Native Lit Syllabus

This is the comprehensive Native Lit reading list from UNM phd student:
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Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Ethnography, Nonfiction, & Other
Alexie, Sherman. The Toughest Indian in the World, Ten Little Indians, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Reservation Blues, Indian Killer
Allen, Paula Gunn. The Woman Who Owned the Shadows
Anderson, Karen. Chain Her By One Foot: The Subjugation of Native Women in Nineteenth-Century New France
Apess, William. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings
Boudinot, Elias. Cherokee Editor
Brant, Beth. Food and Spirits: Stories
Broker, Ignatia. Night Flying Woman
Callahan, S. Alice. Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Deloria, Ella. Speaking of Indians
Eastman, Charles. Indian Boyhood and From Deep Woods to Civilization
Erdrich, Louise. Four Souls, Tracks, Love Medicine, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
Gansworth, Eric. Mending Skins
Geronimo. His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
Glancy, Diane. Claiming Breath
Harjo, Joy. In Mad Love and War, A Map to the Next World.
Hogan, Linda. Mean Spirit, Solar Storms, Dwellings, The Woman Who Watched Over the World
Johnson, E. Pauline. The Moccasin Maker
Jones, Stephen Graham. Bleed Into Me
King, Thomas E. Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; One Good Story, That One
Linderman, Frank B. Pretty Shield
Maracle, Lee. I am Woman
Mathews, John Joseph. Sundown
Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain, House Made of Dawn, The Ancient Child, The Man Made of Words
Morris, Irvin. From the Glittering World: A Navajo Story
Mourning Dove. Cogewea
McNickle, Darcy. The Surrounded, Runner in the Sun, Wind from an Enemy Sky
Occom, Samson. Sermons and Oratory
Ortiz, Simon J. Woven Stone
Reichard, Gladys. Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters
Riggs, Lynn. The Cherokee Night and Other Plays
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Storyteller, Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Smith, Andrea. Conquest
Standing Bear, Luther. My People the Sioux
Tecumseh. Oratory
Tapahonso, Luci. Blue Horses Rush In, Sáanii Dahataal, The Women Are Singing : Poems And Stories
Tohe, Laura. No Parole Today
Ward, Nancy. Oratory
Watts, Eva Tulane. Don’t Let The Sun Step Over You
Welch, James. Fools Crow, Winter in the Blood
Winnemucca, Sarah. Life Among the Piutes
Vizenor, Gerald. Hotline Healers
Zapeda, Ophelia. Ocean Power: Poems From The Desert
Zitkala Sa. American Indian Stories, Old Indian Legends


Critical Work, Anthologies & Other:
Allen, Paula Gunn. Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature 1900-1970, The Sacred Hoop, Studies in American Indian Literature
Battiste, Marie. Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision
Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. New Indians, Old Wars, Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner
Deloria, Philip. Indians in Unexpected Places
Deloria, Vine. The World We Used to Live in: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men, God Is Red, Custer Died for Your Sins, Red Earth, White Lies
Green, Joyce. Making Way for Indigenous Feminism
Harjo, Joy and Gloria Bird. Reinventing the Enemy’s Language
Kilcup, Karen. Native American women's writing c. 1800-1924 : an anthology
Klein, Laura F. and Lillian A. Ackerman. Women and Power in Native North America
Lincoln, Kenneth. Native American Renaissance
Mihesuah, Devon. Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism
Nabakov, Peter. Native American Testimony
Owens, Louis. Mixedblood Messages, Other Destinies
Pesantubbee, Michelene. Choctaw Women in a Chaotic World
Povinelli, Elizabeth. Cunning of Recognition
Purdy, John (ed). Nothing But The Truth
Sarris, Greg. Keeping Slug Woman Alive
Shoemaker, Nancy. Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women
Walker, Cheryl Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Warrior, Robert. The People and the Word
Weaver, Jace. American Indian Literary Nationalism
Womack, Craig. Red on Red
Vizenor, Gerald. Native American Literature, Manifest Manners


Articles:
All of the articles from Denetdale, Archuleta, Alemán, and Brandon classes (quite extensive)
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Now I guess my goal is to see how much we have and how much we don't.