A Blind Lion (poetry) 1974

Coyote's Daylight Trip (poetry) 1978

A Cannon between My Knees (poetry) 1981

Star Child (poetry) 1981

Shadow Country (poetry) 1982

Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays and Course Designs [editor] (essays and nonfiction) 1983

The Woman Who Owned the Shadows (novel) 1983

The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions (essays) 1986

Wyrds (poetry) 1987

Skins and Bones: Poems 1979-1987 (poetry) 1988

Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women [editor] (short stories) 1989

Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook (essays) 1991

Voice of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1900-1970 [editor] (short stories) 1994

As Long as the Rivers Flow: The Stories of Nine Native Americans [with Patricia Clark Smith] (biography) 1996

Life Is a Fatal Disease: Selected Poems 1964-1994 (poetry) 1996

Song of the Turtle: American Indian Fiction, 1974-1994 [editor] (short stories) 1996

Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-Busting Border-Crossing Loose Canons (essays) 1998

Pocahontas: Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat (biography) 2003