Native American Fiction Resources
Three Feathers by ISBN: 9781553795360Publication Date: 2015-03-02(Graphic Novel) Three young men are sent by the tribal Elders to live nine months on the land, but will they be forgiven for their past actions?
The Only Good Indians by ISBN: 9781982136451Publication Date: 2020-07-14A tale of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.
The Night Watchman by ISBN: 9780062671189Publication Date: 2020-03-03Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C.
Child of Sonora by Call Number: PS3622.A6759 C55 2019ISBN: 9798613947232Publication Date: 2019Two 7-year-old Native American boys' stories, one living in 2017 and the other in 1848, combine, guiding the reader through their experiences in their lives and with the US immigration process.
There There by ISBN: 9780525520375Publication Date: 2018-06-05Tommy Orange has written a stunning novel that grapples with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and profound spirituality, and with a plague of addiction, abuse, and suicide.
Native American Poetry
Trickster Academy by ISBN: 9780816542659Publication Date: 2022-02-08Trickster Academy is a collection of poems that explore being Native in Academia.
Raven's Echo by ISBN: 9780816544714Publication Date: 2022-10-25In Raven's Echo, Tlingit artist and poet Robert Davis Hoffmann's poetry grapples with reconstructing a life within Tlingit tradition and history.
Whereas by ISBN: 9781555977672Publication Date: 2017-03-07Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota?
The Death of Sitting Bear by ISBN: 9780062961150Publication Date: 2020-03-10N. Scott Momaday returns with a radiant collection of more than 200 new and selected poems rooted in Native American oral tradition.
When It Rains by ISBN: 9780816538874Publication Date: 2019-03-12When it was first released in 1982, When It Rains was one of the earliest published literary works in the O'odham language. Speakers from across generations shared poems that showcased the aesthetic of the written word and aimed to spread interest in reading and writing in O'odham.
More Native American Fiction Resources
Where the Dead Sit Talking by ISBN: 9781616958879Publication Date: 2018-02-20Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American background and tumultuous paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah's feelings towards Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both.
Ceremony by ISBN: 9780143104919Publication Date: 2006-12-26The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit
House Made of Dawn by ISBN: 9780061859977Publication Date: 2010-04-13A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds.
Winter in the Blood by ISBN: 9780143105220Publication Date: 2008-07-29During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works.
Crooked Hallelujah by ISBN: 9780802149121Publication Date: 2020-07-14Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine--a mixed-blood Cherokee woman-- and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma's Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn't easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country.
Featured Authors
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr., is a prolific writer, most of his work reflecting the nature of life on the Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington, and the life of down-and-out American Indians in cities such as Seattle and Spokane. His poetry and short fiction are both marked by a robust humor, which ranges from slapstick to a dry self-deprecation; it is this characteristic tone that generally engages readers and stays with them after the book is finished.
Louise Erdrich is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, a federally recognized tribe of the Anishinaabe (also known as Ojibwe and Chippewa)
Stephen Graham Jones is the author of twenty-five or so novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are The Only Good Indians and Night of the Mannequins. Stephen lives and teaches in Boulder, Colorado.