Carol Dana (Penobscot)
Carol Dana’s poetry vividly maps the Penobscot reservation on Indian Island as well as the larger indigenous territories across Maine.  It brings together the venerable ancestors, heroes of oral history, inquisitive children and struggling young mothers.   And it recreates the music of indigenous words and place-names.  When No One Is Looking is a marvelous work of literature, yes, but it is also a work of nation-building.
Bowman Books

Charles Ballard (Quapaw/Cherokee)

Painted on buffalo skins by native Quapaw artists, the winter count pictures served as a marker of and memorial to each passing year. In the same way, Charles Ballard's poems are a record of Indian survival, against odds even starker than those struck by the harsh Oklahoma winter. In a voice that evokes the elegiac strength of N. Scott Momaday, Ballard takes on an astonishing variety of subjects, from spirit craft to Picasso to Austerlitz Station. But his ultimate subject, resonating in all the poems in this impressive collection, is the harsh and triumphant history of his people.

Greenfield Review Press

Prison writings smuggled out from Soledad Prison in Central California, during the infamous trial of the "Soledad Three." Rare Cornerstone document of political awareness in the 1960s."Words From the House of the Dead: An Anthology of Prison Writings from Soledad"
edited by William Witherup and Joseph Bruchac
Greenfield Review Press; 1971