List of indigenous people of the Americas

Kuupik Kleist (Kalaallit), Prime Minister of Greenland

Gerald McMaster (Siksika Nation), curator, author, and artist

Lori Piestewa (1979–2003), Hopi U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps soldier

This is a list of notable indigenous peoples of the Americas.

North America

Canada

Generally referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada when looking at the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples collectively.

Main article: Notable Aboriginal people of Canada

Further information: List of Canadian Inuit, List of First Nations people, and List of Métis people

Greenland

Main article: List of Greenlandic Inuit

Mexico

This issue is complicated because a great majority of Mexicans are mestizos and therefore being part Native is not unusual as in Canada or the US. The list only include indigenous proper and mestizos with an indigenous parent. This list also includes a few Pre-Columbian figures considered remarkable in the history and culture of Mexico.

• Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, writer, journalist and politician (Nahua)
• Cuauhtémoc, last (Aztec) Tlatoani
• Cuitláhuac, penultimate (Aztec) Tlatoani
• Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Catholic Saint (Chichimeca)
• Porfirio Díaz, President (Mixtec mother)
• Lila Downs, singer (Mixtec mother)
• Emilio Fernández, film director, actor (Kickapoo mother)
• Victoriano Huerta, President (Huichol mother)
• Benito Juárez, President (Zapotec)
• La Malinche, translator of conquistador Hernán Cortés
• Moctezuma II, (Aztec) Tlatoani at the beginning of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
• Nezahualcóyotl, Tlatoani of Texcoco and poet in Nahuatl language
• Comandante Ramona, EZLN leader (Tzotzil)
• María Sabina, shaman (Mazatec)
• Comandante Tacho, EZLN leader (Tojolabal)

United States

Main article: List of Native Americans of the United States

Central America

Rigoberta Menchú, K'iche' Maya Noble Peace Prize recipient from Guatemala

The Caribbean

• Agueybana - "supreme cacique" in Puerto Rico
• Hatuey (Taíno)

Guatemala

• Miguel Ángel Asturias, novelist, Nobel prize winner in literature
• Rigoberta Menchú Tum, activist, Nobel prize winner in peace (Quiché)

South America

Evo Morales (Aymara), President of Bolivia

Alejandro Toledo, Ex-President of Peru

Bolivia

• Roberto Mamani Mamani (b. 1962), Aymara painter
• Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–1960), Aymara painter and printmaker
• Evo Morales, Aymara politician, president of Bolivia
• Bienvenido Zacu Mborobainchi, b. 1956, Guarayo politician

Chile

• Ainavillo, 16th c. Mapuche toqui
• Butapichón, 17th c. Mapuche toqui
• Cadeguala, 16th c. Mapuche toqui
• Calfucurá ((late 1770s–1873) Mapuche military leader from Patagonia
• Caupolicán (d. 1558), Mapuche toqui
• Santos Chávez (1934-2001), Mapuche printmaker
• Elicura Chihuailaf-Mapuche poet

Colombia

• Quintín Lame (1880-1967), Paez political leader and author

Ecuador

• Camilo Egas, Mestizo painter and educator, 1889-1962
• Eugenio Espejo, Mestizo journalist, hygienist, lawyer, and satirical writer, 1747–1795
• Oswaldo Guayasamín, Quechua painter and sculptor, 1919-1999
• Eduardo Kingman, Mestizo painter, 1913-1998
• Luis Macas, Quechua anthropologist and politician, born 1951
• Mincaye, Hauo preacher and church elder, born 1935
• Nina Pacari, Kichwa politician, lawyer and indigenous leader from Cotacachi, born 1961
• Antonio Vargas, Quechua politician

Peru

• Tupac Amaru, military figure and last Inca
• Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, writer
• Yma Sumac, Singer of self-identified Inca ancestry
• Alejandro Toledo, President
• Marcos Zapata (ca. 1710–1773), Quechua Cuzco School painter

See also

• List of indigenous artists of the Americas
• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas