As the first book-length study of Indigenous-authored Young Adult literature, this project advances conversations in Native Studies about the meaning of Indigenous sovereignty and expands conceptualizations of power dynamics and genre in YA Literary Studies.

A rebel with a community, not just a cause : revising YA power dynamics and uniquely representing indigenous sovereignty in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash -- Indigenous school stories : alternatives to multiculturalism in Sherman Alexie's The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian and Joseph Bruchac's The heart of a chief -- Not your father's Pocahontas : Cynthia Leitich Smith's and Susan Power's resistive romance -- That's one story : reworking hybridity through Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel's and Drew Hayden Taylor's speculative fiction -- Alexie's flight, Zobel's Wabanaki Blues, and the future of indigenous YA literature.