 | Waterlily, New Edition
Publication Date: April 1, 2009When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family’s camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria’s tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people.Waterlily, published after Deloria’s death and generally viewed as the masterpiece of he...
 |  | Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics)
Release Date: August 1, 1995| Series: Vintage Classics Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia. ...
|  | American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library)
Release Date: August 12, 1985 ...
|  | Fools Crow (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: October 25, 2011| Series: Penguin Classics The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep andinevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native Americanliterature." (Wallace Stegner) In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a smallband of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The menhunt and mount the occasional horse-taking raid or war party againstthe enemy Crow. The women tan the hides, sew the beadwork, and raisethe children. But the year is 1870, and the whites are moving intotheir land. Fools Crow, a youn...
|  | Almanac of the Dead
Release Date: November 1, 1992In its extraordinary range of character and culture, Almanac of the Dead is fiction on the grand scale. The acclaimed author of Ceremony has undertaken a weaving of ideas and lives, fate and history, passion and conquest in an attempt to re-create the moral history of the Americas, told from the point of view of the conquered, not the conquerors. Author readings. ...
|  | Ten Little Indians
Publication Date: March 17, 2004Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.In Alexie’s first story, “The Search Engine,” Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she w...
|  | Native American Literature: An Anthology
Publication Date: November 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0844259853 | ISBN-13: 978-0844259857| Edition: 1 This treasury of literature by Native American authors allows students to listen to the voices from America's first and oldest literature. More than fifty tribes from the U.S. and Canada are represented, giving readers opportunities to explore the diversity of authors' experiences through poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the oral tradition. Two maps provide geographical context for the readings, one showing tribal locations and the other showing the Trail of Tears. ...
|  | The Way to Rainy Mountain
Publication Date: September 1, 1976First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies."The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has remained vital, and immediate, for that is the nature of story. And this is particularly true of the oral tradition, which exists in a dimension of timelessness. I was first told these stories by my father when I was a child. I do not know how long they had existed before I heard them. They seem to procee...
|  | The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel (P.S.)
Release Date: May 5, 2009| Series: P.S.For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of Little No Horse. Now, nearing the end of his life, Father Damien dreads the discovery of his physical identity, for he is a woman who has lived as a man. To further complicate his quiet existence, a troubled colleague comes to the reservation to investigate the life of the perplexing, possibly false saint Sister Leopolda. Father Damien alone knows the strange truth of Leopolda's piety and is faced with the most difficult decision...
|  | Winter in the Blood (Penguin Classics)
Release Date: July 29, 2008| Series: Penguin Classics Two contemporary classics from a major writer of the Native American renaissance During 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. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his on...
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