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Fiction

Allen, Paula Gunn (Laguna Pueblo and Lakota). Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.
Bell, Betty Louise (Cherokee). Faces in the Moon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.
Chief Eagle, Dallas (Lakota). Winter Count. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. Originally published in 1967.
Highway, Tomson (Cree). Kiss of the Fur Queen. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. First published in Canada by Doubleday in 1998.
Momaday, N. Scott (Kiowa/Cherokee). House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999. First published by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1966.
Power, Susan (Lakota). The Grass Dancer. New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 1995.
Roscoe, Will. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
___. The Zuni Man-Woman. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1991.
Sarris, Greg (Pomo). Grand Avenue. New York: Hyperion, 1994.
Silko, Leslie Marmon (Laguna Pueblo). Ceremony. New York: Penguin Books, 1977.
Vizenor, Gerald (Anishinabe). Heirs of Columbus. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1991.
Young Bear, Ray A. (Mesquakie). Black Eagle Child: The Facepaint Narratives. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1992.

Non-Fiction

Benson, Heather. Keepers of the Canton Indian Asylum Share History. South Dakota Public Broadcasting. June 7, 2018 [last updated Nov 7, 2019]
Black Elk, Nicholas (Oglala Sioux) and John G. Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.
Buhner, Stephen Harrod. Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom of Native American Herbalism. Rochester: Bear & Co., 2006.
Cuero, Delfina (Kumeyaay) and Florence Connolly Shipek. Delfina Cuero: Her Autobiography, An Account of Her Last Years, and Her Ethnobotanic Contributions. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, 1991.
Deloria Jr., Vine (Standing Rock Sioux). The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2006.
Hensley, William L. I??ia?ruk (Iñupiaq). Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2009.
Hungry Wolf, Beverly (Blackfoot). The Ways of My Grandmothers. New York: Morrow, 1980.
Lame Deer, John (Lakota) and Richard Erdoes. Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.
McMaster, Gerald (Plains Cree and Blackfoot) and Clifford E. Trafzer (Wyandot). Native Universe: Voices of Indian America. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, in association with National Geographic, 2004.
Mehl-Madrona, Lewis (Cherokee/Lakota). Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing. New York: Fireside, 1997.
___. Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process. Rochester: Bear & Co., 2007.
Niethammer, Carolyn. I’ll Go and Do More: Anne Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
Silko, Leslie Marmon (Laguna). Storyteller. New York: Seaver Books, 1981.
Snell, Alma Hogan (Crow). Grandmother’s Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
___. A Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
St. Pierre, Mark and Tilda Long Soldier (Oglala Lakota). Walking in the Sacred Manner: Healers, Dreamers, and Pipe Carriers—Medicine Women of the Plains Indians. New York: Touchstone, 1995.
Standing Bear, Luther (Lakota). My People the Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Originally published in 1928.
___. My Indian Boyhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988. Originally published in 1931.
Warren, William W. (Anishinabe). History of the Ojibway People. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1984. Originally published in 1885.

In addition, the following websites provide bibliographies of works by numerous Native American authors:

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