Guides to
FBL Resources

For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research on Native American writers and their works.  Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.

Categories within this           Reference/General   |   Collections    |    Literary Criticism     |     Specific Authors
Library Guide:

See also the Library Guide in this series on Native Americans

Reference and General Sources

Handbook of Native American Literature (1996) [reissue of Dictionary of Native
    American Literature , 1994]
On the Translation of Native American Literature

Collections

American Indian Fiction
Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature
Harper’s Anthology of 20^th Century Native American Poetry
Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks
Literature of the American Indians
Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology
Neon Pow-wow: New Native-American Voices of the Southwest
Reclaiming the Vision: Past, Present and Future: Native Voices for
    the Eighth Generation
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing
Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
Sun Tracks (selections from journal with same title)
That’s What She Said: Contemporary Poetry and Fiction by Native
    American Women
Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970 (Paula Gunn Allen, ed.)
Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak (including Allen, Erdrich, Harjo,
        Momaday, Silko)
Words in the Blood: Contemporary Indian Writers of North and South America

Literary Criticism

Mixedblood Messages: Literature, Film, Family, Place (Owens, 1998)
Native American Renaissance
Native North American Literary Companion
New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism  (1993)
Reading the Fire: Essays in the Traditional Indian Literatures of the Far West

Specific Authors

The Fort Library has representative titles by the contemporary Native-American writers listed below.
Search PONI for additional authors and titles.

Alexie, Sherman, (1966- ; Spokane)
    Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
    Reservation Blues

Allen, Paula Gunn (1939-   ; Laguna Pueblo)
    Grandmothers of the Light
    Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
    Spider Woman's Grandmothers

Dorris, Michael (1945-1997)
    Crown of Columbus
    Yellow Raft in Blue Water

Erdrich, Louise (1954-   )
    Bingo Palace
    Crown of Columbus
    Love Medicine
    Tracks

Harjo, Joy  (1951-    )
    In Mad Love and War
    She Had Some Horses

Highwater, Jamake (1942-    )
    Native Land: Sagas of the Indian Americas
    Primal Mind

Momaday, N. Scott (1934-    ; Kiowa)
    Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday
    Ancient Child
    House Made of Dawn
    In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961-1991.
    Names: a Memoir
    Way to Rainy Mountain

Owens, Louis  (1948-   ; Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish)
    Dark River
    Wolfsong

Silko, Leslie (1948-    )
    Almanac of the Dead
    Ceremony
    Storyteller
    Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit :Essays on Native
        American Life Today