also WHY does every american lit or american history or w/ever course contain the entire history and writings of england & greater europe up until the colonies but NO documentation of the oral histories and stories from actual native american tribes and look at how that influenced and was influenced by european traditions to create the โamericanโ story. like i KNOW why but christ
the first ever anthology of native american poetry was published this weekย and barnes and noble has a 1998 anthology of native american playsย and those are literally the only two anthologies of native american literature i could find and i am PHYSICALLY INSISTING that u buy them and support the native activists and authors who pushed for them to published because holy shit yโall
ok this has been bothering me for a while now bc that^ rb is blatantly not true (that theyโre the first or in any way only documented indigenous works, not that you should buy them because that partโs right), and while this has been corrected heartily in the notes thereโs no one central reblog chain, which makes it really hard to reblog the best version since youโre always going to be missing something. so i compiled them all.ย
every name and title mentioned in the notes (and then some) is under the cut. itโs very long. itโs also very messy; in alphabetical order, but with no distinctions between genre or media type, so sorry about that. it should all be by pan-american indigenous creators, but itโs possible a white or otherwise non indigenous person slipped through. in the same vein, some of the information may be inaccurate and i bet several of these are out of print or hard to find. again, sorry, but itโs a really long list to vet and link each entry individually.ย
anyway. here we go!
WORKS MENTIONED BY NAME:
A Girl Called Echo by Katherena Vermette
American Indian Myths and Legends, ed. Richard Erdoez & Alfonso Ortiz
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa
An Indigenous Peoplesโ History of the United States by Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Cherokee America by Margaret Verble
Cheyenne Madonna by Eddie Chuculate
Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria
Daughters of the Earth by Carolyn Niethammer
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Elsieโs Business by Frances Washburn
Feed by Tommy Pick
From Sand Creek by Simon J Ortiz
From the Hilltop by Toni Jensen
God is Red by Vine Delores, Jr & various contributors
Handbook of Native American Literature, ed. Andrew Wiget
Harperโs Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, ed. Duane Niatum
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
If I Ever Get Out Of Here by Eric Gansworth
Indeh: An Apache Odyssey by Eve Ball
Indian Act: Residential School Plays, ed. Donna-Michelle St Bernard
Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Simpson
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen
LaRose by Louise Erdrich
Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology, ed. Will Roscoe
Love Beyond Body, Space & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology, ed. Hope Nicholson
Love: Beyond Body, Space, and Time, ed. Hope Nicholson
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moonshot: The Indigenous Comic Collection by various contributors
Murder on the Red River by Marcie Rendon
Nation to Nation by various contributors
Native American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Sean Teuton
Native American Literature: An Anthology, ed. Lawana Trout
Native American Literatures: An Introduction, ed. Suzanne Lundquist
Native American Songs and Poems: An Anthology, ed. Brian Swann
Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversation, ed. Cmarie Fuhrman and Dean Rader
New Essays on Canadian Theatre vol 6: Performing Indigeneity, ed. Yvette Nolan & Ric Knowles
New Poets of Native Nations, ed. Heid E Erdrich
Owls Donโt Have To Mean Death by Chip Livingston
Power by Linda Hogan
Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy
Reasoning Together by The Native Critics Collective
Red Land, Red Power by Sean Kicummah Teuton
Red on Red by Craig S Womack
Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition by Glen Sean Coulthard
Rez Life by David Treuer
Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson
Sacred Smokes by Theodore C. Val Alst Jr.
Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays, ed. Mimi D'aponte
Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
Songs from This Earth on Turtleโs Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry, ed. Joseph Bruchac
Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature, ed. Kenneth Lincoln
Spider Womanโs Granddaughters, ed. Paula Gunn Allen
Sundown by John Joseph Matthews
Thatโs What She Said, ed. Raina Green
The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, ed. Joy Porter
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature, ed. Melanie Benson Taylor
The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong by Stephen Graham Jones
The Ghost Dance: Ethnohistory and Revitalization by Alice Beck Kehoe
The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales of Native North America, ed. Joseph Bruchac & Gayle Ross
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture by Janet Campbell Hale
The Life and Adventures of Joaquรญn Murieta by John Rollin Ridge
The Light People by Gordon Henry
The Man to Send Rain Clouds: Contemporary Stories by American Indians, ed. Kenneth Rosen
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, ed. Geary Hobson
The Road Back to Sweetgrass by Linda LeGarde Grover
The Routledge Introduction to Native American Literature by Drew Lopenzina
The Sharpest Sight by Louis Owens
The Way to Rainy Mountain by N Scott Momaday
The Way: An Anthology Of American Indian Literature Vintage Books, ed. Shirley Hill Witt and Stan Steiner
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Sullen
There There by Tommy Orange
This Place: 150 Years Retold by various contributors
This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Two Old Women by Velma Wall is
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction, ed. Grace Dillon
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry, ed. Joy Harjo
Where The Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Winter in the Blood by James Welch
Writing Home: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance by Michael D. Wilson
Yellow Women and the Beauty of the Spirit by Leslie Marmon Silko
