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.
Rita Joe, Mi'kmaw
- Stephen Graham Jones, Blackfeet
- Hershman John, Navajo
- Emily Pauline Johnson, Mohawk, from Voices in the Gaps (Unofficial)
- Basil Johnston, Ojibwe
- Daniel Heath Justice, Cherokee
- Geri Keams, Navajo
- Maude Kegg, Ojibwe, from Voices in the Gaps (Unofficial)
- Maurice Kenny, Mohawk
- Thomas King, Cherokee, from the Wikipedia
- Thomas King (Unofficial)
- Thomas King's Faculty page, University of Guelph, Ont.
- Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe,
from Voices from the Gaps (Unofficial)
- Steve LaFountaine, Colville Confederated Tribes
- Adrian Louis, Paiute
- Adrian's personal site
- From the Modern American Poetry website.
- Evelina Zuni Lucero, Isleta/San Juan Pueblo
- Lee Maracle, Salish
- Joseph Marshall III, Lakota
- Janet McAdams, Alabama Creek
- Shaunna Oteka McCovey, Yurok
- Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Cherokee
- Russell Means, Oglala Sioux, from the Wikipedia
- Tiffany Midge, Hunkpapa Sioux
Blog !!
- Devon A. Mihesuah, Choctaw
- Deborah Miranda, Esselen
- N. Scott Momaday (Unofficial), Kiowa
- Selected Bibliography of writings on Momaday's work.
- The Buffalo Trust
- Marijo Moore, Cherokee/Irish/Dutch
- Daniel David Moses, Delaware
- Mourning Dove, Okanagan, from Voices in the Gaps (Unofficial)
- Nora Naranjo-Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo
- Duane Niatum, S'Klallam
- Jim Northrup, Anishinaabe
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 Tuesday, 03-Apr-2007 05:02:00 EDT.
