James Welch was the author of the novels
Winter in the Blood,
Fools Crow, for which he received the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, an American Book Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award,
The Indian Lawyer,
The Death of Jim Loney, and
Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians. He attended schools on the Blackfeet and Fort Belknap reservations in Montana, graduated from the University of Montana, where he studied writing with the late Richard Hugo, and served on the Montana State Board of Pardons.
Bestselling author Louise Erdrich grew up in North Dakota and is of German and Turtle Mountain Chippewa descent. Her novels include Love Medicine and The Beet Queen.
