Novels and short story collections
Blue Ravens, Historical Novel, Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Chair of Tears, a novel, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Shrouds of White Earth, a novel, State University of New York Press, 2010.
Father Meme, a novel, University of New Mexico, 2008.
The Trickster of Liberty: Native Heirs to a Wild Baronage, University of Oklahoma Press, February, 2005. [First published by the University of Minnesota Press, 1988.]
Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57, University of Nebraska Press, November 2003.
Chancers, a novel, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2000,
Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel, Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1997.
Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, a novel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. Paperbound edition, 1993.
The Heirs of Columbus, a novel, Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1991; paperbound edition 1992.
Landfill Meditation, collection of short stories, Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1991.
Griever: An American Monkey King in China, novel, Fiction Collective Award, 1986, American Book Award, 1988, second edition published by the University of Minnesota Press, 1990.
Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles, novel, new revised edition, University of Minnesota Press, 1990. Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart, first edition, Truck Press, 1978.
The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage, novel, University of Minnesota Press, 1988.
Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader, autobiography, fiction, stories, essays, and other selections, Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories, new edition, edited and interpreted, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. The first edition was published by Nodin Press in 1970.
Poetry
Favor of Crows: New and Collected Haiku, Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Almost Ashore: Selected Poems, Salt Publishing, Cambridge, England, 2006.
Bear Island: The War at Sugar Point, University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Cranes Arise, original haiku poems, Nodin Press, Minneapolis, 1999.
Raising the Moon Vines, original haiku, Nodin Press, Minneapolis, 1999.
Matsushima: Pine Islands, collected haiku poems, Nodin Press, 1984.
Summer in the Spring: Anishinaabe Lyric Poems and Stories, new edition, edited and interpreted, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. The first edition was published by Nodin Press in 1970.
Nonfiction
The White Earth Reservation: Ratification of a Native Democratic Constitution, Gerald Vizenor and Jill Doerfler, University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors, Second Edition, State University of New York Press, 2009.
Native Liberty: Natural Reason and Cultural Sovereignty, selected essays, University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Postindian Conversations [Literary Conversation with A. Robert Lee], University of Nebraska Press, 1999, 2003.
Wordarrows: Native States of Literary Sovereignty, Introduction to a New Edition, University of Nebraska Press, 2003. [First published as Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade, University of Minnesota Press, 1978.]
The Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinaabe People, Introduction to a New Edition, Minnesota Historical Society Press, Saint Paul, 2001. [First published as The Everlasting Sky: New Voices from the People Named the Chippewa, Crowell Collier Press, New York, Collier Macmillan, London, 1972.]
Manifest Manners: Narratives of Postindian Survivance, Preface to a New Edition, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1999. [First published as Manifest Manners: Postindian Warriors of Survivance, Wesleyan University Press, 1994.]
Fugitive Poses: Native American Indian Scenes of Absence and Presence, University of Nebraska Press, The Abraham Lincoln Lecture Series, 1998. Translated into Japanese, 2003.
Interior Landscapes: Autobiographical Myths and Metaphors, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990.
Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports, a collection of essays, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1990. This new edition includes several revised essays on the American Indian Movement that first appeared in a Minneapolis Tribune editorial series, and Tribal Scenes and Ceremonies, Nodin Press, 1976.
The People Named the Chippewa: Narrative Histories, University of Minnesota Press, 1983; second printing, 1987.
Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent, University of Minnesota Press, 1983.
Wordarrows: Indians and Whites in the New Fur Trade, University of Minnesota Press, 1978; second printing, 1989.
The Everlasting Sky: New Voices from the People Named the Chippewa, Macmillan, New York, 1972.
Thomas James White Hawk, investigative narrative on the trial, capital punishment, and commutation of the death sentence of Thomas James White Hawk, Four Winds Press, 1968.
Edited Collections
Native Storiers: Five Selections, edited with an introduction, University of Nebraska Press, 2009.
Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence, introductory essay and editor, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Native American Literature, an anthology, editor, HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995.
Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Literatures, editor, with an essay, “Trickster Discourse: Comic Holotropes and Language Games,” reprinted in a paperbound edition by the University of Oklahoma Press, 1993. First published by the University of New Mexico Press, 1989.
Touchwood: A Collection of Ojibway Prose, editor, an anthology reprinted by New Rivers Press, 1994. First published in 1987.
Works translated into other languages
Quasi En Terra, Catalan translation of Almost Ashore by Carme Manuel Cuenca, Editorial Denes, Poesia Edicions De La Guerra, València, Spain, 2009.
Des Nouvelles des Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, French translation of Native Storiers, introductory essay and editor, Éditions Métailié, Paris, 2008.
Crâneurs, French translation of Chancers, Éditions du Rocher, Paris, 2007.
Literary Chance: Essays on Native American Survivance, Biblioteca Javier Coy d’studis nord-americans, Universitat de Valencia, España, 2007.
Harold of Orange / Harold von Orangen, bilingual edition of “Harold of Orange,” a screenplay, translated by Wolfgang Hochbruck, et al, Osnabrueck Bilingual Editions, Eddingen, German, 1994.
Parolefrecce, translation of Wordarrows by Maria Vittoria D’Amico. Italian edition in the literature series “Indianamericana.” Edited by Laura Coltelli, University of Pisa, 1992.