question: Which debut novel by Native American novelist James Welch was produced by another Native American author Sherman Alexie?
answer: Winter in the Blood
context: Title: Jim Boyd (musician)
  Passage: Jim Boyd (1956 – June 22, 2016) was a Native American singer-songwriter, actor, and member of The Jim Boyd Band on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington.  Boyd has performed in several groups, including XIT, Greywolf, and Winterhawk.  Boyd sang four songs with lyrics by Sherman Alexie on the soundtrack for the 1998 movie "Smoke Signals", and also appeared in Alexie's "The Business of Fancydancing".
  Title: James Welch (writer)
  Passage: James Phillip Welch Jr. (November 18, 1940 – August 4, 2003), who grew up within the Blackfeet and A'aninin cultures of his parents, was a Native American novelist and poet, considered a founding author of the Native American Renaissance.  His novel "Fools Crow" (1986) received several national literary awards, and his debut novel "Winter in the Blood" (1974) was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2013.
  Title: Fools Crow
  Passage: Fools Crow is a 1986 novel written by Native American author James Welch.  Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of White Man's Dog (later known as Fools Crow), a young Blackfeet Indian on the verge of manhood, and his band, known as the Lone Eaters.  The invasion of white society threatens to change their traditional way of life, and they must choose to fight or assimilate.  The story is a powerful portrait of a fading way of life.  The story culminates with the historic Marias Massacre of 1870, in which the U.S. Cavalry mistakenly killed a friendly band of Blackfeet, consisting mostly of non-combatants.
  Title: Reservation Blues
  Passage: Reservation Blues is a 1995 novel by American writer Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur d'Alene).  The novel follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians from the Spokane Reservation.  In 1995, Thomas Builds-The-Fire, Junior Polatkin, and Victor Joseph, who also appear in Sherman Alexie's short story collection "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," meet American blues musician Robert Johnson.  He sold his soul to the devil in 1931 and claims to have faked his death seven years later.  The three boys start a rock and blues band in Spokane using Johnson's enchanted guitar.
  Title: Flight (novel)
  Passage: Flight is a novel written by Sherman Alexie.  It is written in the first-person, from the viewpoint of a Native American teenager who calls himself Zits, "a time traveling mass murderer."  Zits is a foster child, having spent the majority of his life moving from one negative or abusive family experience to another.  His friend, Justice, introduces Zits to a new way of thinking, and to the idea of committing random violence.  Just in the middle of one of these incidents, Zits is thrust into the body of a stranger—which would become the first of many similar incidents.  The story confronts Zits' feelings of vulnerability as a misunderstood teenager, orphan, and as a Native American person.
  Title: Winter in the Blood (film)
  Passage: Winter in the Blood (2013) is an American film written and directed by brothers Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith and produced by Native American author Sherman Alexie.  The film was based on the debut novel "Winter in the Blood" (1974) by noted author James Welch, who was a leader of the Native American renaissance in literature.
  Title: Winter in the Blood
  Passage: Winter in the Blood (1974) is the first novel by Native American author James Welch, whose parents were Blackfeet and A'aninin; he grew up on their reservations.
  Title: Greg Sarris
  Passage: Gregory Michael Sarris (born February 12, 1952) is a writer and academic.  Along with Sherman Alexie, Paula Gunn Allen, and Leslie Marmon Silko, Sarris is a notable contributor to the second wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance.
citations: Winter in the Blood (film) James Welch (writer)