K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Creek)
Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children into mainstream American life. Critics have characterized the schools as destroyers of Indian communities and cultures, but the reality that K. Tsianina Lomawaima discloses was much more complex.  Lomawaima allows the Chilocco students to speak for themselves. In recollections juxtaposed against the official records of racist ideology and repressive practice, students from the 1920s and 1930s recall their loneliness and demoralization but also remember with pride the love and mutual support binding them together—the forging of new pan-Indian identities and reinforcement of old tribal ones. (North American Indian Prose Award)
University of Nebraska Press

Lucy Thompson (Yurok)
The world of the Yurok Indians of northern California seemed on the edge of collapse. Concerned about the survival of her people and their customs, and concerned also that the true story of the Yurok was not being told - not by the popular press, not by the anthropologists - she took it upon herself to write this remarkable book. An aristocrat by birth, and an initiate into the exclusive priestly society known as Talth, Lucy Thompson gives us a unique insider's view of a great culture.
Heyday Books

Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)

The author's newest and finest collection of stories. (Fiction)
Michigan State University

Joel Monture (Mohawk)

Monture creates a believable tribal world of tragedy and beauty. - Gordon Henry, Jr.
The University of Oklahoma

Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)

A collection of stories of Native People, by turns tragic, warm, absurd, and sidesplitting that span a time frame from the Viking invasion to contemporary Native America. (Fiction)
Holy Cow! Press

Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)

Wabi is an owl who falls in love with Dojihla, a strong young Abenaki woman and transforms himself into a person.

Fulcrum Publishing