Born in the Wind (poetry) 1960
The Old Park Sleepers (poetry) 1961
Two Wings the Butterfly (haiku) 1962
South of the Painted Stone (poetry) 1963
Raising the Moon Vines (haiku) 1964
Seventeen Chirps (haiku) 1964
Summer in the Spring: Lyric Poems of the Ojibway (poetry) 1965
Empty Swings (haiku) 1967
Thomas James White Hawk (nonfiction) 1968
The Everlasting Sky (essays) 1972
∗Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart (novel) 1973
∗∗Anishinabe Nagomon: Songs of the Ojibwa (poetry) 1974
∗∗Anishinabe Adisokan: Stories of the Ojibwa (short stories) 1974
Tribal Scenes and Ceremonies (essays) 1976
Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade (short stories) 1978
Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent (short stories) 1981
Harold of Orange (screenplay) 1983
Matsushima: Pine Islands (haiku) 1984
The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories (non-fiction) 1984
Griever: An American Monkey King in China (novel) 1987
The Trickster of Liberty (novel) 1988
Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports (essays) 1990
Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors (autobiography) 1990
Landfill Meditation (short stories) 1991
The Heirs of Columbus (novel) 1992
Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World (novel) 1992
Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance (essays) 1994
Shadow Distance: Gerald Vizenor Reader (fiction and essays) 1994