Yep, same Louise Erdrich. Her children's books, starting with Birchbark House, are -- more or less -- a reworking of the Little House series from the perspective of an Ojibwa girl. What I find impressive is that they aren't bitter; they have the same wholesome happiness as the Wilder books, even though they don't gloss over people dying of smallpox and been forced to leave their land. These books will actually find an audience with the exact same young readers who enjoy Wilder, I think, for many of the same reasons.