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List of Native American People

• 1800-01-31 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Native American poet, born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (d. 1842)
• 1860-01-25 Charles Curtis, American Republican Senator (Kansas: 1907-13, 1915-29) and 31st US Vice President (1929-33) who was the first Native American to become a Senator and Vice President, born in North Topeka, Kansas (d. 1936)
• 1865-06-17 Susan La Flesche Picotte, American physician (first Native American woman to receive a medical degree), born on the Omaha Reservation, Nebraska (d. 1915)
• 1876-02-22 Zitkála-Šá [aka Gertrude Bonnin], Native American (Yankton Dakota) writer, violinist, librettist (The Sun Dance Opera), educator, and political activist, born in Yankton Indian Reservation, Dakota Territory (now South Dakota) (d. 1938)
• 1888-09-18 Grey Owl [Archibald Belaney], Canadian pioneering conservationist (who pretended to be part Native American), born in Hastings, England (d. 1938)
• 1891-05-15 Nipo T. Strongheart, Native American activist, lecturer and film consultant (Pony Soldier), born in Yakima, Washington (d. 1966)
• 1892-01-26 Bessie Coleman, American aviator and 1st African-American woman and Native American to hold a pilot license, born in Atlanta, Texas (d. 1926)
• 1913-10-27 Joseph Medicine Crow, Native American chief and historian, born near Lodge Grass, Montana (d. 2013)
• 1915-05-18 Leon Shenandoah, Native American leader (Iroquois Confederacy), born in Hemlock Creek, New York (d. 1996)
• 1923-01-12 Ira Hayes, Pima Native American soldier, born in Sacaton, Arizona (d. 1955)
• 1929-03-07 Yvonne Chouteau, Native American dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2016)
• 1929-05-02 (Fred Lincoln) "Link" Wray, Native American rock guitarist ("Rumble"), born in Dunn, North Carolina (d. 2005)
• 1931-07-08 Louis Ballard [Honganózhe], Native American composer and educator (The Four Moons), born near Quapaw, Oklahoma (d. 2007)
• 1934-02-27 N. Scott Momaday, Native American author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer Prize - 1969), born in Lawton, Oklahoma (d. 2024)
• 1936-05-08 Clyde Bellecourt, American Native American civil rights activist (American Indian Movement), born in White Earth Indian Reservation, Minnesota
• 1936-07-20 Saginaw Grant, Native American character actor, hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma, musician, and U.S. Marine, born in Pawnee, Oklahoma (d. 2021)
• 1936-08-17 Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American (Dakota Sioux) country music singer-songwriter, actor (Walker, Texas Ranger; Northern Exposure), and political activist, born on Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, South Dakota (d. 2007)
• 1939-11-10 Russell Means, Native American activist, actor, writer, and musician, born in Porcupine, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota (d. 2012)
• 1944-09-12 Leonard Peltier, Native American activist (American Indian Movement), born in Grand Forks, North Dakota
• 1944-09-21 Jesse Ed Davis, Native American guitarist, born in Norman, Oklahoma (d. 1988)
• 1945-11-18 Wilma Mankiller, Native American activist, 1st woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, born in Tahlequah, Oklahoma (d. 2010)
• 1946-09-27 T.C. Cannon, Native American artist (Kiowa/Caddo), born in Lawton, Oklahoma (d. 1978)
• 1947-12-17 Wes Studi, Native American actor (Last of the Mohicans), born in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma
• 1951-05-09 Joy Harjo, American poet, musician and 1st Native American US Poet Laureate (2019-22), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1954-06-23 Kevin Locke [Tȟokéya Inážiŋ], Lakota Native American flute player, storyteller, educator, and cultural ambassador, born in Southern California (d. 2022)
• 1960-12-02 Deb Haaland, American politician (1st Native American to head a cabinet agency as Secretary of the Interior 2021-), born in Winslow, Arizona
• 1972-03-31 Jeffrey Gibson, Native American artist (Venice Biennale 2024), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• 2002-06-07 Quannah Chasinghorse, Native American model, born in Tuba City, Arizona

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