| James Welch, Blackfeet/Gros Ventre, born 1940, died 2003 |
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Riding the Earth Boy 40 (poetry), 1975 |
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Winter in the Blood, 1974 |
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The Death of Jim Loney, 1979 |
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Fools Crow, 1986 |
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The Indian Lawyer, 1990 |
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Killing Custer (history), with Paul Stekler, 1994 |
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The Heartsong of Charging Elk, 2000 |
| Other notable Native American novelists, with specific recommendations
from Professor Faller: |
| Darcy McNickel (1904-1977), The Surrounded (1936) |
| N. Scott Momaday (1934- ), House Made of Dawn (1968) |
| Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- ), Ceremony (1977) |
| Louise Erdrich (1954- ), Love Medicine (1984, revised 1993) |
| Sherman Alexie (1966- ), Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fist Fight
in Heaven (1993) |
| Dates of interest for Fools Crow (the novel takes place
between the fall of 1868 and the spring of 1870): |
| August 17, 1869: Macolm Clark was killed. |
| January 1, 1870: A meeting took place between the Blackfeet and
General Alfred Sully at Four Horns. |
| January 23, 1870: Heavy Runner's Band was masacred. |
| 1880: Bufallo herds on which the Blackfeet relied were suddenly
diminished. |
| Winter of 1883-84: The Blackfeet experienced their first failed
bufallo hunt. 600 members of the tribe died of starvation. |
| Real people represented as characters in Fools Crow: |
| Big Lake, Heavy Runner, Joe Kipp, Little Dog, Little Wolf, Mountain
Chief, and General Alfred Sully |
| Information about the upcoming Dance for Mother Earth Pow Wow
in Ann Arbor on March 27 and 28, 2004 is available at http://www.umich.edu/~powwow. |
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