Greg Sarris on Telling the Stories of California’s Native Communities

By Jane CiabattariJune 16, 2026

Greg Sarris’s first novel, Grand Avenue, an urban Indian story set in Santa Rosa, California, was published in 1994, during the second wave of the Native American Renaissance, which included first novels by Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine), Sherman Alexie (Reservation

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