20th-century Native American writers

American humorist and entertainer (1879–1935)

writer from the United States

Mexican film director and actor (1904-1986)

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

Oglala Lakota leader (1863–1950)

Native American activist

American author and filmmaker

author and activist

American Poet Laureate

American historian (1913–2016)

Native American physician and scouting pioneer (1858–1939)

Ojibwe co-founder of the American Indian Movement (1937-2017)

American actor and film producer (1883-1940)

American Tlingit writer and poet (1927–2017)

American writer (1933-2005)

Native American writer and anthropologist (1857-1932)

American archaeologist (1881–1955)

Yankton Dakota Author (1889–1971)

Chickasaw writer

American poet

Cherokee linguist

American writer (1869–1944)

American writer, Gwich'in people

American linguist

Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee activist, poet, writer, lecturer, and curator (born 1945)

Lakota historian and activist

American politician, Native American activist

Navaho poet laureate

American journalist

Hopi painter, silversmith, farmer, writer, and educator (1900-1986)

American author

American writer (born 1934)

Santa Clara Pueblo anthropologist and author

American politician

Lakota author and indigenous rights activist (1954–2013)

Ojibwe traditionalist, bead artist, and author from Minnesota

American Navajo writer, poet

American writer (1904-1991)

Lakota author

Haudensosaunee artist and author from New York (1889-1957)

Native American leader and scholar

American Lakota author, actor, and educator from South Dakota

American writer

Native American activist, scholar, and civil servant (1935-2023)

American academic (1934-2011)

Museum curator, anthropologist, Native American activist, A'aninin tribe

20th century Isleta Pueblo author

Sioux writer and editor (1930–2023)

Yurok author (1856-1932)

"Lost Bird", infant survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre and taken by a white family