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The <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Indian_Affairs" title="Bureau of Indian Affairs">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a> defines Native American as having American Indian or <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Native">Alaska Native</a> ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a <a href="/wiki/Federally_recognized_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Federally recognized tribe">federally recognized tribe</a> or <a href="/wiki/Alaskan_village" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaskan village">Alaskan village</a>. Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American identity.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All individuals on this list should have Native American ancestry. 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title="Kittian and Nevisian Americans">Kittian and Nevisian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Korean_Americans" title="List of Korean Americans">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kurdish_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kurdish Americans">Kurdish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kuwaiti_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Kuwaiti Americans">Kuwaiti</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content" style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa; padding:0; line-height:1.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Laotian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Laotian Americans">Laotian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="List of Hispanic and Latino Americans">Latino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Latvian_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Latvian Americans">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Lebanese_Americans" title="List of Lebanese Americans">Lebanese</a></li> <li><a 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_artists" title="List of Native American artists">List of Native American artists</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Elsie_Allen" title="Elsie Allen">Elsie Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cloverdale_Pomo" class="mw-redirect" title="Cloverdale Pomo">Cloverdale Pomo</a> basketweaver</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Amerman" title="Marcus Amerman">Marcus Amerman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_Nation_of_Oklahoma" title="Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma">Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma</a> multimedia artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annie_Antone" title="Annie Antone">Annie Antone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham" class="mw-redirect" title="Tohono O'odham">Tohono O'odham</a> basketweaver</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Asah" title="Spencer Asah">Spencer Asah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a> artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Auchiah" title="James Auchiah">James Auchiah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a> artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Berry_(artist)" title="Martha Berry (artist)">Martha Berry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> beadwork artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelly_Church" title="Kelly Church">Kelly Church</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Match-e-be-nash-she-wish_Band_of_Pottawatomi_Indians_of_Michigan" title="Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan">Pottawatomi</a>/Odawa/Ojibwe) basket maker, painter, and educator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amanda_Crowe" title="Amanda Crowe">Amanda Crowe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Band_Cherokee" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Band Cherokee">Eastern Band Cherokee</a> woodcarver and educator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Cusick" title="Dennis Cusick">Dennis Cusick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuscarora (tribe)">Tuscarora</a> painter, ca. 1800–1824</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juanita_Growing_Thunder_Fogarty" title="Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty">Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Peck_Assiniboine_and_Sioux" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux">Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux</a> quillworker and beadwork artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmonia_Lewis" title="Edmonia Lewis">Edmonia Lewis</a>, African-American/<a href="/wiki/Mississaugas" title="Mississaugas">Mississauga Ojibwe</a>-descendent sculptor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litefoot" title="Litefoot">Litefoot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> actor, hip hop artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Mart%C3%ADnez" class="mw-redirect" title="María Martínez">María Martínez</a>, <a href="/wiki/San_Ildefonso_Pueblo" class="mw-redirect" title="San Ildefonso Pueblo">San Ildefonso Pueblo</a> potter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nampeyo" title="Nampeyo">Nampeyo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hopi-Tewa" title="Hopi-Tewa">Hopi-Tewa</a> potter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nora_Naranjo-Morse" class="mw-redirect" title="Nora Naranjo-Morse">Nora Naranjo-Morse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Pueblo" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Clara Pueblo">Santa Clara Pueblo</a> artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeri_Redcorn" title="Jeri Redcorn">Jeri Redcorn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Caddo" title="Caddo">Caddo</a>/<a href="/wiki/Citizen_Potawatomi" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizen Potawatomi">Citizen Potawatomi</a> b. ca. 1940) potter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawney_Reyes" title="Lawney Reyes">Lawney Reyes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confederated_Colville_Tribes" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederated Colville Tribes">Confederated Colville Tribes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sinixt_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinixt people">Sinixt</a>) artist, author, and curator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Lee_Sanchez" title="Carol Lee Sanchez">Carol Lee Sanchez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laguna_Pueblo" title="Laguna Pueblo">Laguna Pueblo</a> author and artist</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Chiefs_and_other_leaders">Chiefs and other leaders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ahaya" title="Ahaya">Ahaya</a> (ca. 1710 – 1783), first recorded chief of the Alachua band of the <a href="/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole">Seminole</a> tribe.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 381">: 381 </span></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attakullakulla" title="Attakullakulla">Attakullakulla</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> chief <sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Awashonks" title="Awashonks">Awashonks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sakonnet" title="Sakonnet">Sakonnet</a> 17th century female chief<sup id="cite_ref-AtoZ_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AtoZ-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_John_Baker" title="Bill John Baker">Bill John Baker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Principal_Chief_of_the_Cherokee_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation">Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation</a><sup id="cite_ref-ap_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ap-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Hawk_(Sauk_leader)" title="Black Hawk (Sauk leader)">Black Hawk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sac_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sac (tribe)">Sauk</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Kettle" title="Black Kettle">Black Kettle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheyenne people">Cheyenne</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Blackbird" title="Andrew Blackbird">Andrew Blackbird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odawa_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Odawa people">Odawa</a> leader, historian, and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kimberly_M._Blaeser" title="Kimberly M. Blaeser">Kimberly M. Blaeser</a>, (<a href="/wiki/White_Earth_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="White Earth Ojibwe">White Earth Ojibwe</a>) author and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elias_Boudinot_(Cherokee)" title="Elias Boudinot (Cherokee)">Elias Boudinot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> leader, journalist and publisher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Bowlegs" title="Billy Bowlegs">Billy Bowlegs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole">Seminole</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brant" title="Joseph Brant">Joseph Brant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohawk_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohawk nation">Mohawk</a> leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_(Calusa)" title="Carlos (Calusa)">Carlos (Calusa)</a> (died 1567), <a href="/wiki/Paramount_chief" title="Paramount chief">king</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Calusa_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Calusa people">Calusa people</a> of Southwest Florida</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canonicus" title="Canonicus">Canonicus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narragansett_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Narragansett (tribe)">Narragansett</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Gall" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Gall">Chief Gall</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Hunkpapa" title="Hunkpapa">Hunkpapa</a> <a href="/wiki/Lakota_people" title="Lakota people">Lakota</a>) chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cochise" title="Cochise">Cochise</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiricahua_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiricahua Apache">Chiricahua Apache</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colorow_(Ute_chief)" title="Colorow (Ute chief)">Colorow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ute_people" title="Ute people">Ute</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornplanter" title="Cornplanter">Cornplanter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seneca_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca nation">Seneca</a> chief and diplomat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crazy_Horse" title="Crazy Horse">Crazy Horse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuerno_Verde" title="Cuerno Verde">Cuerno Verde</a>, Spanish name for Tavibo Naritgant, a leader of the Comanche, likely of the Kotsoteka Comanche, in the late 18th century.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logan_Fontenelle" title="Logan Fontenelle">Logan Fontenelle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omaha_people" title="Omaha people">Omaha</a> chief and interpreter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geronimo" title="Geronimo">Geronimo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiricahua" title="Chiricahua">Chiricahua</a> <a href="/wiki/Apache" title="Apache">Apache</a> leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kintpuash" title="Kintpuash">Captain Jack</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modoc_people" title="Modoc people">Modoc</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Jacket" title="Red Jacket">Red Jacket</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seneca_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca Nation">Seneca Nation</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overton_James" title="Overton James">Overton James</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a>, educator, former Governor of the <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Chief_Joseph" title="Old Chief Joseph">Old Chief Joseph</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nez_Perce" title="Nez Perce">Nez Perce</a> former chieftain, father of <a href="/wiki/Chief_Joseph" title="Chief Joseph">Chief Joseph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Joseph" title="Chief Joseph">Chief Joseph</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nez_Perce_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Nez Perce people">Nez Percé</a> chief, war leader, and humanitarian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juanillo" title="Juanillo">Juanillo</a>, chief of the <a href="/wiki/Guale" title="Guale">Guale</a> <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">Nchiefdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Mae_Tiger_Jumper" title="Betty Mae Tiger Jumper">Betty Mae Tiger Jumper</a>, first female chief of the <a href="/wiki/Seminole_Tribe_of_Florida" title="Seminole Tribe of Florida">Seminole Tribe of Florida</a>, also a publisher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiawatha" title="Hiawatha">Hiawatha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Onondaga_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Onondaga (tribe)">Onondaga</a>-<a href="/wiki/Mohawk_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohawk nation">Mohawk</a> chief was credited as the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois confederacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Horse" title="John Horse">John Horse</a>, African-American leader of the <a href="/wiki/Black_Seminole" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Seminole">Black Seminole</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hill_(Mohawk)" title="David Hill (Mohawk)">David Hill (Mohawk)</a>, Mohawk chief during the American Revolution</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keokuk_(Sauk_chief)" class="mw-redirect" title="Keokuk (Sauk chief)">Keokuk</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Sac_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sac (tribe)">Sac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fox_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox (tribe)">Fox</a>) chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Hagler" title="King Hagler">King Hagler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catawba_people" title="Catawba people">Catawba</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Turkey" title="Little Turkey">Little Turkey</a> was <a href="/wiki/Tribal_chief" title="Tribal chief">First Beloved Man</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee people">Cherokee people</a>, becoming the first <a href="/wiki/Principal_Chiefs_of_the_Cherokee" class="mw-redirect" title="Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee">Principal Chief</a> of a united <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation_(19th_century)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee Nation (19th century)">Cherokee Nation</a> in 1794</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Turtle" title="Little Turtle">Little Turtle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miami_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami tribe">Miami</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lone_Wolf_the_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="Lone Wolf the Elder">Lone Wolf the Elder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lone_Wolf_the_Younger" title="Lone Wolf the Younger">Lone Wolf the Younger</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a> leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_Ridge" title="Major Ridge">Major Ridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> chief, led Lighthorse Patrol and signed the Treaty of New Echota.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mangas_Coloradas" title="Mangas Coloradas">Mangas Coloradas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apache" title="Apache">Apache</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilma_Mankiller" title="Wilma Mankiller">Wilma Mankiller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuelito" title="Manuelito">Manuelito</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a> chief, diplomat, and warrior.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Massasoit" title="Massasoit">Massasoit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wampanoag" title="Wampanoag">Wampanoag</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_McGillivray" title="Alexander McGillivray">Alexander McGillivray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek Nation">Muscogee Creek Nation</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_McIntosh" title="William McIntosh">William McIntosh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek Nation">Muscogee Creek Nation</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_McQueen" title="Peter McQueen">Peter McQueen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek Nation">Muscogee Creek Nation</a> chief, prophet, trader and warrior from <i>Talisi</i> (Tallassee, among the Upper Towns in present-day Alabama).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Metacomet" title="Metacomet">Metacomet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wampanoag" title="Wampanoag">Wampanoag</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miantonomo" class="mw-redirect" title="Miantonomo">Miantonomo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narragansett_people" title="Narragansett people">Narragansett</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olotoraca" title="Olotoraca">Olotoraca</a> (1548–1573), subchief of a tribe of <a href="/wiki/Fort_San_Mateo" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort San Mateo">Fort San Mateo</a>, Florida.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oratam" title="Oratam">Oratam</a>, sachem of the <a href="/wiki/Hackensack_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Hackensack Indians">Hackensack Indians</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osceola" title="Osceola">Osceola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole">Seminole</a> leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Oshkosh" title="Chief Oshkosh">Chief Oshkosh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menominee" title="Menominee">Menominee</a> leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Ouray" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Ouray">Chief Ouray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ute_Tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Ute Tribe">Ute Tribe</a> leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opechancanough" title="Opechancanough">Opechancanough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pamunkey" title="Pamunkey">Pamunkey</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quanah_Parker" title="Quanah Parker">Quanah Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanche</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Hair" title="White Hair">Pawhuska</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage</a> Chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Perryman" title="Thomas Perryman">Thomas Perryman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Creek_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Creek people">Creek</a> leader in Georgia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Chartier" title="Peter Chartier">Peter Chartier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pekowi" title="Pekowi">Pekowi</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Powhatan_(Native_American_leader)" title="Powhatan (Native American leader)">Powhatan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pamunkey" title="Pamunkey">Pamunkey</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Pontiac" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Pontiac">Chief Pontiac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Odawa_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Odawa people">Odawa</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Cloud" title="Red Cloud">Red Cloud</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Anne_Richardson" title="G. Anne Richardson">Chief G. Anne Richardson</a> (Chief of the <a href="/wiki/Rappahannock_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Rappahannock tribe">Rappahannock tribe</a> – first female chief in Virginia since the 18th century)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qualchan" title="Qualchan">Qualchan</a>, 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Yakama_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Yakama people">Yakama</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ross_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Ross (Cherokee chief)">John Ross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Sabeata" title="Juan Sabeata">Juan Sabeata</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jumano_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Jumano Indians">Jumano</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Sarris" title="Greg Sarris">Greg Sarris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federated_Indians_of_Graton_Rancheria" title="Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria">Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria</a> tribal chairman, author, and professor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitting_Bull" title="Sitting Bull">Sitting Bull</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hunkpapa_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunkpapa Lakota">Hunkpapa Lakota</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chad_%22Corntassel%22_Smith" class="mw-redirect" title="Chad "Corntassel" Smith">Chad Smith</a>, former Principal Chief of <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samoset" title="Samoset">Samoset</a> (<a href="/wiki/Abenaki" title="Abenaki">Abenaki</a>, 1590–1653), first Indigenous American leader to contact the Pilgrims in <a href="/wiki/Plymouth,_Massachusetts" title="Plymouth, Massachusetts">Plymouth, Massachusetts</a> (March 16, 1621)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smohalla" title="Smohalla">Smohalla</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wanapum" title="Wanapum">Wanapum</a> chief and religious leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturiwa_(chief)" title="Saturiwa (chief)">Saturiwa</a>, chief of the <a href="/wiki/Saturiwa" title="Saturiwa">Saturiwa</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Mocama" title="Mocama">Mocama</a> tribe of <a href="/wiki/Timucua" title="Timucua">Timucua</a> people, located in <a href="/wiki/St._Johns_River" title="St. Johns River">St. Johns River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>), during the 16th century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Seattle" title="Chief Seattle">Seattle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suquamish" title="Suquamish">Suquamish</a>/<a href="/wiki/Duwamish_people" title="Duwamish people">Duwamish</a> leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standing_Bear" title="Standing Bear">Standing Bear</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ponca" title="Ponca">Ponca</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Touch_the_Clouds" title="Touch the Clouds">Touch the Clouds</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Mahpia_Icahtagya" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahpia Icahtagya">Mahpia Icahtagya</a>), Teton <a href="/wiki/Lakota_people" title="Lakota people">Lakota</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tuskaloosa" title="Tuskaloosa">Tuskaloosa</a>, paramount chief of a Mississippian chiefdom in Alabama</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uncas" title="Uncas">Uncas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohegan" title="Mohegan">Mohegan</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victorio" title="Victorio">Victorio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiricahua_Apache" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiricahua Apache">Chiricahua Apache</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weetamoo" title="Weetamoo">Weetamoo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pocasset_village" title="Pocasset village">Pocasset</a> <a href="/wiki/Wampanoag_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Wampanoag people">Wampanoag</a>, 17th-century female chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Plume" title="White Plume">White Plume</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaw_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaw (tribe)">Kaw</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yellow_Bird_(chief)" class="mw-redirect" title="Yellow Bird (chief)">Yellow Bird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walla_Walla_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walla Walla (tribe)">Walla Walla</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yonaguska" title="Yonaguska">Yonaguska</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Weatherford" title="William Weatherford">William Weatherford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Creek" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscogee Creek">Muscogee Creek</a> chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Hair" title="White Hair">White Hair</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pawhuska" class="mw-redirect" title="Pawhuska">Pawhuska</a>), the name of several Osage chiefs</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Warriors_and_military">Warriors and military</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Warriors and military"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States" title="Special:EditPage/List of Native Americans of the United States">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Governor_Blacksnake" title="Governor Blacksnake">Chainbreaker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seneca_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca nation">Seneca</a> war chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Benavidez" title="Roy Benavidez">Roy Benavidez</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Yaqui" title="Yaqui">Yaqui</a>), decorated U.S. Army Master sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ollokot" title="Ollokot">Ollokot</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nez_Perce" title="Nez Perce">Nez Perce</a> war chieftain</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ira_Hayes" title="Ira Hayes">Ira Hayes</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Akimel_O%27odham" title="Akimel O'odham">Akimel O'odham</a>) one of five Marines, along with a United States Navy corpsman, immortalized in the <a href="/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima" title="Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima">iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Horse" title="John Horse">John Horse</a> (<a href="/wiki/Black_Seminole" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Seminole">Black Seminole</a>), warrior in the Second Seminole War in Florida</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kilma_S._Lattin" title="Kilma S. Lattin">Kilma S. Lattin</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Pala_Band_of_Mission_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Pala Band of Mission Indians">Pala Band of Mission Indians</a>), decorated <a href="/wiki/U.S._Army" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Army">U.S. Army</a> former <a href="/wiki/First_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="First Lieutenant">First Lieutenant</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soldiers_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Soldiers Medal">Soldiers Medal</a> recipient</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton_J._Lonetree" title="Clayton J. Lonetree">Clayton J. Lonetree</a>, <a href="/wiki/Winnebago_Tribe_of_Nebraska" title="Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska">Winnebago</a>/<a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> U.S. Marine and convicted KGB spy</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Gonzaga_Mendez,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr.">Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr.</a> (Navajo-descent), highly decorated WWII United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne Division</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ely_S._Parker" title="Ely S. Parker">Ely S. Parker</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Seneca_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca Nation">Seneca</a>) U.S. Army Brigadier General</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lori_Piestewa" title="Lori Piestewa">Lori Piestewa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hopi" title="Hopi">Hopi</a> veteran, died in the 2003 invasion of Iraq</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop%C3%A9" title="Popé">Popé</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ohkay_Owingeh" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohkay Owingeh">Ohkay Owingeh</a> religious and military leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Santa_Anna_(Comanche_war_chief)" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Anna (Comanche war chief)">Santa Anna (Comanche war chief)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonuk_Mikko" title="Sonuk Mikko">Sonuk Mikko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seminole" title="Seminole">Seminole</a>, Captain in the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Home_Guard_(American_Civil_War)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Home Guard (American Civil War)">Indian Home Guard</a> during the American Civil War often referred to as <a href="/wiki/Billy_Bowlegs" title="Billy Bowlegs">Billy Bowlegs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tecumseh" title="Tecumseh">Tecumseh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shawnee" title="Shawnee">Shawnee</a> warrior and statesman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Clyde_Thompson" title="William Clyde Thompson">William Clyde Thompson</a>, Texas <a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a> leader who fought against the <a href="/wiki/Dawes_Commission" title="Dawes Commission">Dawes Commission</a> for Choctaw enrollment</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Tupatu" title="Luis Tupatu">Luis Tupatu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pueblo_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Pueblo peoples">Pueblo</a> leader of the northern pueblos following the <a href="/wiki/Pueblo_revolt" class="mw-redirect" title="Pueblo revolt">Pueblo revolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Ward" title="Nancy Ward">Nancy Ward</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> warrior, diplomat, and "Beloved Woman"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washakie" title="Washakie">Washakie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoshone" title="Shoshone">Shoshone</a> warrior, diplomat, chief, leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stand_Watie" title="Stand Watie">Stand Watie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> leader and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Watts_(Cherokee_chief)" title="John Watts (Cherokee chief)">John Watts</a> (also known as <i>Young Tassel</i>), a leader of the <a href="/wiki/Chickamauga_Cherokee" title="Chickamauga Cherokee">Chickamauga Cherokee</a> (or "Lower Cherokee") during the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee-American_wars" class="mw-redirect" title="Cherokee-American wars">Cherokee-American wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragging_Canoe" title="Dragging Canoe">Dragging Canoe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> war chief</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pushmataha" title="Pushmataha">Pushmataha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a> chief and U.S. Army Brigadier General</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Naranjo_(scout)" title="José Naranjo (scout)">José Naranjo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Pueblo" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Clara Pueblo">Santa Clara Pueblo</a>), warrior who fought in the Spanish troops against the Apaches and participated in the <a href="/wiki/Villasur_expedition" title="Villasur expedition">Villasur expedition</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politicians">Politicians</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Politicians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States" title="Special:EditPage/List of Native Americans of the United States">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_politicians" title="List of Native American politicians">List of Native American politicians</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Anoatubby" title="Bill Anoatubby">Bill Anoatubby</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a>), Governor of the Chicksaw Nation since 1987</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_E._Benson" title="Diane E. Benson">Diane E. Benson</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Tlingit_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tlingit people">Tlingit</a>) politician, inspirational speaker, poet and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Johnson_Billy" title="Lisa Johnson Billy">Lisa Johnson Billy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a>, Oklahoma State Legislator and Chickasaw Tribal Legislator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ada_E._Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Ada E. Brown">Ada E. Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Choctaw Nation">Choctaw Nation</a>, Federal Judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Nighthorse_Campbell" title="Ben Nighthorse Campbell">Ben Nighthorse Campbell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne" title="Cheyenne">Northern Cheyenne</a> chief, <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. Representative</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senator</a>, and silversmith</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brad_Carson" title="Brad Carson">Brad Carson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (U.S.)">Democratic</a> U.S. congressman from <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Holmes_Colbert" title="Holmes Colbert">Holmes Colbert</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a> government official</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Cole" title="Tom Cole">Tom Cole</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a>, Congressman from Oklahoma</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Curtis" title="Charles Curtis">Charles Curtis</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Kaw_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaw (tribe)">Kaw</a>/<a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage</a>/<a href="/wiki/Prairie_Band_Potawatomi" class="mw-redirect" title="Prairie Band Potawatomi">Prairie Band Potawatomi</a>) <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senator</a> and 31st <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President of the United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sharice_Davids" title="Sharice Davids">Sharice Davids</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ho-Chunk" title="Ho-Chunk">Ho-Chunk</a>, U.S. Representative from Kansas</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Affie_Ellis" title="Affie Ellis">Affie Burnside Ellis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a>, first Native American to serve in the Wyoming Senate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deb_Haaland" title="Deb Haaland">Deb Haaland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laguna_Pueblo" title="Laguna Pueblo">Laguna Pueblo</a>, U.S. Representative from New Mexico, 54th <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Interior" title="United States Secretary of the Interior">United States Secretary of the Interior</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Humetewa" title="Diane Humetewa">Diane Humetewa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hopi" title="Hopi">Hopi</a>, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, former U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enoch_Kelly_Haney" title="Enoch Kelly Haney">Enoch Kelly Haney</a> (<a href="/wiki/Seminole_Nation_of_Oklahoma" title="Seminole Nation of Oklahoma">Seminole Nation of Oklahoma</a>), tribal leader, Oklahoma state legislator, and artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Harper_(lawyer)" title="Keith Harper (lawyer)">Keith Harper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> of <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, U.S. representative to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council" title="United Nations Human Rights Council">United Nations Human Rights Council</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Echo_Hawk" title="Larry Echo Hawk">Larry Echo Hawk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pawnee_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Pawnee Nation">Pawnee Nation</a>, former <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (U.S.)">Democratic</a> <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Idaho" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General of Idaho">Attorney General of Idaho</a> and former United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for <a href="/wiki/Indian_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Affairs">Indian Affairs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yvette_Herrell" title="Yvette Herrell">Yvette Herrell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>, Congresswoman from New Mexico</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Hoskin" title="Chuck Hoskin">Chuck Hoskin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_House_of_Representatives" title="Oklahoma House of Representatives">Oklahoma House of Representatives</a> from the 6th district</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shane_Jett" title="Shane Jett">Shane Jett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>, member of the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_Senate" title="Oklahoma Senate">Oklahoma Senate</a> from the 17th district</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myron_Lizer" title="Myron Lizer">Myron Lizer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Comanche_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Comanche people">Comanche</a>, Vice President of the Navajo Nation</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byron_Mallott" title="Byron Mallott">Byron Mallott</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tlingit" title="Tlingit">Tlingit</a>), former <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Governor">Lieutenant Governor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_McCurtain" title="Green McCurtain">Green McCurtain</a> <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Choctaw Nation">Choctaw Nation</a> chief, Vice President of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_T._McCoy" title="David T. McCoy">David T. McCoy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Chippewa" class="mw-redirect" title="Turtle Mountain Chippewa">Turtle Mountain Chippewa</a> state politician and attorney</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Markwayne_Mullin" title="Markwayne Mullin">Markwayne Mullin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>, Congressman from Oklahoma</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Peltola" title="Mary Peltola">Mary Peltola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yup%27ik" title="Yup'ik">Yup'ik</a>, Congresswoman from Alaska; first <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Natives" title="Alaska Natives">Alaska Native</a> member of Congress, first woman to represent Alaska in the House, first representative from Alaska to have been born in the state</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Reifel" title="Ben Reifel">Ben Reifel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicangu_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Sicangu Lakota">Sicangu Lakota</a>, activist and Congressman from South Dakota</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_J._Stickman" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael J. Stickman">Michael J. Stickman</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alaska_Athabascan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alaska Athabascan (page does not exist)">Alaska Athabascan</a>, first Chief of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nuwato_Tribal_Council&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nuwato Tribal Council (page does not exist)">Nuwato Tribal Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kimberly_Teehee" title="Kimberly Teehee">Kimberly Teehee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(U.S.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party (U.S.)">Democratic</a> White House Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Vann" title="James Vann">James Vann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> businessman and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peterson_Zah" title="Peterson Zah">Peterson Zah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andi_LeBeau" title="Andi LeBeau">Andi LeBeau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Arapaho" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Arapaho">Northern Arapaho</a> from Wyoming</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religious_leaders">Religious leaders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Religious leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Apess" title="William Apess">William Apess</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Pequot" class="mw-redirect" title="Pequot">Pequot</a>) Methodist minister</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Elk" title="Black Elk">Black Elk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> religious leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_J._Chaput" title="Charles J. Chaput">Charles J. Chaput</a> (<a href="/wiki/Prairie_Potawatomi" class="mw-redirect" title="Prairie Potawatomi">Prairie Potawatomi</a>), Roman Catholic bishop</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neolin" title="Neolin">Neolin</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Lenape" title="Lenape">Lenni Lenape</a>) religious leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Tinker" title="George Tinker">George Tinker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage Nation</a> theologian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennekuk" title="Kennekuk">Kennekuk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kickapoo_people" title="Kickapoo people">Kickapoo</a> spiritual leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Handsome_Lake" title="Handsome Lake">Handsome Lake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seneca_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca nation">Seneca</a> religious leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samson_Occom" title="Samson Occom">Samson Occom</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohegan" title="Mohegan">Mohegan</a> clergyman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._David_Pendleton_Oakerhater" class="mw-redirect" title="St. David Pendleton Oakerhater">St. David Pendleton Oakerhater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Southern_Cheyenne" class="mw-redirect" title="Southern Cheyenne">Southern Cheyenne</a> warrior, artist, deacon, and saint in the Episcopal Church</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oral_Roberts" title="Oral Roberts">Oral Roberts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Choctaw Nation">Choctaw Nation</a> preacher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Slocum" title="John Slocum">John Slocum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Squaxin_Island_Tribe" title="Squaxin Island Tribe">Squaxin Island Tribe</a>, founder of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Shaker_Church" title="Indian Shaker Church">Indian Shaker Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kateri_Tekakwitha" title="Kateri Tekakwitha">Kateri Tekakwitha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohawk_people" title="Mohawk people">Mohawk</a>/<a href="/wiki/Algonquian_peoples" title="Algonquian peoples">Algonquian</a> convert, canonized saint in the Roman Catholic Church</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_the_Aleut" title="Peter the Aleut">Peter the Aleut</a> (<a href="/wiki/Unangax" class="mw-redirect" title="Unangax">Unangax</a>), also known as Cungagnaq, martyr and saint in some jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenskwatawa" title="Tenskwatawa">Tenskwatawa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shawnee" title="Shawnee">Shawnee</a> religious leader</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wovoka" title="Wovoka">Wovoka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Paiute" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Paiute">Paiute</a> religious leader and founder of the <a href="/wiki/Ghost_Dance" title="Ghost Dance">Ghost Dance</a> religion</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writers">Writers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Writers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Indigenous_writers_of_the_Americas" title="List of Indigenous writers of the Americas">List of Indigenous writers of the Americas</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louise_Abeita" title="Louise Abeita">Louise Abeita</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isleta_Pueblo" class="mw-redirect" title="Isleta Pueblo">Isleta Pueblo</a>, 1926–2014</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Aitson" title="Richard Aitson">Richard Aitson</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a>/<a href="/wiki/Plains_Apache" title="Plains Apache">Plains Apache</a>, 1953–2022), beadwork artist and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherman_Alexie" title="Sherman Alexie">Sherman Alexie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spokane" class="mw-redirect" title="Spokane">Spokane</a>/<a href="/wiki/Coeur_d%27Alene_Tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Coeur d'Alene Tribe">Coeur d'Alene</a> novelist and comedian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paula_Gunn_Allen" title="Paula Gunn Allen">Paula Gunn Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laguna_Pueblo" title="Laguna Pueblo">Laguna Pueblo</a> poet, literary critic, activist, and novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Apess" title="William Apess">William Apess</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pequot" class="mw-redirect" title="Pequot">Pequot</a>, 1798–1839), Methodist minister</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annette_Arkeketa" title="Annette Arkeketa">Annette Arkeketa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Otoe-Missouria" class="mw-redirect" title="Otoe-Missouria">Otoe-Missouria</a>/<a href="/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Muscogee</a><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Barnes_(writer)" title="Jim Barnes (writer)">Jim Barnes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a> editor, author, poet and founder of the Chariton Review Press</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloria_Bird" title="Gloria Bird">Gloria Bird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spokane_people" title="Spokane people">Spokane</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sherwin_Bitsui" title="Sherwin Bitsui">Sherwin Bitsui</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ignatia_Broker" title="Ignatia Broker">Ignatia Broker</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_Earth_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="White Earth Ojibwe">White Earth Ojibwe</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Cajete" title="Gregory Cajete">Gregory Cajete</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Pueblo" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Clara Pueblo">Santa Clara Pueblo</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Cook-Lynn" title="Elizabeth Cook-Lynn">Elizabeth Cook-Lynn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crow_Creek_Sioux" class="mw-redirect" title="Crow Creek Sioux">Crow Creek Sioux</a> author, poet, editor, and co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/W%C3%AD%C4%8Dazo_%C5%A0a_Review" title="Wíčazo Ša Review">Wíčazo Ša Review</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Cusick" title="David Cusick">David Cusick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tuscarora_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuscarora (tribe)">Tuscarora</a> illustrator and author, ca.1780–ca.1831</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nora_Marks_Dauenhauer" title="Nora Marks Dauenhauer">Nora Marks Dauenhauer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tlingit_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Tlingit people">Tlingit</a> author and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_J._Deloria" title="Philip J. Deloria">Philip J. Deloria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Standing_Rock_Sioux_Tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rock Sioux Tribe">Standing Rock Sioux Tribe</a><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Cara_Deloria" title="Ella Cara Deloria">Ella Cara Deloria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yankton_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Yankton Dakota">Yankton Dakota</a>/<a href="/wiki/Standing_Rock_Sioux" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rock Sioux">Standing Rock Sioux</a>, 1889–1971</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vine_Deloria,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Vine Deloria, Jr.">Vine Deloria, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yankton_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Yankton Dakota">Yankton Dakota</a>/<a href="/wiki/Standing_Rock_Sioux" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rock Sioux">Standing Rock Sioux</a>, 1933–2005</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalie_Diaz" title="Natalie Diaz">Natalie Diaz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mojave_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Mojave people">Mojave</a> poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Dorris" title="Michael Dorris">Michael Dorris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Modoc_people" title="Modoc people">Modoc</a> writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heid_E._Erdrich" title="Heid E. Erdrich">Heid E. Erdrich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Turtle Mountain Ojibwe">Turtle Mountain Ojibwe</a> writer and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louise_Erdrich" title="Louise Erdrich">Louise Erdrich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Turtle Mountain Ojibwe">Turtle Mountain Ojibwe</a> writer and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janice_Gould" title="Janice Gould">Janice Gould</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maidu" title="Maidu">Maidu</a> writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janet_Campbell_Hale" title="Janet Campbell Hale">Janet Campbell Hale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coeur_d%27Alene_Tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Coeur d'Alene Tribe">Coeur d'Alene</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ktunaxa" class="mw-redirect" title="Ktunaxa">Ktunaxa</a>/<a href="/wiki/Cree" title="Cree">Cree</a> writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Henry_(poet)" title="Gordon Henry (poet)">Gordon Henry</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_Earth_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="White Earth Ojibwe">White Earth Ojibwe</a> writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Hogan_(writer)" title="Linda Hogan (writer)">Linda Hogan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a> poet, storyteller, academic, environmentalist and writer.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Howard" title="Victoria Howard">Victoria Howard</a> (<a href="/wiki/Clackamas_Chinook" class="mw-redirect" title="Clackamas Chinook">Clackamas Chinook</a>, c. 1865–1930), storyteller</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joy_Harjo" title="Joy Harjo">Joy Harjo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Nation" title="Muscogee Nation">Muscogee Nation</a> poet, musician, and author, US poet laureate</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Graham_Jones" title="Stephen Graham Jones">Stephen Graham Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blackfeet" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackfeet">Blackfeet</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Heath_Justice" title="Daniel Heath Justice">Daniel Heath Justice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carole_LaFavor" title="Carole LaFavor">Carole LaFavor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a> novelist and activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Layli_Long_Soldier" title="Layli Long Soldier">Layli Long Soldier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Joseph_Mathews" title="John Joseph Mathews">John Joseph Mathews</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_A._Miranda" title="Deborah A. Miranda">Deborah A. Miranda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Esselen" title="Esselen">Esselen</a>/<a href="/wiki/Chumash_people" title="Chumash people">Chumash</a> author and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/N._Scott_Momaday" title="N. Scott Momaday">N. Scott Momaday</a> (<a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a>, 1934–2024) poet, author, scholar, and painter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irvin_Morris" title="Irvin Morris">Irvin Morris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mourning_Dove_(author)" title="Mourning Dove (author)">Mourning Dove</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syilx" title="Syilx">Syilx</a> author, 1888–1936</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Leitich_Smith" title="Cynthia Leitich Smith">Cynthia Leitich Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Muscogee</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tommy_Orange" title="Tommy Orange">Tommy Orange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne-Arapaho" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheyenne-Arapaho">Cheyenne-Arapaho</a> novelist and writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_J._Ortiz" title="Simon J. Ortiz">Simon J. Ortiz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo" title="Acoma Pueblo">Acoma Pueblo</a> poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_S._Penn" title="William S. Penn">William S. Penn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nez_Perce_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Nez Perce people">Nez Perce</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_L._Perea" title="Robert L. Perea">Robert L. Perea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> novelist, educator, and veteran</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="Susan Power">Susan Power</a>, <a href="/wiki/Standing_Rock_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rock Dakota">Standing Rock Dakota</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_Revard" title="Carter Revard">Carter Revard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage Nation</a> author and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rollin_Ridge" title="John Rollin Ridge">John Rollin Ridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wendy_Rose" title="Wendy Rose">Wendy Rose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hopi" title="Hopi">Hopi</a>/<a href="/wiki/Miwok" title="Miwok">Miwok</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Johnston_Schoolcraft" title="Jane Johnston Schoolcraft">Jane Johnston Schoolcraft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Marmon_Silko" title="Leslie Marmon Silko">Leslie Marmon Silko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laguna_Pueblo" title="Laguna Pueblo">Laguna Pueblo</a>-descent poet and novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Thomas_Stevens" title="James Thomas Stevens">James Thomas Stevens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohawk_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohawk nation">Mohawk</a> author and educator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luci_Tapahonso" title="Luci Tapahonso">Luci Tapahonso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Din%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Diné">Diné</a> poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Treuer" title="David Treuer">David Treuer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leech_Lake_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Leech Lake Ojibwe">Leech Lake Ojibwe</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Turcotte" title="Mark Turcotte">Mark Turcotte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Turtle Mountain Ojibwe">Turtle Mountain Ojibwe</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Vizenor" title="Gerald Vizenor">Gerald Vizenor</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_Earth_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="White Earth Ojibwe">White Earth Ojibwe</a> writer and professor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Lee_Walters" title="Anna Lee Walters">Anna Lee Walters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pawnee_people" title="Pawnee people">Pawnee</a>/<a href="/wiki/Otoe_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Otoe tribe">Otoe</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Welch_(writer)" title="James Welch (writer)">James Welch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blackfeet" class="mw-redirect" title="Blackfeet">Blackfeet</a>/<a href="/wiki/Gros_Ventre" title="Gros Ventre">Gros Ventre</a> author and poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_S._Yellow_Robe,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.">William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.</a> (<a href="/wiki/Fort_Peck_Assiniboine" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Peck Assiniboine">Fort Peck Assiniboine</a>, 1950–2021), actor, author, director, educator, playwright, and poet<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Young_Bear" title="Ray Young Bear">Ray Young Bear</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meskwaki" title="Meskwaki">Meskwaki</a> author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ofelia_Zepeda" title="Ofelia Zepeda">Ofelia Zepeda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tohono_O%27odham" class="mw-redirect" title="Tohono O'odham">Tohono O'odham</a> poet and intellectual</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television_and_films">Television and films</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Television and films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States" title="Special:EditPage/List of Native Americans of the United States">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. 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title="Cree">Cree</a>/<a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9tis" title="Métis">Métis</a> actress, director, producer, activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Lee_Chasing_His_Horse" title="Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse">Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lakota_people" title="Lakota people">Lakota</a> actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Eyre" title="Chris Eyre">Chris Eyre</a>, Southern <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne-Arapaho" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheyenne-Arapaho">Cheyenne-Arapaho</a> director and producer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kiowa_Gordon" title="Kiowa Gordon">Kiowa Gordon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hualapai" title="Hualapai">Hualapai</a> actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Lucas" title="Phil Lucas">Phil Lucas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_Nation_of_Oklahoma" title="Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma">Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma</a> filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, director, and editor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russell_Means" title="Russell Means">Russell Means</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> activist and actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers" title="Will Rogers">Will Rogers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee</a> actor and humorist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Sampson" title="Will Sampson">Will Sampson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee_Nation" title="Muscogee Nation">Muscogee Nation</a> painter and actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Spears" title="Eddie Spears">Eddie Spears</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicangu" title="Sicangu">Brulé Lakota</a> actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Spears" title="Michael Spears">Michael Spears</a>, Brulé Lakota actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luther_Standing_Bear" title="Luther Standing Bear">Luther Standing Bear</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a>, author and actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wes_Studi" title="Wes Studi">Wes Studi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheila_Tousey" title="Sheila Tousey">Sheila Tousey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Menominee" title="Menominee">Menominee</a> actor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Floyd_Red_Crow_Westerman" class="mw-redirect" title="Floyd Red Crow Westerman">Floyd Red Crow Westerman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sisseton_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Sisseton Dakota">Sisseton Dakota</a> actor and musician</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Musicians_and_singers">Musicians and singers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Musicians and singers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_musicians" title="List of Native American musicians">List of Native American musicians</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Billy" title="Chuck Billy">Chuck Billy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pomo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pomo people">Pomo</a>-descent singer for the thrash metal band, Testament</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radmilla_Cody" title="Radmilla Cody">Radmilla Cody</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a>) model, singer and activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Michael_Davids" title="Brent Michael Davids">Brent Michael Davids</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mahican" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahican">Stockbridge Mohican</a> composer and flutist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/R._Carlos_Nakai" title="R. Carlos Nakai">R. Carlos Nakai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> musician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Supaman" title="Supaman">Supaman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aps%C3%A1alooke" class="mw-redirect" title="Apsáalooke">Apsáalooke</a> rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taboo_(rapper)" title="Taboo (rapper)">Taboo (rapper)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoshone_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Shoshone people">Shoshone</a>-descent rapper and singer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Trudell" title="John Trudell">John Trudell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santee_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Santee Dakota">Santee Dakota</a>, musician, poet, activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Waln" title="Frank Waln">Frank Waln</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicangu_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Sicangu Lakota">Sicangu Lakota</a> rapper</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_T._Walker" title="Greg T. Walker">Greg T. Walker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Muscogee" title="Muscogee">Muscogee</a> southern rocker, Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_sportspeople" title="List of Native American sportspeople">List of Native American sportspeople</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Taffy_Abel" title="Taffy Abel">Taffy Abel</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie_Chippewa" class="mw-redirect" title="Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa">Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa</a>), Hall of Fame NHL Hockey Player, The First Native American in the Winter Olympics (1924 Silver medal), The First Native American in the NHL (1926), Broke the NHL Color Barrier in 1926</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ron_Baker_(basketball)" title="Ron Baker (basketball)">Ron Baker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Citizen_Potawatomi_Nation" title="Citizen Potawatomi Nation">Citizen Potawatomi</a> NBA player with the Washington Wizards</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Notah_Begay_III" title="Notah Begay III">Notah Begay III</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> PGA Tour golfer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Bench" title="Johnny Bench">Johnny Bench</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a> Hall of Fame Catcher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Bender" title="Chief Bender">Chief Bender</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_Earth_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="White Earth Ojibwe">White Earth Ojibwe</a> Hall of Fame pitcher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Bradford" title="Sam Bradford">Sam Bradford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>, American football quarterback</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Brisco" title="Gerald Brisco">Gerald Brisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a> Pro Wrestler and <a href="/wiki/WWE" title="WWE">WWE</a> talent scout</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Brisco" title="Jack Brisco">Jack Brisco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a> Pro Wrestler, Former NWA World Champion</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ellison_%22Tarzan%22_Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Ellison "Tarzan" Brown">Ellison "Tarzan" Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narragansett_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Narragansett (tribe)">Narragansett</a> U.S. Olympian/Marathon Runner</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joba_Chamberlain" title="Joba Chamberlain">Joba Chamberlain</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ho-Chunk" title="Ho-Chunk">Ho-Chunk</a> pitcher for the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Tigers" title="Detroit Tigers">Detroit Tigers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Chavis" class="mw-redirect" title="Chris Chavis">Chris Chavis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lumbee" title="Lumbee">Lumbee</a> professional wrestler, Better Known As "Tatanka."</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_Curl" title="Rod Curl">Rod Curl</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Wintu" title="Wintu">Wintu</a>) PGA tour golfer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Dufina" title="Frank Dufina">Frank Dufina</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mackinac_Bands_of_Chippewa_and_Ottawa_Indians" title="Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians">Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians</a>), professional golfer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacoby_Ellsbury" title="Jacoby Ellsbury">Jacoby Ellsbury</a> <a href="/wiki/Colorado_River_Indian_Tribes" title="Colorado River Indian Tribes">CRIT Navajo</a> outfielder for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angel_Goodrich" title="Angel Goodrich">Angel Goodrich</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>) WNBA basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Guyon" title="Joe Guyon">Joe Guyon</a> (<a href="/wiki/Chippewa" class="mw-redirect" title="Chippewa">Chippewa</a>), American football halfback and baseball player. Won the <a href="/wiki/NFL_championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL championship">NFL championship</a> with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> <a href="/wiki/1927_NFL_season" title="1927 NFL season">in 1927</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Hoptowit" title="Al Hoptowit">Al Hoptowit</a> (<a href="/wiki/Yakama_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Yakama people">Yakama</a>), American football player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bronson_Koenig" title="Bronson Koenig">Bronson Koenig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ho-Chunk" title="Ho-Chunk">Ho-Chunk</a> basketball player currently on an NBA two-way contract</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashton_Locklear" title="Ashton Locklear">Ashton Locklear</a> Artistic Gymnast of <a href="/wiki/Lumbee" title="Lumbee">Lumbee</a> tribe. 2014 World Champion (Team), 2 x 2014 Pan American Champion (Team, Uneven Bars), 2 x 2016 Pacific Rim Champion (Team, Uneven Bars)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyle_Lohse" title="Kyle Lohse">Kyle Lohse</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nomlaki" title="Nomlaki">Nomlaki</a> pitcher, Milwaukee Brewers</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wahoo_McDaniel" title="Wahoo McDaniel">Edward "Wahoo" McDaniel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a>/<a href="/wiki/Chickasaw" title="Chickasaw">Chickasaw</a> professional wrestler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Mills" title="Billy Mills">Billy Mills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> athlete</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Seigler" title="Anthony Seigler">Anthony Seigler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a>, MLB player<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoni_Schimmel" title="Shoni Schimmel">Shoni Schimmel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confederated_Tribes_of_the_Umatilla_Indian_Reservation" title="Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation">Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation</a>, WNBA player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Sixkiller" title="Sonny Sixkiller">Sonny Sixkiller</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">American football</a> <a href="/wiki/Quarterback" title="Quarterback">quarterback</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Sockalexis" title="Louis Sockalexis">Louis Sockalexis</a> (<a href="/wiki/Penobscot_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Penobscot people">Penobscot</a>), Major League Baseball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Thorpe" title="Jim Thorpe">Jim Thorpe</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sac_and_Fox_Nation" title="Sac and Fox Nation">Sac and Fox Nation</a>), Olympic Gold medalist in track and field, gridiron football and baseball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Wondolowski" title="Chris Wondolowski">Chris Wondolowski</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a>), <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">soccer</a> player for the <a href="/wiki/San_Jose_Earthquakes" title="San Jose Earthquakes">San Jose Earthquakes</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States men's national soccer team">United States national team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerry_Werner" title="Kerry Werner">Kerry Werner</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowa</a>), cyclist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyle_Thompson" title="Lyle Thompson">Lyle Thompson</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Onondaga_people" title="Onondaga people">Onondaga</a>), pro Lacrosse player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Ross" title="Jim Ross">Jim Ross</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a>), WWE wrestling announcer</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Activists">Activists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Activists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Banks" title="Dennis Banks">Dennis Banks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leech_Lake_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Leech Lake Ojibwe">Leech Lake Ojibwe</a> activist, teacher, lecturer, author and co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/American_Indian_Movement" title="American Indian Movement">American Indian Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Brave_Bird" title="Mary Brave Bird">Mary Brave Bird</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicangu_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Sicangu Lakota">Sicangu Lakota</a> activist. She was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Bellecourt" title="Clyde Bellecourt">Clyde Bellecourt</a> <a href="/wiki/White_Earth_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="White Earth Ojibwe">White Earth Ojibwe</a> activist and co-founder of the American Indian Movement</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_Camp" title="Carter Camp">Carter Camp</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ponca" title="Ponca">Ponca</a> activist<sup id="cite_ref-auto_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Coyhis" title="Don Coyhis">Don Coyhis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohican" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohican">Mohican</a>, sobriety leader and mental health activist, lecturer and author. Founder of Wellbriety, a holistic approach that emphasizes community support for individuals as well as a return to cultural roots for Native American communities.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Frank_Jr." title="Billy Frank Jr.">Billy Frank Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nisqually_people" title="Nisqually people">Nisqually</a>, environmental leader and treaty rights. He was the founder and chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winona_LaDuke" title="Winona LaDuke">Winona LaDuke</a>, <a href="/wiki/White_Earth_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="White Earth Ojibwe">White Earth Ojibwe</a> environmental activist and writer. She was known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_LaFlesche_Picotte" class="mw-redirect" title="Susan LaFlesche Picotte">Susan LaFlesche Picotte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omaha_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Omaha (tribe)">Omaha</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ponca_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ponca people">Ponca</a>/<a href="/wiki/Iowa_people" title="Iowa people">Iowa</a> 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.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susette_LaFlesche_Tibbles" class="mw-redirect" title="Susette LaFlesche Tibbles">Susette LaFlesche Tibbles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omaha_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Omaha (tribe)">Omaha</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ponca_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ponca people">Ponca</a>/<a href="/wiki/Iowa_people" title="Iowa people">Iowa</a> spokesperson for Native American rights</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Smith_(Navajo_Activist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Katherine Smith (Navajo Activist)">Katherine Smith</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a>) activist and defender of Navajo lands</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Betty_Osceola" title="Betty Osceola">Betty Osceola</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miccosukee_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Miccosukee people">Miccosukee</a> educator, conservationist, anti-fracking, and clean water advocate in the <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> <a href="/wiki/Everglades" title="Everglades">Everglades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Parker" title="Deborah Parker">Deborah Parker</a> (<a href="/wiki/Tulalip_Tribes" title="Tulalip Tribes">Tulalip Tribes</a>, born 1970),<sup id="cite_ref-Parker1970_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Parker1970-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> activist and Tulalip Tribes' vice-chairwoman from 2012<sup id="cite_ref-TulalipLeaderSpeaks_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TulalipLeaderSpeaks-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to 2015<sup id="cite_ref-FormerChair_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FormerChair-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Parker 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.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Peltier" title="Leonard Peltier">Leonard Peltier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Chippewa" class="mw-redirect" title="Turtle Mountain Chippewa">Turtle Mountain Chippewa</a>/<a href="/wiki/Lakota_people" title="Lakota people">Lakota</a> activist. A member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Indian_Movement" title="American Indian Movement">American Indian Movement</a> (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</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Peratrovich" title="Elizabeth Peratrovich">Elizabeth Peratrovich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tlingit" title="Tlingit">Tlingit</a> civil rights activist. Peratrovich and her husband were instrumental in the successful <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native_Sisterhood" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Native Sisterhood">Alaska Native Sisterhood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alaska_Native_Brotherhood" class="mw-redirect" title="Alaska Native Brotherhood">Alaska Native Brotherhood</a> campaign against racial discrimination in Alaska, culminating in the 1945 enactment of the Anti-Discrimination Act.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Plamondon" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawrence Plamondon">Lawrence Plamondon</a>, Grand Traverse <a href="/wiki/Odawa_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Odawa people">Odawa</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a> 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.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%27Arcy_McNickle" title="D'Arcy McNickle">D'Arcy McNickle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salish_Kootenai" class="mw-redirect" title="Salish Kootenai">Salish Kootenai</a> author, activist, and anthropologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zitkala-Sa" title="Zitkala-Sa">Zitkala-Sa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yankton_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Yankton Dakota">Yankton Dakota</a> writer and activist. She was co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_American_Indians" title="National Council of American Indians">National Council of American Indians</a>, supporting Native 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.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Pokagon" title="Simon Pokagon">Simon Pokagon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pokagon_Potawatomi" class="mw-redirect" title="Pokagon Potawatomi">Pokagon Potawatomi</a> author and Native American advocate.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopold_Pokagon" title="Leopold Pokagon">Leopold Pokagon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pokagon_Potawatomi" class="mw-redirect" title="Pokagon Potawatomi">Pokagon Potawatomi</a> storyteller and activist. He tried to protect and promote the Potawatomi communities living in the St. Joseph River Valley and their lands.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luana_Reyes" title="Luana Reyes">Luana Reyes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confederated_Colville_Tribes" class="mw-redirect" title="Confederated Colville Tribes">Confederated Colville Tribes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sinixt_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sinixt people">Sinixt</a>) health activist and educator, 1933–2001<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Winnemucca" title="Sarah Winnemucca">Sarah Winnemucca</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northern_Paiute" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Paiute">Northern Paiute</a> 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."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Linguists_and_interpreters">Linguists and interpreters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Linguists and interpreters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States" title="Special:EditPage/List of Native Americans of the United States">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Little_Doe_Baird" title="Jessie Little Doe Baird">Jessie Little Doe Baird</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mashpee_Wampanoag" class="mw-redirect" title="Mashpee Wampanoag">Mashpee Wampanoag</a>, born 1963), linguist and preserver of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Mashpee_language&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mashpee language (page does not exist)">Mashpee language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hobomok" title="Hobomok">Hobomok</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wampanoag" title="Wampanoag">Wampanoag</a> interpreter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Luis" title="Don Luis">Don Luis</a> (died 1571), <a href="/wiki/Kiskiack" title="Kiskiack">Kiskiack</a> or <a href="/wiki/Paspahegh" title="Paspahegh">Paspahegh</a> guide and interpreter for a party of Jesuit missionaries in Virginia</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_James_and_Joseph_James,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph James and Joseph James, Jr.">Joseph James and Joseph James, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaw_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaw (tribe)">Kaw</a>/<a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage</a> interpreters and guides</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toby_Riddle" title="Toby Riddle">Toby Riddle</a> (1848–1920), <a href="/wiki/Modoc_people" title="Modoc people">Modoc</a> interpreter and diplomat</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sacagawea" title="Sacagawea">Sacajawea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoshone" title="Shoshone">Shoshone</a> interpreter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Sassamon" title="John Sassamon">John Sassamon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusett" title="Massachusett">Massachusett</a>, interpreter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sequoyah" title="Sequoyah">Sequoyah</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cherokee" title="Cherokee">Cherokee</a>), inventor of the <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary" title="Cherokee syllabary">Cherokee syllabary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Squanto" title="Squanto">Squanto</a> (c. 1585–November 1622), also known as <i>Tisquantum</i>, last surviving <a href="/wiki/Patuxet" title="Patuxet">Patuxet</a>, interpreter for the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Journalists_and_columnists">Journalists and columnists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Journalists and columnists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States" title="Special:EditPage/List of Native Americans of the United States">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_LeDuff" title="Charlie LeDuff">Charlie LeDuff</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie_Chippewa" class="mw-redirect" title="Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa">Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa</a> journalist, writer, and media personality</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Capriccioso" title="Rob Capriccioso">Rob Capriccioso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sault_Ste._Marie_Tribe_of_Chippewa_Indians" class="mw-redirect" title="Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians">Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians</a>, journalist and writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terri_Crawford_Hansen" title="Terri Crawford Hansen">Terri Crawford Hansen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ho-Chunk" title="Ho-Chunk">Ho-Chunk</a>/<a href="/wiki/Potawatomi" title="Potawatomi">Potawatomi</a> journalist, and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Christian_Hopkins" title="John Christian Hopkins">John Christian Hopkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Narragansett_people" title="Narragansett people">Narragansett people</a> journalist, author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Northrup_(writer)" title="Jim Northrup (writer)">Jim Northrup</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fond_du_Lac_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Fond du Lac Ojibwe">Fond du Lac Ojibwe</a> columnist and political writer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willie_Ottogary" title="Willie Ottogary">Willie Ottogary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_Shoshone" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwestern Shoshone">Northwestern Shoshone</a> journalist and leader.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Rogers,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Will Rogers, Jr.">Will Rogers, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> journalist and politician</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Trahant" title="Mark Trahant">Mark Trahant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoshone" title="Shoshone">Shoshone</a>-<a href="/wiki/Bannock_people" title="Bannock people">Bannock</a>, print and broadcast journalist, and author</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academics">Academics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Academics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States" title="Special:EditPage/List of Native Americans of the United States">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Bird_Woman" title="Buffalo Bird Woman">Buffalo Bird Woman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hidatsa" title="Hidatsa">Hidatsa</a> woman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Cajete" title="Gregory Cajete">Gregory Cajete</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santa_Clara_Pueblo" class="mw-redirect" title="Santa Clara Pueblo">Santa Clara Pueblo</a> ethnobotanist, author, and educator</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ishi" title="Ishi">Ishi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yana_people" title="Yana people">Yana</a> educator and last member of his tribe</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_LaFlesche" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis LaFlesche">Francis LaFlesche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omaha_(tribe)" class="mw-redirect" title="Omaha (tribe)">Omaha</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ponca_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Ponca people">Ponca</a>/<a href="/wiki/Iowa_people" title="Iowa people">Iowa</a> ethnologist and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Conley" title="Robert J. Conley">Robert J. Conley</a>, Cherokee author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vine_Deloria,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Vine Deloria, Jr.">Vine Deloria, Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yankton_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Yankton Dakota">Yankton Dakota</a>/<a href="/wiki/Standing_Rock_Nakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Standing Rock Nakota">Standing Rock Nakota</a> theologian, historian, writer and activist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Eastman" title="Charles Eastman">Charles Eastman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Santee_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Santee Dakota">Santee Dakota</a> author, physician and helped found the Boy Scouts of America.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/LeAnne_Howe" title="LeAnne Howe">LeAnne Howe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_Nation_of_Oklahoma" title="Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma">Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma</a> author and scholar</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Marshall_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Marshall III">Joseph Marshall III</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lakota_people" title="Lakota people">Lakota</a> educator and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devon_A._Mihesuah" title="Devon A. Mihesuah">Devon A. Mihesuah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Choctaw_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Choctaw Nation">Choctaw Nation</a> historian, author, and editor</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Medicine_Crow" title="Joe Medicine Crow">Joe Medicine Crow</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crow_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Crow Nation">Crow Nation</a> anthropologist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nila_NorthSun" class="mw-redirect" title="Nila NorthSun">Nila NorthSun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoshone" title="Shoshone">Shoshone</a>/<a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a> author and historian</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luana_Ross" title="Luana Ross">Luana Ross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Confederated_Salish_and_Kootenai_Tribes" title="Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes">Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes</a> sociologist and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delphine_Red_Shirt" title="Delphine Red Shirt">Delphine Red Shirt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala</a> writer and chair of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nongovernmental_Organization_Committee_on_the_International_Decade_of_the_World%27s_Indigenous_Peoples&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nongovernmental Organization Committee on the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples (page does not exist)">OCIDWIP</a> at the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Twiss" title="Richard Twiss">Richard Twiss</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicangu_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Sicangu Lakota">Sicangu Lakota</a> educator and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waziyatawin" title="Waziyatawin">Waziyatawin</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wahpetunwan_Dakota&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wahpetunwan Dakota (page does not exist)">Wahpetunwan Dakota</a> historian, educator, and author</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scientists">Scientists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Scientists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Begay" title="Fred Begay">Fred Begay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Navajo people">Navajo</a> nuclear physicist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karletta_Chief" title="Karletta Chief">Karletta Chief</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a> soil scientist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_R._Johnson" title="Kathleen R. Johnson">Kathleen R. Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grand_Traverse_Band_of_Ottawa_and_Chippewa_Indians" title="Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians">Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians</a>, paleoclimatologist<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_G._Ross" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary G. Ross">Mary G. Ross</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee Nation</a> engineer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krystal_Tsosie" title="Krystal Tsosie">Krystal Tsosie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a> geneticist and bioethicist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Yellow_Horse_Brave_Heart" title="Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart">Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hunkpapa" title="Hunkpapa">Hunkpapa</a>/<a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Lakota</a> social scientist who developed the concept of <a href="/wiki/Historical_trauma" title="Historical trauma">historical trauma</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other">Other</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Other"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bent" title="George Bent">George Bent</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne" title="Cheyenne">Cheyenne</a>, soldier, warrior, interpreter, and cultural informant</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polly_Cooper" title="Polly Cooper">Polly Cooper</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oneida_Tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Oneida Tribe">Oneida Tribe</a> aid to the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolution" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a> at <a href="/wiki/Valley_Forge" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Cornplanter" title="Jesse Cornplanter">Jesse Cornplanter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seneca_nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Seneca nation">Seneca</a> author and artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leonard_Crow_Dog" title="Leonard Crow Dog">Leonard Crow Dog</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sicangu_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Sicangu Lakota">Sicangu Lakota</a> medicine man, activist, and author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Cruzatte" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Cruzatte">Pierre Cruzatte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omaha_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Omaha tribe">Omaha</a> member of the <a href="/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition" title="Lewis and Clark Expedition">Lewis and Clark Expedition</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deganawida" class="mw-redirect" title="Deganawida">Deganawida</a> (<a href="/wiki/Haudenosaunee" class="mw-redirect" title="Haudenosaunee">Haudenosaunee</a>), founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, more respectfully called <a href="/wiki/The_Great_Peacemaker" class="mw-redirect" title="The Great Peacemaker">The Great Peacemaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_EchoHawk" class="mw-redirect" title="Larry EchoHawk">Larry EchoHawk</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pawnee_people" title="Pawnee people">Pawnee</a> head of the BIA, former Attorney General of Idaho</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Herrington" title="John Herrington">John Herrington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_Nation" title="Chickasaw Nation">Chickasaw Nation</a> <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> astronaut</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_and_Ernie" class="mw-redirect" title="James and Ernie">James and Ernie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a> comedy duo</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maude_Kegg" title="Maude Kegg">Maude Kegg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mille_Lacs_Ojibwe" class="mw-redirect" title="Mille Lacs Ojibwe">Mille Lacs Ojibwe</a> writer, folk artist, and cultural interpreter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mountain_Wolf_Woman" title="Mountain Wolf Woman">Mountain Wolf Woman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ho-Chunk" title="Ho-Chunk">Ho-Chunk</a> autobiographer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owl_Woman" title="Owl Woman">Owl Woman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne" title="Cheyenne">Cheyenne</a> negotiator, peacemaker, <a href="/wiki/Colorado_Women%27s_Hall_of_Fame" title="Colorado Women's Hall of Fame">Colorado Women's Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pocahontas" title="Pocahontas">Pocahontas</a>, aka <a href="/wiki/Matoaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Matoaka">Matoaka</a>, <a href="/wiki/Powhatan" title="Powhatan">Powhatan</a> mediator with the earliest colonists in Jamestown<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rattling_Blanket_Woman" class="mw-redirect" title="Rattling Blanket Woman">Rattling Blanket Woman</a> (<a href="/wiki/Miniconjou" title="Miniconjou">Miniconjou</a>), mother of <a href="/wiki/Crazy_Horse" title="Crazy Horse">Crazy Horse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Chaat_Smith" title="Paul Chaat Smith">Paul Chaat Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Comanche" title="Comanche">Comanche</a>/<a href="/wiki/Choctaw" title="Choctaw">Choctaw</a>, writer, Associate Curator of the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_the_American_Indian" title="National Museum of the American Indian">National Museum of the American Indian</a><sup id="cite_ref-auto_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Tallchief" title="Maria Tallchief">Maria Tallchief</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage Nation</a> ballerina</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Tallchief" title="Marjorie Tallchief">Marjorie Tallchief</a>, <a href="/wiki/Osage_Nation" title="Osage Nation">Osage Nation</a> ballerina</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Randy%27L_He-dow_Teton" title="Randy'L He-dow Teton">Randy'L He-dow Teton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoshone" title="Shoshone">Shoshone</a>-<a href="/wiki/Bannock_people" title="Bannock people">Bannock</a>, model for the US Sacagawea dollar</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsali" title="Tsali">Tsali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Cherokee" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern Cherokee">Eastern Cherokee</a> warrior, chief, and martyr</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_Native_Americans_of_the_United_States&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Principal_Chiefs_of_the_Cherokee" title="List of Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee">List of Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leading_chief_of_the_Seminoles" class="mw-redirect" title="Leading chief of the Seminoles">Leading chief of the Seminoles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Lumbees" title="List of Lumbees">List of Lumbees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Indians_of_Iowa" class="mw-redirect" title="American Indians of Iowa">American Indians of Iowa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_artists_from_Oklahoma" title="List of Native American artists from Oklahoma">List of Native American artists from Oklahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_leaders_of_the_Indian_Wars" title="List of Native American leaders of the Indian Wars">List of Native American leaders of the Indian Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_Medal_of_Honor_recipients" title="List of Native American Medal of Honor recipients">List of Native American Medal of Honor recipients</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Native_American_temperance_activists" title="Native American temperance activists">List of Native American temperance activists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Native_American_women_of_the_United_States" title="List of Native American women of the United States">List of Native American women of the United States</a></li> <li>Category: <a 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