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Storytelling. At base that is what American Indian authors and poets are doing — storytelling.

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Other Words: American Indian Literature,
Law, and Culture

Read Debbie Reese's blog, American Indians in Children's Literature, with recommendations of books for use at all levels, from picture books to young adult reading.

Listen to authors read from their own work on our virtual iPod.

Simon Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo

From counterbalance poetry

Another unofficial site

Louis Owens, Choctaw/Cherokee

Elise Paschen, Osage

William S. Penn, Nez Perce

Susan Power, Dakota , from Voices from the Gaps (Unofficial)

Ron Querry, Choctaw

Philip H. Red Eagle, Dakota/Steilacoom-S'Klallam

Delphine Red Shirt, Lakota

From Voices in the Gaps (Unofficial)

Marcie R. Rendon , Anishinabe

From Voices in the Gaps (Unofficial)

Carter Revard, Osage

Paxton Riddle,

Wendy Rose, Hopi/Miwok, from Voices from the Gaps (Unofficial)

From the Modern American Poetry website.

John Rollin Ridge, Cherokee, from the Wikipedia

Will Rogers, Cherokee, from the Wikipedia

Gayle Ross, Cherokee

Armand Garnet Ruffo, Ojibway

John Rustywire, Navajo

Carol Lee Sanchez, Laguna

Greg Sarris, Pomo

From the Reed College English 201 site Prog. Laura Arnold

William Sanders, Cherokee

Cheryl Savageau, Abenaki

Kim Shuck, Tsalagi, Sauk and Fox, and Polish

Edgar Gabriel Silex, Tigua Pueblo

Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo

Leslie Marmon Silko' (1948 - ), a short biography

World Literature website, Silko page

Online Poetry Classroom, Silko page

Classroom Issues and Strategies by Norma C. Wilson

Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - Leslie Marmon Silko

Native American Literature -The Pueblo, English 210, Laura Arnold, Reed College

An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko by Thomas Irmer

InfoPlease.com entry

The Function of Landscape in Ceremony. by Robert M. Nelson

Rewriting Ethnography: The Embedded Texts in Leslie Silko's Ceremony. by Robert M. Nelson

The Kaupata Motif in Silko's Ceremony: A Study of a Literary Homology by Robert M. Nelson

A Laguna Woman by Robert M. Nelson

He Said / She Said: Writing Oral Tradition in John Gunn's "Ko-pot Ka-nat" and Leslie Silko's Storyteller by Robert M. Nelson

Interpretation Brings Us Together: Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Hermeneutic Circle by Shawn Rider

Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and the Effects of White Contact on Pueblo Myth and Ritual by Suzanne M. Austgen

American Paradoxes in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony by Jessica M. Vianes

Commentary on Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead from the Hippocrates Project at the New York University School of Medicine.

Silko page from Voices from the Gaps

An Interview with Leslie Marmon Silko by Thomas Irmer

Cynthia Leitich Smith, Muscogee (Creek)

Martin Cruz Smith, Isleta Pueblo

Paul Chaat Smith, Commanche

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Rosebud Sioux (Unofficial), from Voices in the Gaps

Abena Songbird, Abenaki

James Thomas Stevens, Akwesasne Mohawk

Denise Sweet, Anishinnaabe

Note: Currently poetry chapbooks are for sale on the websites of Tiffany Midge, Deborah Miranda, Annette Arkeketa, Ofelia Zepeda, Duane Niatum and Marijo Moore. Ordering information is available on each site. Chapbooks from Lance Henson, Carter Revard and Maurice Kenny are available from Point Riders Press.

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Most of these sites have been constructed either by the writer or with the writer's cooperation and collaboration. When that is not the case, the site is designated as Unofficial.

This index is compiled by Karen M. Strom. < >

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