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This category includes Native Americans in the United States who are activists for various causes. For activists on behalf of the rights of Native Americans, see Category:Activists for Native American rights .
Lyda Conley (1874–1946), Wyandot activist and first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court [25] Crystalyne Curley, first female speaker of the Navajo Nation Council [26] Ada Deer (1935–2023), Menominee activist and the first Native American woman to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs [27]
Adam Fortunate Eagle L.H.D. (born Adam Nordwall), hereditary member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, is a Native American activist and was the principal organizer of the 1969–1971 Occupation of Alcatraz by "Indians of All Tribes".
In the 1960s, young Indigenous people began to fight for greater recognition and rights to self-determination for their tribes. In 1969, dozens of Indigenous activists moved onto the island that ...
This category is for people of any ancestry who have worked to secure civil and human rights for Native Americans. For Native American individuals who are activists, regardless of the issue/s they are focused on, see Category:Native American activists.
Charlotte A. Black Elk (1951 or 1952) [1] is a political and environmental Native American activist. She is of Oglala Lakota heritage, and is the great-granddaughter of the holy man Nicholas Black Elk. [2]
Native American activist and federal prisoner Leonard Peltier, who has maintained his innocence in the murders of two FBI agents almost half a century ago, is due for a full parole hearing Monday ...
This alternative model was a component of the National Federation of Native-Controlled Survival Schools that was established during the movement as a Native alternative to government-run education. [19] In 1974, Thunder Hawk and DeCora, along with a handful of other Native American women, founded Women of All Red Nations (WARN). Following the ...