Native American Firsts
Visible Ink Press (Verlag)
978-1-57859-712-3 (ISBN)
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 more than 900 other people and places are
presented in Native
American Firsts: A History of Indigenous Achievement,
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
Kane
Brown, Cherokee descent, the first artist to have simultaneous hits
on all five main Billboard country charts
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
Pocahontas,
Powhatan, honored on a U.S. postage stamp
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, first to get an environmental engineering
Ph.D. at the University of Arizona
Diane
J. Willis, Kiowa, former President of the Society of Pediatric
Psychology and founding editor of the Journal
of Pediatric Psychology
Shelly
Niro, Mohawk, winner of Canada's top photography prize, the
Scotiabank Photography Award
Loren
Leman, Alutiiq/Russian-Polish, was the first Alaska Native elected
lieutenant governor
Kim
TallBear, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, the first recipient of the Canada
Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Environment
Carissa
Moore, Native Hawaiian, won the Gold Medal in Surfing at the 2020
Tokyo Olympics
Will
Rogers, Cherokee, actor, performer, humorist was named the first
honorary mayor of Beverly Hills
Foods
of the Southwest Indian Nations
by Lois Ellen Frank, Kiowa, was the first Native American cookbook
to win the James Beard Award
Diane
Humetewa, Hopi, nominated by President Barack Obama, became the
first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge
Susie
Walking Bear Yellowtail, Crow, the first Native American nurse to be
inducted into the American Nursing Association Hall of Fame
Native
American Firsts
honors the ongoing and rich history of personal victories and
triumphs, and with
more than 200 photos and illustrations, this information-rich book
also includes a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding
to its usefulness. This vital collection will appeal to anyone
interested in America's amazing history and its resilient and
skilled Indigenous people.
Yvonne Wakim Dennis 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, and The 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.
About
the Authors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1.
Arts: Media
2.
Arts: Performance
3.
Arts: Visual
4.
Business/Economics
5.
Education
6.
Government
7.
Indigenous Spaces/Public Places
8.
Literary
9.
Military
10.
Nation to Nation: Sovereignty, Land and Environment Firsts
11.
Religion
12.
Science/Medicine
13.
Sports
14.
Urban
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.09.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Canton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 180 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57859-712-9 / 1578597129 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57859-712-3 / 9781578597123 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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