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Recent Fiction by Native American Authors
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, Y=young adult.
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(2000)SSThis anthology features the work of writers and artists from Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
- Alexie, Sherman
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(2003)Alexie offers 11 poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about American Indians who find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads.
- Armstrong, Jeannette C.
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(2000)Penny Jackson, an Okanagan woman who is an activist for the environment and for indigenous rights, seeks to reconcile her traditional values with the modern world.
- Assiniwi, Bernard
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(2002)By adding his novelist's imagination to his knowledge as an anthropologist and a historian, Assiniwi has written a convincing account of the Beothuk people, the original native people of Newfoundland, through the ages.
- Birchfield, D. L.
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(2004)Deep beneath the Quachita Mountains, a secret underground civilization of Choctaws has evolved into a high-tech culture. Into this idyllic world stumbles P. P. McDaniel, a half-blood Choctaw Marine Corps deserter from the Vietnam war, reeling from culture shock and struggling for survival.
- Bruchac, Joseph
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(2002)YIn 1759, war rages between the British and the French in Canada, with the Abenaki — 14-year-old Saxso's people — by their side. While the men are away from the village, Saxso's village is attacked. Many villagers are killed and some taken hostage, including Saxso's mother and two younger sisters. It's up to Saxso to track the raiders and bring his family back home.
- Chief Eagle, D.
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(2003)Winter Count is set during the 15 turbulent years leading up to the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.
- Conley, Robert J.
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(2002)Sequoyah, born in the late 18th century, is best remembered for his syllabary, through which Cherokee history, tradition and culture were recorded and managed to survive.
- Earling, Debra Magpie
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(2002)Louise White Elk is coming of age on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana and captivates three different men.
- Erdrich, Louise
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(2004)Fleur Pillager takes her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength and walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She is seeking revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation.
- Glancy, Diane
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(2003)Told through the voice of the enigmatic Shoshoni woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark, this tale depicts the ordeals and triumphs of the famed expedition while drawing a portrait of a woman of resilience and courage.
- GoodWeather, Hartley (Thomas King writing as Hartley GoodWeather)
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(2003)From award-winning literary author Thomas King (a.k.a. Hartley GoodWeather) comes a stylish mystery debut featuring ex-California cop Thumps DreadfulWater, a smart and savvy Cherokee Indian blessed with a killer wit.
- Hobson, Geary
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(2000)Thomas Darko, the last surviving member of the Mosopelea Tribe of the Mississippi Delta, called Ofos by outsiders, looks back on his long life.
- Hoklotubbe, Sara Sue
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(2003)MHoklotubbe tells a story of bank robbery, murder, love and intrigue set in Cherokee country, with a main character named Sadie Walela.
- Howe, LeAnne
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(2001)This debut novel about a Choctaw family alternates between 1738 and the 1990s. The Billy women must find a way, as their ancestors did, to join forces against a devious foe.
- Hunt, Bonnie Jo
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(2003)Five men face the gallows. Three are believed innocent; will they hang too?
- Jones, Stephen Graham
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(2003)Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe pursues a killer without knowing his connection to the disappearance of Doe's sister years before.
- Kenny, Maurice
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(2000)This collection of powerful stories comes from poet Kenny, 1984 recipient of the American Book Award.
- King, Thomas
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(2000)This warm and magical story of growing up follows the mysterious events and family secrets that unfold before the eyes of a young boy living along a river that separates the towns of Truth and Bright Water.
- Lucero, Evelina Zuni
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(2000)Sculptor and potter Cecelia Bluespruce is troubled by dreams, lies and denial of the past. This compelling novel plunges readers into the hubbub of the Indian arts market and into the grim reality of prison life.
- Matheson, David
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(2001)Matheson follows several generations of the Coeur d'Alene people, basing his story in part on genuine oral histories.
- Medawar, Mardi Oakley
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(2002)MWhen a Chippewa tribal attorney is found murdered in his office, nearly everyone on the Red Cliff Reservation is sure who is responsible, but the culprit has disappeared. Police Chief Lameraux has only one person to turn to find the missing man — Karen Charboneau, known to everyone as Tracker.
- Mihesuah, Devon A.
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(2000)In her first collection of stories, Mihesuah chronicles the lives of several generations of a close-knit Choctaw family as they are forced from their traditional homeland in Mississippi and endure unspeakable sorrows during their journey to Oklahoma.
- Penn, W. S.
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(2000)In this first collection of short fiction, Penn describes the tensions and problems that arise between the subtle clashes of culture and gender with a good deal of humor, which makes this collection essential to those who love the craft of storytelling itself.
- Power, Susan
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(2002)From the winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her first book of fiction The Grass Dancer comes a short story collection that plumbs the depths of Native American displacement and dreams.
- Red Corn, Charles H.
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(2002)John Grayeagle, a young Osage Indian in the 1920s, tries to find out the truth behind a series of murders.
- Robinson, Eden
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(2000)In this book set 500 miles north of Vancouver, in the homeland of the Haisla people, Lisa Hill searches for her brother, whose fishing boat was lost at sea.
- Sanders, William
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(2002)SFThis book contains nine of William Sanders's best short stories, including "The Undiscovered," Sidewise Award–winner for Best Alternate History Story, as well as a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
- Smith, Martin Cruz
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(2004)With Arkady Renko, Smith created one of the iconic sleuths of contemporary fiction. Renko returns to investigate international plots that drive one of Russia's billionaire businessmen to jump to his death.
- Vizenor, Gerald Robert
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(2003)Ronin Browne is the orphan son of Okichi, a Japanese boogie-woogie dancer, and Nightbreaker, an Anishinaabe who served as an interpreter for General MacArthur during the American occupation in Japan. Ronin draws on samurai and Native traditions to confront the moral burdens and passive notions of nuclear peace celebrated at the Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima.
- Welch, James
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(2000)Welch's haunting novel follows an Oglala's Sioux's odyssey from the Great Plains to the back streets of nineteenth-century France. Inspired by actual historical fact, it is the story of a young Indian man recruited by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West show.
- Womack, Craig S.
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(2001)Interweaving realism and dreamlike visions, Drowning in Fire explores Josh Henneha's journey to understand his identity within the framework of his Muskogee Creek heritage.
