Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for murdering two FBI Agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There has been considerable debate over Peltier’s guilt and the fairness of his trial. Some supporters and organizations, including Amnesty International, consider him to be a political prisoner.

Dennis Banks (born April 12, 1937), a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist and author, is an Anishinaabe born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. Banks is also known as Nowa Cumig ("Naawakamig" in the Double Vowel System); his name in the Ojibwe language means "In the Center of the Ground."

Anna Mae Aquash (also Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or Anna Mae Pictou; first name also spelled Annie Mae; Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (b. in a small Indian village near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 27, 1945; d. mid-December 1975) was a Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became one of the most active and prominent female members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) during the early 1970s.

Clyde Howard Bellecourt (born May 8, 1936) is a Native American civil rights organizer noted for co-founding the American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968 with Dennis Banks, Herb Powless, and Eddie Benton Banai, among others. His older brother Vernon Bellecourt has also been active. Clyde was the seventh of 12 children born to his parents (Charles and Angeline) on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.

Floyd Red Crow Westerman, born in 1936, is a Dakota musician, activist and actor born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The elder Dakota in the late 20th century became a leading actor depicting Native Americans in American films and television. He is sometimes credited as "Floyd Crow Westerman".

Marlon Brando, Jr. was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. He is widely regarded as perhaps the most influential actor of the 20th Century. Brando is perhaps best known for his roles in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront", both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, …

Lame Deer, (in Lakota "Tahca Ushte"; 1900 or 1903-1976, sources differ), also known as John Fire, John (Fire) Lame Deer and later The Old Man, was a Lakota holy man. Lame Deer was an Oglala-Lakota Sioux born on the Rosebud reservation. His father was Silas Fire Let-Them-Have-Enough. His mother was Sally Red Blanket.

Mary Crow Dog, also known as Mary Brave Bird (born 1953 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota), is a Native American writer and activist. She is the author of two books, "Lakota Woman" and "Ohitika Woman", and was the subject of the 1994 TNT and Jane Fonda produced movie "Lakota Woman, Siege at Wounded Knee", starring Irene Bedard as Mary Crow Dog, …

Sacheen Littlefeather (born Maria Cruz on 30 January 1947) Salinas, California, USA is an activist who donned Apache dress and rejected the Oscar on behalf of actor Marlon Brando in a prepared statement at the Academy Awards on March 27, 1973. Marlon Brando became involved with the American Indian Movement in the early 1970s.

Jim Pepper (b. Salem, Oregon, June 18 1941; d. Portland, Oregon, February 10 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native American ancestry. Beginning in the late 1960s, Pepper became a pioneer of fusion jazz, his band The Free Spirits (active between 1965 and 1968, with guitarist Larry Coryell) being credited as the first to combine elements of jazz and rock.

Glenn T. Morris (b. c. 1956) is an American academic and Native American activist. Morris is of part Shawnee descent through his father. He is an associate professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Denver and came to national attention in the early 1990s for his anti-Columbus Day protests with the American Indian Movement of Colorado, of which he formerly served as Co-Director and is now a member of the Leadership Council.

Tina Manning Trudell was a water rights activist and wife of John Trudell, Chairman of the American Indian Movement. She was killed together with their three children and her mother in an arson attack on the Duck Valley Reservation in northern Nevada on 12 February, 1979. The attack took place less than 12 hours after John Trudell had delivered a speech in front of FBI headquarters during which he burned a United States flag.

Richard Twiss (b. June 1954 Rosebud Lakota/Sioux Reservation in South Dakota) is an American minister and author. He is a member of the Rosebud Lakota/SiouxTribe. He is the Co-Founder and President of Wiconi (wee-choe'-nee / Lakota/Sioux - "life") International. In 1972, Twiss was a participant in the forced occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Building in Washington, D.C., with the radical political group, …

Yvonne Wanrow, now known as Yvonne L. Swan, is a Native American woman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation whose 1972 trial for the shooting death of a man who was attempting to molest her son became a cause célèbre of the feminist and American Indian movements. Her case reached the Washington Supreme Court, where its outcome had far-reaching effects on the manner in which juries interpret the behavior of a defendant, …

James Anthony "Jim" Redden Jr. (born 1929) is a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Before appointment to the bench, he was a trial attorney, and a career Democratic politician, serving as a legislator and in two of the state's constitutional offices, Treasurer and Attorney General. As a politician, he was a key figure in some of Oregon's most groundbreaking legislative initiatives, …

Bill Moyer (September 17, 1933 - October 21, 2002, was a United States social change activist, author, and founding member of the Movement for a New Society. MNS participants produced the Macro-Analysis process and also the Resource Manual for a Living Revolution containing many ideas for group process.

André Weinfeld was born in Paris, France. After receiving a Master Degree in Psychology, Philosophy and French Literature at the Sorbonne University, he graduated Cum Laude from the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (IDHEC), the internationally renowned French Film School. After numerous collaborations, first as a Film Camera Operator and then as a Cinematographer, to several "French New Wave" short and full-length feature films, …