List of Native Americans Of The United States (337 items)report

• Elsie Allen, Cloverdale Pomo basketweaver (Artists)

• Marcus Amerman, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma multimedia artist (Artists)

• Annie Antone, Tohono O'odham basketweaver (Artists)

• Spencer Asah, Kiowa artist (Artists)

• James Auchiah, Kiowa artist (Artists)

• Martha Berry, Cherokee Nation beadwork artist (Artists)

• Kelly Church, (Pottawatomi/Odawa/Ojibwe) basket maker, painter, and educator (Artists)

• Amanda Crowe, Eastern Band Cherokee woodcarver and educator (Artists)

• Dennis Cusick, Tuscarora painter, ca. 1800–1824 (Artists)

• L. Frank, (Tongva, Ajachmem) Indian artist, tribal scholar, writer and activist (Artists)

• Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux quillworker and beadwork artist (Artists)

• Edmonia Lewis, African-American/Mississauga Ojibwe-descendent sculptor (Artists)

• Litefoot, Cherokee Nation actor, hip hop artist (Artists)

• María Martínez, San Ildefonso Pueblo potter (Artists)

• Nampeyo, Hopi-Tewa potter (Artists)

• Nora Naranjo-Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo artist (Artists)

• Jeri Redcorn, Caddo-Potawatomi potter, b. ca. 1940 (Artists)

• Lawney Reyes, Confederated Colville Tribes (Sinixt) artist, author, and curator (Artists)

• Carol Lee Sanchez, Laguna Pueblo author and artist (Artists)

• Gail Tremblay, Micmac-Onondaga artist (Artists)

• Ahaya (ca. 1710 – 1783), first recorded chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. (Chiefs)

• Attakullakulla, Cherokee chief (Chiefs)

• Awashonks, Sakonnet 17th century female chief (Chiefs)

• Bill John Baker, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (Chiefs)

• Black Hawk, Sauk chief (Chiefs)

• Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief (Chiefs)

• Andrew Blackbird, Odawa leader, historian, and author (Chiefs)

• Kimberly M. Blaeser, (Chippewa, Anishinaabe) author and poet (Chiefs)

• Elias Boudinot, Cherokee leader, journalist and publisher (Chiefs)

• Billy Bowlegs, Seminole chief (Chiefs)

• Joseph Brant, Mohawk leader (Chiefs)

• Dragging Canoe, Cherokee war chief (Chiefs)

• Canonicus, Narragansett chief (Chiefs)

• Cochise, Chiricahua Apache chief (Chiefs)

• Colorow, Ute chief (Chiefs)

• Cornplanter, Seneca chief and diplomat (Chiefs)

• Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota chief (Chiefs)

• Chief Gall, (Hunkpapa Lakota) chief (Chiefs)

• Logan Fontenelle, Omaha chief and interpreter (Chiefs)

• Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache leader (Chiefs)

• Captain Jack, Modoc chief (Chiefs)

• Red Jacket, Seneca Nation chief (Chiefs)

• Overton James, Chickasaw, educator, former Governor of the Chickasaw Nation (Chiefs)

• Chief Joseph, Nez Percé chief and humanitarian (Chiefs)

• Juanillo, chief of the Guale Nchiefdom. (Chiefs)

• Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, first female chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, also a publisher (Chiefs)

• Hiawatha, Onondaga-Mohawk chief was credited as the founder of the Iroquois confederacy (Chiefs)

• John Horse, African-American leader of the Black Seminole. (Chiefs)

• David Hill (Mohawk), Mohawk chief during the American Revolution (Chiefs)

• Keokuk, (Sac, Fox) chief (Chiefs)

• Little Turkey was First Beloved Man of the Cherokee people, becoming the first Principal Chief of a united Cherokee Nation in 1794. (Chiefs)

• Little Turtle, Miami chief (Chiefs)

• Lone Wolf the Elder, Kiowa chief (Chiefs)

• Lone Wolf the Younger, Kiowa leader (Chiefs)

• Major Ridge, Cherokee chief, led Lighthorse Patrol and signed the Treaty of New Echota. (Chiefs)

• Mangas Coloradas, Apache chief (Chiefs)

• Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee Nation chief (Chiefs)

• Manuelito, Navajo chief, diplomat, and warrior. (Chiefs)

• Massasoit, Wampanoag chief (Chiefs)

• Alexander McGillivray, Muscogee Creek Nation chief (Chiefs)

• William McIntosh, Muscogee Creek Nation chief (Chiefs)

• Peter McQueen, Muscogee Creek Nation chief, prophet, trader and warrior from Talisi (Tallassee, among the Upper Towns in present-day Alabama). (Chiefs)

• Metacomet, Wampanoag chief (Chiefs)

• Miantonomo, Narragansett chief (Chiefs)

• Olotoraca (1548–1573), subchief of a tribe of Fort San Mateo, Florida. (Chiefs)

• Oratam, sachem of the Hackensack Indians (Chiefs)

• Osceola, Seminole leader (Chiefs)

• Chief Oshkosh, Menominee leader (Chiefs)

• Chief Ouray, Ute Tribe leader (Chiefs)

• Opechancanough, Pamunkey chief (Chiefs)

• Quanah Parker, Comanche chief (Chiefs)

• Pawhuska, Osage Chief (Chiefs)

• Powhatan, Pamunkey chief (Chiefs)

• Chief Pontiac, Odawa chief (Chiefs)

• Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota chief (Chiefs)

• Chief G. Anne Richardson (Chief of the Rappahannock tribe - first female chief in Virginia since the 18th century) (Chiefs)

• Qualchan, 19th-century Yakama chief (Chiefs)

• John Ross, Cherokee chief (Chiefs)

• Juan Sabeata, Jumano chief (Chiefs)

• Greg Sarris, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria tribal chairman, author, and professor (Chiefs)

• Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota chief (Chiefs)

• Chad Smith, former Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation (Chiefs)

• Samoset (1590–1653), first indigenous American chief to contact the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts (March 16, 1621) (Chiefs)

• Smohalla, Wanapum chief and religious leader (Chiefs)

• Saturiwa, chief of the Saturiwa (a Mocama tribe of Timucua people, located in St. Johns River in Florida), during the 16th century (Chiefs)

• Chief Seattle, Suquamish leader (Chiefs)

• Standing Bear, Ponca chief (Chiefs)

• Touch the Clouds, (Mahpia Icahtagya), Teton Lakota chief (Chiefs)

• Tuskaloosa - paramount chief of a Mississippian chiefdom in Alabama (Chiefs)

• Uncas, Mohegan chief (Chiefs)

• Victorio, Chiricahua Apache chief (Chiefs)

• Weetamoo, Pocasset, 17th century female chief (Chiefs)

• White Plume, Kaw chief (Chiefs)

• Yellow Bird, Walla Walla chief (Chiefs)

• William Weatherford, Muscogee Creek chief (Chiefs)

• White Hair (Pawhuska), the name of several Osage chiefs. (Chiefs)

• Chainbreaker, Seneca war chief (Warriors and military)

• Roy Benavidez, (Yaqui), Decorated U.S. Army Master sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient. (Warriors and military)

• Running Eagle, (Blackfoot), heroic Native American Woman (Warriors and military)

• Ira Hayes, (Pima) one of five Marines, along with a United States Navy corpsman, immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima. (Warriors and military)

• Clayton J. Lonetree, Winnebago-Navajo U.S. Marine and convicted KGB spy (Warriors and military)

• Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr., highly decorated WWII United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne Division (Warriors and military)

• Ely S. Parker, (Seneca) U.S. Army Brigadier General (Warriors and military)

• Lori Piestewa, Hopi veteran, died in the 2003 invasion of Iraq (Warriors and military)

• Popé, Ohkay Owingeh religious and military leader (Warriors and military)

• Sonuk Mikko, Seminole, Captain in the Indian Home Guard during the American Civil War often referred to as Billy Bowlegs (Warriors and military)

• Tecumseh, Shawnee warrior and statesman (Warriors and military)

• William Clyde Thompson, Texas Choctaw leader who fought against the Dawes Commission for Choctaw enrollment. (Warriors and military)

• Luis Tupatu, Pueblo leader of the northern pueblos following the Pueblo revolt (Warriors and military)

• Nancy Ward, Cherokee warrior, diplomat, and "Beloved Woman" (Warriors and military)

• Washakie, Shoshone warrior, diplomat, chief, leader (Warriors and military)

• Stand Watie, Cherokee leader and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (Warriors and military)

• John Watts (also known as Young Tassel), a leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") during the Cherokee-American wars (Warriors and military)

• Dragging Canoe, Cherokee war chief (Warriors and military)

• Pushmataha, Choctaw chief and U.S. Army Brigadier General (Warriors and military)

• Bill Anoatubby, (Chickasaw Nation), Governor of the Chicksaw Nation since 1987 (Politicians)

• Diane E. Benson, (Tlingit) politician, inspirational speaker, poet and author (Politicians)

• Lisa Johnson Billy, Chickasaw Nation, Oklahoma State Legislator and Chickasaw Tribal Legislator (Politicians)

• Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne chief, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and silversmith (Politicians)

• Brad Carson, Cherokee Nation, former Democratic U.S. congressman from Oklahoma (Politicians)

• Holmes Colbert, Chickasaw government official (Politicians)

• Tom Cole, Chickasaw Nation Congressman from Oklahoma (Politicians)

• Charles Curtis, (Kaw, Osage, Potawatomi) U.S. Senator and 31st Vice President of the United States (Politicians)

• Sharice Davids, Ho-Chunk U.S. Representative from Kansas (Politicians)

• Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo U.S. Representative from New Mexico (Politicians)

• Enoch Kelly Haney (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma), tribal leader, Oklahoma state legislator, and artist (Politicians)

• Keith Harper, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, U.S. representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva (Politicians)

• Larry Echo Hawk, Pawnee Nation, former Democratic Attorney General of Idaho and current United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs (Politicians)

• Chuck Hoskin Cherokee Nation, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 6th district (Politicians)

• Byron Mallott, former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (Politicians)

• David T. McCoy, Turtle Mountain Chippewa state politician and attorney (Politicians)

• Ben Reifel, Brulé Lakota activist and U.S. representative from South Dakota (Politicians)

• Kimberly Teehee, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Democratic White House Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs (Politicians)

• James Vann, Cherokee businessman and politician (Politicians)

• Peterson Zah, Navajo politician (Politicians)

• Andi Clifford, Arapaho from Wyoming (Politicians)

• William Apess, (Pequot) Methodist minister (Religious leaders)

• Black Elk, Oglala Lakota religious leader (Religious leaders)

• Delaware Prophet, (Lenni Lenape) religious leader (Religious leaders)

• Handsome Lake, Seneca religious leader (Religious leaders)

• St. David Pendleton Oakerhater, Southern Cheyenne warrior, artist, deacon, and saint in the Episcopal church (Religious leaders)

• Samson Occom, Mohegan clergyman (Religious leaders)

• Kateri Tekakwitha, Mohawk-Algonquian convert, canonized saint in the Roman Catholic Church (Religious leaders)

• Tenskwatawa, Shawnee religious leader (Religious leaders)

• George Tinker, Osage Nation theologian (Religious leaders)

• Wovoka, Paiute religious leader and founder of the Ghost Dance religion (Religious leaders)

• Peter the Aleut, An Alaska Native also known as Cungagnaq. He is venerated as a martyr and saint by some jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church. (Religious leaders)

• Ai, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche-descent poet (Novelists and poets)

• Richard Aitson, Kiowa-Kiowa Apache bead artist and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Sherman Alexie, (Spokane, Coeur d'Alene) novelist and comedian (Novelists and poets)

• Paula Gunn Allen, (Laguna Pueblo, Sioux) poet, literary critic, activist, and novelist (Novelists and poets)

• Marilou Awiakta, Eastern Band Cherokee author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Jimmy Santiago Baca, Apache-descent author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Jim Barnes, Choctaw editor, author, poet and founder of the Chariton Review Press (Novelists and poets)

• Betty Louise Bell, Cherokee-descent novelist and editor (Novelists and poets)

• Sherwin Bitsui, Navajo poet (Novelists and poets)

• Ignatia Broker, Ojibway author (Novelists and poets)

• Joseph Bruchac, Abenaki author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Chrystos, Menominee-descent activist and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Crow Creek Sioux author, poet, editor, and co-founder of the Wicazo Sa Review (Novelists and poets)

• David Cusick, Tuscarora illustrator and author, ca.1780–ca.1831 (Novelists and poets)

• Nora Marks Dauenhauer, (Tlingit) author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Ella Cara Deloria, (Yankton Dakota) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist (Novelists and poets)

• Natalie Diaz, (Mojave) poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator (Novelists and poets)

• Michael Dorris, Modoc writer (Novelists and poets)

• Louise Erdrich, Turtle Mountain Ojibwe writer and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Jewelle Gomez, (Ioway-descent) writer (Novelists and poets)

• Janice Gould, (Maidu) writer (Novelists and poets)

• Janet Campbell Hale, Coeur d'Alene-Ktunaxa-Cree writer (Novelists and poets)

• Allison Hedge Coke, self-identified Wendat/Huron-Metis-Cherokee descent, writer (Novelists and poets)

• Gordon Henry, Chippewa writer (Novelists and poets)

• Linda Hogan, Chickasaw Nation poet, storyteller, academic, environmentalist and writer. (Novelists and poets)

• Al Hunter, Anishinaabe writer and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Joy Harjo, Muscogee Creek Nation-Cherokee poet, musician, and author (Novelists and poets)

• Stephen Graham Jones, Blackfeet author (Novelists and poets)

• Daniel Heath Justice, Cherokee Nation author (Novelists and poets)

• Carole LaFavor, Ojibwe novelist and activist (Novelists and poets)

• Layli Long Soldier, Oglala Lakota poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activist (Novelists and poets)

• John Joseph Mathews, Osage author (Novelists and poets)

• Janet McAdams, self-identified Alabama Creek descent, author (Novelists and poets)

• Deborah A. Miranda, Esselen-Chumash author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa poet, author, scholar, and painter (Novelists and poets)

• Irvin Morris, Navajo author (Novelists and poets)

• Nas'Naga, Shawnee poet (Novelists and poets)

• Mourning Dove, Flathead author (Novelists and poets)

• Cynthia Leitich Smith, Muscogee Creek author (Novelists and poets)

• Nas'Naga, Shawnee author (Novelists and poets)

• Tommy Orange, Cheyenne and Arapaho novelist and writer (Novelists and poets)

• Simon J. Ortiz, Acoma Pueblo poet (Novelists and poets)

• Louis Owens, Choctaw-Cherokee-descent author (Novelists and poets)

• William S. Penn, Nez Perce author (Novelists and poets)

• Susan Power, Standing Rock Nakota author (Novelists and poets)

• Carter Revard, Osage Nation author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• John Rollin Ridge, Cherokee author (Novelists and poets)

• Wendy Rose, Hopi-Miwok author (Novelists and poets)

• Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Ojibwe author (Novelists and poets)

• Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo poet and novelist (Novelists and poets)

• James Thomas Stevens, Mohawk author and educator (Novelists and poets)

• Margo Tamez, Lipan Apache-Jumano author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Luci Tapahonso, Diné poet (Novelists and poets)

• David Treuer, Leech Lake Ojibwe author (Novelists and poets)

• Mark Turcotte, Ojibwe author (Novelists and poets)

• E. Donald Two-Rivers, Ojibwe poet and playwright (Novelists and poets)

• Gerald Vizenor, White Earth Ojibwe writer and professor (Novelists and poets)

• Velma Wallis, Athabaskan author (Novelists and poets)

• Anna Lee Walters, Pawnee-Otoe author (Novelists and poets)

• James Welch, Blackfeet-Gros Ventre author and poet (Novelists and poets)

• Ray Young Bear, Meskwaki author (Novelists and poets)

• Ofelia Zepeda, Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual (Novelists and poets)

• Robert L. Perea, Oglala Lakota novelist, educator, and veteran (Novelists and poets)

• Irene Bedard, Iñupiaq/Yupik/Cree/Métis actress, director, producer, activist (TV and Films)

• Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, Lakota actor (TV and Films)

• Chris Eyre, Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho director and producer (TV and Films)

• Abel Fernandez, Yaqui actor (TV and Films)

• Michael Horse, Yaqui-Mescalero Apache-Zuni-descent actor, jeweler, and painter (TV and Films)

• Kiowa Gordon, Hualapai actor (TV and Films)

• Sacheen Littlefeather, White Mountain Apache/Yaqui-descent actress (TV and Films)

• Phil Lucas, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, director, and editor (TV and Films)

• Russell Means, Oglala Lakota activist and actor (TV and Films)

• Will Rogers, Cherokee actor and humorist (TV and Films)

• Will Sampson, Muscogee Creek Nation painter and actor (TV and Films)

• Eddie Spears, Lakota actor (TV and Films)

• Michael Spears, Lakota actor (TV and Films)

• Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Lakota, author and actor (TV and Films)

• Wes Studi, Cherokee Nation actor (TV and Films)

• Sheila Tousey, Menominee actor (TV and Films)

• Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Sisseton Dakota actor and musician (TV and Films)

• Chuck Billy, Pomo singer for the thrash metal band, Testament (Musicians and singers)

• Radmilla Cody, (Navajo) model, singer and activist (Musicians and singers)

• Brent Michael Davids, Stockbridge Mohican composer and flutist (Musicians and singers)

• R. Carlos Nakai, Navajo musician (Musicians and singers)

• Martha Redbone, Choctaw/Shawnee-descent musician (Musicians and singers)

• Taboo (rapper), Shoshone-descent rapper and singer (Musicians and singers)

• John Trudell, Santee Dakota, musician, poet, activist (Musicians and singers)

• Frank Waln, Sicangu Lakota rapper (Musicians and singers)

• Ron Baker, Citizen Potawatomi NBA player with the Washington Wizards (Sport)

• Notah Begay III, Navajo PGA Tour golfer (Sport)

• Johnny Bench, Choctaw Hall of Fame Catcher (Sport)

• Chief Bender, Ojibwa Hall of Fame pitcher (Sport)

• Sam Bradford, Cherokee Nation American football quarterback (Sport)

• Gerald Brisco, Chickasaw Nation Pro Wrestler and WWE talent scout (Sport)

• Jack Brisco, Chickasaw Nation Pro Wrestler, Former NWA World Champion (Sport)

• Ellison "Tarzan" Brown, Narragansett U.S. Olympian/Marathon Runner (Sport)

• Joba Chamberlain, Ho-Chunk pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (Sport)

• Chris Chavis, Lumbee professional wrestler (Sport)

• Rod Curl, (Wintu) PGA tour golfer (Sport)

• Frank Dufina (Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians), professional golfer (Sport)

• Jacoby Ellsbury CRIT Navajo outfielder for the New York Yankees (Sport)

• Angel Goodrich, (Cherokee) WNBA basketball player (Sport)

• Al Hoptowit, American football player (Sport)

• Mickie James, Powhatan-descent professional wrestler (Sport)

• Bronson Koenig, Ho-Chunk basketball player currently on an NBA two-way contract (Sport)

• Ashton Locklear Artistic Gymnast of Lumbee tribe. 2014 World Champion (Team), 2 x 2014 Pan American Champion (Team, Uneven Bars), 2 x 2016 Pacific Rim Champion (Team, Uneven Bars) (Sport)

• Kyle Lohse, Nomlaki pitcher, Milwaukee Brewers (Sport)

• Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel, Choctaw-Chickasaw professional wrestler (Sport)

• Billy Mills, Oglala Lakota athlete (Sport)

• Anthony Seigler, Navajo, MLB player (Sport)

• Shoni Schimmel, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, WNBA player (Sport)

• Sonny Sixkiller, Cherokee American football quarterback (Sport)

• Louis Sockalexis (Penobscot), Major League Baseball player (Sport)

• Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox Nation), Olympic Gold medalist in track and field, gridiron football and baseball player (Sport)

• Chris Wondolowski, (Kiowa), soccer player for the San Jose Earthquakes and United States national team. (Sport)

• Anna Mae Aquash, Mi'kmaq. She participated in the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the Wounded Knee incident at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, United States in 1973. (Activists)

• Dennis Banks, Anishinaabe activist, teacher, lecturer, author and co-founder of the American Indian Movement (Activists)

• Mary Brave Bird, Brulé Lakota activist. She was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events. (Activists)

• Clyde Bellecourt White Earth Ojibwe activist and co-founder of the American Indian Movement (Activists)

• Carter Camp, Ponca, activist (Activists)

• Billy Frank Jr., Nisqually (deceased), environmental leader and treaty rights. He was the founder and chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission (Activists)

• Winona LaDuke, White Earth Ojibwe environmental activist and writer. She was known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development. (Activists)

• Susan LaFlesche Picotte, Omaha-Ponca-Iowa activist, first female Native American physician. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe. (Activists)

• Susette LaFlesche Tibbles, Omaha-Ponca-Iowa spokesperson for Native American rights (Activists)

• Katherine Smith, (Navajo) activist and defender of Navajo lands (Activists)

• Deborah Parker (born 1970), activist and Tulalip Tribes vice-chairwoman from 2012 to 2015Parker campaigned for the reauthorization and for the inclusion of provisions which gave tribal courts jurisdiction over violent crimes against women and families involving non–Native Americans on tribal lands (Activists)

• Leonard Peltier, Ojibwa-Lakota activist. A member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), he is imprisoned for first-degree murder for the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. (Activists)

• Elizabeth Peratrovich, Tlingit civil rights activist. Peratrovich and her husband were instrumental in the successful Alaska Native Sisterhood and Alaska Native Brotherhood campaign against racial discrimination in Alaska, culminating in the 1945 enactment of the Anti-Discrimination Act. (Activists)

• Lawrence Plamondon, Odawa-Ojibwe activist and storyteller. He helped found the White Panther Party. He was the first hippie to be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Plamondon's father was half-Odawa and his mother was part-Ojibwe. (Activists)

• D'Arcy McNickle, Salish Kootenai author, activist, and anthropologist (Activists)

• Zitkala-Sa, Yankton Dakota writer and activist. She was co-founder of the National Council of American Indians, founded for defend the rights to United States citizenship and civil rights. In addition, she served as its president until her death in 1938. She wrote several books about the Native American cultures and is one of the most influential Native American activists of the twentieth century. (Activists)

• Simon Pokagon, Potawatomi author and Native American advocate. (Activists)

• Leopold Pokagon, Potawatomi storyteller and activist. He tried to protect and promote the Potawatomi communities living in the St. Joseph River Valley and their lands. (Activists)

• Luana Reyes, Confederated Colville Tribes (Sinixt) health activist and educator, 1933–2001 (Activists)

• Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute. She was an advocate for the rights of Native Americans and served US forces as a messenger, interpreter, and guide, and as a teacher for imprisoned Native Americans. She also wrote the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman." (Activists)

• Jessie Little Doe Baird (born 1963), Wampanoag linguist and preserver of the Massachusett language (Linguists and interpreters)

• Hobomok, Wampanoag interpreter (Linguists and interpreters)

• Don Luis (? –1571), Kiskiack or Paspahegh guide and interpreter for a party of Jesuit missionaries in Virginia (Linguists and interpreters)

• Joseph James and Joseph James, Jr., Kaw/Osage interpreters and guides (Linguists and interpreters)

• Toby Riddle (1848–1920), Modoc interpreter and diplomat (Linguists and interpreters)

• Sacajawea, Shoshone interpreter (Linguists and interpreters)

• John Sassamon, Massachusett, interpreter (Linguists and interpreters)

• Sequoyah (Cherokee), inventor of the Cherokee syllabary (Linguists and interpreters)

• Squanto (c. 1585–November 1622), also known as Tisquantum, last surviving Patuxet, interpreter for the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts (Linguists and interpreters)

• Rob Capriccioso, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, journalist and writer (Journalists and columnists)

• Terri Crawford Hansen, Ho-Chunk/Potawatomi journalist, and author (Journalists and columnists)

• John Christian Hopkins, Narragansett people Journalist, Author. (Journalists and columnists)

• Jim Northrup, Anishnaabe columnist and political writer (Journalists and columnists)

• Will Rogers, Jr., Cherokee Nation journalist and politician (Journalists and columnists)

• Mark Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock, print and broadcast journalist, and author (Journalists and columnists)

• Buffalo Bird Woman, Hidatsa woman (Academics)

• Gregory Cajete, Santa Clara Pueblo ethnobotanist, author, and educator (Academics)

• Ishi, Yana educator and last member of his tribe (Academics)

• Francis LaFlesche, Omaha-Ponca-Iowa ethnologist and author (Academics)

• Robert J. Conley, Cherokee author (Academics)

• Vine Deloria, Jr., Yankton Dakota-Standing Rock Nakota theologian, historian, writer and activist (Academics)

• Charles Eastman, Santee Dakota author, physician and helped found the Boy Scouts of America. (Academics)

• LeAnne Howe, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma author and scholar (Academics)

• Joseph Marshall III, Lakota educator and author (Academics)

• Devon A. Mihesuah, Choctaw historian, author, and editor (Academics)

• Joe Medicine Crow, Crow Nation anthropologist (Academics)

• Nila NorthSun, Shoshone-Ojibwe author and historian (Academics)

• Luana Ross, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes sociologist and author (Academics)

• Delphine Red Shirt, Oglala writer and chair of OCIDWIP at the United Nations (Academics)

• Richard Twiss, Brulé Lakota educator and author (Academics)

• Craig Womack, Muscogee Creek-descent author, educator, and literary critic (Academics)

• Fred Begay, Navajo nuclear physicist (Scientists)

• Karletta Chief, Navajo soil scientist (Scientists)

• Kathleen R. Johnson, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, paleoclimatologist (Scientists)

• Mary G. Ross, Cherokee engineer (Scientists)

• George Bent, Cheyenne, soldier, warrior, interpreter, and cultural informant (Other)

• Mary Katherine Campbell, (Muscogee Creek/Cree-descent) former Miss America winner (Other)

• Polly Cooper, Oneida Tribe aid to the Continental Army during the American Revolution at Valley Forge (Other)

• Jesse Cornplanter, Seneca author and artist (Other)

• Leonard Crow Dog, Sicangu Lakota medicine man, activist, and author (Other)

• Pierre Cruzatte, (Omaha) member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Other)

• Deganawida (Haudenosaunee), founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, more respectfully called The Great Peacemaker (Other)

• Larry EchoHawk, Pawnee head of the BIA, former Attorney General of Idaho (Other)

• John Herrington, Chickasaw Nation NASA astronaut (Other)

• James and Ernie, Navajo comedy duo (Other)

• Maude Kegg, (Ojibwa) writer, folk artist, and cultural interpreter (Other)

• Mountain Wolf Woman, Ho-Chunk autobiographer (Other)

• Owl Woman, Cheyenne negotiator, peacemaker, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame (Other)

• Pocahontas, aka Matoaka, (Powhatan) mediator with the earliest colonists in Jamestown (Other)

• Rattling Blanket Woman (Miniconjou), mother of Crazy Horse (Other)

• Paul Chaat Smith, Comanche/Choctaw, writer, Associate Curator of the National Museum of the American Indian (Other)

• Maria Tallchief, Osage Nation ballerina (Other)

• Marjorie Tallchief, Osage Nation ballerina (Other)

• Randy'L He-dow Teton, Shoshone-Bannock, model for the US Sacagawea dollar (Other)

• Tsali, Cherokee warrior, chief, and martyr (Other)

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