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Fall 2005, 05-03

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Contemporary Native American women authors

Writing by Native American women has flourished in the past thirty years. Their novels, nonfiction, and poetry reflect the realities of contemporary Indian life, especially issues pertinent to women. NLS has recently added the following works of nine contemporary Native American women authors:

Allen, Paula G.
Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook. RC 34434
Pocahantas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat. BR 15483
Shadow Country. RC 37077
Brant, Beth.
Food and Spirits: Stories. RC 38660
Cook-Lyman, Elizabeth.
From the Rivers Edge. RC 34767
Earling, Debra M.
Perma Red. RC 56419
Erdrich, Heid E., and Laura Tohe, eds.
Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. RC 58347
Erdrich, Louise.
The Antelope Wife: A Novel. RC 33023
The Beet Queen: A Novel. RC 23943
The Bingo Palace. RC 39114
The Birchbark House. (juvenile fiction) RC 48991
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year. BR 10450
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country. RC 59035
Four Souls. RC 59355
The Game of Silence. (juvenile fiction) RC in process
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. RC 53273
Love Medicine: A Novel. RC 22061
The Master Butchers Singing Club. RC 58796
The Painted Drum. In process
Tales of Burning Love. RC 42836
Tracks. RC 28557
Erdrich, Louise, and Michael Dorris.
The Crown of Columbus. RC 33023
Erdrich, Louise, with Katrina Kenison.
The Best American Short Stories: Selections from U.S. and Canadian Magazines. RC 38344
Glancy, Diane.
Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, BR 10845
Trigger Dance. RC 34405
Hogan, Linda.
Mean Spirit: A Novel. RC 33685
Power. RC 48115
Seeing the Sun. RC 35809
Solar Storms: A Novel. RC 43726
The Woman Who Watches over the World: A Native Memoir. RC 53253
Silko, Leslie.
Almanac of the Dead. RC 35184
Ceremony. BR 03484 and RC 13355
Storyteller. BRA 17499 and RC 18110

For further information about these and other Native American women writers see Versace, Candelora. "Talking leaves: a look at Native American women authors." Native peoples, Nov.Dec. 2005: 3639.

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