name
image
description
ethnic group
occupation
date of birth
date of death
country of citizenship
place of birth
place of death
wikidata item
site links
Sally Ainse
Oneida fur trader
Oneida
diplomat fur trader
No/unknown value
1823
Amherstburg
Q7405036
1
Big Eyes
Wichita Indian, captive of Coronado’s expedition
Wichita people
explorer
1520
Q98593529
1
Pocahontas
American native woman
Powhatan
writer
1596
1617-03
Tsenacommacah Kingdom of England
Werowocomoco
Gravesend
Q193406
60
Molly Brant
Canadian aboriginal leader
Haudenosaunee
Loyalist
1736
1796-04-16
Canada Kingdom of Great Britain
Ohio River Valley Canajoharie
Kingston
Q1396262
9
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
19th century American Indian literary author
Ojibwe
historian poet writer translator
1800-01-31
1842-05-22
United States of America
Sault Ste. Marie
Dundas
Q3028529
8
Josette Juneau
Menominee humanitarian
Menominee Métis
1803-04-16
1855-11-19
Fort Howard
Q98593478
1
Eliza Missouri Bushyhead Alberty
Cherokee educator and businesswoman (1839-1919)
Cherokee
educator businessperson hotel manager
1839-01-03
1919-11-05
Missouri
Claremore
Q98593461
1
Tomassa
Comanche interpreter
Comanche
1840
1900-12-06
Mexico
Grady County
Q98593467
0
Lozen
Apache prophetess and warrior
Apache
warrior shaman resistance fighter
1840 1845
1889-06-17
Ojo Caliente
Mount Vernon Arsenal
Q443262
12
Sarah Winnemucca
Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher
Paiute people
writer teacher
1844
1891-10-17
United States of America
Humboldt Sink
Idaho
Q438194
22
The Other Magpie
Woman warrior of Crow tribe
Crow Nation
1849
1900
Q7755494
1
Rosie Jarvis
Kashaya Pomo tribal historian
Pomo people
1851
1955
Sonoma County
Q98593491
0
Pretty Shield
Crow medicine woman
Crow Nation
writer autobiographer
1856
1944
United States of America
Q7242284
2
Maria Chona
American Tohono O' odham basket weaver
Tohono O'odham
artist
1858 1845
1936
Q62131471
1
Nampeyo
Hopi-Tewa potter (1859–1942)
Hopi people
painter ceramicist
1859
1942
United States of America
Hano, Arizona
Arizona
Q2060870
10
Annie Miner Peterson
American linguistic consultant
Miluk people Coos people
1860
1939
Q4769388
2
Sarah Jim Mayo
Washoe basket maker, 1860-1945
Washo people
basket weaver painter
1860 1858
1945 1918
Q98592724
2
Pauline Johnson
Canadian poet and performer
Mohawk people
writer poet actor
1861-03-10
1913-03-07
Canada
Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation
Vancouver
Q2716914
23
Mabel Washbourne Anderson
Cherokee writer
Cherokee
writer teacher
1863
1949-09-05
United States of America
Arkansas
Tulsa
Q58236938
0
Mother Mary Catherine Sacred White Buffalo
Hunkpapa Lakota Catholic nun
Sioux
1867
1893
Q98593502
1
Lucy Telles
Mono Paiute-Miwok basket weaver from Mono Lake & Yosemite Valley, California
Miwok people Paiute people
basket weaver
180s
1955 1956
United States of America
Mono County
Q6698530
2
Viola Jimulla
Chief of Yavapai-Prescott Tribe
Yavapai-Apache Nation
tribal chief
1878
1966
San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation
Q7933024
1
Roberta Lawson
American activist
Lenape
politician
1878-10-31
1940-12-31
United States of America
Tulsa
Q7351519
1
Laura Cornelius Kellogg
Native American activist
Oneida
linguist
1880
1949
United States of America
Green Bay
Q9033413
8
Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone
American soprano (1882-1985)
Muscogee Cherokee
singer
1882-12-13
1985-01-10
United States of America
Eufaula
San Diego
Q16011390
4
Mountain Wolf Woman
Native American woman
Ho-Chunk
autobiographer
1884-04
1960-11-09
United States of America
Q6925445
2
Maria Martinez
Native American potter 1887-1980
Tewa people
potter artist
1887
1980-06-20
United States of America
San Ildefonso Pueblo
San Ildefonso Pueblo
Q2660929
14
Elizabeth Bender Roe Cloud
American educator and Native American rights activist
Ojibwe
teacher activist
1887-04-02
1965-09-16
United States of America
White Earth Indian Reservation
Portland
Q35885508
3
Mary Augusta Tappage Evans
Native American
Soda Creek/Deep Creek Band Secwépemc Métis
writer poet
1888
1978
Soda Creek
Q98592723
1
Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez
Luiseño painter
Luiseño Rincon Reservation
artist painter writer activist
1888-12-25
1972-05-12
United States of America
Valley Center
New York City
Q98590669
1
Lena Frank Dick
Washoe basket weaver
Washo people
basket weaver
1889
1965
Q98593528
1
Tonita Peña
Native American painter and muralist
San Ildefonso Pueblo
painter teacher
1893-05-10 1895-06-13
1949-09-09
United States of America
Real Sitio de San Ildefonso
Kewa Pueblo
Q18336552
4
Marie Mason Potts
Maidu activist and writer (1895–1978)
Maidu
writer
1895
1978
Q20005815
2
Sanapia
Comanche medicine woman and spiritual healer
Comanche
herbalist
1895-05-20
1984-01-23
United States of America
Fort Sill
Q7415505
1
Florence Davidson
Canadian artist (1896–1993)
Haida people
basket weaver
1896
1993 1993-12-13
Masset
Q5460598
1
Alma Greene
Mohawk autobiographer
Mohawk people
writer
1896
1983
Q98590673
0
Ruth Muskrat
American poet
Cherokee
poet writer
1897-10-03
1982-06-12
United States of America
Indian Territory
Tucson
Q20006564
8
Anna Moore Shaw
American writer
Pima Bajo
writer
1898
1976-04-18
Gila River Indian Reservation
Q11905654
2
Lucy M. Lewis
Acoma ceramic artist
Acoma Pueblo tribe
ceramicist
1898
1992-03-12
United States of America
Acoma Pueblo
Acoma Pueblo
Q13560693
2
Helen Sekaquaptewa
Hopi folk heroine
Hopi people
homemaker
1898
1991
Q98590662
1
Agnes Vanderburg
US Native American
Salish peoples
writer
1901
1989
Q23935104
3
Essie Pinola Parrish
Kashaya Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman from California
Pomo people
basket weaver
1902
1979
United States of America
Q5399886
1
Maude Kegg
Ojibwe traditionalist, bead artist, and author from Minnesota
Ojibwe
writer folklorist beadworker
1904-08-26
1996-01-06
United States of America
Crow Wing County
Minnesota
Q6744955
5
Lucille Jerry Winnie
Seneca/Cayuga author
Seneca Cayuga people
1905
Q98593495
1
Helen Pease Wolf
Absaroka writer 1906-1995
Crow Nation
writer
1906-12-28
1995-03-03
Q94574103
0
Mabel McKay
Cache Creek Pomo-Patwin basketweaver and the last Pomo dream doctor in California
Pomo people
basket weaver
1907-01-12
1993 1993-05-31
United States of America
Nice
Q13560696
2
Jeannette Henry Costo
co-founder of the American Indian Historical Society and the Indian Historian Press
Cherokee
activist author
1908-06-27
2001-01-31
United States of America
San Francisco
San Francisco
Q98566370
2
Daisy Hooee Nampeyo
artist, born 1910-died 1994
Hopi people Tewa people
potter artist
1910
1994
Q21979448
1
Lucy Covington
Native American activist (1910-1982)
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
activist
1910-11-24
1982-09-20
United States of America
Nespelem
Q6698251
2
Bertha Little Coyote
Cheyenne author, artist, and singer
Cheyennes
1912
2003
Q98590656
1
Natachee Scott Momaday
Cherokee teacher, poet, and painter
Cherokee
1913
1996-09-26
Q98590651
0
Yeffe Kimball
American painter who fabricated a Native American identity, 1906-1978
Osage Nation Native Americans in the United States Caucasian race
painter artist
1914 1906-03-30
1978
Mountain Park Missouri
Q22003266
1
Garnet Pavatea
Native American
Hopi people Tewa people
artist
1915
1981
Q98590664
1
Helen Cordero
American artist
Cochiti
ceramicist
1915-06-15
1994-07-24
United States of America
village of Cochiti
Q5702067
6
Helen White Peterson
American Native American rights administrator
Oglala Lakota Sioux
lobbyist public administration
1915-08-03
2000-07-10
United States of America
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Vancouver
Q26721121
2
Sadie Brower Neakok
Alaskan judge
Inupiat people
judge
1916
2004
Q66692706
1
Roberta Blackgoat
Big Mountain Diné elder
Navajo
environmentalist painter
1917
2002
Q98593485
1
Mary Tallmountain
American poet
Alaskan Athabaskans
poet writer
1918-06-19
1994-09-02
United States of America
Nulato
Petaluma
Q6102896
3
Ignatia Broker
Ojibwe writer (1919-1987)
Ojibwe
novelist
1919-02-14
1987-06-23
United States of America
White Earth Indian Reservation
Minnesota
Q11926463
2
Hildreth Marie Twostars Venegas
Indian Health Service administrator (1919-2013)
Sioux
1919-10-27
2013-04-15
Q98593522
0
Poldine Carlo
American author
Alaskan Athabaskans
writer
1920-12-05
2018-05-09
United States of America
Nulato
Fairbanks
Q6092168
6
Grace Thorpe
World War II veteran, environmentalist, tribal court judge, and Native rights activist (1921-2008)
environmentalist paralegal
1921-12-10
2008-04-01
United States of America
Oklahoma
Q3113023
10
Ruth Arrington
Creek actress and communications professor
Muscogee
actor writer
1924
Tulsa
Q98593468
0
Winifred Tiger
Seminole Tribe educator
Cherokee
1924-03-25
2006-05-30
Q98593464
0
Maria Tallchief
American ballerina (1925-2013)
Osage Nation
ballet dancer
1925-01-24
2013-04-11
United States of America
Fairfax
Chicago
Q264400
34
Alice Blue Legs
Lakota quillworker
Sioux
handicrafter quillworker
1925-07-26
2003-01-02
United States of America
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Rapid City
Q56167036
1
Louise Abeita
20th century Isleta Pueblo author
Isleta Puebloan
writer poet
1926-09-09
2014-07-21
United States of America
Isleta Pueblo
Albuquerque
Q6688596
4
Nora Marks Dauenhauer
American Tlingit writer and poet
Tlingit
poet writer scholar anthropologist
1927-05-08
2017-09-25
United States of America
Juneau
Juneau
Q448138
13
Kenojuak Ashevak
Inuit artist
Inuit
sculptor printmaker drawer
1927-10-03
2013-01-08
Canada
Baffin Island
Kinngait
Q122347
18
Yvonne Chouteau
American ballet dancer (1929-2016)
Cherokee
ballet dancer
1929-03-07
2016-01-24
United States of America
Fort Worth
Oklahoma City
Q8062431
3
Connie Redbird Pinkerman-Uri
first Native American woman to hold degrees in both law and medicine
Choctaw Cherokee
lawyer physician
1930
2009
Wheatland
Q98593465
1
Sister Genevieve Cuny
Oglala Lakota Franciscan educator and administrator
Sioux
1930
Q98593499
0
Viola Hatch
Native American activist and politician
Arapaho people
politician
1930-02-12
2019-04-22
United States of America
Q19878664
2
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Sioux writer and editor
Crow Nation Muscogee Sioux
poet novelist writer university teacher
1930-11-17
2023-07-05
United States of America Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
Fort Thompson
Rapid City
Q544900
4
Joan Hill
American artist (1930-2020)
Cherokee Muscogee
painter
1930-12-19
2020-06-16
United States of America
Muskogee
Muskogee
Q6205125
4
Laura Mae Osceola
Seminole tribe' s first secretary and treasurer
Seminole
1932-11-13
2003-10-07
Dania Beach
Q98593494
0
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Lakota author
Sioux
writer journalist children's writer
1933-01-21
United States of America
South Dakota
Q3025486
6
Carol Lee Sanchez
Native American poet
Laguna people Sioux
poet writer
1934
2014
United States of America
Q5044435
2
Janet McCloud
American Indian activist
Tulalip people
activist
1934-03-30
2003-11-25
United States of America
Q6153499
3
Henrietta Mann
Cheyenne educator
Cheyennes
academic educator
1934-05-22
United States of America
Clinton
Q98566569
2
Verna Kirkness
Cree scholar and indigenous language proponent
Cree
faculty member writer linguist teacher
1935
Canada
Fisher River Cree Nation
Q25907342
3
Ada Deer
Native American activist, scholar, and civil servant (1935-2023)
Menominee
politician activist university teacher
1935-08-07
2023-08-15
United States of America
Keshena
Fitchburg
Q4678247
5
Lorraine Mae Rousseau
first tribal Chairwoman of the Sisseton- Wahpeton Sioux tribe
Sioux
1936
Q98593501
0
Ethel C. Krepps
secretary of the Kiowa tribe, nurse and lawyer
Plains Apache
lawyer nurse
1937-10-31
1996-07-15
Mountain View
Q98593474
0
Grace Medicine Flower
Grace Medicine Flower
Born -13T00:00: Occupation potter
Potter (*1938) ♀
Santa Clara Pueblo
potter
1938-12-13
Santa Clara Pueblo
Q28935084
1
Rina Swentzell
Native American architect
Santa Clara Pueblo
architect
1939
2015-10-30
Q98590687
0
Jaune Quick–to–See Smith
Native American painter and printmaker
Cree Shoshone Salish peoples Métis
painter printmaker architectural draftsperson artist
1940-01-15
United States of America
St. Ignatius Mission
Q4415659
7
Diane Glancy
American poet, author, playwright
Cherokee
playwright poet novelist writer
1941
United States of America
Kansas City
Q5271470
4
Clara Sue Kidwell
Native American academic scholar, historian, feminist
Choctaw Ojibwe
historian
1941-07-08
United States of America
Tahlequah
Q19998203
3
Jody Folwell
American artist
Santa Clara Pueblo
potter
1942
Q16105915
1
Claudeen Arthur
Native American lawyer
Navajo
lawyer
1942
2004-11-27
Q84349201
1
Pitaloosie Saila
Canadian artist
Inuit
artist printmaker
1942-08-11
2021-07-24
Canada
Kinngait
Kinngait
Q3389319
3
Crying Wind
American novelist
Kickapoo people
writer
1943
Q5190478
2
Madeline Melba White
Native American artist (1943-2009)
Sioux
artist
1943-02-19
2009-12-20
Q98593523
0
Helen Hardin
American artist (1943-1984)
Santa Clara Pueblo
painter
1943-05-28
1984-06-09
United States of America
Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Q3784507
6
Anna Mae Aquash
Native American activist (1945-1975)
Mi’kmaw
activist politician human rights activist
1945-03-27
1975-12
Canada
Shubenacadie
South Dakota Highway 73
Q459256
13
Suzan Shown Harjo
Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee activist, poet, writer, lecturer, and curator
Cherokee Muscogee
writer curator journalist social activist
1945-06-02
United States of America
El Reno
Q7650685
8
Wilma Mankiller
Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Cherokee
writer tribal chief autobiographer
1945-11-18
2010-04-06
United States of America
Tahlequah
Adair County
Q2327358
28
Gail Tremblay
Onondaga-Mi' kmaq installation artist, weaver, poet, and educator
Onondaga Mi’kmaw
university teacher writer artist
1945-12-15
2023-05-03
United States of America
Buffalo
Olympia
Q544855
5
Angie Reano Owen
Native American jeweler
Kewa Pueblo
1946
Q98590688
0
Janet Campbell Hale
Native American writer
Coeur d'Alene people
writer children's writer
1946-01-11
2021-11-23
United States of America
Q6153245
3
Alice Cling
Native American Navajo potter
Navajo
potter ceramicist
1946-03-21
United States of America
Tonalea
Q28935547
1
Tillie Black Bear
Lakota Sioux educator, domestic violence and child abuse activist, former Executive Director of the White Buffalo Calf Woman Society
Sioux
1946-12-10
2014-07-19
Q28793716
1
Linda Hogan
Chickasaw writer
Chickasaw
poet novelist writer
1947-07-16
United States of America
Denver
Q6551648
8
Ramona Sakiestewa
Hopi artist
Hopi people
weaver
1948
United States of America
Albuquerque
Q23682454
2
Liz Sohappy Bahe
Yakima poet
Yakama
writer
1948
Toppenish
Q98593532
0
Jeannette Armstrong
Canadian writer
Okanagan people
poet author novelist writer man of letters literary scholar indigenous rights activist essayist university teacher
1948
Canada
Q599358
4
Leslie Marmon Silko
American writer
Laguna people
poet novelist writer essayist
1948-03-05
United States of America
Albuquerque
Q273001
15
Wendy Rose
American anthropologist, poet, painter
Miwok people Hopi people
anthropologist poet painter writer
1948-05-07
United States of America
Oakland
Q7982776
6
Emma LaRocque
Canadian academic
Cree Métis
academic
1949
Canada
Q43376596
1
Betty Louise Bell
Native American Studies professor, novelist
Cherokee
novelist writer
1949-11-23
United States of America
Q4898907
3
Lenore Keeshig-Tobias
Canadian author and advocate for Indigenous writers in Canada
Ojibwe Potawatomi
writer children's writer
1950
Canada
Wiarton
Q62081969
1
Shirley Bordeaux
Choctaw/Sioux business analyst
Choctaw Sioux
1950
Valentine
Q98593466
0
nila northSun
American writer and historian
Ojibwe Shoshone
poet writer
1951
United States of America
Schurz
Q7036822
1
Virginia Stroud
United Keetoowah Band Cherokee painter from Oklahoma
Cherokee
painter
1951-03-13
United States of America
Madera
Q7934596
3
Geraldine Keams
American actress
Navajo
actor stage actor film actor
1951-08-19
United States of America
Flagstaff
Q5549758
3
Caleen A. Sisk-Franco
Winnemem Wintu chief and educator
Wintu people
1952
Q98593531
0
Laura Tohe
American Navajo writer, poet
Navajo
librettist poet writer
1952
United States of America
Q11931225
4
Anita Endrezze
American artist and poet
Yaqui people
painter poet
1952-03-13
United States of America
Long Beach
Q4765527
2
Pablita Abeyta
Navajo sculptor and activist (1953-2017)
Navajo
sculptor artist museum assistant lobbyist political activist
1953-07-20
2017-01-31
United States of America
Gallup
Washington, D.C.
Q368750
3
Luci Tapahonso
Navaho poet laureate
Navajo
writer children's writer
1953-11-08
United States of America
Shiprock
Q6696604
5
Ofelia Zepeda
American linguist
Tohono O'odham
linguist poet writer university teacher editor
1954-03-24
United States of America
Pinal County
Q447797
8
Mary Goose
Meskwaki/Chippewa poet
Meskwaki Ojibwe
1955
Des Moines
Q98593480
0
Jacki Thompson Rand
Choctaw historian
Choctaw
writer
1956
Q98566636
0
Winona LaDuke
author and activist
Ojibwe
economist novelist politician writer environmentalist
1959-08-18
United States of America
Los Angeles
Q118969
27
Melody L. McCoy
Cherokee lawyer
Cherokee
lawyer
1960
Q98593462
0
Velma Wallis
American writer, Gwich' in people
Gwich'in people Alaskan Athabaskans
novelist writer
1960
United States of America
Fort Yukon
Q292175
8
Heid E. Erdrich
American poet
Ojibwe
poet writer film producer
1963-11-26
United States of America
Q17612384
1
Patricia A. Dixon
Luiseño professor of American Indian Studies
Luiseño
1971
Q98593476
0
Irene Stewart
Navajo politician and activist b. 1907
Navajo
Q98567051
0
Kathryn Shanley
Native American
Assiniboine people
Q98590637
0
Vivian Ayoungman
Siksika educator
Blackfoot Confederacy
Q98590639
0
Ruby Modesto
Native American
Cahuilla people Serrano people
Q98590640
0
Helen Slwooko Carius
Native American
Inuit
Q98590668
0
Louise Lone Dog
Mohawk and Lenape writer
Mohawk people Lenape
Q98590674
0
Charlotte De Clue
Osage poet
Osage Nation
writer
Q98590685
0
Agnes Picotte
Native American
Sioux
United States of America
Q98590693
0
Mary Jo Brooks Hunter
law professor, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Ho-Chunk Nation
Ho-Chunk
lawyer
Q98593470
0
Netnokwa
Ottawa leader (c.1740/1750-c. 1815/1820)
Odawa
fur trader
Q98593488
1