Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor (1982)

Velie provides an overview of native American literature as well as an in-depth look at four American Indian writers and their links to both tribal heritages and American and European literary traditions. He examines the Tanoan and Kiowan heritage of Momaday and his postsymbolist link to Yvor Winters; Blackfeet mythology and work of James Welch; Laguna myths and medieval legends in the work of Leslie Silko; and the Chippewa trickster myths found in Vizenor's fiction.