Indigenous Women's Voices: Books and Ebooks

Native American scholar, literary critic, poet, and novelist Paula Gunn Allen, who is herself a Laguna Pueblo-Sioux Indian, compiled this powerful collection of traditional tales, biographical writings, and contemporary short stories.

The author, the first Navajo woman surgeon, tells the story of how she was able to cut across cultural, class, and educational borders to become a part of the medical world; and discusses how she came to understand the power of Navajo thinking about health and illness to impact some of modern medicine's most daunting problems.

The author recounts the struggles and spirituality of the women of her Native American family from the late nineteenth century until the present

A unique autobiography unparalleled in American Indian literature, and a deeply moving account of a woman's triumphant struggle to survive in a hostile world.

A general introduction to the social and legal issues involved in acts of violence against Native women, this book's contributors are lawyers, social workers, social scientists, writers, poets, and survivors.

Autobiography of the former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

A story of the intertwined fates of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines near a North Dakota reservation from 1934 to 1984.

A comprehensive anthology of poetry, fiction, prayer and memoir from Native American women.

These elegaic and celebratory poems have been praised for their sense of pain mingled with the desire for wholeness, for the beauty of the author's accompanying drawings, and for the compassionate final section which brings together stories of oppression around the world.

Storytelling is an integral part of Native American tradition. In this volume, Leslie Marmon Silko demonstrates that storytelling is not only alive but still imbued with the power to move and deeply affect us

A collection of poems and prose in which Navajo writer Luci Tapahonso remembers the people and places she encountered during her childhood in Shiprock, New Mexico.