Ruth Muskrat Bronson (1897-1982) was a Cherokee author, educator, poet, and activist. She was in the class of 1925 at Mount Holyoke College, an all girls liberal arts institution in Massachusetts. She was a guidance and placement officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and later served as the executive secretary for the National Congress of American Indians, founded in 1944. 

She is the author of Indians Are People Too (Friendship Press, 1944). Muskrat Bronson died on June 12, 1982, in Tucson, Arizona.