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List: Own Stories: Native American Fiction

The Round House
Erdrich, Louise,
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into ...

Chancers
Vizenor, Gerald Robert,
Centered on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, "Chance...

Last Standing Woman
LaDuke, Winona.
A powerful and poignant novel tracing the lives of seven generations of Anishinaabe (O)bwe/Chippewa)...

Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories
Alexie, Sherman,
Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology...

Are We Having Fun Yet?
Sanders, William,
This book contains nine of William Sanders' best short stories, including "The Undiscovere...

Only Approved Indians
Forbes, Jack D.
Seventeen short stories on life as an Indian in today's America. In An Incident in a Tour Among...

Roofwalker
Power, Susan,
In Roofwalker, Native American writer Susan Power explores the complexities of contemporary Native A...

Voice of the Turtle
Allen, Paula Gunn,
An overview of American Indian literature, from early oral history to bestselling books. The works o...
Song of the Turtle
Allen, Paula Gunn.
A collection of American Indian literature from 1974 to 1994. It contains an introduction by the edi...
The Heartsong of Charging Elk
Welch, James,
Inspired by actual historical fact, James Welch's tells the story of an Oglala Sioux who trave...

Dawn Land
Bruchac, Joseph,
An action-packed adventure story spun in authentic native oral tradition, Dawn Land unfolds about te...

X-Indian Chronicles
Yeahpau, Thomas.
A collection of interwoven stories that chronicles the lives of several X-Indians--those Indians who...
Gardens in the Dunes
Silko, Leslie Marmon,
Indigo, an Indian girl from Arizona orphaned by U.S. Cavalry, is adopted by an intellectual white wo...

American Indian Literature
Velie, Alan R.,
Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this r...

Remnants of the First Earth
Young Bear, Ray A.
Indians weigh modernity versus ancient ways. The story is told through the eyes of a reservation Ind...

Faces in the Moon
Bell, Betty Louise,
A memoir devoted to three generations of Cherokee women in Oklahoma. A look at what it means to be I...

Grand Avenue
Sarris, Greg.
Set in a northern California landscape of tumbledown shacks and recycled barracks, Grand Avenue is a...

The Reason for Crows
Glancy, Diane.
The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the reli...

Riding the Trail of Tears
Hausman, Blake M.
"A surrealistic revisiting of the Cherokee Removal, Riding the Trail of Tears takes us to north...

The Ancient Child
Momaday, N. Scott,
Returning to the land of his ancestors for his grandmother's funeral, Set is drawn to the fable...

Moccasin Thunder
Carlson, Lori M.
Presents ten short stories about contemporary Native American teens by members of tribes of the Unit...