ISBN 0806127856

Vizenor, Gerald. Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World. University of Oklahoma Press.

Vizenor, Gerald. The Heirs of Columbus. University of New England Press.

Vizenor, Gerald, ed. Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literature. University of New Mexico Press, 1989.

Vizenor, Gerald. Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories, New Edition. University of Oklahoma Press.

Vizenor, Gerald Robert. Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel. Hanover, NH: Wesleyan U P, 1997.

Vizenor, Gerald Robert. The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1988.

Walters, Anna. The Sun is Not Merciful. Firebrand.

Walters, Anna. Ghost Singer.

Welch, James. The Death of Jim Loney. Viking Penguin, 1987.

Welch, James. Fools Crow. Viking Penguin, 1987.

Welch, James. The Indian Lawyer. New York: Pemmican, 1990.

Welch, James. James Welch, interviews & essays on his work. Confluence Press, 1986.

Welch, James. Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn & the Fate of the Plains Indians. Viking Penguin, 1995.

Welch, James. Riding the Earthboy 40 (poetry) Carnegie-Mellon U P, 1997.

Welch, James. Winter in the blood. Viking Penguin, 1986.

Whiteman, Roberta Hill. Star Quilt: Poems. Holy Cow! Press, 1984.

Whitson, Kathy J. Native American Literatures: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors, and Themes. ABC-CLIO, 1999.

Wiget, Andrew. Dictionary of Native American Literature. Garland, 1994.

Witalec, Janet. Native North American Literature: Biographical and Critical Information on Native Writers and Orators from the United States and Canada from Historical Times to the Present. Gale Research,

Wood, Nancy, ed. The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry, and Art of the New Mexico Pueblos. New York: Dutton Books, 1997.

Wright, Anne, ed. The Delicacy and Strength of Lace: Letters Between Leslie Marmon Silko and James Wright. St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 1986.

Zitkala Sa. [Gertrude Simmons Bonnin]. American Indian Stories.

Zitkala Sa. Old Indian Legends.
   

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