1857-1932.  Francis La Flesche was the student and adopted son of anthropologist Alice Fletcher. A Native American of the Omaha tribe, he worked with her to record Omaha culture, which both of them believed was vanishing.

He was the son of the Omaha chief Iron Eye, and the brother of Susette "Bright Eyes" La Flesche Tibbles and Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte. He accompanied Bright Eyes and the Ponca chief Standing Bear on a lecture tour of the eastern United States and Europe following the landmark trial of Standing Bear in 1879, in which U.S. District Court Judge Elmer Dundy determined that "an Indian is a person" under Federal law, with all the rights of other citizens . . .

Kathleen Lacapa was born in 1959. Kathleen and Michael Lacapa have together written children's books including Less Than Half, More Than Whole, a story about a mixed-heritage Native child learning to feel proud of his identity.

1955–2005.  Michael Lacapa, well-known author and illustrator of children's books, was also nationally recognized for his Native American storytelling. Michael's ethnic roots were Hopi, Tewa, and Apache. Growing up on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona, Michael learned from his elders the importance of “sharing yourself with others.” Michael shared himself through his artwork, books, and stories told of a long time ago. In addition, he worked as a teacher, publisher, and educational consultant, and was featured several times as the keynote speaker at storyteller conventions and festivals. Michael was a featured artist in exhibits across the Southwest, and was the recipient of numerous awards in both art and literature.

Born in Minnesota, Carole S. LaFavor  is an Ojibwe novelist, activist and nurse. She was a member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS from 1995-1997 and a foundng member of Positively Native, an organisation that supports Native American people with HIV/AIDS.[1] She was featured in Mona Smith's 1988 film Her Giveway (Women Make Movies) about her experiences as a person living with AIDS. Her two novels, Along the Journey River and Evil Dead Center were both published by Firebrand Books and her essay "Walking the Red Road" appears in the anthology Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS edited by Andrea Rudd and Darien Taylor.

1935-2001.  Archie Fire Lame Deer or Tahca Ushte was a Hollywood stuntman, a medicine man, and a lecturer of Lakota people religion and culture, travelling around the world to teach the Native American spirituality. He grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He wrote Gift of power: the life and teachings of a Lakota medicine man. The son of Lame Deer, he left the reservation at the age of fourteen and also served in the Korean War. 

Bown in 1949, Sidner Larson is a a member of the Gros Ventre tribe of Fort Belknap, Montana. A scholar and poet who works in the fields of Native American Literature, Federal Indian Law, and Multi-Cultural Studies, Larson holds a PhD from the Univ. of Arizona and a J.D. from the Univ. of Minnesota. He is currently Director of the American Indian Studies program at Iowa State University. His articles, poetry, and book reviews have been published in such publications as American Indian Quarterly, Studies In American Indian Literatures, Talking River Review, and Sail.

Joseph Laurent (Sozap Lolô), was a chief of the Indian village of St. Francis, P.Q., Canada. In 1884 he wrote New familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, in an effort to "preserve the uncultivated Abenakis language and aid the younger generation of Abenakis in learning English.  

LeBeau is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota and is the former director of Michigan State University's American Indian Studies Program.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.   LeBeau has published several articles and made many presentations on general topics of Native American history and culture, most recently a chapter in a book on Indian mascots entitled, "The Fighting Braves of Michigamua: Adopting the Visage of American Indian Warriors in the Halls of Academia." In October of 1999, his first book of poetry, Stands Alone, Faces and Other Poems, was published.

Born in 1949, Gaylen D. Lee is a Mono Indian of the Nim band, and the author of "Walking Where We Lived." Gaylen and his wife, Judy, developed the Mono Wind Nature Trail in North Fork, California.

Anna Linzer author of the novel Ghost Dancing, lives on the Suquamish Indian Reservation in Indianola, Washington.