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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC) Board Chairman and President of Cansa'yapi.

A Santee Dakota physician educated at Boston University, he was the first Native American to be certified in Western medicine.

A member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. In her career dating back to the 1970s, she's published 17 novels and more than 30 books in all, including children's literature, poetry and nonfiction. She won the National Book Award and the national Book Critics Circle Award for fiction twice.

Known as "The Sioux Chef," this Oglala Lakota has been cooking across the US and World for the last 30 years, with a main culinary focus on the revitalization and awareness of indigenous foods systems in a modern culinary context.

An enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, this Native American is Minnesota's 50th Lieutenant Governor.