Patrice Hollrah 
Old Lady Trill, The Victory Yell [PDF ebook] 
The Power of Women in Native American Literature

Focusing on the work of four of the twentieth century’s most famous Native American authors, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, this work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of empowered female characters in Native American literature.