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US Representative - Kansas 3rd Congressional District Sharice Davis Citizen of the HoChunk Nation One of the first women to be elected into the United States Congress. | United States Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland The first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary. She is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna. | Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985-1995) Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. |
US Representative - Kansas 3rd Congressional District
One of the first women to be elected into the United States Congress.
United States Secretary of the Interior
The first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary. She is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna.
Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985-1995)
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Louise Erdrich Turtle Mountain Ojibwe | Sandra White Hawk Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Lakota) She is the founder and Director of First Nations Repatriation Institute. | Dyani White Hawk Sičáŋǧu Lakota |
Sandra White Hawk
She is the founder and Director of First Nations Repatriation Institute.
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Suzan Shown Harjo Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee Poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres | Elouise Cobell - Yellow Bird Woman Blackfoot Nation. Founded the first Native American owned bank, and successfully won a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Government. | Winona Laduke White Earth Anishinaabe American economist, environmentalist, writer and industrial hemp grower, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development (Wikipedia) |
Suzan Shown Harjo
Poet, writer, lecturer, curator, and policy advocate who has helped Native peoples recover more than one million acres
Elouise Cobell - Yellow Bird Woman
Founded the first Native American owned bank, and successfully won a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Government.
Winona Laduke
American economist, environmentalist, writer and industrial hemp grower, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development (Wikipedia)
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Brenda Child | Jamie Okuma La Jolla band of Indians in Southern California Native American Artist & Fashion Designer | Melanie Benjamin |
Jamie Okuma
Native American Artist & Fashion Designer
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Zitkala-Sa Yankton Dakota | Buffalo Calf Road Woman | Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich |
Buffalo Calf Road Woman
Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich
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Autumn Peltier | Tara Houska | LaDonna Brave Bull Allard Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Water protector, tribal historian and founder of the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock. |
Autumn Peltier
Tara Houska
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard
Water protector, tribal historian and founder of the Sacred Stone Camp at Standing Rock.
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Hope Flanagan Seneca Elder & Storyteller | Mary Dann and Carrie Dann Western Shoshone Land Rights Activists | Mary Kunesh Podein |
American Indian Education Program
