1. Sacagawea, Shoshone woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition.
   
2. A broken treaty
   
3. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
   
4. Scene of the Massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota on December 29,1890, in which 150 men, women, and children were killed.
   
5. Black Elk, spiritual leader and visionary of the Oglala Sioux
   
6. The Trail of Tears, the forced migration in 1838-39 of the Cherokee people from their lands in western Georgia a thousand miles to reservations in Oklahoma. Thousands died on the trail.
   
7. Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915) of the Omahas became the first Native American woman doctor.
   
8. Jim Thorpe, Olympic athlete of the Sauk and Fox tribe
   
9. The Pine Ridge Reservation, where in 1973 protests over government takeover of Indian lands resulted in a violent clash with the FBI.
   
10. Dennis Banks and Clyde Bellecourt, founders of AIM, the American Indian
    Movement
    
11. Russell Means, an outspoken activist for justice towards American
    Indians
    
12. Leonard Peltier, who remains unjustly imprisoned for activities at Pine
    Ridge in 1973.
    
13. Anna Mae Aquash, a native Canadian who came to assist in the
    protests at Pine Ridge and was murdered there.

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