Indigenous Voices

Taté Walker (they/them) is a Lokata citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and an award-winning Two Spirit storyteller. Their first full-length poetry book, The Trickster Riots, was published in 2022 by Abalone Mountain Press.

Taté, a 2022 Pushcart Prize nominee, has written, photographed, and/or edited for various outlets, including The Nation, Yellow Medicine Review, Pipe Wrench, Apartment Therapy, Everyday Feminism, Native Peoples, Indian Country Today, Subaru Drive, December, and ANMLY. They are also featured in several anthologies: Fierce: Essays by and about Dauntless Women, South Dakota in Poems, W.W. Norton’s Everyone’s an Author, Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically, and The Languages of Our Love: An Indigenous Love and Sex Anthology (forthcoming).

Taté is a co-founder of the Phoenix Two Spirit Community group, which helps organize the annual Arizona Two Spirit Powwow. They are also a longtime member of—and also serve on the board of directors for—the Oceti Sakowin Writers Society, which has a mission to mentor, empower, and promote Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota literary traditions. Taté is a 2023 Storyknife Fireweed Fellow. Taté has 20 years of experience in print/digital journalism and advocacy writing and is a trusted community builder within and for social justice and Tribal education spaces.