Gerald Vizenor (born 1934) is a Native American (Chippewa) writer. He calls himself "post-Indian" and has stated that he has more in common with the French than with many other Native Americans:
- "For instance, is it any surprise that I could say to an interpreter of my work that I have more in common with the French than I do with the Lakota?"
- (quoted after Hartwig Isernhagen. 1999. Momaday, Vizenor, Armstrong. Conversations on American Indian Writing. University of Oklahoma Press, p. 86)
- "America embraces romantically not the _absence_ of real people, but the _simulated_ spiritual presence of the Indian om a kind of new age movement."
- (quoted after ibid. p. 83)