Native American Literature (ENGL/ETHN 245B; ENGL/ETHN 445E/845E)

 

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Please excuse the fact that this page's intent got outa hand--in my best (and worst) monomaniacal manner. Excuse the fact that I've included several idiosyncratic contemporary figures, authors of poems I've admired in the past, but whose names few might deem worthy of inclusion in such a list. . . . Excuse my perhaps too great emphasis on Lakota authors?? . . . And excuse me while I go add a few more links! . . .

The authors are arranged chronologically, by date of birth; the lists of "characteristic works" are also (usually) chronological--though also by genre; finally, information on dates and tribal affiliations are often my "interpolations" from a variety of sources.  --TCG

P.S. (after extensive revision/additions in 2007): in an attempt at historical & encyclopedic inclusiveness, I have included several authors of–uh–questionable "authenticity"–cf. ["?"] after tribal affiliation claims–either because they've been read as "Native" by a lot of people and/or for a lot of years. (But, no, Forrest [Asa] Carter [erstwhile Cherokee], Jamake Highwater [erstwhile Blackfoot/Cherokee], and Nasdijj [erstwhile Navajo] are NOT included!)

Also, my new page (as of May, 2006): Great "INDIAN" Moments in Pop Culture


 
     NATIVE AMERICAN LIT.--GENERAL/MISCELLANEOUS::::

   NativeAuthors.com  --defunct!

   INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY: Native American Authors Project   --especially author bibliographies

           Native American Authors Project: Index by Author

           Native American Authors Project: Index by Book Title

   WWW Virtual Library--American Indians   --"Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet" (with extensive author links) (hanksville.org)

           STORYTELLERS: Native American Authors Online

   VOICES FROM THE GAPS   --"North American women writers of color" (U of Minnesota)

           Voices from the Gaps: Writer Bios by "Axes of Affiliation"

   Native Americans--Internet Resources   --links page (Internet School Library Media Center)

           Native Americans--Teacher Resources   --including author links

   VOICE OF THE SHUTTLE: Minority Literatures--Native American/American Indian   --copious links

   NATIVE AMERICAN BOOKS   --book reviews, etc. (Paula Giese [kstrom.net])

   Native American Literature Chronology to 1969    (Miriam Schacht)

   Weaving Webs Timeline   --"of Selected Native American Literary Texts" & "Historical Events" (Transcriptions Project)

   Western American Indian Writers, 1854-1960   --literary-history essay, from Ridge & Winnemucca to McNickle & Ella Deloria (Ruoff)--oops: now "forbidden"

   "Place and Vision"   --essay on "place" in Momaday's House Made of Dawn, Silko's Ceremony, and Welch's Death of Jim Loney (Robert M. Nelson)

   The Legacy of Wounded Knee   --thorough set of articles on AIM's 1973 insurrection (Argus Leader)

   Fort Laramie Treaty, 1868   --complete text and list of signers thereof (Avalon Project/Yale Law School)

   Wovoka: The Messiah Letter, 1891   --complete text (PBS: The West)

   The Ghost Dance Movement   --by--uh--"Ghost Dancer"

   "Indian" Sports Mascots and Logos: Looking Forward to Their History   --fine summary of the controversy (David Anthony Tyeeme Clark)

 
   NOTE especially the following LITERARY JOURNALS--

   SAIL Home Page

           SAIL Search Engine   --the online version of the journal Studies in American Indian Literatures

   Wicazo Sa Review: Journal of Native American Studies   --the online version of the journal

   American Indian Quarterly   --the online version of the journal (UNL)

 

 
     EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NATIVE AUTHORS::::

 
   SAMSON OCCOM ([or] Occum) (1723-1792)::::{Mohegan}
Characteristic Work(s): A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian . . . (1772)

   Samson Occom   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Samson Occum, 1723-1792   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 

 
     EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY NATIVE AUTHORS::::

 
   WILLIAM APESS (1798-1839)::::{Pequot}
Characteristic Work(s): A Son of the Forest (1829; autobiography)

   William Apess   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   William Apess, 1798-1839   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   GEORGE COPWAY (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh) (1818-1869[?])::::{Ojibwe [aka Chippewa; Anishinaabe]}
Characteristic Work(s): The Life, History, and Travels, of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway), a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation . . . (1847; autobiography)

   George Copway   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   George Copway (Kahgegagahhowh (Stands Fast)), 1818-1863   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   JOHN ROLLIN RIDGE (Yellow Bird) (1827-1867)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit (1854; novel)

   John Rollin Ridge   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird/Cheesquatalawny), 1827-1867   --brief bio, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)

 

 
     LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY/EARLY MODERN NATIVE AUTHORS::::

 
   SIMON POKAGON (1830-1899)::::{Potawatomi}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   SARAH WINNEMUCCA (HOPKINS) (1844?-1891)::::{Northern Paiute}
Characteristic Work(s): Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883; autobiography)

   Sarah Winnemucca   --pict, substantial bio (University of Nevada, Reno)

   Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Thocmetony, "Shell Flower")   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Sarah Winnemucca   --pict, bio, some quots. (Legendary Women with Causes)

   Sarah Winnemucca (Thocmetony (Shell flower)), 1844-1891   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   FRANCIS LA FLESCHE (Zhogaxe) (1857-1932)::::{Omaha}
Characteristic Work(s): The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe (1900; autobiog.); The Osage Tribe (1921; anthropology)

   Francis La Flesche: American Indian Scholar   --biographical article, with picts (Library of Congress)

           Omaha Indian Music   --collected by La Flesche, including audio (Library of Congress)

   Francis La Flesche   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Francis La Flesche (Zhogaxe), 1857-1932   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   CHARLES A. EASTMAN (Ohiyes[h]a) (1858-1939)::::{Santee Sioux [Dakota]}  
Characteristic Work(s): Indian Boyhood (1902; autobiography); The Soul of the Indian (1911; nonfiction)

   Dr. Charles A. Eastman   --substantial biography (Paula Giese [kstrom.net])

   Charles A. Eastman   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), 1858-1939   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Indian Boyhood   --online text (U of Virginia Library)

   The Soul of the Indian   --online text (U of Virginia Library)

 
   (EMILY) PAULINE JOHNSON (1861-1913)::::{Mohawk}
Characteristic Work(s): The White Wampum (1895; poetry)

   Emily Pauline Johnson   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Emily Pauline Johnson   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), 1861-1913   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   NICHOLAS BLACK ELK (1863-1950)::::{Oglala Lakota}  
Characteristic Work(s): Black Elk Speaks (1932; autobiog; with John Neihardt)

   Black Elk's World   --incl. electronic text of Black Elk Speaks (U of Nebraska Press)

           "Forward" [to Black Elk Speaks]   --by Vine Deloria, Jr.

   Nicholas Black Elk   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Black Elk, 1863-1950   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Black Elk   --pict, brief bio, quots. from Black Elk Speaks (ritzlore.net)

   Black Elk (1863-1950); also known as Hehaka Sapa and Nicholas Black Elk   --pict, critical bibliography, study questions for Black Elk Speaks (Perspectives in American Literature)

   Black Elk--Study the Source: Black Elk Speaks   --background info, "study guide" to the book (C-SPAN American Writers)

   "The Two Masks of Nicholas Black Elk" (Bruce A. Peterson)   --essay on Black Elk's religious syncretism

 
   S. ALICE CALLAHAN (1868-1894)::::{Muscogee [aka Creek]}
Characteristic Work(s): Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891; novel)

   S. Alice Callahan, 1868-1894   --brief bio, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)

   "An Introduction to Wynema, A Child of the Forest"   --Annette Van Dyke, in SAIL (with excerpts from novel)

 
   LUTHER STANDING BEAR (1868?-1939)::::{Oglala Lakota}  
Characteristic Work(s): nonfiction/autobiog.:: My People, the Sioux (1928); Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933)

   Luther Standing Bear   --excerpts/quots. (indigenouspeople.net)

   Standing Bear, Luther   --substantial biography (Encyclopedia of North American Indians)

   Luther Standing Bear (Ota Kte, Mochunozhin), 1868-1939   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   The words of the early American Indian about nature   --quots. from Standing Bear (plus Geronimo and Black Elk)

   Luther Standing Bear   --another quots. page, plus picts (siouxme.com)

   "Chief Standing Bear, Likens Scalping to Modern Day Trophy"   --fascinating 1928 article (Voices from the Western Frontier)

 
   ALEXANDER POSEY (1873-1908)::::{Muscogee [Creek]}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry

   Alexander Lawrence Posey   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Alexander Lawrence Posey, 1873-1908   --brief bio, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)

 
   JOHN MILTON OSKISON (1874-1947)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   ZITKALA-ŠA (Red Bird) (Getrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938)::::{Yankton Sioux (Nakota)}  
Characteristic Work(s): American Indian Stories (1921; biographical essays)

   Images of Zitkala-Sa   --Catherine Lavender (CUNY)

   Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa)   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Zitkala Sa, 1876-1938   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Gertrude Bonnin--Zitkala Sha--Yankton Nakota   --biography (kstrom.net)

   Zitkala Sa--A Biography   --Roseanne Hoefel (Bucknell)

   Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala Sa) (1876-1938)   --links, including to works online (Donna Campbell--Gonzaga)

   Zitkala-Sa (aka Gertrude Simmons) at Carlisle   --incl. original Carlisle "newsletter" references to Zitkala-Sa (Landis)

   Gertrude Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa) (Sioux) (1876-1938)   --teaching strategies (Kristin Herzog/Gonzaga)

   Old Indian Legends   --etext of her book (U of Maryland)

   American Indian Stories   --etext of her book (upenn.edu)

   "Why I Am a Pagan"   --text of her 1902 essay

   "From New Woman to Sioux Wife: Zitkala-Sa Goes Home to Marry"   --essay by Susan Rose Dominguez (.pdf file)

 
   WILL ROGERS (1879-1935)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   MOURNING DOVE (Humishuma) (Christal Quintasket) (1885?-1936?)::::{Okanogan/Colville}  
Characteristic Work(s): Cogewea, the Half-Blood (1927; novel)

   Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket)   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Mourning Dove   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma), 1888-1936   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Coyote Stories   --excerpts from Mourning Dove's book of the same name (headmap.org)

 
   ELLA (CARA) DELORIA (1889-1971)::::{Yankton Sioux (Nakota)}
Characteristic Work(s): Dakota Texts (1932; "folklore"); Speaking of Indians (1944; nonfiction); Waterlily (1947 [p.1988]; novel)

   Ella Cara Deloria   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Ella Cara Deloria   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Ella Cara Deloria   --pict, bio (Kid's Castle)

   Ella Cara Deloria, 1889-1971   links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS (1894-1979)::::{Osage}
Characteristic Work(s): nonfiction:: Wah'Kon-Tah (1932), Talking to the Moon (1945)

   John Joseph Mathews   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   John Joseph Mathews, 1894-1979   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   [review of reissue of] Wah'Kon-Tah   --Terry P. Wilson, in SAIL

 
   (ROLLIE) LYNN RIGGS (1899-1954)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): Green Grow the Lilacs (1931; drama)

   Lynn Riggs, 1899-1954   --brief bio, link, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)

 
   JOHN LAME DEER (John Fire) (1903-1976)::::{Oglala Lakota}  
Characteristic Work(s): Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions (1972; autobiog.; with Richard Erdoes)

   Lame Deer, John Fire   --substantial bio (American National Biography Online)

   John (Fire) Lame Deer, 1903-1976   --brief bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions   --treatment of the book from a postcolonialist view (Colonial & Postcolonial Literary Dialogues [WMU])

   WHITE BUFFALO CALF WOMAN Brings The First Pipe--As told by: John Fire Lame Deer, in 1967   (Arvol Looking Horse)

 
   D'ARCY McNICKLE (1904-1977)::::{Cree/Salish/Kootenai}
Characteristic Work(s): Native American Tribalism: Indian Renewals and Survivals (1973; nonfiction); novels:: The Surrounded (1936); Runner in the Sun (1954); Wind from an Enemy Sky (1978)

   D'Arcy William McNickle   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Biography of D'Arcy McNickle    (Newberry Library/McNickle Center)

   D'Arcy William McNickle, 1904-1977   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 

 
     MODERN NATIVE AUTHORS::::

 
   LOUIS OLIVER (Little Coon) (1904-1991)::::{Muscogee/Yuchi}
Characteristic Work(s): Caught in a Willow Net (1983; poetry)

   Oklahoma Author: Louis (Little Coon) Oliver   --pict, brief bio, bibliography (Storytellers)

           "I Do Not Waste What Is Wild . . . Louis (Little Coon) Oliver"   --Maurice Kenny's tribute to Oliver (and Harjo's elegy for Oliver, "Fishing") (Storytellers)

   Louis Oliver (Little Coon), 1904-1991   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   THOMAS S. WHITECLOUD (1904-1977)::::{Ojibwe}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry, short stories (e.g., "Blue Winds Dancing" [1938])

   Thomas S. Whitecloud (Chippewa)   --bio, links (Heath Anthology Author Pages)

   Thomas S. Whitecloud, 1914-1972   --link to poem, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)

   "An Indian's Prayer   --text of poem (AAIP)

  "Thief"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   MARY TALL MOUNTAIN (1918-1994)::::{Koyukon Athabascan}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: There Is No Word for Goodbye (1981); Listen to the Night: Poems to the Animal Spirits of Mother Earth (1995)

   Mary Tall Mountain, 1918-1994   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Mary Tall Mountain   --pict, brief bio (npatterson.net)

 
   NORMAN H. RUSSELL (1921-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): Indian Thoughts: My Journey (1980; poetry)

--links?--WHAT links?!--yet one of the first Native poets I enjoyed, back in the 70's . . .

  "anna wauneka comes to my hogan"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   RALPH SALISBURY (1924-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   CARROLL ARNETT (1927-1997)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry

   Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi), 1927-1997   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett   --brief bio (in French), several poems--with French translations! (surledosdelatortue.free.fr)

 
   NORA MARKS DAUENHAUER (1927-)::::{Tlingit}
Characteristic Work(s): Droning Shaman (1988; poetry, translations)

   Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Keixwenei), 1927-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Nora Marks Dauenhauer   --1992 interview (U of Arizona)

   "'Listen for Sounds': An Introduction to Alaska Native Poets Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Fred Bigjim, and Robert Davis"   (The Northern Review, Summer 1993)

   "A Poem for Jim Nagataak'w (Jakwteen) My Grandfather, Blind and Nearly Deaf"  --text of poem (worldofpoetry.org)

 
   MAURICE KENNY (1929-)::::{Mohawk}  
Characteristic Work(s): Backward to Forward: Prose Pieces (1197; essays); poetry:: The Smell of Slaughter (1982); The Mama Poems (1984); Is Summer This Bear (1985); Between Two Rivers (1987); On Second Thought (1995); In the Time of the Present (2000)

   Maurice Kenny   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

           "Greyhounding to Billings, Montana"   --text of poem (Storytellers)

           "I Do Not Waste What Is Wild . . . Louis (Little Coon) Oliver"   --Maurice Kenny's tribute to Oliver (and Harjo's elegy for Oliver, "Fishing") (Storytellers)

   Kenny, Maurice (b. 1929)   --biography from a gay perspective (glbtq.com)

   Maurice Kenny, 1929-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

  "wild turkey in massena, n.y."   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN (1930-)::::{Dakota}
    --I met her!
Characteristic Work(s): Then Badger Said This (1977; poems & stories); nonfiction:: Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays; Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth (2001)

   Elizabeth Cook-Lynn   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

   Elizabeth Cook-Lynn   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, & links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Elizabeth Cook-Lynn   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, 1930-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   OREN LYONS (1930-)::::{Onondaga Iroquois}
Characteristic Work(s): "I See No Seat For The Eagles. . . ." (1992; speech)

   Chief Oren Lyons   --pict, substantial bio, links (Jo Ag Quis Ho, at fraktali.849pm.com)

           Chief Oren Lyons' December 1992 address to the United Nations   --text of speech (fraktali.849pm.com)

   Oren Lyons, 1930-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   CARTER REVARD (1931-)::::{Osage/Ponca}  
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Ponca War Dancers (1980); An Eagle Nation (1993); Winning the Dust Bowl (2001)

   Carter Revard   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

           "Over By Fairfax, Leaving Tracks "   --text of poem (Storytellers)

   Carter Revard   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Carter Revard (Nompehwahteh), 1931-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Profile: Carter Revard   --pict, bio (indigenations.com)

 
   JIM BARNES (1933-)::::{Choctaw}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: The American Book of the Dead (1982); A Season of Loss (1985); La Plata Cantata (1989); The Sawdust War (1992)

   Jim Barnes   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

   Jim Barnes   --pict, bio, and several poems (thehypertexts.com)

   Jim Barnes, 1933-   --a few links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "The Good Dark"   --text of poem (Verse Daily)

 
   VINE DELORIA, JR. (1933-)::::{{Yankton Sioux (Nakota)/Santee Sioux (Dakota)/Hunkpapa Lakota}  
Characteristic Work(s): nonfiction (cultural criticism)--Custer Died for Your Sins (1969); God is Red (1994); For This Land: Writings on Religion in America (1999)

   Vine Deloria, Jr.   --pict, substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Vine Deloria   --bio and thorough bibliography (Worlds of Thought)

   Vine Deloria Jr., 1933-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "Forward" [to Black Elk Speaks]   --by Vine Deloria, Jr. (UNL)

 
   VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE (pronounced "SNAY-vee") (1933-)::::{Lakota}
Characteristic Work(s): juvenile fiction; Completing the Circle (1995; nonfiction)

   Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   The Annual Joseph Harper Cash Memorial Lecture, Fall 1997   --pict & bio for the lecture (U of SoDak)

   Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Virginia Driving Hawk), 1933-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   N. SCOTT MOMADAY (1934-)::::{Kiowa/Cherokee}  
Characteristic Work(s): House Made of Dawn (1968; novel); The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969; "folklore"); The Names: A Memoir (1976; autobiog.); In the Presence of the Sun (stories & poems; 1992); The Man Made of Words (1997; stories & essays)poetry:: Angle of Geese (1974); The Gourd Dancer (1976); In the Bear's House (1999)

   N. Scott Momaday (1934-)   --pict, extensive links (Modern American Poetry)

           N. Scott Momaday: Biographical, Literary, and Multicultural Contexts   --substantial critical biography/bibliography (Modern American Poetry)

   N. Scott Momaday   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) (1934-)   --primary/secondary bibliography (Perspectives in American Literature)

   N. Scott Momaday, 1934-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "N. Scott Momaday: Mandarin Tribal Voice"   --online (at times refreshingly irreverent) critical essay (dancingbadger.com)

           "Diamonds and Turquoise: The Poetry of N. Scott Momaday"   --online essay (Mick McAllister, At Wanderer's Well [dancingbadger.com])

  "December 29, 1890"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   CAROL LEE SANCHEZ (1934-)::::{Laguna Pueblo/Lakota}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   GERALD VIZENOR (1934-)::::{Ojibwe}  
Characteristic Work(s): Interior Landscapes (1990; autobiog. essays); critical essays:: Manifest Manners (1994); Fugitive Poses (1998); novels:: Griever (1986); Bearheart (1990); The Heirs of Columbus (1991); Dead Voices (1992); poetry (especially haiku)

   Gerald Vizenor   --pict, bio, bibliography, links (Minnesota Author Biographies Project)

   Gerald Vizenor   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

   Gerald Vizenor, 1934-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Gerald Vizenor   --special issue devoted to Vizenor, in SAIL (Spring, 1997)

   Gerald Vizenor in Dialogue with A. Robert Lee   --interview from Postindian Conversations (Weber Studies)

   On Teaching: Gerald Vizenor   --as recounted by Mary Ellen Butler (UC Berkeley)

 
   PETER BLUE CLOUD (1935-)::::{Mohawk}
Characteristic Work(s): Elderberry Flute Song: Contemporary Coyote Tales (1982); Sketches in Winter, With Crows (1984)

   Peter Blue Cloud (Aroniawenrate), 1935-   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Peter Blue Cloud: "Badger's Son"   --a Coyote story (Edge-ucation Council)

 
   HYEMEYOHSTS STORM (pronounced "Hi-you-may-ohsts") (1935-)::::{Cheyenne/Crow?}
Characteristic Work(s): Seven Arrows (1972)

   Hyemeyohsts (Wolf) Storm, 1935-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "He Never Cries Wolf"   --article acknowledging the controversy regarding Storm (Sarah Phelan)

 
   DUANE NIATUM (pronounced "NIGH-yuh-tum") (1938-)::::{Klallam}
Characteristic Work(s): Drawings of the Song Animals (1991; poetry)

   Duane Niatum   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

           "Drawings Of The Song Animals"   --text of poem (Storytellers)

           "Snowy Owl Near Ocean Shores"   --text of poem (Storytellers)

   Duane Niatum   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Profile: Duane Niatum   --pict, bio (indigenations.com)

   Duane Niatum, 1938-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   PAULA GUNN ALLEN (1939-)::::{Pueblo/Lakota}  
Characteristic Work(s): poetry; The Sacred Hoop (1986; literary/cultural criticism); Life Is a Fatal Disease (poetry; 1996)

   Paula Gunn Allen   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

           "And Then, Twenty Years Later . . .": A Conversation with Paula Gunn Allen   --interview by John Purdy (Storytellers)

   Paula Gunn Allen   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, & links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Paula Gunn Allen   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Paula Gunn Allen, 1939-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   WILLIAM LEAST HEAT-MOON (William Trogdon) (1939-)::::{Osage["?"]}
Characteristic Work(s): nonfiction:: Blue Highways (1983); PrairyErth (1991)

   William Least Heat-Moon   --author's home page

   William Least Heat-Moon, 1939-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   MARIA CAMPBELL (1940-)::::{Metis}
Characteristic Work(s): Halfbreed (1973; autobiog.)

   Maria Campbell (Metis)   --substantial bio (cuny.edu)

   Maria Campbell   --cultural background of Halfbreed (U of British Columbia)

   Maria Campbell, 1940-   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   ROBERT J. CONLEY (1940-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): novels (Westerns); poetry

   Robert Conley   --picts, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

   Robert J. Conley, 1940-   --pict, brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   JIMMIE DURHAM (1940-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): Columbus Day (1983; poetry)

   J i m m i e    D u r h a m   --brief bio, visual-art exhibits, bibliography (First Nations Art)

   Jimmie Durham, 1940-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

  "Columbus Day"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   JAMES WELCH (1940-2003)::::{Blackfeet/Gros Ventre}  
Characteristic Work(s): Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971; poetry); Killing Custer (1995; nonfiction); novels:: Winter in the Blood (1974); The Death of Jim Loney (1979); Fools Crow (1987); The Indian Lawyer (1990)

   James Welch ~ American Novelist, American Indian   --extensive critical biography/annotated bibliography (dancingbadger.com)

   James Welch (1940-)   --scholarly treatment of Welch's style, themes, etc. (nativepubs.com)

   About James Welch: A Profile   --critical biography (Don Lee, in Ploughshares)

   James Welch, 1940-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   James Welch   --brief interview & picture (Colorado Springs Independent, 1999)

   "The Death of Jim Loney"   --several brief scholarly essays on the novel (SAIL)

 
   BETH BRANT (1941-)::::{Mohawk}
Characteristic Work(s): Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk (1994; nonfiction)

   Beth E. Brant (Degonwadonti)   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Beth Brant   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Beth E. Brant (Degonwadonti), 1941-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   DIANE GLANCY (1941-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry; drama; fiction:: Firesticks: A Collection of Stories (1993); Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1996; novel)

   Diane Glancy   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

   Diane Glancy   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Diane Glancy   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Diane Glancy, 1941-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Poets & Poems: Diane Glancy   --texts of three poems (Poetry Project)

 
   GEARY HOBSON (1941-)::::{Cherokee/Quawpaw/Chickasaw}
Characteristic Work(s): essays/literary criticism; Deer Hunting and Other Poems (1990)

   Geary Hobson   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Geary Hobson, 1941-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   SIMON J. ORTIZ (1941-)::::{Acoma Pueblo}  
    --I met him!
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Going for the Rain (1976); From Sand Creek (1981); Woven Stone (1992); After and Before the Lightning (1994)

   Simon J. Ortiz   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Simon J. Ortiz   --pict, brief bio, audio/video of readings (CounterBalance Poetry)

   Simon Ortiz   --including .wav file of Ortiz reading (Writing the Southwest)

   Simon J. Ortiz, 1941-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "A Designated National Park"   --text of poem (hanksville.org)

   "Many Farms Notes"   --text of poem (hanksville.org)

   "Something Wicked This Way Comes: Warnings by Simon Ortiz and Martin Cruz Smith"   --by Gregg Graber (in Wicazo Sa Review)

  "Four Poems for a Child Son"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   JOSEPH BRUCHAC (1942-)::::{Abenaki}  
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Near the Mountains (1987); No Borders (1999); children's eco-literature (e.g., the Keepers of the Earth series [with Michael Caduto]

   Joseph Bruchac Storyteller & Writer   --author's home page

   Joseph Bruchac, III   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Meet the Author: Joseph Bruchac    (Houghton Mifflin)

   Joseph Bruchac, 1942-   --brief bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   An Interview with Joseph Bruchac   --by Eliza T. Dresang (CCBC)

 
   RAYNA GREEN (1942-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): literary criticism, poetry

   Rayna D. Green   --quot., critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Rayna D. Green--Director, American Indian Program   --her page at the Smithsonian Institution

   Rayna Diane Green, 1942-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   MARTIN CRUZ SMITH (MARTIN WILLIAM SMITH) (1942-)::::{Senecú del Sur Pueblo/Yaqui}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   THOMAS KING (1943-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): novels: Medicine River (1990); Green Grass, Running Water (1993)

   "A Writer Without Reservations"   --"Profile" by Mary Dickieson (uoguelph.ca)

   Thomas King, 1943-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Thomas King   --pict, brief bio (Canadian Literature Online)

   Green Grass, Running Water   --several editorial reviews of the novel at Amazon.com

 
   LANCE HENSON (1944-)::::{Cheyenne/Oglala Lakota}
    --I met him!
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Another Song for America (1987); Another Distance (1991); A Cheyenne Sketchbook (1992); Strong Heart Song (1997)

   Lance Henson   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

           "revolutionary song"   --text of poem (Storytellers)

           untitled ("nah shi neh")   --text of poem (Storytellers)

   Lance Henson, 1944-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

  "woodpecker song"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   RON WELBURN (1944-)::::{Cherokee/Conoy}
Characteristic Work(s): Heartland: Selected Poems (1981)

   Ron Welburn   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

   Ron Welburn   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "Native American Studies"   --Welburn's Foreword to Native American Studies essay collection (umass.edu)

 
   MICHAEL DORRIS (1945-1997)::::{Modoc["?"]}
Characteristic Work(s): A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1987; novel); The Broken Cord (1989; autobiog.)

   Michael Dorris   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Michael Dorris, 1945-1997   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   A Conversation With Michael Dorris   --1996 interview by Daniel Bourne (Artful Dodge)

 
   HANAY GEIOGAMAH (1945-)::::{Kiowa}
Characteristic Work(s): drama (e.g., Body Indian [1972])

   Hanay Geiogamah   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Hanay Geiogamah, 1945-   --brief bio, link, bib entry (Native American Authors Project)

   "Secret to achieving literary success is overcoming fear"   --article largely about Geiogamah (Emma Rodgers, at UCLA)

 
   PHILLIP H. RED EAGLE (1945-)::::{Dakota/Puget Sound Salish}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   BARNEY BUSH (1946-)::::{Shawnee/Cayuga}
Characteristic Work(s): Petroglyphs (1981; poetry)

   Barney Furman Bush   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Barney Bush, 1946-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Barney Bush   --contact info, brief bio, list of music CD's (Tumblewords/New Mexico Writer's Contact Directory)

 
   CHRYSTOS (1946-)::::{Menominee}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Not Vanishing (1988); Fire Power (1995)

   Chrystos   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Chrystos , 1946-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Chrystos Poetry Page   --"fan" page, with poems

 
   ED EDMO (1946-)::::{Shonoshone-Bannock/Nez Perce/Yakima}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry, drama

   "Humor, Sadness & Understanding are all part of Ed Edmo's Gift"  --article (grandronde.org)

  "I'm Not Going to Get Burned Out"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   ADRIAN C. LOUIS (1946-)::::{Northern Paiute}
    --I met him!
Characteristic Work(s): Skins (1995; novel); poetry:: Among the Dog Eaters (1992); Bone & Juice (2001)

   Adrian C. Louis   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

   Adrian C. Louis   --pict, extensive links (Modern American Poetry)

   Adrian Louis   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Adrian C. Louis   --links to several online texts by Louis, from Ploughshares

           "Note to a Culture Vulture"   --text of poem (Ploughshares)

   "Manifest Destination"   --text of poem (Salt Hill [hypertxt.com])

  "The Intellectual in Pine Ridge"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

  "Jehovah Calls In Sick Again"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   ROBERTA HILL (WHITEMAN) (1947-)::::{Oneida}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Star Quilt (1984); Philadelphia Flowers (1996)

   Roberta Hill   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

   Roberta Hill Whiteman   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)--oops, dead link!

   Roberta Hill Whiteman (Oneida) (b. 1947)   --teaching materials/questions (Heath Online)

   Roberta Hill Whiteman, 1947-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   JANET CAMPBELL HALE (1947-)::::{Coeur d'Alene/Kootenai}
Characteristic Work(s): The Jailing of Cecelia Capture (1985; novel); Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter (1993; autobiog.)

   Janet Campbell Hale   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers) ?Janet Campbell Hale?   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Janet Campbell Hale   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Janet Campbell Hale, 1947-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Amazon.com talks to Janet Campbell Hale   --interview

 
   LINDA HOGAN (1947-)::::{Chickasaw}  
    --I met her!
Characteristic Work(s): Dwellings (1996; essays); Red Clay: Poems & Stories (1991); poetry:: Calling Myself Home (1978); Eclipse (1983); Seeing Through the Sun (1985); The Book of Medicines (1993)

   Linda Hogan   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

   Linda Hogan   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography (Voices from the Gaps)

   Linda Hogan   --pict, annotated bib (with ecological emphasis) (SoultoSpirit.com)

   Linda Hogan, 1947-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Linda Hogan   --including .wav file of Hogan reading (Writing the Southwest)

   "Hogan exposes Native history in her storytelling fiction"   --account of Hogan's visit to a class at UC Davis

  "Crow Law"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

  "Missing the Animals"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

  "The Ritual Life of Animals"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

  "Travelers"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

  "Who Will Speak?"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG (1948-)::::{Okanagan}
Characteristic Work(s): novels; poetry: Slash (1985; novel); Whispering in Shadows (2000; novel)

   Jeannette Armstrong   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Jeannette Armstrong, 1948-   ----brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   LOUIS OWENS (1948-)::::{Choctaw/Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): literary criticism; (mystery) novels: Bone Game (1994); Nightland (1996)

   Louis Owens   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

   Louis Owens, 1948-   --brief bio, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "The Song Is Very Short": Native American Literature and Literary Theory   --critical essay (Weber Studies)

   Owens' "Introduction"   --to special issue on Gerald Vizenor, in SAIL (Spring, 1997)

 
   WENDY ROSE (1948-)::::{Miwok/Hopi}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Hopi Roadrunner Dancing (1973); The Halfbreed Chronicles and Other Poems (1985); Bone Dance (1994)

   Wendy Rose   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

   Wendy Rose (1948-)   --pict, extensive links (Modern American Poetry)

   Wendy Rose   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Wendy Rose, 1948-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "To Some Few Hopi Ancestors"   --text of poem (The South Corner of Time)

 
   LESLIE MARMON SILKO (1948-)::::{Laguna Pueblo}  
Characteristic Work(s): Laguna Woman (1974; poetry); Storyteller (1981; mixed-genre); Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit (1996; essays); novels:: Ceremony; Almanac of the Dead (1992)

   Leslie Marmon Silko   --quot., pict, critical bio, bibliography, links (Voices from the Gaps)

           Leslie Marmon Silko (Supplemental Page)

   Leslie Silko   --substantial bio, bibliography (nativepubs.com)

   Leslie Marmon Silko, 1948-   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko   --by Thomas Irmer

   Leslie Marmon Silko   --brief bio, brief treatment of Ceremony (Nafeesa T. Nichols)

   "The Border Patrol State"   --text of her 1994 essay

   "The Ecological Politics of Leslie Silko's Almanac of the Dead"   --Bridget O'Meara (in Wicazo Sa Review)

  from "Long time ago"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

  "The Time We Climbed Snake Mountain"   --text of poem (TCG: /NAlitT.html)

 
   BETTY LOUISE BELL (1949-)::::{Cherokee}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   HAUNANI-KAY TRASK (1949-)::::{indigenous Hawai'ian}
Characteristic Work(s): From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i (1993; nonfiction); Light in the Crevice Never Seen (1994; poetry)

   Haunani-Kay Trask   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   "U.S. bears sole blame for Sept. 11, Trask says"   --2001 newspaper article (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

   Ranges of Hawaii   --!?--believe it or not, includes a brief editorial on Trask's call for Hawaiian independence (North American Gun Clubs)

 
   LEE MARACLE (1950-)::::{Salish/Cree}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   CHERYL SAVAGEAU (1950-)::::{Abenaki}
Characteristic Work(s): Dirt Road Home (1995; poetry)

   Cheryl Savageau   --pict, bio, links, bibliography (Storytellers)

           "Looking for Indians"   --text of poem (Storytellers)

   Cheryl Savageau   --links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

   Excerpts from Dirt Road Home   --three poems (curbstone.org)

   An interview with Cheryl Savageau by Jennifer Hill   (curbstone.org)

 
   CRAIG KEE STRETE (SOVEREIGN FALCONER (1950-)::::{Cherokee?}
Characteristic Work(s): [FULL ENTRY FORTHCOMING]

 
   RAY YOUNG BEAR (1950-)::::{Meskwawki [aka Fox]}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Winter of the Salamander (1980); The Invisible Magician (1990)

   Ray A. Young Bear   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

           What it Means to be a Meskwaki: An Interview with Ray Young Bear   (Storytellers [Des Moines Register])

           "Our Bird Aegis"   --text of poem (Storytellers)

   Ray A. Young Bear (1950-)   --pict, extensive links (Modern American Poetry)

   Ray Young Bear (Ka ka to), 1950-   --brief bio, links, bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   GLORIA BIRD (1951-)::::{Spokane}
Characteristic Work(s): poetry:: Full Moon on the Reservation (1993); The River of History: Prose Poems (1997)

   Gloria Bird   --pict, brief bio, bibliography, links (Storytellers)

           "What We Owe"   --text of prose poem (Storytellers)

   Gloria Bird, 1951-   --bibliography (Native American Authors Project)

 
   JOY HARJO (1951-)::::{Muscogee/Cherokee}  
    --I met her!
Characteristic Work(s): The Spiral of Memory: Interviews; poetry:: She Had Some Horses (1983); Secrets from the Center of the World (1987); In Mad Love and War (1990); The Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1994); A Map to the Next World (2000)

   Joy Harjo Home   --picts, annotated links

   Joy Harjo   --picts, brief bio, bibliography, extensive links (Storytellers)

   Joy Harjo   --quot., pict, critical bio, biblio