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31 Native American Authors to Read Right Now
Billy-Ray Belcourt
At just 23 years old, Belcourt won the Griffin Prize for Poetry for his book This Wound is a World, and was Canada's first First Nations Rhodes Scholar. So, yeah: Belcourt, a member of the Driftpile Cree Nation, is impressive. He writes about the intersection of queerness and Indigenous life in poems and essays.
Start With: A History of My Brief Body, Belcourt's 2020 collection of essays. In O's review, we wrote, "Out of the 'ruins of the museum of political depression' springs a 'tomorrow free of the rhetorical trickery of colonizers everywhere.' Happiness, this beautiful book says, is the ultimate act of resistance."
Vine Deloria, Jr.
A member of the Standing Rock Sioux (Lakota) nation, Vine Deloria, Jr. was called one of the most important people in Native American affairs, per his New York Times obituary. His background in law and theology informed his books, which promoted a greater understanding of Native American cultures, religions, and how they interacted with settlers' philosophies.
Start With:Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, which provided the intellectual basis for protests in the '60s and '70s, as well as Deloria's other illuminating te
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Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2024 Frost Medal, Yale's 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.
The author of ten books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years, several plays, children's books, and non-fiction works, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Harjo delivered the 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale, part of the virtual Windham-Campbell Prize Festival that year. That lecture was the basis for Catching the Light, published in 2022 by Yale University Press in the Why I Write series.
Her beloved poem, Remember, was illustrated as a children's book by Michaela Goade and received a 2024 American Indian Youth Literature Honor Award by the American Indian Library Association.
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