Louise Erdrich
Award-winning American novelist
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Virginia Salazar-Halfmoon
US National Park Service curator
Josephine Tauoa
A native of Fagaitua, American Samoa, and a Master of Science in Management graduate from Excelsior College, Master Chief Josephine Tauoa enlisted in the U.S. Navy in July 1996 as a Machinist Mate.
Mary Peltola
US Representative from Alaska
Yvette Herrell
US Representative from New Mexico
Kimberlyn King-Hinds
US Congressional Delegate from the Northern Mariana Islands
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
Congressional Delegate from American Samoa
Anna Lapera
A Pushcart Prize nominee, she teaches middle school by day and writes stories about spunky kids stepping into their power in the early hours of the morning.
Angeline Boulley
Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Anna Pike Rosler
In her youth, Anna ventured to the San Juan Islands every summer to fish and hunt with her Alaskan Native family. During one of these visits, she met her future husband, Christopher Rosler, a German immigrant who was a soldier in the U.S. Army stationed at American Camp. They married in 1861 when Anna was fifteen years old. Together, they homesteaded and raised nine children on 160 acres, some of which is now part of San Juan Island National Historical Park.