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Encyclopedia > List of Native American Writers

This is a list of Native American writers:: Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...

Freda Ahenakew Freda Ahenakew SOM (born 1932) is a Canadian author and academic of Cree descent. ... Florence Anthony (born 2 January 1947) is an American poet who legally changed her name to Ai. ... Sherman Alexie Sherman Joseph Alexie, Jr. ... William Apess William Apess (1798–1839) was a Native American writer, preacher and politician of the Pequot tribe. ... Joanne Arnott (born December 16, 1960, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian Métis writer. ... Pitseolak Ashoona, CM (1904 or 1907 - 1983;Inuktitut syllabics:ᐱᑦᓯᐅᓛᖅ ᐊᓲᓇ) was an Inuit Canadian artist admired for the unpretentious authenticity in her works. ... Marilou Awiakta is a Native American author of the Cherokee tribe. ... Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American writer. ... Elias Boudinot Elias Boudinot (1800–1839) was a Cherokee Indian who started and edited the tribes first newspaper. ... Ignatia Broker (1919-1987) was an Ojibway writer and community leader from Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Chrystos, a Menominee poet, was born on 10th December 1946 in San Franciso, CA. A Lesbian and Two-Spirit identified writer, she is the author of the following books: Press Gang: Vancouver, 1995. ... Photo of Ward Churchill from University of Colorado faculty web page Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer, political activist, and academic. ... Ella Cara Deloria (1888–1971), also called Anpetu Waste Win (Beautiful Day Woman), was an educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist of Yankton Sioux background. ... Vine Deloria, Jr. ... Michael Dorris (January 30, 1945 - April 10, 1997) was a prominent Native American author who committed suicide. ... Qwo-Li Driskill is a Cherokee Two-Spirit and Homosexual poet, activist, and educator also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage ancestries. ... Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux: Ohiyesa, February 19, 1858 - January 8, 1939) was a Native American author, physician and reformer. ... Karen Louise Erdrich (born June 7, 1954) is a Native American (Chippewa) author of novels, poetry, and childrens books. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Janice Gould is a Koyangkauwi Maidu writer and scholar. ... William Least Heat-Moon (born William Trogdon in Kansas City, Missouri in 1940) is an American travel writer of English, Irish and Osage Nation ancestry. ... Tomson Highway Tomson Highway, CM (born December 6, 1951) is a Cree playwright, novelist, and childrens author from Brochet, Manitoba. ... Linda Hogan (born 1947) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories. ... LeAnne Howe is an author and scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ... The Honourable Rita Joe (born 1932) is a Mikmaq-Canadian poet and song writer, called the Poet Laureate of the Mikmaq people. ... Emily Pauline Johnson (March 10, 1861 - March 7, 1913) was a Canadian poetess. ... Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of noir fiction. ... Daniel Heath Justice is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History (University of Minnesota Press) and KYNSHIP: The Way of Thorn and Thunder (Kegedonce Press). ... Promotional shot for the Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour radio program, showing stars Tom King, Edna Rain (as Gracie), and Floyd Favel Starr (as Jasper) in front of the CBC microphone. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Carole LaFavor is an Ojibwe novelist, activist, nurse, and mother. ... Lee Maracle (born 1950) is a Canadian Aboriginal poet and author from the Squamish Nation. ... Janet McAdams is an Alabama Creek/Scottish/Irish poet and the author of The Island of Lost Luggage (University of Arizona Press) which received an American Book Award in 2001. ... Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchú (born in Chimel, Guatemala, January 9, 1959) is a member of the indigenous Quiché Maya group, subject of the widely-read but controversial testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983). ... Deborah A. Miranda is a mixed-blood Esselen/Chumash/French Jewish poet and scholar and the author of The Zen of La Llorona (Salt Publishing) and Indian Cartography (Greenfield Review Press). ... N. Scott Momaday - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... Daniel David Moses (born 1952) at Ohsweken, Ontario, and raised on a farm on the Six Nations lands along the Grand River. ... Wilhelm Murg (born 1961) is an Osage and Cherokee journalist, critic, fiction writer and editor. ... Carter Revard (born 1931) is an Osage poet, writer and scholar. ... Eden Robinson (born 1968 in Kitamaat, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer. ... William Sanders is a statistician at the University of Tennessee who discovered how to measure a teacher’s effect on student performance by tracking the progress of students against themselves over the course of their school career with their assignment to various teachers classes. ... Leslie Marmon Silko (born March 5, 1948) in Albuquerque, New Mexico is a Native American writer of Pueblo Laguna, Mexican, and white descent. ... Luci Tapahonso (born 1953) is a Navajo (Diné) poet and lecturer in Native American Studies. ... Drew Hayden Taylor Drew Hayden Taylor (born 1962 in Curve Lake, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and journalist. ... Richard Twiss Picture used by permission of Wiconi International Richard Twiss, a member of the Rosebud Lakota/Sioux Tribe. ... E. Donald Two-Rivers (sometimes known as Donald Two-River) is Anishinaabe (the correct term for people from the Native American tribe also known as the Ojibwa/Chippewa). ... Gerald Vizenor (born 1934) is a Native American (Chippewa) writer. ... James Welch (1940–August 4, 2003) born in Browning, Montana was an award winning author and poet. ... Sarah Winnemucca (NSHC statue) Sarah Winnemucca (born Thocmentony, Paiute: Shell Flower) (ca. ... Ray Young (born 1950) is a Native American poet (Meskwaki) from Marshalltown. ... Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (February 22, 1876 - January 26, 1938), better known under her pen name, Zitkala-Sa (Sioux: pronounced zitkala-ša, Red Bird), was a Native American writer and political activist. ...

External Links

  • Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
  • Associated Press/CNN.com: Reading into Native American Writers

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Most often, the term Native American may be construed to either include or exclude the Métis of Canada and the Mestizos and Zambos of Latin America.
Native Americans make up the majority of the population in Bolivia and Peru, and are a significant element in most other former Spanish colonies.
In the American Southwest, especially New Mexico, a syncretism between the Catholicism brought by Spanish missionaries and the native religion is common; the religious drums, chants, and dances of the Pueblo people are regularly part of Masses at Santa Fe's Saint Francis Cathedral.
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