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Ey Parker

This person was Seneca and the first Native American to head the Office of Indian Affairs.

Chief Joseph

This person was Nez Perce. He led his people on a 1,200 miles trek in 1877 from Oregon to Canada to flee forced removal from their ancestral lands to a reservation in Idaho.

Charles Curtis

This person was Kaw, Osage, and Potawatomi. He was vice president of the United States under Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1933.

Dr. Joseph Dixon

This person wrote a popular book called The Vanishing Race. He and others made trips to reservations and filmed staged scenes of Indians in ceremonial dress.

Clyde Warrior

This person was a leading advocate of the Indian protest movement in the 1960s.

Henry Dawes

This person was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. As a member of the Friends of the Indian organization, he campaigned for Indian citizenship and an end to the...

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