21st-century Native American women writers

writer from the United States

author and activist

American Poet Laureate

American environmentalist

American Tlingit writer and poet (1927–2017)

Mojave poet, writer and basketball player

Chickasaw writer

Lakota historian and activist

American writer, Gwich'in people

American politician

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

American linguist

American author

American writer and poet

Navaho poet laureate

American journalist

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

Lakota author

American actor-singer

American Navajo writer, poet

American politician

20th century Isleta Pueblo author

Native American leader and scholar

Sioux writer and editor (1930–2023)

Indigenous studies scholar

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