Allen, Paula Gunn, ed., Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs, Modern Language Association of America, 1983.

Allen offers not only insightful essays on Native-
American writers but suggestions on how to design
courses in Native-American literature. Sample syllabi
are included.

Niatum, Duane, ed., Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, Harper, 1988.

This collection contains more than 350 pages of poetry
from some of the leading voices in Native-
American poetry, including that of Ortiz.

Smith, Paul Chaat, and Robert Allen Warrior, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee, New Press, 1996.

This engaging collection of documents chronicles the
turbulent years from 1969, when members of the American
Indian Movement took over Alcatraz Island, to
1973, when AIM sympathizers held off federal agents
for eight weeks at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

Wiget, Andrew, Simon Ortiz, Boise State University Press, 1986.

Wiget's critical biography is...