T�tulo: Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events (The Inclusive History & Heroes Collection)
Editor: Visible Ink Press
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2022
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 1578598079
ISBN 13: 9781578598076
Encuadernaci�n: Encuadernaci�n de tapa dura
Estado: New

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A celebration of achievement, accomplishments, and courage!

Native American Medal of Honor recipients, Heisman Trophy recipients, U.S. Olympians, a U.S. vice president, Congressional representatives, NASA astronauts, Pulitzer Prize recipients, U.S. poet laureates, Oscar winners, 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, Debra Haaland, and Will Rogers, along with less familiar notables such as Native Hawaiian language professor and radio host Larry Lindsey Kimura and Cree/Mohawk forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams. Their stories plus the stories of 2000 other people, events and places are presented in Indigenous Firsts: A History of Native American Achievements and Events, including …

Suzanne Van Cooten, Ph.D., Chickasaw Nation, the first Native female meteorologist in the country
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Wampanoag from Martha's Vineyard, graduate of Harvard College in 1665
Debra Haaland, the Pueblo of Laguna, U.S. Congresswoman and Secretary of the Interior
Sam Campos, the Native Hawaiian who developed the Hawaiian superhero Pineapple Man
Thomas L. Sloan, Omaha, was the first Native American to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court
William R. Pogue, Choctaw, astronaut
Johnston Murray, Chickasaw, the first person of Native American descent to be elected governor in the United States, holding the office in Oklahoma from 1951 to 1955
The Cherokee Phoenix published its first edition February 21, 1828, making it the first tribal newspaper in North America and the first to be published in an Indigenous language
The National Native American Honor Society was founded by acclaimed geneticist Dr. Frank C. Dukepoo , the first Hopi to earn a Ph.D.
Louis Sockalexis, Penobscot, became the first Native American in the National Baseball League in 1897 as an outfielder with the Cleveland Spiders
Jock Soto, Navajo/Puerto Rican, the youngest-ever man to be the principal dancer with the New York City Ballet
The Seminole Tribe of Florida was the first Nation to own and operate an airplane manufacturing company
Warrior's Circle of Honor, the National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, on the grounds of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
The Iolani Palace, constructed 1879-1882, the home of the Hawaiian royal family in Honolulu
Loriene Roy, Anishinaabe, White Earth Nation, professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information, former president of the American Library Association
Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne, U.S. representative and U.S. senator from Colorado
Hanay Geiogamah, Kiowa /Delaware, founded the American Indian Theatre Ensemble
Gerald Vizenor, White Earth Nation, writer, literary critic, and journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune
Ely S. Parker (Hasanoanda, later Donehogawa), Tonawanda Seneca, lieutenant colonel in the Union Army, serving as General Ulysses S. Grant’s military secretary
Fritz Scholder, Luiseno, painter inducted into the California Hall of Fame
The Native American Women Warriors, the first all Native American female color guard
Lori Arviso Alvord, the first Navajo woman to become a board-certified surgeon
Kay "Kaibah" C. Bennett, Navajo, teacher, author, and the first woman to run for the presidency of the Navajo Nation
Sandra Sunrising Osawa, Makah Indian Nation, the first Native American to have a series on commercial television
The Choctaw people’s 1847 donation to aid the Irish people suffering from the great famine
Otakuye Conroy-Ben, Oglala Lakota,

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Yvonne Wakim Dennis (Cherokee/Sand Hill/Syrian) is an award-winning author of nonfiction books for children and adults, many written with Arlene Hirschfelder, including Native American Almanac, Native American Landmarks and Festivals, the award-winning Children of Native America Today and A Kid's Guide to Native American History; and she also wrote a biography of Sequoyah. She currently serves as the Education Director for the Children’s Cultural Center of Native America and is a columnist for Native Hoop Magazine. She resides in New York City.

Arlene Hirschfelder was the author or editor of over twenty-five books about Native peoples, including Native American Almanac, Native American Landmarks and Festivals,Native Americans: A History in Pictures, andThe Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists. She worked at the Association on American Indian Affairs (a civil rights organization) for over 20 years, and she co-curated exhibits at the Sequoyah National Research Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston, Illinois. Her family in Teaneck, New Jersey, miss her greatly.

Paulette F. Molin, a citizen of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe from White Earth, is an award-winning author and curator. Her writings include The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions and The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists, both coauthored with Arlene Hirschfelder, as well as American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature. She and Hirschfelder also co-curated exhibits such as Contemporary Native Women Opening Doors to Change at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian. She lives in Hampton, Virginia, where she has served as an educator and completed writings and curatorial work on boarding school history.

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