Native American activists

American basketball player

American game show host (1923–2023)

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)

Native American activist

author and activist

Native American entertainer (1936–2007)

Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher (1844–1891)

Native American rights activist, musician, poet, and actor (1946-2015)

American atheist activist

Ojibwe co-founder of the American Indian Movement (1937-2017)

Mi'kmaq activist (1945-1975)

Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist (1854–1903)

American writer (1933-2005)

World War II veteran, environmentalist, tribal court judge, and Native rights activist (1921-2008)

Navajo Nation activist

Wyandot-American lawyer

Levi General (March 15, 1873 – June 27, 1925), commonly known as Deskaheh, was a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) hereditary chief and appointed speaker noted for his persistent efforts to get recognition for his people. He is most famous for bringing Iroquois concerns before the League of Nations in the 1920s.

American business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionist (1819–1902)

Iroquois traditionalist, orator, artist, and lacrosse athlete

Native American activist

Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee activist, poet, writer, lecturer, and curator (born 1945)

American politician, Native American activist

Native American environmentalist

American activist and model

White Earth Ojibwe activist

Lakota holy man, member of the Heyoka society (1903–1976)

Mohawk Native American activist (1942–1972)

a Native American rights activist

American fugitive

Nisqually environmental leader and treaty rights activist

Native American activist

Apesanahkwat (born January 19, 1949) is a Native American tribal leader, activist, and film and television actor.

Native American writer and activist

Assiniboine activist and journalist

Wyandot nanny (1816–1890)

Native American leader and scholar

Sioux writer and editor (1930–2023)

Cherokee political advisor and politician

Native American activist (1943–2020)

American writer

American activist

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