Native American Fiction
Explore the best Native American fiction books with our curated list of powerful stories, cultural insights, and compelling narratives by Indigenous authors.
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War Cry
by Donald Clayton Porter
A call to battle and a woman's arms--a bold rebel challenged his legacy and his nation.
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One Thousand White Women
by Jim Fergus
Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through …
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Lake in the Clouds
by Sara Donati
In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century …
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American Woman
by R. Garcia y Robertson
The Battle of the Little Big Horn from the Indian point of view. The novel is narrated by Sarah Kilory, a white Quaker schoolteacher from …
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The Journey of Crazy Horse
by Joseph M. Marshall III
Drawing on vivid oral histories, Joseph M. Marshall’s intimate biography introduces a never-before-seen portrait of Crazy Horse and his Lakota community Most of the world …
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Ride the Wind
by Lucia St. Clair Robson
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of Cynthia Ann Parker and the last days of the Comanche In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia …
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People of the Weeping Eye
by W. Michael Gear
In this epic tale of survival set in Paleolithic America, the authors of "People of the Nightland" take readers to the banks of the great …
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Bone Walker
by Kathleen O'Neal Gear
A blend-of ancient history and intriguing mystery of one of the most enigmatic people to ever inhabit this continent--the Anasazi.
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Walk in My Soul
by Lucia St. Clair Robson
Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of …
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Light a Distant Fire
by Lucia St. Clair Robson
Threatened with forced removal from their Florida homeland, the Seminole and Miccosukee Indians took up arms. Using alligator-infested swamps to their advantage, they fought the …
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From where the Sun Now Stands
by Will Henry
This Spur Award-winning novel tells of the 113 days in the summer of 1877 when Chief Joseph reluctantly led his people in a rear-guard action …
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On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples
by Joseph Marshall III
An important book for those who love the West and are concerned about the natural world and the sacredness of all life (not just human …
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Mountain Windsong
by Robert J. Conley
A Cherokee grandfather and grandson retell the story of Waguli, a young Cherokee forced into exile in Oklahoma, and his fiancee, Oconeechee, who remains behind …
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The Cherokee Nation
by Robert J. Conley
Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.
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A Name of Her Own
by Jane Kirkpatrick
Based on the life of Marie Dorion, the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest, A Name of Her Own …
