Google Doodle - Honoring James Welch

The November 18, 2016 Google Doodle honors a poet and author that chronicled the experiences of Native Americans.  James Welch would have been 76 today.  His prominent publications and introductions to his copyrights can be found below. 

Publications

The following is a list of his prominent publications.

Novels

• Winter in the Blood (1974)
• The Death of Jim Loney (1979)
• Fools Crow (1986)
• The Indian Lawyer (1990)
• The Heartsong of Charging Elk (2000)

Nonfiction

• Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians (1994)

Poetry

• Riding the Earthboy 40 (1971 rpt. 1975)
• Last Stand at Little Bighorn
• Christmas Comes to Moccasin Flat

COPYRIGHTS

His copyrights are chronicled at the United States Copyright Office.  You can explore the Copyright Search Records to learn additional details on the ownership of James Welch work.

For example, when searching for the title Fools Crow...

...you will learn that the copyright was originally filed in 1986 and that there were two copyright claimants:  Jack Welch for the text of the novel (Fools crow : a novel / James Welch. TX0002011906 ) and Viking Penquin, Inc., the publisher, for the illustrations and maps in the novel (Fools crow : a novel / James Welch. VA0000252783).  You can also learn that there are other works that derive from the novel of Fools Crow.