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.
Osage
Qwo -Li Driskill, Cherokee, Lenape, Lumbee, Osage
- Elise Paschen, Osage
- Carter Revard, Osage
Otoe-Missouria
- Annette Arkeketa, Otoe-Missouria/Muscogee
- Anna Lee Walters, Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria
- from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Paiute
- Adrian Louis, Paiute
- Adrian's personal site
- From the Modern American Poetry website.
- Sarah Winnemucca (Hopkins) from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Pawnee
- Anna Lee Walters, Pawnee/Otoe-Missouria
- from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Pomo
- Greg Sarris and Weaving the Dream: Mabel McKay, Pomo
- From the Reed College English 201 site Prog. Laura Arnold
Powhatan-Renape
- Jack Forbes, Powhatan-Renape, Delaware-Lenape
Salish & Kootenai
- Debra Magpie Earling, Salish & Kootenai
San Juan Pueblo
- Evelina Zuni Lucero, Isleta/San Juan Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo
- Nora Naranjo-Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo
Sauk & Fox
- Kim Shuck, Tsalagi, Sauk and Fox, and Polish
Seneca
- Terra Trevor, Cherokee, Delaware, Seneca
Seminole
- Carolyn Dunn, Muscogee/Seminole/Cherokee
Blog !!
Shoshone
- nila northSun, Shoshone-Chippewa
Sioux/Lakota/Dakota
- Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Lakota, from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
- Trevino Brings Plenty, Lakota
- Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Crow Creek Sioux
- from Voices in the Gaps.
- Ella Deloria, Lakota, from Voices in the Gaps.
- Vine Deloria, Standing Rock Sioux, from the Wikipedia
- Joseph Marshall III, Lakota
- Russell Means, Oglala Sioux, from the Wikipedia
- Tiffany Midge, Hunkpapa Sioux
Blog !!
- Philip H. Red Eagle, Dakota/Steilacoom-S'Klallam
- Delphine Red Shirt, Lakota
- From Voices in the Gaps (Unofficial)
- Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Rosebud Sioux (Unofficial), from Voices in the Gaps
S'Klallam
- Duane Niatum, S'Klallam
- Philip H. Red Eagle, Dakota/Steilacoom-S'Klallam
Spokane
- Sherman Alexie, Spokane/Coeur d'Alene (Official)
- From the Reed College English 201 site, Prof. Laura Arnold
- From the Modern American Poetry website.
- Gloria Bird, Spokane
Tigua Pueblo
- Edgar Gabriel Silex, Tigua Pueblo
Tohono O'odham
- Ofelia Zepeda, Tohono O'odham
Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama
- Elizabeth Woody, Navajo/Warm Springs/Wasco/Yakama
- from Voices in the Gaps. (Unofficial)
Xicana
- Sandra Cisneros, Xicana
Yaqui
- Anita Endrezze, Yaqui
- From the Modern American Poetry website.
Yurok
- Shaunna Oteka McCovey, Yurok
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
© 1997 - Karen M. Strom
This page was last modified on Thursday, 05-Apr-2007 17:04:26 EDT.
