john smelcer

The Raven and the Totem:

Trickster

This is a collection of stories from the Ahtna Indians of Alaska, collected and retold by tribe m...

The Great Death

The Great Death arrived with the man from downriver, the one who came with the light-colored stra...

The Trap

A gripping wilderness adventure and survival story It was getting colder. Johnny pulled the fur-l...

The Gospel of Simon

2,000 years ago an itinerant Jewish preacher was condemned to crucifixion. A man named Simon, fro...

Indian Giver

'Poetry at its most satirical and courageous. A tremendous book.'-Seamus Heaney

El Evangelio de Simon

Hace 2.000 años un predicador llamado Jesús fue condenado a la crucifixión. Un hombre llamado Sim...

Stealing Indians

'A poignant story of colonization and assimilation, something I know a little bit about. A master...

Lone Wolves

'A beautiful and moving story of courage and love.'-Ray Bradbury

Savage Mountain

'Smelcer clearly knows his way around Alaskan mountains.'?David Roberts, author of The Mountain o...

Alaskan: Stories From the Great Land

Written over the course of a quarter century by one fo Alaska's best living writers, these two do...

Edge of Nowhere

'More psychological depth than Robinson Crusoe.'-Frank McCourt