Martin Trevor Heinrich (; born October 17, 1971) is an American politician and businessman serving as the junior United States Senator from New Mexico since 2013. A native of Fallon, Nevada, Heinrich has lived much of his adulthood in New Mexico, specifically Albuquerque. As a member of the...
She learned her love of native arts from her grandmother. She studied at the Vancouver College of Art and the School of Northwest Indian Art in British Columbia. She enjoyed the traditional arts of the Haida women, button blankets and jeweler but it was in the tradition male art world of ...
Did you know the first person to win an Emmy Award was a lady?! That's right. Lots of famous women in history have achieved important female firsts, paving ...
She wrote the first work of fiction by a native born Canadian to be published in Canada. Her novel was called St Ursula’s Convent or The Nun of Canada, Containing Scenes from Real Life” (1824). She wrote this book when she was only 17 years old! She would continue publishing her ...
Former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Lisa Wu’s father is a first-generation Chinese-American. Her mother was of Afro-Caribbean descent. 24 La’Shontae Heckard Actress La’Shontae Heckard was born in her mother’s native country Seoul, Korea. Her father is African American....
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Walker went on to become the first self-made female millionaire after she cornered the market on African American women’s hair care. In 1905 she invented a method for straightening her own kinky hair. At that time she moved from St. Louis to Denver, which was her home base as she ...
The National Hall of Fame for Famous American Indians (also known as American Indian Hall of Fame) in Anadarko, Oklahoma is an outdoor ethnographical museum with authentic reconstructions of Native American dwellings and artifacts. It features bronze busts of forty one Native Americans from various...
As the United States expanded its boundaries,Native Americanpeoples resistedconquestand absorption. Individual states, which determined most of the rights of Americancitizens, generally limitedvoting rightsto white property-owning males, and other rights—such as the right to own land or serve on jurie...
This naturalist is working to ensure the history of America's most revered outdoor spaces is not forgotten.