- "Ancestral Voices: Dialogues with Nature in American Indian Literatures" (1995)
- "I've Been So Many Places: Autobiographical Essays by American Indian Writers" (1995)
- "Unlearning the Language of Conquest: Scholars Expose Anti-Indianism in America" (1995)
- "To Believe in the Journey: On the Lives of American Indians" (2000)
- "To Thine Own Self Be True: The Indigenous Voice in Literature and History" (2003)
- "Native Americans: An Ethnohistory" (2004)
- "Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance" (2008)
- "Writing for the Future: American Indian Literature and the Renewal of Community" (2018)
Articles and essays:
- "The Cherokee Experience in Literature" (1993)
- "The Native American Renaissance" (1994)
- "The American Indian Literary Canon: A Critical Perspective" (1995)
- "The Politics of Representation in American Indian Literatures" (1996)
- "The Significance of American Indian Literatures" (1997)
- "The Influence of American Indian Literatures on American Literature" (1998)
- "The Future of American Indian Literatures" (1999)
- "American Indian Literatures and the Twenty-First Century" (2000)