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The first woman and first Native American to hold a cabinet position. She is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna.

• Deb Haaland

• Sharice Davids

• Wilma Mankiller

Born on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota, he founded the American Indian Movement with other Native American activists in 1968 to force attention on Native issues. He also organized The Longest Walk, a five-month march from California to Washington, D.C. to foster awareness of Native rights.

• Nathan Phillips

• Dennis Banks

• Philip Yenyo

One of the first bilingual, bicultural anthropologists, she was fluent into the Dakota and Lakota dialects of the "Sioux" language. She helped preserve records of the Sioux people and dialects through translation, oral histories, studies, and writing. Today, her work is still used to study Sioux culture, ethnography, and language. She was born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1889.

• Lois Standing

• Jacey Firth-Hagen

• Ella Cara Deloria

A member of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) people, she is an attorney, former mixed martial artist, politician serving as the U.S. Representative from Kansas's 3rd congressional district, and first openly LGBT Native American elected to the U.S. Congress.

• Wilma Mankiller

• Deb Haaland

• Sharice Davids

A Mdewakanton Dakota chief who led a faction of the Dakota in the US-Dakota War of 1862 after ten years of unfulfilled treaty promises and corruption.

• Taoyateduta (Little Crow)

• Wowinape

• Cetanwakanmani

The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. She also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• Annie Dodge Wauneka

• Wilma Mankiller

• Clara Irene Sitton

A tribal leader of the Navajo Nation and public health activist, she worked tirelessly to improve the health and welfare of the Navajo Tribe and reduce the incidence of tuberculosis nationwide. She gained election in 1951 to the Tribal Council, the second woman ever so elected. During her three terms in office, she wrote an English to Navajo dictionary for modern medical techniques and gave weekly radio broadcasts in the Navajo language about modern medicine. She continued working in her community on health issues until her death in 1997. In 1963, she was the first Native American to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

• Maria Tallchief

• Wilma Mankiller

• Annie Dodge Wauneka

She was considered America's first major prima ballerina. She was the first Native American to hold the rank, and is said to have revolutionized ballet.

• Elise Paschen

• Maria Tallchief

• Ruth Porter

Born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, he came from behind to beat world champion runners in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, taking gold in the 10,000 meter run, the first American to do so.

• Jim Thorpe

• Billy Mills

• Charles Albert Bender

The first American Indian elected into baseball's Hall of Fame in 1953. By the end of his major league career in 1925, he had accrued 212 wins and more than 1,700 strikeouts.

• Louis Sockalexis

• Charles Albert Bender

• Bill Phyle