21st-century Native American writers

writer from the United States

Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native American people (1939-2012)

Native American activist

American author and filmmaker

author and activist

American Poet Laureate

American astronaut

American atheist activist

American environmentalist

American Tlingit writer and poet (1927–2017)

Mexican poet, writer and politician (1906-2008)

American writer

Mojave poet, writer and basketball player

Chickasaw writer

American writer

Cheyenne poet

Native American author and English professor

Cherokee linguist

American politician

American writer, Gwich'in people

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

American linguist

Diné (Navajo) painter and printmaker (1931–2005)

Lakota historian and activist

Native American anthropologist, Medicine Woman, author (1899–2005)

American writer and poet

Navaho poet laureate

American author

American journalist

American writer (born 1934)

Luiseño-Mexican-American performance and installation artist from the La Jolla Indian Reservation in California. (1950–2018)

American actor-singer

American writer and veteran from World War II and the Korean War

Lakota author

American writer

American Navajo writer, poet

American politician

Native American activist

American Lakota author, actor, and educator from South Dakota

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

American writer

Indigenous studies scholar

American Oglala Lakota journalist (1934–2022)

20th century Isleta Pueblo author

linguist

Native American leader and scholar

Sioux writer and editor (1930–2023)

indigenous researcher, activist and journalist who lectures on American Indian studies at California State University San Marcos and is a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes