List of Native American firsts
This is a list of Native American firsts. Native American people were the first people to live in the area that is now known as the United States.[1] This is a chronological list of the first accomplishments that Native Americans have achieved both through their tribal identities and also through the culture of the United States over time. It includes individuals and groups of people who are indigenous to contemporary United States. This includes Native Americans in the United States, which includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians.
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16th century: 1500s-1540s • 1550s-1590s |
16th century[]
1530s[]
1539
- Indigenous peoples of Florida have first contact with the Hernando de Soto Expedition, marking first contact with Spaniards and African people for many Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands[2]
1580s[]
1581
1587
- First recorded Protestant christianing of a Native American: Christening of Manteo (Croatan).[4]
1590s[]
1595
17th century[]
1610s[]
1615
- The Huron people first act as middlemen for French traders and other Native American tribes.[6]
1620s[]
- First Native American in New England to meet with settlers leading to ratify a peace treaty: Massaoit (Wampanoag).[7]
1630s[]
1638
- First American Indian reservation established: Quinnipiac Nation.[8]
1660s[]
1663
- First published writing by a Native American in the Americas: Honoratissimi Benefactores by Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (Wampanoag).[9]
- First Bible published in the Americas: The Eliot Indian Bible is printed in Natick and one of the translators, James Printer (Nipmuc) became the first Native American to use a printing press.[10]
1665
- First Native American graduate of Harvard University: Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (Wampanoag).[11]
1670s[]
1670
1672
- Native Americans served as first mail couriers between New York City and Albany.[13]
18th century[]
1760s[]
1765
- First Native American recorded as preaching Christianity to a non-Native audience: Samson Occom (Mohegan).[14]
1770s[]
1772
- First published literary work by a Native American: A Sermon Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian by Samson Occom (Mohegan).[9]
1790s[]
1794
- First Native American published, written report of other Native American peoples in the English language: A Short Narration of My Last Journey to the Western Country by Hendrick Aupaumut (Mohican).[9]
19th century[]
1810s[]
1812
- First Native American commissioned brigadier general in the United States Army: William McIntosh (Muscogee).[15]
1820s[]
1821
- Cherokee syllabary is first adopted by the Cherokee Nation general council: created by Sequoyah (Cherokee, ca. 1770–1843)[16]
1822
- First Native American admitted to West Point and first Native American graduate: David Moniac (Muscogee).[17]
1825
- First Iroquois person to create a written account of the oral historys of the Haudenosaunee: David Cusick (Tuscarora) in Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations.[18]
1827
- The Cherokee Nation adopts its first modern constitution.[19]
1828
- First Native American newspaper and first newspaper published in an Indigenous language: The Cherokee Phoenix.[20] First editor of the paper was (Cherokee).[20]
1829
- First full-length autobiography published by a Native American: A Son of the Forest by William Apess (Pequot).[21]
- First book published using the Cherokee syllabary: Cherokee Hymn Book printed by Elias Boudinot (Cherokee) and a New England missionary.[22]
1840s[]
1844
- First known Native American person to earn a Western medical degree from Western college: Wa-o-wa-wa-na-onk (Cayuga).[23]
1847
- First full-length travelog by a Native American: The Life, History, and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh by George Copway (Ojibwe).[21]
1850s[]
1854
- First novel published by a Native American: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murietta by John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee).[24]
- First Native American student periodical publication, A Wreath of Cherokee Rose Buds.[25]
1856
- First governor of the Chickasaw Nation after the adoption of the new constitution: Cyrus Harris (Chickasaw).[26]
- First Native American ordained as a Roman Catholic priest: (Lenape).[27]
1857
- First Native American editor of non-native publication: John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee) who was the founding editor of the Sacramento Bee.[25]
1860s[]
1861
- First Native American professional track athlete: (Seneca).[28]
1865
1867
- First Native American to earn the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Army: Ely Samuel Parker (Seneca).[30]
1869
- First Native American to be awarded the Medal of Honor: Co-Rux-Te-Chod-Ish (Pawnee).[31]
- First Native American to work as the Commissioner for Indian Affairs: Ely Samuel Parker (Seneca).[32]
1870s[]
1870
1875
- First independent Cherokee-owned newspaper published: The Indian Progress and owned by Elias C. Boudinot (Cherokee).[34]
1878
1879
- First Native American declared "a person within the meaning of the law" in the United States: Standing Bear (Ponca).[36]
1880s[]
1881
- First Native American anthropologist: Francis La Flesche (Omaha).[37]
1883
- First Native American woman to publish a book, Sarah Winnemucca (Northern Paiute), who published Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims.[38]
1886
- First privately owned Chippewa periodical: The Progress founded by and (Chippewa/Ojibwe).[39]
1889
- First Native American woman to earn a Western medical degree from a Western college: Susan La Flesche (Omaha).[38]
- First documented Native American U.S. Army nurses: , , , (all Lakota).[40]
1890s[]
1891
- First novel published by a Native American woman: Wynema: A Child of the Forest by Sophia Alice Callahan (Muscogee).[41]
1892
- First Native American elected to the United States House of Representatives: Charles D. Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi).[33]
1893
- First independent periodical published by and for the Osage people: The Wah-sha-she founded by George E. Tinker (Osage).[39]
- First Native American woman to publish and edit a newspaper: (Choctaw).[39]
1897
1898
20th century[]
1900s[]
1903
- First tribal newspaper published by the White Earth Ojibwe: The Tomahawk.[44]
1908
- First tribal newspaper published for the Quileute people: The Quileute Independent created by (Quileute).[44]
- First paniolos to win at the Frontier Days rodeo competition: Ikua Purdy (Native Hawaiian), Archie Ka'au'a (Native Hawaiian), and Jack Low (Native Hawaiian).[45]
1909
- First Native American film actor: James Young Deer (Nanticoke, 1876–1946).[46]
- First Native American lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court: Lyda Conley (Wyandot).[47]
1910s[]
1910
- First Native American to graduate from Yale: Henry Roe Cloud (Ho-Chunk).[48]
1911
- First Native American to play in the NFL: Jim Thorpe (Sac & Fox Nation).[49]
1912
- First Native American to win gold medals for the United States in the Olympic Games: Jim Thorpe (Sac & Fox Nation).[50]
- First American to win an Olympic medal (silver) in the 10,000 meter run: Lewis Tewanima (Hopi).[51]
1913
- First Native American to attend the United States Naval Academy: Joseph J. Clark (Cherokee).[17]
- First person documented as having reached the summit of Denali: Walter Harper (Athabascan).[52]
- First Native American head coach of a college sports team: ().[53][dubious ].
1916
- First American Indian Day celebrated in May 1916. The day was created by Red Fox James (Blackfeet Tribe).[54]
1918
- First known use of Indigenous Code Talkers as part of a U.S. military effort: Choctaw, Cherokee, and Navajo were all Code Talkers in World War I.[55]
1920s[]
1921
- First all-Native American National Guard: Haskell unit of the Kansas National Guard.[56]
- First Native American woman pilot: Bessie Coleman (Cherokee heritage).[57]
1922
- First Native American student to take part in a world conference: Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee).[58]
- First woman to serve as chief of the Seminole tribe: Alice Brown Davis (Seminole).[59]
1923
- First chair of the Navajo Tribal Council: Henry Chee Dodge (Navajo).[59]
1924
- First Navajo person to earn a law degree: (Navajo).[60]
- First all-Native American cavalry created in the United States: .[61]
- First Native American to captain the United States Hockey Team: (Chippewa).[62]
- First Native American woman elected to a state legislature: Cora Belle Reynolds Anderson (Chippewa).[63]
- First Alaska Native elected to the Alaskan Territorial Legislature: William L. Paul (Tlingit).[52]
- First Native American to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games: Clarence "Taffy" Abel (Chippewa).[51]
1926
- First Native American woman to hold state office in Oklahoma: (Chickasaw).[64]
- First national reform group with only Native American membership: National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) by Zitkala-Sa (Yankton Dakota) and Raymond Bonnin (Yankton Dakota).[65]
1927
- First Native American to earn a degree as a registered nurse: Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail (Crow).[66]
1929
- First Native American to serve as Vice President of the United States: Charles D. Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi).[67]
1930s[]
1930
- First accredited nursing program for Native Americans: Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.[68]
- First enrolled Native American woman to earn a pilot's license: Mary Riddle (Clatsop/Quinault).[69]
1932
- First Native American woman elected to the Montana State Legislature: Dolly Smith Akers (Assiniboine).[64]
- First Native American to open the Olympic Games: Charles D. Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi).[62]
1935
- First Native American woman elected as president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: Roberta Campbell Lawson (Delaware Tribe).[58][70]
1939
1940s[]
1941
1942
- First Native American to become a major general in the U.S. Air Force: Clarence L. Tinker (Osage).[73]
- First American to dance with the Paris Opera and receive the title of prima ballerina: Maria Tallchief (Osage).[74]
- First Native American woman to work for Lockheed, and probably first Native American woman aeronautical engineer: Mary Golda Ross (Cherokee Nation).[75]
- First Native American commissioned pilot in the United States Navy: (Lumbee).[76]
1943
- First Navajo language newspaper: Adahooniligii.[77]
- First Native American venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic church: Kateri Tekakwitha (Mohawk).[78]
- First Native American woman joins the Marine Corps Women's Reserve: Minnie Spotted-Wolf (Blackfoot).[79]
1944
- First Muscogee person to earn the Medal of Honor: Ernest Childers (Muscogee (Creek) Nation).[80]
- First person of Choctaw descent to earn the Medal of Honor: Van T. Barfoot (Mississippi Choctaw descent).[81]
- First and only Native American WASP: Ola Mildred Rexroat (Oglala Lakota).[82]
1945
- First Cherokee to earn the Medal of Honor: Jack Montgomery (Cherokee Nation).[83]
- First anti-discrimination law passed in the United States: The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, ending segregation of Alaska Natives.[84]
1949
- First Hopi to earn the from the Indian Council Fire: Fred Kabotie.[85]
1950s[]
1950
- First Native American veterinarian: (Standing Rock Sioux).[86]
1952
- First Hawaiian to be awarded the Medal of Honor: Herbert Kaili Pililaau (Native Hawaiian).[72]
1953
- First Indian Miss America: (Yakama).[87]
1956
- First Native American to earn Western dentistry degree: (Laguna).[86]
- First Native American oncologist: (Chickasaw/Choctaw).[68]
1957
- First Native American elected to the Idaho State Legislature: (Coeur d'Alene).[64]
- First radio station to primarily broadcast in Navajo language: KNDN-AM.[88]
1958
- First Native American to graduate from the United States Air Force Academy: (unknown tribal affiliation).[17]
1959
- First woman president of the Mescalero Apache Tribe: Virginia S. Klinekole (Mescalero Apache).[89]
1960s[]
1960
1961
1962
- First Alaska Native newspaper: The Tundra Times with Howard Rock (Inupiaq) as the first editor.[52]
1963
- First Native American to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom: Annie Dodge Wauneka (Navajo).[87]
1964
- First Native American elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives: (Navajo).[93]
- First Native American on the United States Olympic Judo Team: Benjamin Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne).[62]
- First Native American to win an Olympic gold medal in the 10,000 meter run: William Mervin "Billy" Mills (Oglala Lakota).[51]
- First Native American to earn a doctorate in psychology: Marigold Linton, from UCLA (Morongo Band of Mission Indians)[94]
1966
- First Native American elected as New Mexico state senator: (Navajo).[93]
- First Native American elected to the Arizona House of Representatives: Lloyd Lynn House (Navajo/Oneida).[93]
- First Native American man to earn a doctorate in psychology: Arthur McDonald (Oglala Lakota).[68]
1967
- First ballet written specifically for Native American dancers: which was scored by Louis Ballard (Quapaw/Cherokee).[95]
- First woman to chair the Seminole Tribe Council: Betty Mae Tiger Jumper (Seminole Tribe of Florida).[89]
1969
- First Native American to receive a Pulitzer Prize: N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa).[96]
- First Native American to become a public school district superintendent: (Navajo).[97]
- First Native American to work as Indian Commissioner on the Indian Claims Commission: (Lumbee).[92]
1970s[]
1970
1971
- First Native American job corps center founded: The .[98]
- First Native American elected to the North Dakota state legislature: (Dakota Sioux/Oglala).[99]
- First Navajo to earn a doctorate in physics: Fred Begay (Navajo).[100]
1972
- First Native American owned and operated non-commercial radio station for Native American listeners: KTDB-FM.[101]
- First Native American on the United States Women's Table Tennis National Team: Angelita Rosal (Sioux).[28]
- First non-Japanese sumo wrestler to win the top division championship: Takamiyama Daigorō (Native Hawaiian).[102]
- First induction ceremony of the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame.[102]
1974
- First Alaska Native to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race: Carl Huntington (Athabascan).[102]
- First Native American band to reach the top five on the Billboard Hot 100: Redbone with "Come and Get Your Love" at number 5.[103]
1975
- First artist chosen by the Museum of the American Indian for a series on modern Native American art: R. C. Gorman (Navajo).[104]
- First Native American practitioner of an Indigenous religion to give the invocation at the United States Senate: Frank Fools Crow (Lakota).[105]
- First Native American woman dentist: (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation).[106]
- First woman to chair the Yavapai-Apache Tribe: Vera Brown Starr (Yavapai-Apache).[89]
- First tribally owned and built golf course is opened by the Mescalero Apache Tribe.[102]
1976
- First American Indian Studies master's degree program established by (Cherokee).[107]
- First Jicarilla Apache woman to earn a doctorate degree: .[108]
- First radio station broadcasting in the Navajo language and under Navajo control: .[101]
- First chairperson of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe: Mildred Cleghorn (Fort Sill Apache).[89]
- First Alaska Native to become a physician: (Inupiaq).[109]
1977
- First Inuit Circumpoloar Conference takes place.[110]
1978
- First Native American artist to display their work in China: Joan Hill (Muscogee).[104]
- First woman to serve as chair of the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes: Juanita L. Learned (Cheyenne-Arapaho).[89]
- First person of Native American descent to earn a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health and the American Psychiatric Association: (Eastern Dakota descent).[111]
1980s[]
1980
- First Native American woman nominated for Vice President of the United States in any political party: LaDonna Harris (Comanche).[63]
- First Native American woman to head the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA): Ramona Sakiestewa (Hopi)[112]
1981
- First Native American woman to graduate from the United States Naval Academy: (unknown tribal affiliation).[113]
- First American to direct the Paris Opera ballet: Rosella Hightower (Choctaw Nation).[95]
1982
- First Native American elected to the Colorado House of Representatives: Benjamin Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne).[99]
- First Native American woman to graduate from the United States Air Force Academy: (Cherokee).[113]
- First Native American director of Indian Health Services (IHS): (Kiowa).[114]
- First tribe to open an electric plant: Warm Spring Indians in Oregon.[115]
1983
- First woman to work as attorney general for the Navajo Nation: Claudeen Bates Arthur (Navajo).[116]
- First Native American woman to argue a successful case before the Supreme Court of the United States: (Lumbee).[117]
- First anthology of Native American women's art and literature is published: A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Women edited by Beth Brant (Mohawk).[96]
- First television documentary produced by a crew of all-Indigenous people: I'd Rather Be Powwowing, directed by (Kewa Pueblo).[118]
- First Minnesota Ojibwe Nation woman to become a Western medical doctor: Kathleen Annette (White Earth Ojibwe).[119]
1984
- First Alaska Native woman to earn a doctorate degree: (Athabascan).[108]
- First Native American woman to graduate from West Point: (unknown tribal affiliation).[113]
1985
- First woman to become a Cherokee Nation principal chief: Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee Nation).[120]
- First Native American to receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for race relations: (Hopi).[121]
1986
- First Native American ordained as Roman Catholic bishop: Donald E. Pelotte (Abenaki).[122]
- First public recognition of the military service of the Choctaw code talkers.[123]
- First celebrated during the week of November 23–30.[124]
1987
- First Native American to become a fellow of the MacArthur Foundation: Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo).[125]
- First Native American woman named as Ms. magazine's Woman of the Year: Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee Nation).[126]
- First community-owned and operated clinic established on an Indian reservation: Porcupine Clinic by Loralei DeCora (Winnebago).[126]
- First woman to elected as governor of the Isleta Pueblo: (Isleta Pueblo).[127]
- First woman in the Eastern Band of Cherokee to become a Western physician: (Cherokee).[128]
1988
- First woman elected as tribal chair of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa: (Chippewa-Cree).[127]
- First Tuscarora Indian woman to become a Western surgeon: (Tuscarora Indian Nation of Sanborn).[129]
1989
- First book of poetry in Navajo is published by Rex Lee Jim (Navajo).[130]
- First Native American news reporter on national television: Hattie Kauffman (Nez Percé).[131]
- First Native American in Nevada to become a Western physician: (Shoshone).[132]
1990s[]
1990
- First Native American to win in a World Chess Championship open: (Navajo).[133]
- First Native American Month celebrated in November.[124]
1991
- First Native American to receive the Freeman Tilden Award from the National Park Service and the National Parks and Conservation Association: (Navajo).[134]
- First Native American state attorney general: Larry Echo Hawk (Pawnee).[99]
1993
- First play-by-play of an NBA game in a Native language is broadcast in Navajo.[102]
1994
- First Native American to work as U.S. Marshall in the Justice Department: (Oglala Lakota Sioux).[116]
- First Navajo woman board certified in surgery: Lori Arviso Alvord (Navajo).[135]
1995
- First Native American artwork travels in space: (Lakota) painting is on board the Endeavor.[136]
- First woman to serve as principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians: Joyce Dugan (Cherokee).[127]
- First Native American woman to play professional basketball for a foreign nation: Ryneldi Becenti (Navajo).[102]
1996
- First Native American woman elected to the New Mexico House of Representatives: (Navajo).[137]
- First Native American participant in the Paralympics: Cheri Madsen (Omaha).[138]
1997
- First Native American women elected to the Arizona House of Representatives: Sally Ann Gonzales (Yaqui) and Debora Norris (Navajo).[137]
- First Native American to be awarded the Award for Excellence from the American Public Health Association: Linda Burhansstipanov (Cherokee).[139]
- First Native American Roman Catholic archbishop: Charles J. Chaput[140] (Prairie Band Potawatomi)[141][142]
1998
- First national awards for Native American music: Native American Music Awards (NAMA).[143]
- First literary and artistic journal for Native Hawaiians: founded by (Native Hawaiian).[144]
1999
- First Navajo to earn a doctorate in history: (Navajo).[145]
21st century[]
2000s[]
2000
- First Native American president of the American Public Health Association: (Kewa Pueblo/Ohkay Owingeh).[139]
- First Native American woman to graduate from Yale University School of Medicine: (Navajo).[146]
2001
- First Native Hawaiian drafted by Major League Soccer: Brian Ching (Native Hawaiian).[147]
- First Native American to compete in the Indy 500: Cory Witherill (Navajo).[147]
2002
- First Native American in space: John Herrington (Chickasaw Nation).[54]
- First Native American woman to compete in the Winter Olympics: Naomi Lang (Karuk)[51]
2003
- First tribe to own a professional sports team: The Mohegan Tribe purchases the Connecticut Sun.[147]
- First Native American woman killed in combat fighting for the United States in war in Asia: Lori Piestewa (Hopi).[123]
2004
- First woman to serve as president of the tribal council for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation: Cecelia Fire Thunder (Oglala Lakota).[127]
- First woman tribal chair of the White Earth Ojibwe: (Ojibwe).[127]
- First Native American museum established on the Nationa Mall: National Museum of the American Indian.[148]
2005
- First tribe to purchase a professional men's basketball team: The Yakima Nation buys the Yakima SunKings.[147]
2006
- First woman to serve as chief of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma: (Shawnee).[127]
- First awards announced in the American Indian Youth Literature Awards.[149]
2007
- First Native American president of the American Library Association: Loriene Roy.[150][151] (White Earth Ojibwe).[152]
2008
- First Native American woman elected to a statewide executive office: Denise Juneau (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation).[63]
- First Native American to win the Heisman Trophy: Sam Bradford (Cherokee Nation).[147]
2010s[]
2010
- First woman to become a chief of the Delaware Tribe of Indians: (Delaware).[127]
- First Native American nominated for the United States Poet Laureate: Linda Hogan (Chickasaw).[144]
2011
- First Native American drafted into the WNBA: Tahnee Robinson (Northern Cheyenne).[153]
- First woman chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians: Phyliss J. Anderson (Choctaw).[127]
2014
- First Native American named a United States Ambassador to the United Nations: Keith Harper (Cherokee Nation).[154]
- First Native American woman to become a federal judge in the United States: Diane Humetewa (Hopi).[155]
2015
- First Native American-owned cannabis shop: Elevation, opened by the Squaxin Island Tribe.[156]
2016
- First Native American to receive an electoral vote for President of the United States: Faith Spotted Eagle (Yankton Sioux Tribe)[157]
- First Native American woman to receive an electoral vote for Vice President of the United States: Winona LaDuke (White Earth Ojibwe)[158]
2017
- First Native-American to serve in the Wyoming State Senate: Affie Ellis (Navajo).[159]
2018
- First Native American women elected to the United States Congress: Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) and Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo).[63]
- First Native American to serve as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of the United States: Tobi Merrit Edwards Young (Chickasaw Nation).[160]
2019
- First Native American to earn an honorary award from the Academy Awards: Wes Studi (Cherokee Nation).[161]
- First Native American United States Poet Laureate: Joy Harjo (Mvskoke/Cherokee).[162]
- First delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation: Kimberly Teehee (Cherokee Nation).[163]
- First American nationally distributed children's show to feature an Alaska Native as the lead character: Molly of Denali, premiered in 2019[164]
2020s[]
2020
- First painting on canvas by a Native American artist in the National Gallery of Art: "I See Red: Target", by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes)[165]
- First Native American to compete in the Tour de France: Neilson Powless (Oneida).[166][167]
- First U.S. tribe to contribute heirloom seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: the Cherokee Nation.[168]
- First Native American openly transgender person elected to office in America: Stephanie Byers, elected to the Kansas state House of Representatives (Chickasaw Nation).[169]
- First Alaska Native to be featured on United States currency: Elizabeth Peratrovich (Tlingit).[170]
2021
- First Native American to win a Caldecott Medal: Michaela Goade for We Are Water Protectors (Tlingit and Haida tribes).[171]
- First Native American to serve in a Senate-confirmed position in the United States Cabinet (Secretary of the Interior): Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo)
See also[]
- Native Americans in the United States
- List of African American firsts
- List of Asian American firsts
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