Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea, Overlook Press, New York, 2003
Designs of the Night Sky, Native American Narratives Series, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2002
The Mask Maker, American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 2002
The Man Who Heard the Land, Minnesota Historical Press, St. Paul, Minnesota, 2001
Fuller Man, Moyer Bell, Wakefield, Rhode Island, 1999.
The Closets of Heaven (novella), Chax Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1999.
Flutie, Moyer Bell, Wakefield, Rhode Island, 1998.
Pushing the Bear, a novel of the Trail of Tears, Harcourt Brace, New York, 1996, Harvest Paperback, 1998.
The Only Piece of Furniture in the House, Moyer Bell, Wakefield, Rhode Island, 1996.
The Dance Partner, Stories of the Late 19th Century Ghost Dance, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, Michigan, 2005
The Voice That Was in Travel, University of Oklahoma Press, Native American Literature and Critical Studies Series #33, Norman, Oklahoma, 1999
Monkey Secret, Northwestern University Press, Tri-Quarterly Books, Evanston, Illinois, 1995
Firesticks, University of Oklahoma Press, Native American Literature and Critical Studies Series, #5, Norman, Oklahoma, 1993
Trigger Dance, Fiction Collective Two, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1990, received the Charles Nilon Fiction Award from the University of Colorado, 1990, and was translated into German under the title, Tante Parnettas Elektrische Wunden, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt, 1995
In-between Places, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2005
The Cold-and-Hunger Dance, the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1998
The West Pole, the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1997
Claiming Breath, the University of Nebraska Press, 1992, received the Native American Prose Award from the University of California at Berkeley and Santa Cruz, 1991, and an American Book Award, 1993
Asylum in the Grasslands, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2007
Rooms, New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishing, EarthWorks Series, Cambridge, England, 2005
Primer of the Obsolete, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2004
The Shadow’s Horse, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2003
The Stones for a Pillow, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, Rochester, Michigan, 2001
The Relief of America, Northwestern University Press, Tia Chucha Books, Evanston Illinois, 2000
Coyote's Quodlibet (chapbook), Chax Press, Tucson, Arizona, 2000, 1995
(Ado)ration, Chax Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1999
Boom Town, Minnesota Humanities Commission and Black Hat Press, Goodhue, Minnesota, 1997
Lone Dog's Winter Count, West End Press, Albuquerque, 1991, received the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, 1992
Iron Woman, New Rivers Press, Minneapolis, 1990, received the 1988 Capricorn Prize from the Writer's Voice, New York
Offering, Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, Minnesota, 1988
One Age in a Dream, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, 1986, received the 1986 Lakes and Prairies Prize
Brown Wolf Leaves the Res (chapbook), Blue Cloud Quarterly, North Dakota, 1984
The Sum of Winter, a collection of nine plays with a foreword on fractional theatre
"Stone Heart: Everybody Loves a Journey West," Alexander Street Press Drama Collections: North American Indian Women’s Drama and North American Indian Drama, a scholarly research collection for university libraries, electronic publication, http://alexanderstreetpress.com
American Gypsy, a collection of six plays with an experimental afterword on Native Theater, American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series #45, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, 2002
War Cries, a collection of nine plays with an introduction by Kim Blaeser, Holy Cow! Press, Duluth, Minnesota, 1996Visit Teepee Town: Native Writings After the Detours, Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 1999
Two Worlds Walking, edited by Diane Glancy and Bill Truesdale, New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University at Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1994
Braided Lives, An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing, edited Diane Glancy, David Mura, Juanita Garciagodoy and Musa Moore-Foster, Minnesota Humanities Commission, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1991
Dome of Heaven