- "My Father's Song" (poem; 1976 in Going for the Rain)
- A Good Journey (1977)
- The people shall continue (Fifth world tales) (1977)
- Howbah Indians: Stories (1978)
- Song, Poetry, and Language (1978)
- Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (1980)
- A Poem is a Journey (1981)
- From Sand Creek: Rising In This Heart Which Is Our America (1981)
- Changing the Routine: Selected Short Stories (1982)
- Blue and Red (1982)
- The Importance of Childhood (1982)
- This America (1983)
- A Good Journey (1984)
- Fightin': New and Collected Stories (1984)
- Always the Stories (1984)
- The Creative Press (1985)
- Earth Power Coming: Short Fiction in Native American Literature (1988)
- The People Shall Continue (1988)
- Woven Stone (selected works) (1992)
- After and Before the Lightning (1994)
- Center (1995)
- Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing, editor (1998)
- Men on the Moon: Collected Short Stories (1999)
- Out There Somewhere (2002)
- The Good Rainbow Road: Rawa Kashtyaa'tsi Hiyaani (A Native American Tale in Keres) (2004)
- Ortiz, Simon J. "What We See: A Perspective on Chaco Canyon and Pueblo Ancestry," Chaco Canyon: A Center and Its World. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1994.
In Anthology
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018)
