James Welch (1940–2003) was a novelist and a poet and the author of Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. The documentary he cowrote, Last Stand at Little Bighorn, was awarded an Emmy, and his novel Fools Crow earned national awards, including the American Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Born in Montana, he grew up in the Blackfeet and A’aninin cultures of his parents, and in 1997 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- In the Land of Many Enemies, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2014–2015