Native American autobiographers

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

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

Native American physician and scouting pioneer (1858–1939)

Oglala Lakota writer and actor (1868-1939)

Mohegan leader and Christian minister