Tony Tekaroniake Evans

Native American riveting gangs worked on the 'high steel' for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more.

Lozen fought against Mexican and American forces for 30 years, earning the nickname 'Apache Joan of Arc.'

The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 drove out the Spanish for 12 years—and saved many Indigenous cultures from being wiped out.

After the Japanese invaded the Aleutian Islands, Indigenous volunteers helped form the Alaska Territorial Guard.

An economic relief program aimed specifically at helping Native American communities during the Great Depression, the legislation marked a sharp U-turn in federal policy toward Indigenous peoples.

Without Squanto, a.k.a. Tisquantum, to interpret and guide them to food sources, the Plymouth Colony Pilgrims may have never have survived.

He helped establish national parks, forests and game preserves. But much of that land had been stewarded by Indigenous people for generations.

Lincoln signed laws that gave away millions of acres of tribal land. And he approved the mass execution of 38 Dakota Sioux warriors.

In the story of the Great Law of Peace, Hiawatha and the Peacemaker convince leaders of the Five Nations to literally bury the hatchet.

Chief John Ross devoted much of his life to fighting against the forced removal of his people from their ancestral lands.

Motorcycle groups offered brotherhood and adventure for returning GIs, many of whom were still processing the horrors of war.