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The purpose of this study is to analyze the intensity of emotional affect, such as Native Americans’ anger, frustration, loss, sadness, and their anxiety related to ethnic extinction, caused by the history of invasion of white people in Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles and Louise Erdrich’s The Master Butchers Singing Club. Through their works, Vizenor and Erdrich directly or indirectly reveal the history of invasion by white people, deplore the decline of Native American culture and tradition, and present the psychological confusion and loss through the body memory of modern Native Americans more powerfully than any other writers. For the survival of their people in contemporary America, Native American writers such as Vizenor and Erdrich seek to create a cultural identity at the individual level and a dynamic national tradition at the collective level by subjectively and actively accepting the new and heterogeneous white culture based on their own ethnic traditions. However, there is a difference between Vizenor and Erdric in their attitudes toward responding to the realistic dilemma of whether to unconditionally resist white culture or compromise for survival. Vizenor emphasizes change more actively and creates a dynamic national culture through mutual exchange with heterogeneous white cultures. On the other hand, Erdric first demands to uncover the historical truth in the relationship between whites and Native Americans. She demands correct ethical and political judgment about distorted and buried history. She strongly calls for the restoration of Native American human rights based on justice. However, the national tradition that these two authors are trying to restore and maintain for healing is not a historical restoration of a pure culture that rejects white culture and returns to pre-colonial Native American culture, so what they pursue through literature is the same. In conclusion, this paper asserts that the works of Vizenor and Erdrich explore the possibility of convergence through negotiation and mediation between two heterogeneous cultures to heal their past suffering and ensure their future survival.