File:Spotted Tail.jpg|Chief
Spotted Tail,
Brulé Lakota Leader File:Portrait_of_Ben_Reifel.jpg|
Ben Reifel "Lone Feather",
U.S. Representative, first Lakota Indian member of Congress. File:Janeen antoine sisseton.jpg|Janeen Antoine (
Sicangu Lakota), curator, educator, and director of American Indian Contemporary Arts in
San Francisco, grew up on the Rosebud Reservation. •
Susan Allen, the first Native American woman elected to the
Minnesota state legislature, and the first openly lesbian Native American to win election to a state legislature. • Janeen Antoine (
Sicangu Lakota), curator, educator, and founder in 1983 of the American Indian Contemporary Arts in
San Francisco, grew up on the Rosebud Reservation. Her gallery was one of the first in the nation to feature contemporary American Indian art and is important in encouraging new work. She is a co-host of
Bay Native Circle, a weekly radio program broadcast on Wednesday evenings on
Pacifica Radio station
KPFA-FM,
Berkeley. •
Bob Barker (1923–2023), game show host of
The Price Is Right, the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history (1972–2007). •
Martin Brokenleg, is a psychologist and author in the fields of trauma, resilience, and Native American studies. An enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, he was a professor of Native American studies at Augustana University in South Dakota for 30 years.[1] He also served as Professor and Director of the Native Ministries Programme at the Vancouver School of Theology from 2004 to 2009. •
Belva Cottier (1920–2000), activist and social worker who planned the
1964 Occupation of Alcatraz. •
Paul Eagle Star, (1864–1891) (Brulé Sioux), member of
Buffalo Bill's
Wild West Show •
Troy Heinert (Rosebud Sioux), politician, businessman, and rodeo pick-up rider. He was elected to the South Dakota House in 2012 and to the SD Senate in 2014; he is Senate Assistant Minority Leader •
Hollow Horn Bear, son of Iron Shell, Sioux leader at the
Fetterman Fight. He served as head of Indian police at the Rosebud Agency, and arrested
Crow Dog for the murder of
Spotted Tail. • Chief
Iron Shell, led the Brulé Orphan Band during the Powder River War of 1866–1868. •
Doris Leader Charge, Lakota instructor at Sinte Gleska University, dialogue coach on
Dances with Wolves •
Joseph M. Marshall III, Lakota historian and writer, winner of the 2008
PEN/Beyond Margins Award for one of his histories •
Terry L. Pechota, American attorney who was the 32nd United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota; nominated by Jimmy Carter, confirmed by United States Senate 1979. •
Plenty Horses (1869–1933), a highly educated Lakota who was at the
Drexel Mission Fight and was charged with the murder of Lieutenant Edward W. Casey soon after the
Wounded Knee Massacre, but acquitted as the jury found a state of war had existed. •
Benjamin "Ben" Reifel (Rosebud Sioux) (1906–1990), five-term U.S. Congressman, served in the U.S. Army, worked as a field officer and regional administrator for the
BIA, and earned master's and doctoral degrees in public administration from
Harvard University. Reifel was elected as
US Representative in 1960 and served until his retirement in 1971. •
Yvette Roubideaux (Rosebud Sioux), M.D., M.P.H., was Director of the United States Indian Health Service (IHS), appointed in 2009 as the first woman to hold the position. • Chief
Sinte Gleska, translated as "
Spotted Tail" (1823–1881), was a war chief and later worked for peace. He was a
Brulé Sioux relative of
Crazy Horse. In 1868 he signed a peace treaty with the US in 1868 to cede lands.
Sinte Gleska University, a Lakota Tribal college, is named for him. •
Richard Twiss (1954–2013), founder of Wiconi International ministry. •
Frank Waln, a Sicangu Lakota rapper • Albert White Hat Sr.- Author, language teacher, and leader. •
Sandy White Hawk (born 1953), Founder, First Nations Repatriation Institute, writer, speaker, and indigenous rights activist. •
Dyani White Hawk (born 1976), Sicangu artist and former curator of
All My Relations Arts gallery •
Chauncey Yellow Robe ("Kills in the Woods") (Canowicakte) (1867–1930), was an educator, lecturer and Native American activist. Raised in the
Sicangu Lakota tradition, he was a founding member of the
Society of American Indians. He fought for American Indian citizenship during the
Progressive Era, and collaborated with
American Museum of Natural History to produce silent drama
The Silent Enemy, in which he starred as Chief Chetoga. ==Recent legal cases==