The Arrow Maker is a play by Mary Hunter Austin meant to reflect American Indian life, especially of the Paiutes, in the Sierra Nevada of the United States.

Its notes and glossary revealed Austin's desire to make The Arrow Maker an archaeologically correct representation of the Native Americans as known to her.

[3][4] From 1921 through 1930 The Arrow Maker was staged outdoors as one of three "Desert Plays" in Tahquitz Canyon near Palm Springs, California.

[5] The central character in the drama, The Chisera, is a Medicine Woman of the Paiutes — who, in communion with the gods, is supposed to be as one removed from human passion.

Apart from its archaeological faithfulness, The Arrow Maker is a dignified attempt to write an American Indian drama.