This is a list of Native American politicians in the United States. These are Native Americans who served in the federal, state, or municipal governments.
Native American identity is a complex and contested issue. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village. These entities establish their own membership rules, and they vary. Each must be understood independently. Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American identity.
All individuals on this list should have Native American ancestry. Historical figures might predate tribal enrollment practices and may be included based on reliable sources that document ethnological tribal membership. Any contemporary individuals should either be enrolled members of federally recognized tribes, or have cited Native American ancestry and be recognized as Native American by their respective tribes(s). Contemporary individuals who are not enrolled in a tribe but are documented as having tribal descent are listed as being "of descent" from a tribe.
For tribal leaders, please go to that tribe's article.
Federal offices
Executive branch
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
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Peter Pitchlynn | 1806β1881 | Choctaw Nation | Independent | Choctaw Ambassador to the United States, 1845β1861, 1866β1881 | |
National Union | |||||
Ely Parker | 1828β1895 | Tonawanda Seneca | Independent | Commissioner of Indian Affairs in the Grant administration | |
Charles Curtis | 1860β1936 | Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi | Republican | U.S. Vice President, 1929β1933 | |
Ben Reifel | 1906β1990 | Rosebud Lakota | Republican | Interim Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1976β1977 | |
Wilma Victor | 1919β1987 | Choctaw Nation | Republican | Special assistant to Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton, 1971β1975 | |
Ada Deer | 1935β2023 | Menominee | Democratic | 6th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 1993β1997 | |
Neal McCaleb | 1935β | Chickasaw Nation | Republican | 8th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2001β2003 | |
Ross Swimmer | 1943β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | 4th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 1985β1989 Special Trustee for American Indians at the U.S. Department of the Interior | |
Larry Echo Hawk | 1948β | Pawnee Nation | Democratic | 11th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2009β2012 | |
Michael Burrage | 1950β | Choctaw Nation | Independent | Choctaw Ambassador to the United States, 1974β1994, 2001βpresent | |
David W. Anderson | 1953β | Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe | Republican | 9th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2004β2005 | |
Marilynn Malerba | 1953β | Mohegan | Democratic | 45th Treasurer designate of the United States, 2022βpresent | |
Kevin Gover | 1955β | Pawnee Nation | Democratic | 7th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 1997β2001 | |
Deb Haaland | 1960β | Laguna Pueblo | Democratic | 54th United States Secretary of the Interior, 2021βpresent | |
Arvo Mikkanen | 1961β | Kiowa Nation | Democratic | US Assistant Attorney for United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma since 1994. Later unsuccessful US District Judge nomination | |
Karina Walters | 1964β | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | Director of the Tribal Health Research Office at the National Institutes of Health, 2023βpresent | |
Carl J. Artman | 1965β | Oneida | Republican | 10th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2007β2008 | |
Keith Harper | 1965β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | U.S. representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, 2014β2017 | |
Kimberly Teehee | 1966β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | White House Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs, 2009β2012 | |
Kevin K. Washburn | 1967β | Chickasaw Nation | Democratic | 12th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2012β2016 | |
Tara Sweeney | 1973β | Arctic Slope IΓ±upiat | Republican | 13th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2018β2021 | |
Jack Jackson, Jr. | Navajo Nation | Democratic | Liaison to Secretary John Kerry, US Department of State | ||
Bryan Mercier | Grand Ronde Confederacy | Democratic | Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 2024βpresent | ||
Bryan Newland | Bay Mills Chippewa | Democratic | 14th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, 2021βpresent | ||
Jeannie Hovland | Santee Dakota Sioux | Republican | Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Affairs, Associate Commissioner of the National Indian Gaming Commission | ||
Roselyn Tso | Navajo Nation | Democratic | Director of the Indian Health Service, 2022βpresent |
Legislative branch
State offices
Alaska
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albert P. Adams | 1942β2012 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1981β1989, state senator 1989β2001 | |
Billy Akers | 1947β | [?] | Republican | State representative 1977β1979 | |
Charles G. Anderson | 1929β2022 | Aleut | Republican | State representative 1981β1983 | |
Nels A. Anderson, Jr. | 1939β | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1975β1981, state senator 1982β1983 | |
Bill Beltz | 1912β1960 | Inupiaq | Democratic | Territorial representative 1949β1951, territorial senator 1951β1959, state senator and president of the state senate 1959β1960 | |
Ray Christiansen | 1922β1998 | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1961β1967, state senator 1967β1973 | |
Joseph Chuckwuk | 1948β | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1981β1983 | |
John E. Curtis | 1915β1999 | Inupiaq | Republican | State representative 1959β1961 | |
Larry T. Davis | 1930β2006 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1975β1977 | |
Chuck Degnan | 1941β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1971β1975 | |
Frank Degnan | 1901β1980 | [?] | Democratic | Territorial representative 1951β1953 | |
Bryce Edgmon | 1961β | Yup'ik | Democratic | State representative 2007βpresent, speaker of the state house 2017β2021 | |
Independent | |||||
Charles Fagerstrom | 1905β1962 | Inupiaq | Democratic | Territorial representative 1953β1957, state representative 1959β1961 | |
Frank R. Ferguson | 1939β2003 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1971β1975, state senator 1975β1986 | |
Independent | |||||
Neal Foster | 1972β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 2009βpresent | |
Richard Foster | 1946β2009 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1989β2009 | |
Charles Franz | c. 1910β1996 | [?] | Democratic | State representative 1959β1961 | |
Phillip Guy | 1941β2011 | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1973β1981 | |
Willie Hensley | 1941β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1967β1971, state senator 1971β1975 and 1987β1989 | |
Adelheid Herrmann | 1953β | Dena'ina | Democratic | State representative 1983β1989 | |
Jimmy Hoffman | c. 1925β1982 | Yupβik | Republican | State representative 1959β1961 | |
Lyman Hoffman | 1950β | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1987β1991 and 1993β1995, state senator 1991β1993 and 1995βpresent | |
Andrew Hope | 1896β1968 | Tlingit | Democratic | Territorial representative 1945β1953 and 1957β1959, state representative 1959β1963 | |
Eben Hopson | 1922β1980 | Inupiaq | Democratic | Territorial representative 1957β1959, state senator 1959β1967 | |
Jimmy Huntington | 1916β1987 | Koyukon | Independent | State representative 1975β1977 | |
Percy Ipalook | 1906β1990 | Inupiaq | Republican | Territorial representative 1949β1951, territorial senator 1951β1955 | |
Brenda Itta | 1943β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1975β1977 | |
Ivan M. Ivan | 1945β | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1991β1993 and 1995β1999 | |
George Jacko | 1959β | Aleut | Democratic | State representative 1989β1993, state senator 1993β1995 | |
Dena'ina | |||||
Yupβik | |||||
Arthur D. Johnson | 1920β1961 | [?] | Republican | State representative 1961 | |
Axel C. Johnson | 1911β1985 | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1959β1961 and 1963β1967 | |
Frank G. Johnson | 1894β1982 | Tlingit | Republican | Territorial representative 1947β1955 and 1957β1959 | |
Frank L. Johnson | c. 1904β[?] | Inupiaq | Republican | Territorial representative 1949β1951 | |
Grace A. Johnson | 1924β2004 | Inupiaq | Republican | State representative 1962β1963 | |
Reggie Joule | 1952β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1997β2012 | |
Sam Kito III | 1964β | Tlingit | Democratic | State representative 2014β2019 | |
Albert Kookesh | 1948β2021 | Tlingit | Democratic | State representative 1997β2005, state senator 2005β2013 | |
Jacob Laktonen | 1917β1996 | Alutiiq | Republican | State representative 1973β1975 | |
Loren Leman | 1950β | Alutiiq | Republican | State representative 1989β1993, state senator 1993β2002, lieutenant governor 2002β2006 | |
Georgianna Lincoln | 1943β | Gwich'in | Democratic | State representative 1991β1993, state senator 1993β2005 | |
John Lincoln | 1981β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 2018β2021 | |
Independent | |||||
Don Long | 1944β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1996β1997 | |
Jerry Mackie | 1962β | Haida | Democratic | State representative 1991β1997, state senator 1997β2001 | |
Republican | |||||
Eileen MacLean | 1949β1996 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1989β1995 | |
Byron Mallott | 1943β2020 | Tlingit | Democratic | Commissioner of community and regional affairs 1972β1974, lieutenant governor 2014β2018 | |
Independent | |||||
Beverly Masek | 1963β | Deg Hit'an | Republican | State representative 1995β2005 | |
Charisse Millett | 1964β | Inupiaq | Republican | State representative 2009β2019 | |
Martin B. Moore | 1937β2022 | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1971β1973 | |
Carl M. Morgan | 1950β | Yupβik | Republican | State representative 1999β2005 | |
Carl E. Moses | 1929β2014 | Aleut | Alaskan Independence | State representative 1965β1973 and 1993β2007 | |
Democratic | |||||
Republican | |||||
Benjamin Nageak | 1950β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 2013β2017 | |
Alfred Nakak | 1947β2000 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1977β1979 | |
Ed Naughton | 1930β2002 | [?] | Democratic | State representative 1971β1977 | |
Irene Nicholia | 1956β | Koyukon | Democratic | State representative 1993β1999 | |
John Nusunginya | 1927β1981 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1959β1963 | |
Donny Olson | 1953β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State senator 2001βpresent | |
Alvin Osterback | 1915β2005 | [?] | Democratic | State representative 1975β1981 | |
Justin Parish | 1980β | Tinglit | Democratic | State representative 2017β2019 | |
Josiah Patkotak | 1994β | Inupiaq | Independent | State representative 2020βpresent | |
Moses Paukan | 1933β2017 | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1968β1971 | |
William Paul | 1885β1977 | Tlingit | Republican | Territorial representative 1925β1929, (first Alaska Native legislator) | |
Frank Peratrovich | 1895β1984 | Tlingit | Democratic | Territorial representative 1945β1947, territorial senator 1947β1951 and 1957β1959, delegate and first vice president of constitutional convention 1955β1956, state senator 1959β1967, president of the state senate 1961β1965, state representative 1969β1973 | |
Larry Peterson | 1939β | Gwich'in | Democratic | State representative 1973β1975 | |
John Sackett | 1944β2021 | Koyukon | Republican | State representative 1967β1971, state senator 1973β1987 | |
Woodie Salmon | 1952β | Gwich'in | Democratic | State representative 2005β2011 | |
Mary Sattler | 1973β | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1999β2009 | |
Leo Schaeffer | 1947β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1977β1981 | |
Frank See | 1915β1998 | Tlingit | Democratic | State representative 1965β1969 | |
Martin Seversen | 1925β1979 | [?] | [?] | State representative 1977 | |
Jake Stalker | 1917βc. 2008 | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 1961β1967 | |
Bill Thomas | 1947β | Tlingit | Republican | State representative 2005β2013 | |
Tony Vaska | 1948β | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1981β1985 | |
Kay Wallis | 1944β | Gwich'in | Democratic | State representative 1985β1991 | |
Tim Wallis | 1940β | Gwich'in | Democratic | State representative 1975β1977 | |
Jerry Ward | 1948β | Alaskan Athabaskan | Alaskan Independence | State representative 1983β1985, state senator 1997β2003 | |
Republican | |||||
James K. Wells | 1906β1979 | Inupiaq | Democratic | Territorial representative 1951β1953 | |
John Westdahl | 1918β1968 | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 1967β1968 | |
Dean Westlake | 1960β | Inupiaq | Democratic | State representative 2017 | |
Alfred Widmark | 1904β1989 | Tlingit | Republican | State representative 1961β1963 | |
Bill K. Williams | 1943β2019 | Tlingit | Democratic | State representative 1993β2005 | |
Republican | |||||
Jules W. Wright | 1933β2022 | Gwich'in | Republican | State representative 1967β1969 | |
Fred Zharoff | 1944β2001 | Alutiiq | Democratic | State representative 1979β1985, state senator 1985β1997 | |
Tiffany Zulkosky | 1984β | Yupβik | Democratic | State representative 2018βpresent |
Arizona
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carlyle Begay | [?] | Navajo | Democratic | State senator 2013β2017 | |
Republican | |||||
Jennifer D. Benally | [?] | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 2015β2017 | |
Wenona Benally | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 2017-2019 | ||
Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 2020β2023 | ||
Domingo DeGrazia | Cherokee | Democratic | State representative 2019β2023 | ||
Eric Descheenie | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 2017β2019 | ||
Chris Deschene | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 2009β2011 | ||
Luis A. Gonzalez | Pascua Yaqui | Democratic | State senator, District 10, 1979β1986 | ||
Sally Ann Gonzales | 1957β | Pascua Yaqui | Democratic | State representative 1997β2001 and 2011β2019 | |
Tom Gordon | Hualapai | Republican | State representative 1999β2001 | ||
Albert Hale | 1950β2021 | Navajo | Democratic | State senator 2004β2011; State representative 2011β2021 | |
Benjamin Hanley | 1941β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, 1973β1998 | |
Theresa Hatathlie | Navajo | Democratic | State Senator for AZ District 6, 2023-present | ||
James Henderson Jr. | 1942β | Navajo | Democratic | State senator, District 5, 1985β1999 | |
Arthur J. Hubbard Sr. | 1912β2014 | Navajo, Tohono OΚΌodham | Democratic | State senator 1972β1984 | |
Lloyd House | 1931β2015 | Navajo, Oneida | Democratic | State representative 1967β1968 | |
Jack Jackson, Jr. | Navajo | Democratic | State Senator for AZ District 2, 2011β2013, State representative 2003β2005 | ||
Jennifer Jermaine | White Earth Ojibwe | Democratic | State representative for the 18th district (2019βpresent) | ||
Sylvia Laughter | [?] | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 1999β2005 | |
Independent | |||||
Myron Lizer | Navajo / Comanche | Republican | 10th Vice President of the Navajo Nation | ||
Peter MacDonald | 1928β | Navajo | Republican | 7th Chairman of the Navajo Nation (1970β1989) | |
Jonathan Nez | 1975β | Navajo | Democratic | 9th President of the Navajo Nation | |
Debora Lynn Norris | Navajo, Tohono OΚΌodham | Democratic | State representative, District 11, 1997β2002 | ||
Victoria Steele | [?] | Seneca | Democratic | State representative 2013β2016, State senator 2019β2023 | |
Arlando Teller | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 2019β2021 | ||
Albert Tom | 1956β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, 2001β2002, 2005β2008 | |
Myron Tsosie | Navajo | Democratic | State representative 2019βpresent | ||
Daniel Peaches | 1940β2022 | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, 1975β1984 | |
Jamescita Peshlakai | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 7 (2013-2015) State senator (2017-2021) | ||
Mae Peshlakai | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 6 (2023-present) | ||
Peterson Zah | 1937β2023 | Navajo | Democratic | Special Adviser to ASU President on American Indian Affairs |
Arkansas
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Donna Hutchinson | 1949β | Blackfeet | Republican | State representative, District 98, 2007β2013 |
California
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PΓo Pico | 1801β1894 | Indigenous Sonoran | Independent | Governor of California (1845β1846), Member of the Los Angeles Common Council (1853) | |
Republican | |||||
Todd Gloria | 1978β | TlingitβHaida | Democratic | State assemblyman (2017β2020) | |
James C. Ramos | 1967β | Serrano / Cahuilla | Democratic | San Bernardino Community College Board of Trustees (2005β12), San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors (2012β2018), California State Assemblymember (2018βpresent) |
Colorado
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Nighthorse Campbell | 1933β | Northern Cheyenne | Democratic | Member of the Colorado House of Representatives from the 59th district (1983β1987) | |
Republican |
Idaho
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Joseph R. Garry | 1910β1975 | Coeur d'Alene | Democratic | State representative (1956β1960) | |
Jeanne Givens | 1951/52β | Coeur d'Alene | Democratic | State representative (1985β1989) | |
Larry Echo Hawk | 1948β | Pawnee Nation | Democratic | Attorney General of Idaho (1991β1995) | |
Paulette Jordan | 1979β | Coeur d'Alene | Democratic | State representative (2014β2018) Democratic nominee for Governor in 2018 Democratic nominee for Senate in 2020 |
Illinois
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Donne E. Trotter | 1950β | Choctaw | Democratic | State senator (1993β2018); State representative (1988β1993) |
Kansas
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
PonkaβWe Victors | 1981β | PoncaβTohono O'odham | Democratic | State representative, District 103 (2011βpresent) | |
Stephanie Byers | 1963- | Chickasaw | Democratic | State representative, District 86 (2021-2023) | |
Christina Haswood | 1994- | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 10 (2021-present) |
Kentucky
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reginald Meeks | 1954β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2000β2021) |
Maine
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lola Coly (Cola/Nicola) | Penobscot | Independent | State representative, 1980β1897, 1911β1913 | ||
Matthew Dana II | Passamaquoddy | Independent | State representative (nonβvoting) | ||
Lewy Mitchell | Passamaquoddy | Independent | State representative 1880β1881, 1883β1887, 1895β1897, 1903β1905 | ||
Wayne Mitchell | 1952β2019 | Penobscot | Independent | State representative (nonβvoting) | |
John S. Nelson | Penobscot | Independent | State representative, 1957β1971 | ||
Peter M. Nelson | Penobscot | Independent | State representative, 1905β1907 | ||
Peter F. Neptune | Passamaquoddy | Independent | State representative, 1905β1907 | ||
Joseph Neptune | Passamaquoddy | Independent | State representative, 1907β1909 | ||
Joseph Nicolar | 1827β1894 | Penobscot | Independent | State representative, 1859β1866, 1881β1894 | |
Rena Newell | Passamaquoddy | Independent | State representative (non-voting) | ||
Sebatis Shay | Penobscot | Independent | State representative, 1899β1901 | ||
Nicholas Sockabasin | Penobscot | Independent | State representative, 1907β1909 | ||
Peol Sockis | Penobscot | Independent | State representative, 1853β1856, 1861β1866 | ||
Madonna Soctomah | Passamaquoddy | Independent | State representative (non-voting) | ||
Henry John Bear | Maliseet | Green | State representative (nonβvoting) |
Massachusetts
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Watson F. Hammond | 1837β1919 | Montauk | Republican | State representative (1885) |
Michigan
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cora Reynolds Anderson | 1882-1950 | Chippewa | Republican | State representative (1924-1925) | |
Adam Hollier | 1985β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Democratic | State senator (2018β2022) |
Minnesota
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Susan Allen | 1963β | Rosebud Lakota | Democratic | State representative (2012β2019) | |
Jamie BeckerβFinn | Leech Lake Ojibwe | Democratic | State representative (2017βpresent) | ||
Harold "Skip" Finn | 1948β2018 | Leech Lake Ojibwe | Democratic | State senator (1991β1996) | |
Peggy Flanagan | 1979β | White Earth Band of Ojibwe | Democratic | Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota (2019βpresent) State representative (2015β2019) | |
Steve Green | 1960β | White Earth Band of Ojibwe | Republican | State representative (2013β2023) State senator (2023βpresent) | |
Mary Kelly KuneshβPodein | 1960β | Standing Rock Lakota | Democratic | State representative (2017β2021) State senator (2021βpresent) |
Mississippi
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Greenwood LeFlore | 1800β1865 | Mississippi Choctaw | Whig | State representative, State senator (1841β1844) | |
Phillip Martin | 1926β2010 | Mississippi Choctaw | Republican | Tribal Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (1979β2007) |
Montana
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dolly Akers | 1901β1986 | Assiniboine | Democratic | State representative, 1933β1934 | |
Jade Bahr | 1988β | Northern Cheyenne | Democratic | State representative, district 50 (2019β2021) | |
Barbara Bessette | Chippewa Cree | Democratic | State representative, district 24 (2018βpresent) | ||
Norma Bixby | 1941β | Northern Cheyenne | Democratic | State representative, district 41 (2000β2008) | |
Margarett Campbell | 1954β | Assiniboine | Democratic | State representative, district 31 (2004β2011) | |
Bill Eggers | Crow | Democratic | State representative, district 6 (1998β2003) | ||
Bob Gervais | 1931β | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State representative (1989β1993) | |
George Heavy Runner | 1955β | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State representative, district 85 (1995β1998) | |
Joey Jayne | 1957β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, district 15 (2001β2009) | |
Carol Juneau | 1945β | Mandan and Hidatsaa | Democratic | State representative (1998β2007); State senator (2007β2011) | |
Denise Juneau | 1967β | Mandan and Hidatsaa | Democratic | Superintendent of Public Instruction (2009β2017) | |
Carolyn PeaseβLopez | Crow | Democratic | State representative (2008β2016) | ||
Leo Kennerly Jr. | 1936β1980 | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State representative (1977β1979) | |
Roland Kennerly | 1934β2004 | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State representative (1981β1987) | |
Gary Kimble | 1942β2022 | Gros Ventre | Democratic | State representative (1972β1978) | |
George Kipp III | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State representative (2015β2019) | ||
Rhonda Knudsen | 1958β | Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa | Republican | State representative (2019βpresent) Speaker pro tempore of the Montana House (2023βpresent) | |
G. Bruce Meyers | 1948β | ChippewaβCree | Republican | State representative (2015β2017) | |
Shane Morigeau | 1984β | Confederated Salish and Kootenai | Democratic | State representative (2017β2021) State senator (2021βpresent) | |
Alvin Not Afraid Jr. | Crow | Republican | Chairman of the Crow Nation (2016βpresent) | ||
Gerald Pease | 1954β | Crow | Democratic | State representative (1997β1998); State senator, district 21 (2001β2009) | |
Rae Peppers | Northern Cheyenne | Democratic | State representative (2013β2021) | ||
Frosty Boss Ribs | 1955β | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State Representative (2009β2011, 2013β2015) | |
Tyson Runningwolf | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | Representative for Montana house district 16 (2019βpresent) | ||
Angela Russell | 1943β | Crow | Democratic | State representative (1987β1995) | |
Jason Small | Northern Cheyenne | Republican | State senator (2017βpresent) | ||
Veronica Small-Eastman | 1941β | Crow | Democratic | State representative, district 42 (2002β2009) | |
Frank Smith | 1942β | Assiniboine, Sioux | Democratic | State representative (1998β2004, 2011β2013); State senator (2004β2009, 2017β2021) | |
Sharon StewartβPeregoy | 1953β | Crow | Democratic | State senator (2009β2017) State representative (2017βpresent) | |
Jay O. Stovall | 1940β2011 | Crow | Republican | State representative (1992β2000) | |
Jean A. Turnage | 1926β2015 | Confederated Salish and Kootenai | Republican | State representative, State senator (1969β1983) | |
Bill Whitehead | 1939β | Assiniboine, Sioux | Democratic | State representative (1997β1998) | |
Lea Whitford | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State senator (2015βpresent) | ||
Marvin Weatherwax Jr. | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State representative, district 15 (2019βpresent) | ||
Susan Webber | Blackfeet Nation | Democratic | State representative (2015βpresent) | ||
Jonathan Windy Boy | ChippewaβCree | Democratic | State representative (2002β2008); State senator (2008βpresent) | ||
Bill Yellowtail | 1948β | Crow | Democratic | State senator (1985β1994) |
Nebraska
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tom Brewer | 1958β | Oglala | Republican | State representative, District 43, 2017β |
Nevada
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dewey Sampson | 1898β1982 | Pyramid Lake Paiute | Democratic | State representative, District 1, 1938β1940 | |
John Oceguera | 1968β | Walker River Paiute | Democratic | State representative, 2000β2012 | |
Shea Backus | 1975β | Cherokee | Democratic | State representative, 2018β2020 |
New Mexico
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anthony Allison | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 4 2019-present | ||
James D. Atcitty | 1932β2014 | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 1 1964β1966 | |
Thomas Atcitty | 1933β2020 | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 4, 1981β1995 | |
Reginald A. Begaye | c. 1944β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, 1979β1980 | |
Wilbert C. Begay | 1939β | Navajo | Republican | State representative, District 1, 1966β1970 | |
Ray Begaye | 1954β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 4 (1999β2013) | |
Patricia Roybal Caballero | 1949- | Piro-Manso-Tiwa | Democratic | State representative (2013βpresent) | |
Jake C. Chee | 1907β2014 | Navajo | Republican | State representative, District 1, 1966β1968 | |
Wendell Chino | 1923β1998 | Apache | "Red Capitalism" | President of Mescalero Apache Nation 1965-1998 | |
Sharon Clahchischilliage | 1948β | Navajo | Republican | State representative, District 4, 2013β2018 | |
Yvette Herrell | 1964β | Cherokee | Republican | State representative, District 51, 2011β2019. | |
Jack Jackson Sr. | 1933β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative | |
Sandra D. Jeff | 1967/68β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 5 | |
Doreen Wonda Johnson | 1953β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative (2015βpresent) | |
Monroe Jymm | 1933β1990 | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 1 1965β1967 | |
Tom Lee | 1920β1986 | Navajo | Republican | State senator District 3 1966β1978, (first Native American elected to the New Mexico Senate) | |
Derrick Lente | Sandia & Isleta Pueblo | Democratic | State representative, District 26 (2013β) | ||
Georgene Louis | Acoma Pueblo | Democratic | State representative, District 26 (2013β2023) | ||
Brenda McKenna | NambΓ© Pueblo | Democratic | State senator, District 9 (2021-) | ||
Lynda Lovejoy | 1949β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, State senator, District 22 (2007-2013), Public Regulation Commissioner | |
James Madalena | 1948β | Jemez Pueblo | Democratic | State representative (1985β2017) | |
Patricia A. Madrid | 1994β | Pueblo | Democratic | ||
John Pinto | 1924β2019 | Navajo | Democratic | State senator, District 3, 1977β2019 | |
Shannon Pinto | Navajo | Democratic | State senator, District 3 (2019βpresent) | ||
Nick L. Salazar | 1929β2020 | Tewa (Ohkay Owingeh) | Democratic | State representative, 40th District (1974βpresent) | |
Benny Shendo | Jemez Pueblo | Democratic | State senator (2013βpresent) | ||
Albert Shirley | c. 1956β | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, District 6, 1985β1992 | |
Leonard Tsosie | 1955β | Navajo | Democratic | State senator, District 22, 1993β2007 | |
Leo C. Watchman | 1937β1993 | Navajo | Democratic | State representative, 1968β1979, 1983β1993 |
North Carolina
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity Tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Charles Graham | 1951β | Lumbee | Democratic | State representative, 2011β2023 | |
Jarrod Lowery | 1988- | Lumbee | Republican | State representative, 2023-present | |
David T. McCoy | 1952β | Turtle Mountain Chippewa | Democratic | state public official, State Controller, State Budget Director, and Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation | |
Henry Ward Oxendine | 1940β2020 | Lumbee | Democratic | State representative, 1973β1976 | |
Ronnie N. Sutton | 1941- | Lumbee | Democratic | State representative, 1993-2011 |
North Dakota
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dennis Bercier | 1952β2012 | Turtle Mountain Ojibwe | Democratic | State senator, 1999-2005 | |
Ruth Buffalo | Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation | Democratic | State representative | ||
Dawn Marie Charging | Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation | Republican | State representative, 2005β2007 | ||
Daniel F. JΓ©rome | 1930β | MΓ©tis/Ojibwe | Democratic | State senator, 1990β1994 | |
Les J. LaFountain | Turtle Mountain Ojibwe | Democratic | State senator, 1997 | ||
Richard Marcellais | 1947β | Turtle Mountain Ojibwe | Democratic | State senator | |
Joseph Menz | 1883β1970 | Standing Rock Sioux | Republican | State representative 1957β1963 | |
Wayne Trottier | Standing Rock Sioux | Republican | State representative | ||
Arthur J. Raymond | 1923β2009 | Oglala | Republican | State representative, 1971β1975 |
Oklahoma
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jimmy Belvin | 1900β1986 | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (1955β1961), State senator (1961β1965) | |
Scott Bighorse | c. 1956β | Osage Nation | Democratic | State representative (2006β2008) | |
Steve Burrage | 1952β | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State Auditor (2008β2011), State Tax Commissioner (2014β2016) | |
Sean Burrage | 1968β | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | Senate Minority leader (2012β2014), State senator (2006β2014), President of Southeastern Oklahoma State University (2014β2019) | |
Lisa Johnson Billy | 1967β | Chickasaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2004β2016) | |
Brian Bingman | 1953β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Republican | State senator (2007β2016), State representative (2005β2007), 36th Secretary of State of Oklahoma (2020β2023) | |
Brad Boles | 1983β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2018βpresent) | |
Chelsey Branham | Chickasaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (2018β2020) | ||
Josh Brecheen | 1979β | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State senator (2010β2018) | |
Trey Caldwell | 1988β | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2019βpresent) | |
Bobby Cleveland | 1943- | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2012β2018) | |
Helen Cole | 1922-2004 | Chickasaw Nation | Republican | State representative (1979β1984), State senator (1984-1988, 1991-1996) | |
Tom Cole | 1949β | Chickasaw Nation | Republican | 26th Secretary of State of Oklahoma (1995β1999) | |
Doug Cox | 1952β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Republican | State representative (2005β2017) | |
William A. Durant | 1866β1948 | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (1907β1917), Speaker of the Oklahoma House (1911β1913) | |
James Dyer | 1887β1951 | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (1946β1951) | |
J. Gladstone Emery | 1900β1978 | Muscogee Creek Nation | Democratic | State senator (1947β1951) | |
Rusty Farley | 1953β2011 | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2011) | |
Scott Fetgatter | 1968β | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2016βpresent) | |
Avery Frix | 1994β | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2017β2022), State senator (2024βpresent) | |
William Fourkiller | 1965β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2010β2018) | |
Todd Gollihare | 1964β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State Senator (2023-present) | |
Enoch Kelly Haney | 1940β2022 | Seminole Nation | Democratic | State representative (1980β1986), State senate (1986β2002) | |
David Hardin | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2018βpresent) | ||
Erick Harris | Muscogee Creek Nation | Republican | State representative (2024βpresent) | ||
Benjamin F. Harrison | 1875β1936 | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (1907β1910), Oklahoma Secretary of State (1911β1915) | |
David Holt | 1979β | Osage Nation | Republican | State senator (2010β2018), Mayor of Oklahoma City (2018β) | |
Chuck Hoskin | 1952β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2007β2019) | |
Shane Jett | 1974β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2004β2010), State senator (2021βpresent) | |
Fred Jordan | 1974β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2007β2015) | |
Dan Kirby | 1946β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Republican | State representative (2009β2017) | |
Richard Lerblance | 1946β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Democratic | State senator (2003β2012), State representative (2002β2003) | |
Ken Luttrell | 1953β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2007βpresent) | |
Republican | |||||
Al McAffrey | 1948β | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (2007β2015) | |
Mark McBride | 1961β | Citizen Potawatomi | Republican | State representative (2012β2024) | |
Neal McCaleb | 1935β | Chickasaw Nation | Republican | State representative (1975β1983), Oklahoma Secretary of Transportation (1995β2001) | |
Curtis McDaniel | 1952β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2012β2014) | |
Skye McNiel | 1978β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Republican | State representative (2007β2013) | |
Jerry McPeak | 1946β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Democratic | State representative (2005β2016) | |
Johnston Murray | 1902β1974 | Of Chickasaw descent Not a registered member |
Democratic | Governor (1951β1955) | |
Republican | |||||
Mike Osburn | 1968β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2016βpresent) | |
John Pfeiffer | 1986β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2014βpresent) | |
Anastasia Pittman | 1970β | Seminole Nation | Democratic | State representative (2007β2013), State senator (2014β2018) | |
Ajay Pittman | 1993β | Seminole Nation | Democratic | State representative (2019βpresent) | |
Dustin Roberts | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2010β2022) | ||
Hollis E. Roberts | 1943β2011 | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (1975β1979) | |
Seneca Scott | 1977β | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (2008β2016) | |
Ally Seifried | 1992- | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State senator (2023-present) | |
T. W. Shannon | 1978β | Chickasaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2007β2015), Speaker of the Oklahoma House (2013β2014) | |
Jerry Shoemake | 1943β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2005β2016) | |
Ralph Shortey | 1982β | Rosebud Lakota | Republican | State representative (2011β2017) | |
John Sparks | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State senator (2006β2018) | ||
William G. Stigler | 1891β1952 | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State senator (1924β1932) | |
Kevin Stitt | 1972β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | Governor (2019βpresent) | |
Daniel Sullivan | 1963β | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2004β2011) | |
Ron Stewart | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative (2024βpresent) | ||
Amanda Swope | 1988β | Muscogee Creek Nation | Democratic | State representative (2022βpresent) | |
Houston B. Teehee | 1874β1953 | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | Mayor of Tahlequah (1907β1909), State representative (1910β1914) | |
Bob A. Trent | 1913β1992 | Choctaw Nation | Democratic | State representative, state senator | |
Mark Vancuren | 1964β | Cherokee Nation | Republican | State representative (2018βpresent) | |
Paul Wesselhoft | 1947β | Citizen Potawatomi | Republican | State representative (2005β2017) | |
Collin Walke | 1982β | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2016β2023) | |
Cory Williams | Cherokee Nation | Democratic | State representative (2009β2019) | ||
Jonathan Wingard | 1982β | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State senator (2024βpresent) | |
Tom Woods | 1994- | Chickasaw Nation | Republican | State senator (2023-present) |
Oregon
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jackie Taylor | 1935β2008 | Potawatomi | Democratic | State representative (1991β2001) | |
Tawna Sanchez | 1961β | Shoshone, Bannock, Ute | Democratic | State representative (2017βpresent) |
Pennsylvania
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Barbara Smith | 1950β | Sac and Fox Nation | Democratic | State representative (2006β2010) |
South Carolina
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fawn Pedalino | 1987β | Natchez-Kusso | Republican | State representative (2023-present) |
South Dakota
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim Bradford | 1933β2020 | Oglala Sioux | Democratic | State senator (2009β2017); State representative (2001β2009) | |
Ed Iron Cloud III | 1964β | Oglala Sioux | Democratic | State representative (2009β2012) | |
Jim Emery | 1934β2021 | Cheyenne River Sioux | Republican | State representative (1985β1986), State senator (1986β1996) | |
Pat Flynn | 1922β1979 | Lakota | Republican | State senator (1971β1973) | |
Red Dawn Foster | Oglala Sioux/Navajo | Democratic | State representative (2019 βpresent) | ||
Troy Heinert | 1972 β | Rosebud Lakota | Democratic | State representative (2013β2015), State senator (2015βPresent) | |
Philip N. Hogen | Oglala Sioux | Republican | United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota (1981β1991), Commissioner of the National Indian Gaming Commission (2002β2009) | ||
Tamara St. John | 1966 β | Dakota Sioux | Republican | State representative (2019 β ) | |
Kevin Killer | 1979 β | Oglala Sioux | Democratic | State representative (2009β2017), State senator (2017β2019) | |
Steve Livermont | 1955 β | Oglala Sioux | Republican | State representative (2017β2021) | |
Ellis T. Peirce | 1846β1926 | Oglala Sioux | Republican | State representative (1903β1904) | |
Peri Pourier | Oglala Sioux | Democratic | State representative (2019-present) | ||
Thomas Short Bull | 1946β | Oglala Sioux | Democratic | State senator (1983β1988) | |
Theresa Two Bulls | 1949β2020 | Oglala Sioux | Democratic | State senator (2005β2009) | |
Tyler Tordsen | Dakota Sioux | Republican | State representative (2023 β ) | ||
Paul Valandra | 1953β | Rosebud Lakota | Democratic | State representative (1991β2000), State senator (2001β2006) | |
Tom Van Norman | 1964β | Cheyenne River Sioux | Democratic | State representative (2000β2008) | |
Ron J. Volesky | 1954β | Hunkpapa | Republican | State representative (1981β1986, 1993β2000), State senator (2001β2002) | |
Democratic | |||||
Bruce Whalen | Oglala Sioux | Republican | Oglala Sioux tribal administrator, former chair of the Oglala Lakota County Republican Party and nominee for South Dakota's at-large congressional district in 2006 |
Tennessee
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bryan Terry | 1968β | Choctaw Nation | Republican | State representative (2015βpresent) |
Utah
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Angela Romero | Assiniboine | Democratic | State representative (2013βpresent) |
Washington
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
George Adams | 1880β1954 | Skokomish | Democratic | State representative (1933β1939), (1945β1954) | |
W. Ron Allen | 1947β | S'Klallam | Independent | Tribal Chairmen (1977-present), NCAI treasurer and president, | |
Don Barlow | 1938β2016 | Ottawa | Democratic | State representative (2007β2009) | |
William Bishop | 1861β1934 | Snohomish | Republican | State senator (1919β1927), (1933β1934), State representative (1899β1903), (1905β1907), (1909β1911), (1917β1919) | |
Jim Dunn | 1942β | Inuit | Republican | State representative (1997β2003), (2005β2009) | |
Claudia Kauffman | 1959β | Nez Perce | Democratic | State senator (2007β2011) | |
Debra Lekanoff | 1971β | Tlingit | Democratic | State representative (2019β) | |
John McCoy | 1943β | Tulalip | Democratic | State senator (2013β2020), State representative (2003β2013) | |
Jeff Morris | 1964β | Tsimshian | Democratic | State representative (1997β2020) | |
Chief George Pierre | 1926β2011 | Colville | Democratic | State representative (1965β1967) | |
Jay Rodne | 1966β | Bad River Ojibwe | Republican | State representative (2004β2019) | |
Dino Rossi | 1959β | Tlingit | Republican | State senator (1997β2003, 2012, 2017); 2004 and 2008 Republican nominee for Governor | |
Chris Stearns | Navajo Nation | Democratic | State senator (1985β1993), State representative (2022- ) | ||
Lois Stratton | 1927β2020 | Spokane | Democratic | State senator (1985β1993), State representative (1980β1985) | |
John Tennant | 1830β1893 | Quapaw | Territorial representative (1858β1860) |
Wyoming
Name | Image | Life | Ethnicity or tribe |
Party | Offices held |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
W. Patrick Goggles | 1952β | Arapaho | Democratic | State representative (2004β2015) | |
Affie Ellis | 1979/1980β | Navajo | Republican | State senator (2017βpresent) | |
Andi LeBeau | Arapaho | Democratic | State representative (2019β2023) | ||
Scott Ratliff | 1943β | Eastern Shoshone | Democratic | State representative (1980β1992) |
Municipal offices
Arizona
- Roberta Cano, (Navajo, Zuni Pueblo) Winslow Mayor (2021-present)
California
- Tasha Cerda (Tohono O'odham Nation), Gardena Mayor (2017βpresent), City Council (2009β2013)
- Todd Gloria (Tlingit-Haida), San Diego Mayor (2020βpresent; 2013β2014 (acting)), San Diego City Councilman (2008β2016), San Diego City Council President (2012β2014)
- Mitch O'Farrell (Wyandotte), Los Angeles City Councilman (2013-2022), President of the Los Angeles City Council (2022)
Idaho
- William (Bill) Weems, (Coeur d'Alene) Plummer City Council (2012β2016) Mayor (2016βpresent)
Maine
- April Fournier, (Navajo) Portland, Maine Portland City Council At-Large (2021-present)
Minnesota
- Renee Van Nett, (Leech Lake Ojibwe) Duluth City Council
New Mexico
- April J. Silversmith, Navajo Democrat (Gallup, NM Magistrate Judge)
- Carol Bowman Muskett, Navajo Democrat (McKinley County, NM Commissioner District I)
- Genevieve Jackson, Navajo Democrat (McKinley County, NM Commissioner District II)
- Harriet K. Becenti, Navajo Democrat (McKinley County, NM Clerk)
- Thommy Nelson, Navajo Democrat (McKinley County, NM Probate Judge)
- Felix Begay, Navajo Democrat (McKinley County, NM Sheriff)
- Earnest Becenti, Navajo Democrat (Mckinley County, NM County Treasurer)
- GloJean Todacheene, Navajo Democrat (San Juan County, NM Commissioner District I)
Oklahoma
- John Tyler Hammons (b. 1988, Cherokee Nation), mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma (2008β2012)
- David Holt (b. 1979, Osage Nation), mayor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (2018-present)
- Susan Bayro (Osage Nation), mayor of Pawhuska (2024-present)
Utah
- Willie Grayeyes, Navajo Democrat (San Juan County, UT Commission
- Kenneth Maryboy, Navajo Democrat (San Juan County, UT Commission )
- Robin Troxell, Hopi Tribe of Arizona (Brigham City Councilmember)
Washington
- Christopher Roberts, (b. 1978,) Choctaw Democrat, (Shoreline City Council (2010βpresent)
- Roxanne Murphy, (Nooksack) Bellingham City Council
- Debora Juarez, (Blackfeet) Seattle City Council
Wisconsin
- Wahsayah Whitebird, (b. 1991) Ojibwe Communist, City Council of Ashland, Wisconsin
- Kristie Goforth, (Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians), Monona City Council
Other offices
- Diego Archuleta (1814 β 1884), Member of the Mexican Congress, soldier in the Mexican Army, in the MexicanβAmerican War, Native American Agent by President Abraham Lincoln, and member of the Union Army (US Army) during the American Civil War. He was the first Hispanic Brigadier General.
- Fleming Begaye Sr. (1921β2019) (Navajo) β Navajo Code Talker, Honorary Chair of the Native American Coalition of the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign, 2016.
- Elias Cornelius Boudinot (1835β1890) (Cherokee) β Tribal Representative to the Confederate Congress, 1862β65. Represented the Cherokee Nation.
- Samuel Benton Callahan (1833β1911) (Creek) β Tribal Representative to the Confederate Congress, 1864β65. Represented the Creek and Seminole nations.
- Plenty Coups (1848β1932) (Crow) β Representative of Native Americans for the dedication of the Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier
- Robert McDonald Jones (1808β1872) (Choctaw) β Tribal Representative to the Confederate Congress, 1863β65. Represented the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.
- Dana Loesch (born 1978) (Cherokee) β radio host, TV personality, former spokesperson for the National Rifle Association.
- Peter MacDonald (born 1928) (Navajo) β Member of Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (CRP) in 1972.
- Will Rogers (1879β1935, Cherokee), honorary mayor of Beverly Hills, California
- Clarence L. Tinker (1887β1942) (Osage) β Major General, highest ranking Native American officer in the Army, Commander of the 7th Air Force in Hawaii, shot down and killed during the Battle of Midway.
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