Writers from South Dakota

Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem is an American politician who served as the eighth United States secretary of homeland security from 2025 to 2026. A member of the Republican Party, she served from 2019 to 2025 as the 33rd governor of South Dakota and represented South Dakota's at-large congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2019. During her tenure at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), her immigration policies generated controversies, particularly the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

American historian and politician (1922–2012)

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

American actress

American writer

Norwegian-American novelist

American writer (1933-2005)

American theatrical producer (1890-1969)

South Dakota politician (1842-1896)

American journalist (1893-1968)

American writer

science fiction writer (20th century)

United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient (1925–2013)

Lakota author

Lakota author and indigenous rights activist (1954–2013)

Native American writer and activist

novelist

American Lakota author, actor, and educator from South Dakota