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Storytelling. At base that is what American Indian authors and poets are doing — storytelling.
Jace Weaver in
Other Words: American Indian Literature,
Law, and Culture
Read Debbie Reese's blog, American Indians in Children's Literature, with recommendations of books for use at all levels, from picture books to young adult reading.
Listen to authors read from their own work on our virtual iPod.
Sherman Alexie, Spokane/Coeur d'Alene (Official)
From the Reed College English 201 site, Prof. Laura Arnold
From the Modern American Poetry website.
Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, Mohawk
Paula Gunn Allen, Laguna Pueblo/Sioux Blog !!
from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Annette Arkeketa, Otoe-Missouria/Muscogee
Jeanette Armstrong, Okanagan, from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Marilou Awiakta, Cherokee, from the Shepherd College website. (Unofficial)
Poems by Marilou Awiakta and a bibliography
Mike Austin, Cherokee
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Apache/Mexican
From the Modern American Poetry website.
From the Writer's Net website (Unofficial)
Dennis Banks, Anishinaabe, from the Wikipedia
Jim Barnes, Choctaw/Welsh
Shonto Begay, Navajo
Gloria Bird, Spokane
Sherwin Bitsui, Navajo Blog !!
- Arthur Sze on Sherwin Bitsui
Kimberly Blaeser, Anishinaabe
from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Lakota, from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Linda Boyden, Cherokee
Beth Brant, Mohawk, from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Trevino Brings Plenty, Lakota
Ignatia Broker Ojibwe, from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Vee F. Browne, Navajo
Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki
Shirley Cheechoo, Cree
Chrystos, Menominee, from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Sandra Cisneros, Xicana
Robert J. Conley, Cherokee
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Crow Creek Sioux
from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
kateri akiwenzie-damm, Anishinaabe Blog !!
Joseph A. Dandurand, Kwantlen
Ella Deloria Lakota, from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Vine Deloria, Standing Rock Sioux, from the Wikipedia
Qwo -Li Driskill, Cherokee, Lenape, Lumbee, Osage
Carolyn Dunn, Muscogee/Seminole/Cherokee Blog !!
Note: Currently poetry chapbooks are for sale
on the websites of Tiffany Midge, Deborah Miranda, Annette Arkeketa,
Ofelia Zepeda, Duane Niatum and
Marijo Moore.
Ordering information is available on each site.
Chapbooks from Lance Henson, Carter Revard and Maurice Kenny are available from Point Riders Press.
Recommend this website to a friend!
Most of these sites have been constructed either by the writer or with the writer's cooperation and collaboration. When that is not the case, the site is designated as Unofficial.
This index is compiled by Karen M. Strom
This page was last modified on Thursday, 05-Apr-2007 17:08:25 EDT.