"Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives : The Old Lady Trill, the Victory Yell : The Power of Women in Native American Literature" : the power of women in Native American literature

Focusing on the work of four of the twentieth century's most famous Native American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, this work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of empowered female characters in Native American literature.