Zitkala Sa (Sioux), Old Indian Legends 

Alex Posey (Creek), Collected Poems 

Charles A. Eastman (Sioux), Soul of the Indian 

Pauline Johnson (Mohawk), Flint and Feather 

New Mexico became a state. 

The Bursum Bill was introduced to Congress in an effort to obtain land and water rights in New Mexico. The bill would have taken away some Pueblo lands. John Collier founded the American Indian Defense Association and the All-Pueblo Council in response to the bill. 

The Synder Act was passed that granted U.S. citizenship to all American Indians born in the United States. 

Mourning Dove [Humishuma] (Okanogan), Co-ge-we-a, The Half-Blood 

The Brookings Institute released the Meriam Report claiming that the coercive assimilation polices of the federal government had failed. 

John Joseph Mathews (Osage), Sundown 

The Indian Reorganization Act restored some Indian lands, and reasserted the rights of Indians to govern themselves locally. Although an effort was made to improve schools, there was little change by 1945. 

D'Arcy McNickle (Cree/Salish), The Surrounded 

The Nationality Act was passed reiterating American Indians had U.S. citizenship. 

American Indian enlistment reached a height of 22,000. By the end of the war, 24,521 American Indians had enlisted from reservations and 20,000 Indians had enlisted from off-reservation. 

Congress began the first of the Relocation programs to provide employment and vocational training for American Indians to aid in assimilation into mainstream society. Relocation reached a height between 1953-1954.  

N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), House Made of Dawn 

Vine Deloria, Jr. (Sioux), Custer Died for Your Sins 

N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa), The Way to Rainy Mountain 

James Welch (Blackfeet), Winter in the Blood 

Simon Ortiz (Acoma), Going for the Rain 

Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna), Ceremony 

Gerald Vizenor (Chippewa), Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart 

James Welch (Blackfeet), The Death of Jim Loney 

Hanay Geiogamah (Kiowa), New Native American Drama 

Duane Niatum (S'Klallam), Songs for the Harvester of Dreams