This course offers a survey of the Native American novel in its historical and critical context. Beginning with the publication of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony (1975), we read novelistic form as a counternarrative to US origins stories. We explore the political context of the American Indian movement in relation to its literary renaissance. We revisit the past, including the nineteenth-century Indian Boarding School system and the "Reign of Terror" in the Osage Nation. We also consider the Native American novel in relation to film and poetry to think holistically about the arts from an interdisciplinary perspective.