The Valley of the Horses is the 1982 sequel to The Clan of the Cave Bear. The story follows Ayla after she leaves the Clan. Auel's second sequel, The Mammoth Hunters, was published in 1985. This novel deals much more with the interpersonal relationships than any technical information or physical and cultural descriptions. The Plains of Passage (1990) is the next book in the series.

Naomi Miller Stokes brings Native-American legends into the modern era in her 1996 novel, The Tree People. Jordan Tidewater, a Native-American sheriff inOregon, must solve a bizarre string of murders that seems to involve the spirit of an evil shaman buried alive one thousand years ago.

The People of Wolf and its five sequels, written by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neale Gear, trace the history of the first Americans who follow a young warrior inspired by the spirit...