El Círculo de escritores nativos de las Américas (en inglés Native Writers' Circle of the Americas, NWCA) es una organización de escritores amerindios que premia escritores nativos americanos en las tres categorías de abajo.^[1]​

Fundado en 1992 tras el Festival de Escritores Nativos "Returning the gift" con apoyo del departamento de estudios amerindios de la Universidad de Oklahoma.

• 1992 Scott Momaday (Kiowa-Cherokee)
• 1993 Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma)
• 1994 Leslie Marmon Silko (Pueblo de Laguna)
• 1995 Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek)
• 1996 Vine Deloria Jr (Standing Rock Sioux)
• 1997 James Welch (Blackfeet-Gros Ventre)
• 1998 Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
• 1999 Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
• 2000 Louise Erdrich (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
• 2001 Paula Gunn Allen (Kawaik) y Gerald Vizenor (White Earth Chippewa)
• 2002 Maurice Kenny (Mohawk)
• 2003 Geary Hobson (Cherokee-Quapaw-Chickasaw)
• 2004 Lee Francis (Kawaik)
• 2005 Carter Revard (Osage)
• 2006 Luci Tapahonso (Navajo)
• 2007 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (Crow Creek Sioux)
• 2008 Robert J. Conley (Cherokee)
• 2009 Jack D. Forbes (Powhatan Renape-Lenape)
• 2010 Sherman Alexie (Spokane-Coeur D'Alene)
• 2011 Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee)
• 2012 LeAnne Howe (Choctaw)
• 2013 Donald L. Birchfield (Choctaw-Chickasaw)
• 2014 Diane Glancy ( Cherokee)
• 2015 Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (Huron-Cherokee)
• 2016 John Trudell (Santee Dakota) y Jim Northrup (Fond du Lac Ojibwe)
• 2017 Duane Niatum (Klallam)

• 1992 Robert L. Perea (Oglala Lakota), Stacey's Story
  • Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel (Mohegan), The Lasting of the Mohegans
  • William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Assiniboine), The Star Quilter
• 1993 Philip H. Red Eagle (Sioux-Klallam), Red Earth
• 1994 Gus Palmer, Jr. (Kiowa), Calling Through the Creek
• 1995 Glenn J. Twist (Cherokee-Muscogee Creek), Boston Mountain Tales
• 1996 -
• 1997 Robert J. Perry (Chickasaw), Life With the Little People
  • D. L. Birchfield (Choctaw-Chickasaw), The Oklahoma Basic Intelligence Test
• 1998 Desert.
• 1999 Evelina Zuni Lucero (Isleta-Ohkay Owingeh), Night Sky, Morning Star
• 2000 Chip Livingston (Florida Creek), Naming Ceremony
• 2001 Valerie Red-Horse (Cherokee), Naturally Native
• 2002 Edythe S. Hobson (Arkansas Quapaw), An Inquest Every Sunday
• 2003 Susan Supernaw (Muscogee Creek-Munsee), The Power of a Name
• 2004 Kimberly G. Roppolo (Cherokee-Choctaw-Muscogee Creek), Back to the Blanket: Reading, Writing, and Resistance for American Indian Literary Critics
• 2005 Mia Heavener (Central Yup'ik), Tundra Berries
• 2006 Judy R. Smith (Quinnipiac-Mohican), Yellowbird
  • Frederick White (Haida), Welcome to the City of Rainbows
• 2007 Mary Lockwood (Malemuit Iñupiaq), Attugu Summa/Come and See What It Is
• 2008 Linda LeGarde Grover Chippewa, Bois Forte Band of Minnesota "The Road Back to Sweetgrass"
• 2009 JudyLee Oliva (Chickasaw), Te Ata and Other Plays

• 1992 Gloria Bird (Spokane), Full Moon on the Reservation
  • Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya (Yuchi-Comanxe), Leaving Holes
• 1993 Kimberly Blaeser (White Earth Chippewa), Trailing You
• 1994 Tiffany Midge (Standing Rock Sioux), Outlaws, Renegades and Saints
• 1995 Denise Sweet (White Earth Chippewa), Songs for Discharming
• 1996 Charles G. Ballard (Quapaw-Cherokee), Winter Count Poems
• 1997 Deborah A. Miranda (Costano-Esselen-Ohlone), Indian Cartography
• 1998 Jennifer K. Greene (Salish-Kootenai-Chippewa-Cree), What I Keep
• 1999 Janet McAdams (Muscogee), The Island of Lost Luggage
• 2000 Karenne Wood (Monacan), Markings on Earth
• 2001 Suzanne Rancourt (Abenaki), Billboard in the Clouds
• 2002 Renee Matthew (Koyukon), Down River From Here
  • Phillip Caroll Morgan (Choctaw-Chickasaw), The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store
• 2003 Marlon D. Sherman (Oglala Lakota), Wild Plums
• 2004 Christina M. Castro (Jemez-Taos), Silence on the Rez
  • Cathy Ruiz (Cree-Métis), Stirring up the Water
• 2005 Kim Shuck (Cherokee-Sac i Fox), Smuggling Cherokee
• 2006 Rebecca Hatcher Travis (Chickasaw), Picked Apart the Bones
• 2007 Kade L. Twist (Cherokee Nation), Amazing Grace
• 2008 Steve Russell(Cherokee Nation), "Wicked Dew"
• 2009 Rain C. Gomez (Louisiana ChoctawCriollo-Mvskogean-Métis-Celta Americano), Smoked Mullet Cornbread Memory

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