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This is a list of Native American politicians in the United States. These are Native Americans who served in the federal, state, or municipal governments. Native American identity is a complex and contested issue.
- Myrna Cunningham Kain
- Hilaria Supa Huamán
- Ofelia Zepeda
- Evo Morales
- Ella Cara Deloria
- Kent Monkman
- Yaku Pérez
- Deb Haaland
- Aritana Yawalapiti
- Alanis Obomsawin
Myrna Cunningham Kain, a Miskito feminist and Indigenous rights activist, began her career as a teacher and later attended medical school at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, becoming the country’s first Miskito doctor. She practiced general medicine and surgery until 1979, and then served as the first female governor of the Miskito ...
Hilaria Supa Huamán's early experiences of sexism, racism, and violence while she worked as a maid left her with lifelong arthritis and influenced her present political action. In 2006, she was elected to Peru's Congress and took her oath in Quechua, her primary language, an act that caused stoked anti-Indigenous sentiment among her peers. As a lea...
Ofelia Zepeda, a poet, activist, and liguist, co-founded and now leads the American Indian Language Development Institute, an organization dedicated to revitalizing Indigenous language use across generations. She teaches the Tohono O'odham language (of which she’s a fluent speaker) at the University of Arizona, where she’s the Regent’s professor of...
Evo Morales, of the Aymara Indigenous group, was elected the first Indigenous president of Bolivia in 2006. He served for 14 years across three consecutive terms. Morales began his political career by leading the Coca Growers Union, the cocaleros, and advocating for the rights of coca farmers (coca is a traditional crop in Bolivia, as well as the r...
Ella Cara Deloria, one of the first bilingual, bicultural anthropologists, was born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1889. She was raised in the Lakota community and was fluent in the Dakota and Lakota dialects of the Sioux language. Her education took place at an Episcopal school and then Oberlin College. A meeting with the fam...
Kent Monkman is a Cree multidisciplinary artist and one of the best-known Canadian artists today. His work observes historical and modern-day Indigenous experiences through the intersection of colonialism, sexuality, and the pliability of Native American culture. In many of his works, a gender fluid alter ego named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle appear...
Cañari attorney and activist Yaku Pérez was the Indigenous party Pachakutik’s candidate in Ecuador's 2021 presidential election. He came in second place in a virtual tie with a conservative candidate; officials chose Pérez's opponent for the runoff election and Pérez dropped out of the race. Pérez’s candidacy was part of a wave of Indigenous leader...
Secretary Deb Haaland is a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, a 35th-generation New Mexican, and the first Native American appointed in 2021 to the position of cabinet secretary in her role as the head of the Department of the Interior. The significance of Haaland’s leadership of the 172-year-old federal agency, known for facilitating the genocide of ...
Aritana Yawalapiti was an influential chief and revered leader of the Yawalapiti tribe inside Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park, a 6.5 million-acre park established in 1961 to protect the tribes in the area. In fact, he helped create it. Today it serves as a home to 16 groups and about 7500 Indigenous people. Aritana taught the history of the Yawalapi...
Alanis Obomsawin's last name means "pathfinder,” an apt description of her work as a singer, filmmaker, multimedia artist, and storyteller. A member of the Abenaki Nation, Obomsawin grew up on the Odanak reserve in Quebec, Canada. While serving as a consultant on First Nations-related projects at the National Film Board of Canada, she made her firs...
8 de ene. de 2024 · The Tribal Leaders Directory provides contact information for each federally recognized tribe. The electronic, map based, interactive directory also provides information about each BIA region and agency that provides services to a specific tribe.
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13 de oct. de 2020 · Despite adversity, Indigenous people or Native Americans are thriving in a variety of fields from acting, writing and politics. Here are some of the most famous.
27 de nov. de 2023 · Activist Winona LaDuke. Photo Courtesy: Kerem Yucel/Getty Images. Indigenous activist, author and economist Winona LaDuke has devoted her life to the fight for Indigenous rights and the environment, from working on tribal land claims to advocating for greater preservation and sustainability.
20 de sept. de 2022 · From left to right: Reps. Kaialiʻi Kahele, Mary Peltola and Sharice Davids. Congressman Kaialiʻi Kahele's Twitter. Indigenous peoples in the United States have been disenfranchised on many...
