Bibliography
Books
• Alexie, Sherman. Blasphemy. Falls Apart, Inc. Grove Press. New York, NY. 2012.

• Alexie, Sherman. War Dances. Falls Apart, Inc. Grove Press. New York, NY. 2009.

• Carter, Forrest. The Education of Little Tree. University of New Mexico Press. New York: Delacorte. 1976.

A young Cherokee boy moves in with his grandparents during the Depression era. They teach him about living in the mountains: how to catch animals, as well as listen to them. His grandparents teach him about words, history, and policicians from borrowed library books. He encounters loss, poverty, and discrimination. It is written in the voice of a young boy and incoporates Indian vernacular and rural mountain 1930's dialect. 

• Oswalt, Wendell H. This Land Was Theirs: A Study of North American Indians, 3rd Edition. University of California, LA. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1978.

An in-depth study of differnt Native North American Indians cultures, with descriptions of language, religions, and social systems.

• Treuer, David. Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual. Graywolf Press. Saint Paul, Minnesota. 2006.

• Vickers, Scott B. Native American Identities: From Stereotype to Archetype in Art and Literature. University of New Mexico Press. Albuquerque, NM. 1998.

• Vizenor, Gerald. Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, NE. 1999.


Essays/ Articles
• Fleming, Walter C. “Myths and Stereotypes about Native Americans.” The Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 88, No. 3 (Nov., 2006), pp. 213-217. Phi Delta Kappa International. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20442220 .

• Kasten, Wendy C. “Bridging the Horizon: American Indian Beliefs and Whole Language Learning.” Anthropology & Education Quarterly, pp. 108-119. Published by: Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Anthropological Association. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3195950

• Miller, Dallas and Vizenor, Gerald. “Mythic Rage and Laughter: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor.” Studies in American Indian Literatures, Series 2, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 77-96. University of Nebraska Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20736829 .

Poems
• Alexie, Sherman. “How to Write the Great American Indian Novel” from The Summer of Black Widows. Hanging Loose Press. 1996.