Michael Dorris (Modoc)
When Michael Dorris, 26, single, working on his doctorate, and part Indian himself, applied to adopt an Indian child, his request was speedily granted. He knew that his new three-year-old son, Adam, was badly developmentally disabled; but he believed in the power of nurture and love. This is the heartrending story, full of compassion and rage, of how his son grew up mentally retarded, a victim of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome whom no amount of love could make whole. The volume includes a short account of his own life by the 20-year-old Adam, and a foreword by Dorris' wife, the writer Louise Erdrich. The Broken Cord won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989.
Harper Perennial

Lisa Brooks (Abenaki)
Reframing the historical landscape of the region, Brooks constructs a provocative new picture of Native space before and after colonization. By recovering and reexamining Algonquian and Iroquoian texts, she shows that writing was not a foreign technology but rather a crucial weapon in the Native Americans’ arsenal as they resisted—and today continue to oppose—colonial domination.
Univ Of Minnesota Press, Sept 2008

Jose Barreiro (Guajiro)

Cornell scholar Barreiro's first novel focuses on the early history of Spanish conquest in the Caribbean, as told by a native serving as interpreter and intermediary during those years--a witness to the genocide against his people.

Arte Publico Press

Eagle Walking Turtle/Gary McLain (Choctaw)
The native people of America have always lived in harmony with Mother Earth, Father Sky, and all living things. Through stories told by Grandpa Iron, a medicine man, to his grandchildren on the eve of each full moon, The Indian Way shows how we can all live in harmony with our environment. These delightful Full Moon Stories are accompanied by 20 activities that help us experience the wisdom of Grandpa Iron.
Peter Smith Publisher Inc

Donald L. Fixico (Creek)
The struggle between Indians and whites for land did not end on the battlefields in the 1880s. When this hostile era closed with Native Americans forced onto reservations, no one expected that rich natural resources lay beneath these lands that white America would desperately desire. Yet oil, timber, fish, coal, water, and other resources were discovered to be in great demand in the mainstream market, and a new war began with Indian tribes and their leaders trying to protect their tribal natural resources throughout the twentieth century.
University of Oklahoma Press

Veronica E. Velarde Tiller (Jicarilla Apache)
It is unusual to find a history of a tribe that provides an evenhanded account of the relations between the Indian people and the United States federal government. Veronica Tiller's history of the Jicarilla Apaches is such a book. It lives up to the expectations for a good history, as well as to the promise of what an Indian author can do with the history of her own tribe.
Bison Books

Ralph Salisbury (Cherokee)
"Salisbury writes out of the passion, rage, and lyricism that mark the Native American spirit in these blasphemous times." - Paula Gunn Allen
University of Oklahoma Press

Francis LaFlesche (Omaha)
The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It is a simple, affecting tale of young Indian boys midway between two cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white men." The ambition of the Indian parents for their children, the struggle of the teachers to acquaint their charges with a new world of learning, and especially the problems met by both parents and teachers in controlling and directing schoolboy exuberance contribute to the authenticity of this portrait of the "Universal Boy," to whom La Flesche dedicated his book. Regarded by anthropologists as a classic of Native American literature, it is one of those rare books that are valued by the specialist as authentic sources of information about Indian culture and yet can be recommended wholeheartedly to the general reader, especially to young people in high school and the upper grades, as a useful corrective to the often distorted picture of Indian life seen in movies, comics, and television.
University of Nebraska Press

Darryl Babe Wilson (Achumawe/Atsugewi)
Through this compelling autobiography, we experience both the beauty of the Indian world and the deep tragedies of his young life, and celebrate his triumphant journey to adulthood. Wilson has blended Native American myths with stories of youthful innocence and experience to produce a richly textured, lyrical, and unforgettable memoir.
Heyday Books

N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa)
Of all of the works of N. Scott Momaday, The Names may be the most personal. A memoir of his boyhood in Oklahoma and the Southwest, it is also described by Momaday as "an act of the imagination. When I turn my mind to my early life, it is the imaginative part of it that comes first and irresistibly into reach, and of that part I take hold." Complete with family photos, The Names is a book that will captivate readers who wish to experience the Native American way of life.
University of Arizona Press