One more caveat: I know someone, and very possibly someone Native, has already done this work. But I don't know of it, and if and when I find it, then I will most definitely link to it from here. But I am also not spending a lot of time looking for that, specifically, because I suspect that there is value in the process. And finding more great books is win/win.
So now, still looking at trying to compile a useful list of literary (and other) works by Native Alaskan, Native Hawaiian, and Native American (or other term of your choice). And as in the TED talk linked from Read Around the World, the starting place is, really, establishing a decent list of what groups/nations will be represented. And then we're already in a politicized zone, because the obvious place to start is with the list of federally-recognized tribes. (Slightly easier-to-read list over at Wikipedia, but I'm not sure if it's been updated to reflect any changes in the list promulgated Jan. 2016. Checking that, and updating the Wikipedia list, is on my to-do list.)
H/t to my grad school buddy Lee Allen (Native Women's House of the Rockies), who was interested in studying, among other things, how lists like these become official and who gets disenfranchised by this process.
Point being, for my purposes, I'll be hoping and trying to find representative authors from all (or most, or as many as I can find) of these tribes and nations, but I do so with the knowledge that some tribes and nations are not yet recognized. So I apologize in advance for missing anybody, as I know I'm using an inherently-imperfect tool.
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