Fiction
- Father Meme (U of New Mexico P)
- Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 (Nebraska UP)
- Chancers (Oklahoma UP)
- Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel (Wesleyan UP)
- Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World (Oklahoma UP)
- Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles (Minnesota UP)
- The Heirs of Columbus (Wesleyan UP)
- Griever: An American Monkey King in China (Minnesota UP)
- The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage (Emergent Literatures)
- Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent (Minnesota UP)
- Landfill Meditation: Crossblood Stories (Wesleyan UP)
Poetry
- Almost Ashore (Salt Publishing, 2006)
- Bear Island: The War At Sugar Point (Minnesota UP, 2006)
- Empty Swings (Haiku in English Series) (Nodin Press)
- Matsushima (Pine Island Nodin Press, 1984)
- Raising the Moon Vines (Nodin Press)
- Seventeen Chirps (Nodin Press)
- Two Wings the Butterfly (privately printed)
- Water Striders (Moving Parts Press)
- Slight Abrasions: A Dialogue in Haiku, with Jerome Downes (Nodin Press)
- Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories (Oklahoma UP)
- South of the Painted Stones (1963)
- The Old Park Sleepers (1961)
- Poems Born in the Wind (1960)
Screenplays
Other works
- Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence (Nebraska UP, 1998)
- Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (Wesleyan UP)
- Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade (Minnesota UP)
- Crossbloods; Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports (Minnesota UP)
- Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance (Wesleyan UP)
- The Everlasting Sky; New Voices from the People Named the Chippewa (MacMillan)
- The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories (Minnesota UP)
- Touchwood : A Collection of Ojibway Prose (Many Minnesotas Project, No 3) (New Rivers Press)
- Thomas James Whitehawk: Investigative Narrative in the Trial, Capital Punishment, and Commutation of the Death Sentence of Thomas James Whitehawk (Four Winds Press, 1968)
Edited anthology
- Native American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology (1997)
Edited collections of essays
- Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence (Nebraska UP, 2008)
- Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures (Oklahoma UP)
Autobiography
- Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors (Minnesota UP)
- Postindian Conversations, with A. Robert Lee (Nebraska UP)
Books about Gerald Vizenor
- Gerald Vizenor: Writing in the Oral Tradition, by Kimberley Blaeser
- Loosening the Seams: Interpretations of Gerald Vizenor, by A. Robert Lee
- Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor, by Alan R. Velie
- Gerald Vizenor: Profils Americains 20, ed. Simone Pellerin. Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2007. (In English)
Articles about Gerald Vizenor
Anthologies
Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours, Diane Glancy, Mark Nowak (Editors), Coffeehouse Press.
Stories Migrating Home: Anishnaabe Prose, Kimberly Blaeser (Editor), Loonfeather Press: Wisconsin
Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, Craig Lesley, Katheryn Stavrakis (Editor) Dell Books
Earth Song, Sky Spirit: Short Stories of the Contemporary Native American Experience, Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor)
Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature, Simon J. Ortiz (editor), Navajo Community College Press
Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: An Anthology of Poetry by American Indian Writers, Joseph Bruchac (Editor), Greenfield Review Press
Smoke Rising: The Native North American Literary Companion, Janet Witalec, Visible Ink Press.
Words in the Blood: Contemporary Indian Writers of North and South America, Jamake Highwater (Editor), New American Library.
Blue Dawn, Red Earth: New Native American Storytellers, Clifford E. Trafzer (Editor), Anchor Books
The Lightning Within: An Anthology of Contemporary American Indian Fiction, Edited and with an Introduction by Alan R. Velie, University of Nebraska Press.
American Indian Literature: An Anthology, Alan R. Velie, University of Oklahoma Press.
Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, Duane Niatum (Editor) HarperCollins
Twenty Six Minnesota Writers, Monico D. Degrazia (Editor), Nodin Press.
After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology, Larry McCaffery (Editor), Penguin USA
The New Native American Novel: Works in Progress, Mary Bartlett (Editor), University of New Mexico Press.
The Writer's Notebook, Howard Junker, HarperCollins.
Listening to Ourselves: More Stories from 'the Sound of Writing', Alan Cheuse, Caroline Marshall (Editor), Anchor Books.
Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation, Larry McCaffery (Editor), Fc2/Black Ice Books
Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990, Ishmael Reed, Kathryn Trueblood, Shawn Wong (Editor), W W Norton & Co.
Without Discovery: A Native Response to Columbus (Turning Point Series), Ray Gonzalez (Editor), Broken Moon Press.
A Gathering of Flowers: Stories About Being Young in America, Joyce Carol Thomas (Editor), Harpercollins Juvenile Books.
American Short Fiction, Spring 1991 by Laura Furman, University of Texas Press.
An Illuminated History of the Future by Curtis White (Editor), Fc2/Black Ice Books.
Fiction International, San Diego State University Press.
An Other Tongue: Nation and Ethnicity in the Linguistic Borderlands, Alfred Arteaga (Editor), Duke University Press.
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory, (Social Archaeology), Robert Preucel (Editor), Ian Hodder (Editor), Blackwell Pub.
Encyclopedia of North American Indians, by Frederick E. Hoxie (Editor), Houghton Mifflin Co.
A Companion to American Thought (Blackwell Reference), Richard Wightman Fox (Editor), James T. Kloppenberg (Editor), Blackwell Pub.
Culture and the Imagination, Proceedings of the Third Stuttgart Seminar on Cultural Studies, Verlag Für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Stuttgart, Germany, 1995
From Different Shores: Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America, Ronald Takaki (Editor), Oxford University Press.
Published interviews with or essays on Gerald Vizenor
Contemporary Authors: Biography - Vizenor, Gerald Robert (1934-), Thomson Gale.
Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture, (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series), Jace Weaver, Univ. Oklahoma Press.
Postindian Conversations, Gerald Robert Vizenor, A. Robert Lee, University of Nebraska Press.
Excavating Voices: Listening to Photographs of Native Americans, Michael Katakis (Editor), University of Pennsylvania Museum Press.
Mythic Rage and Laughter: An Interview with Gerald Vizenor, Dallas Miller, 1995,
Studies in American Indian Literatures, 7, 77, 1995 Spring.
Subverting the Dominant Paradigm: Gerald Vizenor's Trickster Discourse, Kerstin Schmidt,
Studies in American Indian Literatures, 7, 65, 1995 Spring.
That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community, Jace Weaver, Oxford University Press.
Text as trickster: postmodern language games in Gerald Vizenor's 'Bearheart.' (Maskers and Tricksters), An article from:
MELUS, by Elizabeth Blair
Gerald Vizenor and his 'Heirs of Columbus': a postmodern quest for more discourse. An article from:
The American Indian Quarterly by Barry E Laga
Monkey kings and mojo: postmodern ethnic humor in Kingston, Reed, and Vizenor, An article from: MELUS, by John Lowe
Postmodern bears in the texts of Gerald Vizenor (Critical Essay), An article from: MELUS, by Nora Baker Barry
"Bad Breath": Gerald Vizenor's Lacanian fable. (Critical Essay), An article from: Studies in Short Fiction by Linda Lizut Helstern
Native American Writers of the United States, (Dictionary of Literary Biography, V. 175), Kenneth M. Roemer (Editor), Gale Research.
Woodland word warrior: An introduction to the works of Gerald Vizenor, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff.
Survival This Way: Interviews With American Indian Poets, Joseph Bruchac III (Editor), (Sun Tracks Books, No 15) University of Arizona Press.
Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Laura Coltelli, University of Nebraska Press.
Partial Recall: With Essays on Photographs of Native North Americans, Lucy Lippard (Editor)
Contemporary Authors. Autobiography Series (Vol 22. Issn 0748-0636), Gale Research
American Contradictions: Interviews With Nine American Writers, Wolfgang Binder (Editor), Helmbrecht Breinig (Editor), Wesleyan University Press.
- First published in German as Facing America, Multikulturelle Literatur def heutigen USA in Texten und Interviews, Rotpunktverlag, Leipzig, Germany, 1994.
Native American Autobiography: An Anthology (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography), Arnold Krupat (Editor), University of Wisconsin Press.
Growing Up in Minnesota: Ten Writers Remember Their Childhoods, Chester G. Anderson, University of Minnesota Press.
Inheriting the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest, Mark Vinz (Editor), Thom Tammaro (Editor), University of Minnesota Press.
Gerald Vizenor, a special edition, Louis Owens (Editor),
Studies in American Indian Literatures, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 1997, including:
- "Interior Dancers": Transformations of Vizenor's Poetic Vision, Kimberly M. Blaeser
- The Ceded Landscape of Gerald Vizenor's Fiction, Chris LaLonde
- Blue Smoke and Mirrors: Griever's Buddhist Heart, Linda Lizut Helstern
- Liberation and Identity: Bearing the Heart of The Heirship Chronicles, Andrew McClure
- Liminal Landscapes: Motion, Perspective and Place in Gerald Vizenor's Fiction, Bradley John Monsma
- Waiting for Ishi: Gerald Vizenor's Ishi and the Wood Ducks and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Elvira Pulitano
- Doubling in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: The Pilgrimage Strategy or Bunyan Revisited, Bernadette Rigel-Cellard
- Legal and Tribal Identity in Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus, Stephen D. Osborne
Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel, (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies, Vol 3), Louis Owens, University of Oklahoma Press.
Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies, Vol 15), James Ruppert, University of Oklahoma Press.
Native American Perspectives on Literature and History, (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 19) by Alan R. Velie (Editor), University of Oklahoma Press.
- (Articles by Rodriguez, Velie and Blaeser address Vizenor's writings.)
The Turn to the Native, by Arnold Krupat, University of Nebraska Press.
Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism and the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literatures, Edited by Winfried Siemerling and Katrin Schwenk
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat, Brompton Books Corp.
Buried Roots and Indestructible Seeds: The Survival of American Indian Life in Story, History, and Spirit, Martin Zanger (Editor), Mark A. Lindquist, University of Wisconsin Press.
Sacred Trusts: Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility, Michael Katakis, Russell Chatham (Illustrator), Mercury House.
Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to Present, 1492-1992, Peter Nabokov, Penguin USA
Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, Russell Ferguson, Martha Gever, Mit Press.
Listening to Native Americans: Making Peace with the Past for the Future, John Barry Ryan, in
Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture, Vol. 31, No.1 Winter 1996 pp. 24—36.
Transformation in Progress by Annalee Newitz and Jillian Sandell, in
Bad Subjects, an online journal.
Spring Wind Rising: The American Indian Novel and the Problem of History, Stripes, James D., A dissertation.
Textbooks
The McGraw-Hill Introduction to Literature, Gilbert H. Muller, McGraw Hill Text.
Ways in: Approaches to Reading and Writing About Literature, Gilbert H. Muller, John A. Williams, McGraw Hill Text.
The Harper American Literature, Volume 1; 2nd Edition, Donald McQuade, Robert Atwan, Martha Banta, Justin Kaplan, Harpercollins College Div.
