Native American Writers

McMillan Memorial Library owns works by the authors listed below, as well as the anthologies listed. For a more complete listing of Native American authors, check the Index of Native American Book Resources on the Internet

Fiction Authors

Sherman Alexie

Paula Gunn Allen

Greg Bear (Science Fiction)

Poets

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Kimberly Blaeser

Joy Harjo

Collections of prose, fiction and poetry

American Indian literature : an anthology.

American Indian women, telling their lives.

Carriers of the dream : contemporary Native American poetry.

Dancing teepees: poems of American Indian youth.

Days of obsidian, days of grace: selected poetry and prose by four Native American writers.

Dreaming history: a collection of Wisconsin native American writing.

Earth power coming: short fiction in native American literature.

Earth song, sky spirit: short stories of the contemporary native American experience.

Four masterworks of American Indian literature.

Harper's anthology of 20th century Native American poetry.

Here first: Autobiographical essays by Native American writers.

Native American autobiography: an anthology.

Neon Pow-wow : new Native American voices of the Southwest.

The sacred hoop : recovering the feminine in American Indian traditions.

Shaking the pumpkin : traditional poetry of the Indian North Americas.

Stories migrating home : a collection of Anishinaabe prose.

Voices of the rainbow : contemporary poetry by Native Americans.

When the rain stops: poems by young Native Americans.

The whispering wind : poetry by young American Indians.

Other Booklists

Waterboro Public Library This is a multi-ethnic list, so scroll down to the Native American section. Many of these lists contain works about, rather than by, Native Americans (e.g. Tony Hillerman).

Native American Authors

Fiction Authors

Poets

Collections of prose, fiction and poetry

Other Booklists