Indigenous Firsts

Acelebration of achievement, accomplishments, and courage! NativeAmerican Medal of Honor recipients, Heisman Trophy recipients, U.S.Olympians, a U.S. vice president, Congressional representatives, NASAastronauts, Pulitzer Prize recipients, U.S. poet laureates, Oscarwinners, and more. The first Native magician, all-Native comedy show,architects, attorneys, bloggers, chefs, cartoonists, psychologists,religious leaders, filmmakers, educators, physicians, code talkers,and inventors. Luminaries like Jim Thorpe, King Kamehameha, DebraHaaland, and Will Rogers, along with less familiar notables such asNative Hawaiian language professor and radio host Larry LindseyKimura and Cree/Mohawk forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams. Theirstories plus the stories of more than 900 other people and places arepresented in NativeAmerican Firsts: A History of Indigenous Achievement,including ... SuzanneVan Cooten, Ph.D., Chickasaw Nation, thefirst Native female meteorologist in the country CalebCheeshahteaumuck, Wampanoag from Martha''s Vineyard, graduate ofHarvard College in 1665 DebraHaaland, the Pueblo of Laguna, U.S. Congresswoman and Secretary ofthe Interior SamCampos, the Native Hawaiian who developed the Hawaiian superheroPineapple Man ThomasL. Sloan, Omaha, was the first Native American to argue a casebefore the U.S. Supreme Court WilliamR. Pogue, Choctaw, astronaut JohnstonMurray, Chickasaw, the first person of Native American descent to beelected governor in the United States, holding the office inOklahoma from 1951 to 1955 TheCherokee Phoenixpublished its first edition February 21, 1828, making it the firsttribal newspaper in North America and the first to be published inan Indigenous language KaneBrown, Cherokee descent, the first artist to have simultaneous hitson all five main Billboard country charts LouisSockalexis, Penobscot, became the first Native American in theNational Baseball League in 1897 as an outfielder with the ClevelandSpiders JockSoto, Navajo/Puerto Rican, the youngest-ever man to be the principaldancer with the New York City Ballet Pocahontas,Powhatan, honored on a U.S. postage stamp Warrior''sCircle of Honor,the National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, onthe grounds of the Smithsonian''s National Museum of the AmericanIndian TheIolani Palace, constructed 1879-1882, the home of the Hawaiianroyal family in Honolulu LorieneRoy, Anishinaabe, White Earth Nation, professor at the University ofTexas at Austin''s School of Information, former president of theAmerican Library Association BenNighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne, U.S. representative and U.S.senator from Colorado HanayGeiogamah, Kiowa /Delaware, founded the American Indian TheatreEnsemble GeraldVizenor, White Earth Nation, writer, literary critic, and journalistfor the Minneapolis Tribune ElyS. Parker (Hasanoanda, later Donehogawa), Tonawanda Seneca,lieutenant colonel in the Union Army, serving as General Ulysses S.Grant''s military secretary FritzScholder, Luiseno, painter inducted into the California Hall of Fame TheNative American Women Warriors, the first all Native American femalecolor guard LoriArviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman to become a board-certifiedsurgeon Kay"Kaibah" C. Bennett, Navajo, teacher, author, and the firstwoman to run for the presidency of the Navajo Nation SandraSunrising Osawa, Makah Indian Nation, the first Native American tohave a series on commercial television TheChoctaw people''s 1847 donation to aid the Irish people sufferingfrom the great famine OtakuyeConroy-Ben, Oglala Lakota, first to get an environmental engineeringPh.D. at the University of Arizona DianeJ. Willis, Kiowa, former President of the Society of PediatricPsychology and founding editor of the Journalof Pediatric Psychology ShellyNiro, Mohawk, winner of Canada''s top photography prize, theScotiabank Photography Award LorenLeman, Alutiiq/Russian-Polish, was the first Alaska Native electedlieutenant governor KimTallBear, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, the first recipient of the CanadaResearch Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment CarissaMoore, Native Hawaiian, won the Gold Medal in Surfing at the 2020Tokyo Olympics WillRogers, Cherokee, actor, performer, humorist was named the firsthonorary mayor of Beverly Hills Foodsof the Southwest Indian Nationsby Lois Ellen Frank, Kiowa, was the first Native American cookbookto win the James Beard Award DianeHumetewa, Hopi, nominated by President Barack Obama, became thefirst Native American woman to serve as a federal judge SusieWalking Bear Yellowtail, Crow, the first Native American nurse to beinducted into the American Nursing Association Hall of Fame NativeAmerican Firstshonors the ongoing and rich history of personal victories andtriumphs, and withmore than 200 photos and illustrations, this information-rich bookalso includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, addingto its usefulness. This vital collection will appeal to anyoneinterested in America''s amazing history and its resilient andskilled Indigenous peopl