1918-1994.  Mary Tall Mountain was born in Nulato, Alaska, one hundred miles south of the Artic Circle. Tall Mountain lost her mother at an early age, in addition to her brother, and step parents. Tall Mountain's career included legal secretary work in Reno, Nevada where she developed a strong interest in the Roman Catholic religion. Tall Mountain incorporated her Christian faith, Native spirituality and Athabascan heritage into her writings. A foundation called the TallMountain Circle oversees the annual TallMountain Awards and works to preserve and distribute her work.  Her first published book, There Is No Word for Goodbye (1981), won the Pushcart Prize.

Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibway from Ontario’s Curve Lake Reserve. An award-winning playwright, columnist and comedy-sketch creator, he is widely known for his thoughtful and sharply witty observations on Aboriginal subjects and issues. He lives in Toronto.

Dovie Thomason is a Lakota/Kiowa Apache storyteller and cultural educator. She has been a guest artist at the North American Native Writers Conference at the University of Oklahoma and took part in a project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Utah Arts Council to develop Native American cultural education. Ms. Thomason has been a trainer and lecturer at Yale University and the American Museum of Natural History. She has also been named Master Teaching Artist of a traditional cultural art by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

Born in 1856, Lucy Thompson was a Klamath River Yurok woman from Northern California who became concerned that the Yurok traditions were in danger of disappearing. In 1916 she wrote and published To the American Indian as a way of preserving Yurok history and traditions.

 A member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico, Dr. Veronica E. Velarde Tiller is firmly established as a noted historian and  is recognized internationally as a contemporary authority on modern-day life of Native American tribes. As owner and CEO of Tiller Research Incorporated, she has served as a research consultant for tribes and tribal organizations both in the United States and Canada and has written several books and articles about Native American issues.

Laura Tohe was born in 1952 in Fort Defiance, Arizona, of the Sleepy Rock People for the Bitterwater Clan. Tohe was raised on the reservation. She was taught to speak English and Navajo at home and was raised to value her heritage. She is committed to its preservation through her work. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of New Mexico, an M.A. in English from the University of Nebraska, and a Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska. She currently serves as an Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year (Poetry) award, 1999 (for No Parole Today).

Author of Man Spirit, Ted Tomeo-Palmanteer writes fiction and poetry addressing the difficulties faced by Native people in the modern world.

Raised in Arizona, Clifford Trafzer was born to parents of Wyandot Indian and German-English blood. He earned a B.A. and M.A. in history at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, where he also worked as an archivist for Special Collections. He earned a Ph.D. in American History in 1973 with a specialty in American Indian History and the same year became a museum curator for the Arizona Historical Society. Before joining the faculty of the University of California, Riverside in 1991, Trafzer taught at Diné College (Navajo Community College), Washington State University and San Diego State University. Trafzer\'s research focuses on Native American history and culture. His Kit Carson Campaign: The Last Great Navajo War and Yuma: Frontier Crossing of the Far Southwest were published in 1981. His co- authored work, Renegade Tribe: The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest appeared in 1986, winning a Washington Governor\'s Award that year. In 1994 he won the Penn Oakland Award for Earth Song, Sky Spirit. His works include Grandmother, Grandfather, and Old Wolf: Tamánwit Ku Súdat and Traditional Native American Stories From the Columbia Plateau, Death Stalks the Yakama: A Social-Cultural History of Death on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964, and Exterminate Them! Clifford Trafzer is Director of American Indian Studies at University of California, Riverside. He received the Wordcraft 1996- 1997 Prose Writer of the Year Award and serves as Series Senior Editor for Michigan State University Press\'s Native American Series.

Haunani-Kay Trask is descended of the Pi'ilani line of Maui and the Kahakumakaliua line of Kaua'i. She is a Hawaiian nationalist, a professor of Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawai'i, and an author of scholarly and literary works. Her books include political theory, Eros and Power (I986), a collection of essays, From a Native Daughter (I993), and a book of poetry, Light in the Crevice Never Seen, forthcoming from Calyx Books, 1994.