Activists for Native American rights

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly affected African Americans.

President of the United States from 1825 to 1829

president of the United States from 1923 to 1929

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its melancholic exploration of glamor and romance, with frequent references to pop culture and 1950s–1970s Americana. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an MTV Video Music Award, three MTV Europe Music Awards, two Brit Awards, two Billboard Women in Music awards, and a Satellite Award, in addition to nominations for 11 Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Variety honored her at their Hitmakers Awards for being "one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 21st century". In 2023, Rolling Stone placed Del Rey on their list of the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time", while Rolling Stone UK named her as the "greatest American songwriter of the 21st century".

Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential performers in the history of cinema, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTAs, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.

Jane Seymour Fonda is an American actress and activist. Fonda's work spans several genres and over seven decades of film and television. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and two Tony Awards. Fonda is also the recipient of various honorary awards including the Honorary Palme d'Or in 2007, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2014, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2017, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2021, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2025.

American country singer (1932–2003)

Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Regarded as the "Queen of Soul", she was twice named by Rolling Stone magazine as the greatest singer of all time.

Charles Robert Redford Jr. was an American actor, director and producer, celebrated for his magnetic presence as a leading man during the American New Wave. Across a career spanning more than six decades, Redford earned widespread recognition and numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and five Golden Globe Awards,. He has also received various honors including the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016 and the Honorary César in 2019.

American anthropologist (1818–1881)

American basketball player

American abolitionist, writer

American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

American musician

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1945–2010)

American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer (1811-1884)

author and activist

American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur (1932–2017)

American politician and businessman (1791-1883)

American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)

Native American physician and scouting pioneer (1858–1939)

Christian religious leader, healing evangelist, author, educator, television personality

politician (1883-1963)

civil rights activist from Alaska (1911–1958)

American activist (1844-1921)

American writer (1824–1892)

American politician (1854-1931)

Oglala Lakota writer and actor (1868-1939)

American politician (1936-2021)

Native American activist

Native American activist (1866–1923)

American writer (born 1934)

American politician (1805-1883)

Native American activist

Chippewa and Metis, first Native American graduate of Washington Law School, Bureau of Indian Affairs accountant

American model and activist (born 2002)

Mohawk Native American activist (1942–1972)

Episcopalian priest and a founder and leader of the Society of American Indians

American academic (1934-2011)

Unitarian minister, journalist, early social scientist

American journalist

Bishop of Minnesota (1822–1901)