Depictions of the Native American Indian Woman

This is not going to be a dissertational response to Johnson's "A Strong Race Opinion," but more a call for suggestions. Johnson had me rummaging through the (unfortunately few) references of depictions of American Indians in popular media that escape the trappings of "The Indian Girl." There is, of course, Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Vine Deloria, Jr.'s Custer Died For Your Sins, but these works are not fictional depictions (they are history and manifesto pieces), and, more, are of considerable age. I also assessed discussions of the Two-spirit, but, again, these are non-fictional. Finally, I considered Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man, which is more recent (1995.)

The film is heralded for being well-researched in regard to American Indian culture, and avoids many of the stereotypes that Johnson discusses; more, the film even includes jokes aimed at American Indian viewers, spoken in Cree and Blackfoot languages, that are left untranslated for the exclusive understanding of members of those nations. Yet, while I do find the praise justified, the predominant American Indian protagonist is a man, so "The Indian Girl" doesn't have an opportunity to be addressed here. So, I guess I am just asking for any suggestions of (fictional) material that might better address (or, uh, counter) the problems that occur in much of the fiction that Johnson evaluates.