Authors
General Resources
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new windowIntegrates GALE Cengage Learning reference works along with magazine and journal articles, images, videos, audio files, and website links. Search for current or historical people by name, occupation, nationality, and birth/death dates. Use the advanced search feature for further search options.
- Native Arts and Cultures FoundationThe Foundation awards national and regional fellowships to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists.
Selected Authors
- Joy Harjo (1951-) BooksPoet Laureate 2019
- Eddie Chuculate (1972- )"Writer Eddie Chuculate was honored with a 2014 NACF Artist Fellowship in Literature celebrating the gritty, deceptively simple stories he writes, portraying America, its dispossessed, its outlaws and its visionaries."
- Eddie Chuculate: "A Famous Indian Artist"Short story by Eddie Chuculate (featured in Blue Mesa Review).
- Joy Harjo (1951-)United States Poet Laureate 2019-present.
- Joy Harjo (1951- )Articles about Joy Harjo.
- Leslie Marmon Silko (1948- )Born on March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Silko is an American novelist and poet who's writing often discusses themes regarding Native American/ Anglo-American heritage.
- Louise Erdrich (1954- )"Native American writer and storyteller Louise Karen Erdrich, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota, is a celebrated author and well loved by many critics, scholars, and the general reading public."
- N. Scott Momaday (1934- )"Navarre Scott Momaday, a Kiowa novelist, poet, visual artist, and professor, came to the attention of a worldwide audience in 1969, after he became the first American Indian to win a Pulitzer Prize in fiction for House Made of Dawn."
- Sherman Alexie (1966- )Writer of poetry and short fiction, Alexie uses comedy and tragedy to reflect upon lost Indian culture.
- Simon J. Ortiz (1941- )"Simon J. Ortiz is an Acoma Pueblo writer who is recognized by scholars of Native American literature as one of the most significant voices to come out of the Native American Renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s."
- Tommy Orange (1982- )Tommy Orange is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California.
- Tommy Orange BooksPulitzer Prize finalist.
- Winona LaDuke (1959- )"Native American economist, writer, and activist Winona LaDuke (Anishinabe) is an advocate for indigenous people throughout the world, promoting indigenous control of traditional homelands."
Artists
General Resources
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new windowIntegrates GALE Cengage Learning reference works along with magazine and journal articles, images, videos, audio files, and website links. Search for current or historical people by name, occupation, nationality, and birth/death dates. Use the advanced search feature for further search options.
- Institute of American Indian ArtsThe IAIA's mission is "to empower creativity and leadership in Native Arts and cultures through higher education, life-long learning, and outreach." Their website features artists and exhibitions in their museum, as well as student resources.
Selected Artists
- Charlene Teters (1952- )Charlene Teters is "known for her activism and art, is presently a professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico."
- Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907)The first professional sculpter of African-American and Native American decent, Lewis achieved international recognition for her beautiful marble sculptures.
- Gilbert Hay (1951- )An Inuit carver and printmaker whose work is displayed across Canada.
- Jerry Ingram (1941- Present)Part of the Choctaw nation, Jerry Ingram has received awards for his achievements in the visual arts and also for his efforts to expand the understanding and appreciation of Native American culture.
- Joan Hill (1930-2020)Joan Hill is Muscogee Creek and of Cherokee heritage. Her Indigenous name is Chea-se-quah, a name that she took from her brother, William Cheasequah Hill. It means “red bird” in English.
- Lloyd "Kiva" New (1916 - 2002)Cherokee artist and educator best know for his work in fashion.
- Maria Martinez (1884 - 1980)"For more than eight decades, Maria Martinez continued and extended the centuries-old pottery traditions of San Ildefonso Pueblo in northern New Mexico. She is considered a matriarch of Native American pottery." National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Nicholas Gallanin (1979- Present)Nicholas Galanin’s (Tlingit/Unangax) work offers perspective rooted in connection to land and broad engagement with contemporary culture.
- Oscar Howe (1915-1983)Yanktonai Indian artist Oscar Howe (1915-1983) depicted Native American traditions through a modernist aesthetic painting style. He used his Dakota heritage to provide subject matter for his works.
- Postcommodity"Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary arts collective made up of Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist, and Raven Chacon. Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens" (Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice).
- Rowan D. HarrisonRowan D. Harrison (Navajo/Pueblo of Isleta) is a potter and painter. He coils and burnishes his pottery by hand. He paints his pottery free-hand using designs inspired by his cultural heritage and those of other cultures from around the world. In addition to his ceramics, Rowan also creates pen and ink drawings extrapolated from his pottery designs. His artwork has won awards at the Prescott Indian Art Market, Santa Fe Indian Market, Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts, and the Heard Museum’s Indian Fair and Market.
- Roxanne Swentzell (1962- )A Pueblo artist currently located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Swentzell creates sculptures of the human figure in clay and bronze.