List of Native Americans of the United States

This is a list of notable Native Americans from peoples indigenous to the contemporary United States, including Native Alaskans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Americans in the United States.[1][2] Native American identity is a complex and contested issue. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American identity.[3] All individuals on this list should have Native American ancestry. Historical figures might predate tribal enrollment practices and would be included based on ethnological tribal membership,

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Further information: List of indigenous people of the Americas

Artists
Main article: List of Native American artists

Chiefs

Warriors and military

Politicians
Main article: List of Native American politicians

Religious leaders

Novelists and poets

TV and Films
Main article: List of Native American actors

Musicians and singers
Main article: List of Native American musicians

Sport
Main article: List of Native American sportspeople

Activists
  • Anna Mae Aquash, Mi'kmaq. She participated in the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the Wounded Knee incident at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, United States in 1973.
  • Dennis Banks, Anishinaabe activist, teacher, lecturer, author and co-founder of the American Indian Movement
  • Mary Brave Bird, Brulé Lakota activist. She was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events.
  • Clyde Bellecourt White Earth Ojibwe activist and co-founder of the American Indian Movement
  • Carter Camp, Ponca, activist[6]
  • Billy Frank Jr., Nisqually (deceased), environmental leader and treaty rights. He was the founder and chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
  • Winona LaDuke, White Earth Ojibwe environmental activist and writer. She was known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.
  • Susan LaFlesche Picotte, Omaha-Ponca-Iowa activist, first female Native American physician. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe.
  • Susette LaFlesche Tibbles, Omaha-Ponca-Iowa spokesperson for Native American rights
  • Katherine Smith, (Navajo) activist and defender of Navajo lands
  • Deborah Parker (born 1970),[7] activist and Tulalip Tribes vice-chairwoman from 2012[8] to 2015[9]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
  • Leonard Peltier, Ojibwa-Lakota activist. A member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), he is imprisoned for first-degree murder for the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
  • Elizabeth Peratrovich, Tlingit civil rights activist. Peratrovich and her husband were instrumental in the successful Alaska Native Sisterhood and Alaska Native Brotherhood campaign against racial discrimination in Alaska, culminating in the 1945 enactment of the Anti-Discrimination Act.
  • Lawrence Plamondon, Odawa-Ojibwe activist and storyteller. He helped found the White Panther Party. He was the first hippie to be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Plamondon's father was half-Odawa and his mother was part-Ojibwe.
  • D'Arcy McNickle, Salish Kootenai author, activist, and anthropologist
  • Zitkala-Sa, Yankton Dakota writer and activist. She was co-founder of the National Council of American Indians, founded for defend the rights to United States citizenship and civil rights. In addition, she served as its president until her death in 1938. She wrote several books about the Native American cultures and is one of the most influential Native American activists of the twentieth century.
  • Simon Pokagon, Potawatomi author and Native American advocate.
  • Leopold Pokagon, Potawatomi storyteller and activist. He tried to protect and promote the Potawatomi communities living in the St. Joseph River Valley and their lands.
  • Luana Reyes, Confederated Colville Tribes (Sinixt) health activist and educator, 1933–2001[10]
  • Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute. She was an advocate for the rights of Native Americans and served US forces as a messenger, interpreter, and guide, and as a teacher for imprisoned Native Americans. She also wrote the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman."

Linguists and interpreters

Journalists and columnists

Academics

Scientists


Other

See also

References
  1. Notable American Indians
  2. Famous Native Americans
  3. "IV. Our Nation’s American Indian and Alaska Native Citizens." US Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  4. https://www.oca.org/saints/lives/2018/09/24/102713-martyr-peter-the-aleut
  5. "Native athletes in the news: NY Yankees draft Anthony Seigler (Navajo)". www.firstnationsfocus.com. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  6. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AM008.html
  7. Walker, Richard (June 9, 2017). "10 Things You Should Know About the Tulalip Tribes". People. Indian Country Today. National Congress of American Indians. ISSN 1066-5501. Archived from the original on September 29, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2018. Deborah Parker (1970– ). Former vice chairwoman of the Tulalip Tribes; leading advocate for expansion of the Violence Against Women Act to include protections for Native American women; appointed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, to the 2016 Democratic National Convention's Platform Committee.
  8. Muhlstein, Julie (May 22, 2012). "Tulalip leader speaks in D.C. for protection for women". Local News. The Daily Herald. Josh O'Connor. ISSN 2332-0079. Archived from the original on July 22, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018. Parker, 41, is the new vice chairwoman of the Tulalip Tribes Board of Directors. Elected in March [2012], she is the only woman on the current board and its youngest member.
  9. Winters, Chris (March 24, 2015). "Tulalip Tribes return former chairman to board". Local News. The Daily Herald. Tulalip: Josh O'Connor. ISSN 2332-0079. Archived from the original on July 22, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018. Board member Deborah Parker did not run for re-election.
  10. Green, Sara Jean. "Luana Reyes, 68, a leader in agency for Indian health." Seattle Times. 10 Nov 2001. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  11. "Down to Earth With: Cave scientist and paleoclimatologist Kathleen Johnson". EARTH Magazine. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  12. " Did You Know They're Native?" Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  13. "Pocahontas." Powhatan Museum. Retrieved 22 Jan 2011.
  14. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AM008.html
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