John Herrington Born in Chickasaw Nation, John Bennett Herrington Is a Retired United States Naval Aviator and Former NASA Astronaut
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John Herrington Born in Chickasaw Nation, John Bennett Herrington is a retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut. In 2002, Herrington became the first enrolled member of the Native American tribe to fly in space. This was abord the Space Shuttle Endeavor’s STS-113 mission. Tom Bee and Douglas Spotted Eagle Following a three-year lobbying effort by Ellen Bello, founder of the Native American Music Awards and the Native American Music Association, the Grammy award was first presented to Tom Bee and Douglass Spotted Eagle in 2001 as the producers of the compilation album Gathering of Nations Pow Wow. In 2011, the category Best Native American Music Album was eliminated along with thirty others and replaced. Native American works will now be eligible for the Best Regional Roots Music Album category. Susan La Flesche Picotte Born on the Omaha reservation in northeastern Nebraska on June 17th, 1865, Susan La Flesche Picotte was a Native American doctor and reformer in the late 19th century. She is widely acknowledged as the first Native American to earn a medical degree. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe. Before becoming a place to honor and celebrate the life and word of Picotte, the Susan La Flesche Picotte Center was once a hospital named after her, then a center that cared for the elderly. She lived till 1915. Stanley Crooks From 1992 to 2012, Stanley Crooks served as the first chairman of Shakopee Mdewakanton, America’s richest Native American tribe near Minneapolis, MN. The tribe is estimated to have about 480 members. The revenue form the tribe’s business ventures is divided up amount the members which comes out to about $84,000 a month per member. Despite their assets, tradition is still very important. Though many live in mansions, tradition is promoted with many tepees visible on the reservation land. The tribe was annihilated in the US-Dakota War 150 years ago. This is something they have not forgotten. They have also held onto the language to pass down to their children. Under Crooks the Shakopee donated more that $243 million to Native American organizations and other charities and issued more than $500 million in loans for economic development during his tenure. Crooks lived until 2012. Diane Joyce Humetewa Born on December 5, 1964, Diane Humetewa became the 1st Native American woman and enrolled tribal member to serve as a federal judge in the United States in. Nominated President Barack Obama, Humetewa has served the state of Arizona in that position from 2014 to the present. Diane Humetewa is a member of the Hopi tribe. Humetewa is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, served as counsel to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and to the Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice, serves a member of the United States Sentencing Guidelines Commission, Native American Advisory Committee, and as an Appellate Court Judge for the Hopi Tribe. Wes Studi Actor Wes Studi made history on October 27th, 2019 when he became the first Native American to receive an honorary Academy Award for career achievement. Wes Studi is a member of the Cherokee Nation. Said Studi,“ I am proud to be here tonight as the first Indigenous Native American to receive an Academy Award”. Studi added, “it’s about time!” Studi has extensive training and has appeared in more than 30 films, including “Dances with Wolves” (1990), “The Last of the Mohicans” (1992), “Heat” (1995) and “Avatar” (2009). Audra Simpson Audra Simpson, a member of the Mohawk tribe, is a scholar and professor at Columbia University who focuses on the politics of recognition. Her book, Mohawk Interrupts, was celebrated by Indigenous studies scholars as a critical addition to education on tribal community and national identity. As an anthropologist, a career in a field that is notorious for exploiting and thinking of Natives only in the past tense, Simpson pushes against these notions by centering on Native epistemologies. Questions epistemology might ask: “What is knowledge?”, “How do you gain knowledge?”, or “What do people know?”. Ely S. Parker Born in 1828 as Hasanoanda, and later known as Donehogawa, Ely Samuel Parker was a Tonawanda Seneca U.S. Army officer, attorney, engineer and tribal diplomat. Parker was commissioned a lieutenant colonel during the American Civil War, when he served as adjutant and secretary to General Ulysses S. Grant. Parker wrote the final draft of the Confederate surrender terms at Appomattox. Later in his career, Parker became the first of two Native Americans to reach the rank of brevet brigadier general and was the first Native American appointed as the Commissioner of Indian Affiairs when Grant became President. Ely S. Parker lived until 1895. Winona LaDuke In 1996 and 2000, Winona LaDuke ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader. LaDuke is the executive director of Honor the Earth, a Native environmental advocacy organization that played an active role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. In 1985 she helped found the Indigenous Women’s Network. LaDuke has worked towards eliminated many of the issues that Native American women face. Philip Yenyo Philip Yenyo has dedicated a significant amount of time and money protesting the use of the Chief Wahoo mascot by the Cleveland Indians. Yenyo stated, “But I think our people and others have come to realize that this caricature of our people as a red-face, smiling savage does great harm to us and our culture and has done so for many years. This imagery, most sports teams are named after animals and they put us in that same category. We’re human beings. We’re still a living culture and we still exist.” Yenyo has also condemned the exploitation of other items, such as the feather, that are of sacred significance to American Indians. Madonna Thunder Hawk Modonna Thunder Hawk is a Native American civil rights activist best known as a leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and as an organizer against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Thunder Hawk serves as an organizer and tribal liaison for the Lakota People’s Law Project, which partners with the Native communities to protect sacred lands, safeguard human rights, promote sustainability, and reunite indigenous families. Mark Charles Mark R. Charles is a Native American activist, public speaker, consultant, and author or Native American issues, as well as a journalist, blogger, pastor and computer programmer. Charles is the son of a Navajo father and a Dutch-American mother. In 2019, Mark Charles became the first Native American to run for The President of the United States of America. .