November is Native American Heritage Month: Time to recognize and honor the contributions of Native American people to life sciences and science as a whole. Click on individuals to learn more!

Lori Arviso Alvord, MD

Lori Arviso Alvord, MD

First Diné woman to ever become board certified in surgery

Gregory A. Cajete, PhD

Gregory A. Cajete, PhD

A professor of Native American Studies and Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies at the University of New Mexico

Jerry Chris Elliott High Eagle

Jerry Chris Elliott High Eagle

A physicist and one of the first Native Americans who worked at NASA

Nancy B. Jackson, PhD

Nancy B. Jackson, PhD

A chemist working in the field of energy research on heterogeneous catalysis and the development of alternative fuels

Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD

Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD

First Native American to earn a medical degree

Jennifer McLoud-Mann, PhD

Jennifer McLoud-Mann, PhD

Known for her 2015 discovery (with Casey Mann and David Von Derau), of the 15th and last class of convex pentagons to tile the plane

Marcos A. Moreno

Marcos A. Moreno

The first person from the Pascua Yaqui Reservation to graduate from an Ivy League University

Donna J. Nelson, PhD

Donna J. Nelson, PhD

An organic chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Oklahoma

Mary G. Ross

Mary G. Ross

The first female engineer in the history of Lockheed and one of the 40 founding engineers of the renowned and highly secretive Skunk Works project