Native American & Indigenous Authors

An extremely incomplete list of Native American & Indigenous authors because I need one. Updated periodically.

I’m going to have to make this into a spreadsheet at some point.

Useful Link? https://ailanet.org/resources/

Useful Link? https://bookriot.com/tag/indigenous-authors/

Useful Link? https://www.culturalsurvival.org/

1. Angeline Boulley—Ojibwe, Sioux Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
   • Firekeeper’s Daughter
   • Warrior Girl Unearthed
2. Toni Jensen—Métis
   • Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
3. Kelli Jo Ford—Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
   • Crooked Hallelujah
4. Louise Erdich—Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
   • So many books, a few include:
     • The Round House
     • The Birchbark House
     • The Beet Queen
     • Antelope Woman
     • The Mighty Red
5. Noé Alvarez—Purépecha
   • Spririt Run
6. Joy Harjo—Muscogee Creek Nation
   • Remember
   • For A Girl Becoming
   • Poet Warrior
   • Living Nations, Living Words
7. Darcie Little Badger—Lipan Apache
   • Elatsoe
   • A Snake Falls to Earth
   • Beyond the Glittering World
8. Melissa Llanes Brownlee—Hawai’ian
   • Bitter Over Sweet
   • Hard Skin
9. Nick Medina—Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana
   • Sisters of the Lost Nation
   • Indian Burial Ground
   • The Whistler
10. B. L. Blanchard—Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
    • The Peace Keeper
    • The Mother
11. Harlyn Geronimo—Apache (Bedonkohe?)
    • In Geronimo’s Footsteps
12. Morgan Talty—Penobscot Indian Nation
    • Fire Exit
    • Night of the Living Rez
13. Stephen Graham Jones—Blackfeet Nation
    • The Only Good Indian
    • My Heart is a Chainsaw
    • Buffalo Hunter Hunter
14. Danica Nava—Chickasaw Nation
    • The Truth According to Ember
    • Love is a War Song
15. Sherman Alexie—Spokane Tribe of the Spokane Reservation
    • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
    • The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
    • Indian Killer
16. Xelena González—Tap Pilam Coahuitecan Nation
    • Remembering
    • Where Wonder Grows
    • All Around Us
17. Cynthia Leitich Smith—Muscogee Creek Nation
    • Hearts Unbroken
    • Ancestor Approved
    • Jingle Dancer
18. David Treuer—Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation
    • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
    • Rez Life
    • The Hiawatha
19. Leslie Marmon Silko—Laguna Pueblo
    • Ceremony
    • Yellow Woman
    • The Turquoise Ledge
20. Marcie Rendon—White Earth Band of Minnesota Chippewa
    • Murder on the Red River
    • Where They Last Saw Her
    • Broken Fields
21. Joshua Whitehead—Oji-Cree, Peguis First Nation in Manitoba
    • Jonny Appleseed
    • Full-metal Indigiqueer: Poems
    • Making Love with the Land
22. Cherie Dimaline—Georgian Bay Métis
    • The Marrow Thieves
    • Empire of the Wild
    • Funeral Songs for Dying Girls
    • VenCo
23. Eden Robinson—Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations
    • Son of a Trickster
    • Monkey Beach
    • Traplines
24. Jessica Jones—Nêhiyaw (Cree), Sucker Creek First Nation
    • Bad Cree
25. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg
    • Noopiming
    • Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead
26. Billy-Ray Belcourt—Driftpile Cree Nation
    • A History of My Body
    • This Wound is a World
27. Ernestine Hayes—Tlingit
    • The Tao of Raven
    • Blonde Indian
28. Robin Wall Kimmerer—Citizen Potawatomi Nation
    • Braiding Sweetgrass
    • Gathering Moss
29. Tommy Pico—Kumeyaay
    • Nature Poem
    • IRL
    • Junk
30. Tomson Highway—Cree,
    • Kiss of the Fur Queen
    • Permanent Astonishment
31. Diane Wilson—Dakota
    • The Seed Sisters
    • An Unreasonable Woman
    • Beloved Child
32. N. Scott Momaday—Kiowa
    • House Made of Dawn
33. Richard Wagamese—Ojibwe, Wabaseemoong Independent Nations
    • For Joshua
    • Indian Horse
    • One Drum
34. Natalie Diaz—Akimel O’odham, Gila River Indian Community
    • Postcolonial Love Poem
    • When My Brother Was an Aztec
35. Joseph Bruchac—Nulhegan Abenaki
    • Peacemaker
    • Dawn Land
    • Rez Dogs
36. Shane Hawk—Cheyenne-Arapaho, Hidatsa, Potawatomi
    • Never Whistle at Night
37. Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.—Mackinac Bands of Chippewa, Ottawa
    • Never Whistle at Night
38. Brandon Hopson—Cherokee
    • The Storyteller
39. Stacie Shannon Denetsosie—Diné
    • The Missing Morning Star
40. Erika T. Wurth—Apache, Chickasaw, Cherokee
    • White Horse
41. Brenden Shay Basham—Diné
    • Swim Home to the Vanished
42. Moniquill Blackgoose—Seaconke Wampanoag
    • To Shape a Dragon’s Breath
43. Ned Blackhawk—Te-Moak
    • The Rediscovery of America
44. Mona Susan Power—Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta)
    • A Council of Dolls
    • The Grass Dancer
    • Roofwalker
    • Sacred Wilderness
45. Megan Kamalei Kakimoto—Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian)
    • Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare
46. Kawai Strong Washburn—Kānaka Maoli (Hawai’ian)
    • Sharks in the Time of Saviors
47. Debra Magpie Earling—Bitteroot Salish
    • Perma Red
    • The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
48. Mary Ann Jacobs—Lumbee
    • Upon Her Shoulders: Southeastern Native Women Share Their Stories of Justice, Spirit, and Community
49. Lara A. Jacobs—Muscogee
    • Indigenous Critical Reflections on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
50. Malinda Maynor Lowery—Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
    • The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle
51. Rebecca Nagle—Cherokee
    • By the Fire We Carry