Vine Deloria (1933–2005)

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1. Vine Deloria

   Author of Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, American Indians, American Justice

2. Ward Churchill

   Author of A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present, Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement (South End, Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Colonization

3. Peter Matthiessen

   Author of In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Indian Country

4. Sherman Alexie

   Author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The Toughest Indian in the World, Indian Killer

5. Peter Nabokov

   Author of Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, A Forest of Time: American Indian Ways of History

6. Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr.

   Author of The White Man's Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present

7. Dee Alexander Brown

   Author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

8. Joseph Epes Brown

   Author of The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Civilization of the American Indian Series), Teaching Spirits: Understanding Native American Religious Traditions

9. Philip J. Deloria

   Author of Playing Indian, Indians in Unexpected Places (Cultureamerica)

10. John G. Neihardt

    Author of Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

11. Winona LaDuke

    Author of All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life, Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

12. John (Fire) Lame Deer

    Author of Lame Deer, seeker of visions

13. Leonard Peltier

    Author of Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance

14. Mary Crow Dog

    Author of Lakota Woman

15. Frank Joseph Waters

    Author of The Book of the Hopi, Masked Gods: Navaho & Pueblo Ceremonialism

16. Mari Sandoz

    Author of Crazy Horse, the strange man of the Oglalas: a biography

17. Jack Weatherford

    Author of Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World, Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America

18. Stan Steiner

    Author of The New Indians, The Vanishing White Man

19. T. C. McLuhan

    Author of Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence

20. Russell Means

    Author of Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means