Works:
Works by
(b. 1940)James Welch
| 1974 | Winter in the Blood. After a first book of poetry, Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971), Welch issues his first novel about reservation life as a young man tries to come to terms with his Indian heritage. The book is greeted as the arrival of a major writer reflecting the Native American experience. Welch was born in Montana, of mixed Blackfoot and Gros Ventre heritage. |
| 1979 | The Death of Jim Loney. Welch's second novel is about the self-destruction of an alienated, alcoholic mixed-blood protagonist in Montana, who is unable to exist comfortably in either the white or the Indian world. |
| 1986 | Fool's Crow. Welch portrays the clash between indigenous Americans and white settlers in the Two Medicine territory of Montana in the 1870s. The book draws on both historical documentation and the author's own family stories in what historian Dee Brown has said is perhaps "the closest we will ever come in western literature to understanding what life is like for a western Indian." |
| 1994 | Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. Blackfoot novelist Welch brings a different perspective to the Indian wars in this narrative of the Battle of Little Big Horn, tracing both the foreground and the aftereffects of the battle, along with Welch's family history. |
