Eric Gansworth Books in Order

A growing trade in tax-free cigarettes and gasoline shifts power on an Iroquois reservation. Dancer Fiction Tunny is caught between her traditional-chief father’s refusal to acknowledge her and an entrepreneur’s pursuit, while seeking her own cultural footing.

Tuscarora storyteller Shirley Mounter recalls reservation life after an art-history lecture by her daughter. Her memories of losing her home to a reservoir unfold into a multigenerational story of family, identity, dispossession, and the stories that bind people together.

Through poems, essays, and paintings, Eric Gansworth explores belief in the unseen and the cultural need for faith. Sasquatch, the Fouke Monster, and a childhood horror film become points of connection between Indigenous traditions, wilderness, and personal memory.

Truck driver Tommy Jack McMorsey encounters a Japanese tourist searching for fictional ransom money from Fargo. Her death in his care triggers public scrutiny and journeys into his own past, including Vietnam, a love affair, and a friend’s suicide.

Eric Gansworth combines poetry and fourteen paintings to explore physical survival, cultural endurance, and the tensions of maintaining Haudenosaunee traditions within a dominant society. Individual and collective experiences of loss and recovery connect the collection’s words and images.

Brian, the only Indigenous reporter in his newsroom, resents assignments that flatten his community into stereotypes. A roadside assault draws him back toward people he left behind, forcing him to revisit childhood and his relationship with the Tuscarora reservation.