Native Americans: Five Hundred Years After (nonfiction) 1977
A Guide to Research on North American Indians [with Arlene B. Hirschfelder and Mary Gloyne Byler] (nonfiction) 1983
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (novel) 1987
The Broken Cord: A Family's On-Going Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (nonfiction) 1989; also published as The Broken Cord: A Father's Story, 1990
Route Two and Back [with Louise Erdrich] (travel memoir) 1991
The Crown of Columbus (novel) 1991
Morning Girl (young adult fiction) 1992
Rooms in the House of Stone (essays) 1993
Working Men (short stories) 1993
Paper Trail: Collected Essays, 1967–1992 (essays) 1994
Guests (young adult fiction) 1995
Cloud Chamber (novel) 1997
The Window (young adult fiction) 1997