2011 First Native American drafted into the WNBA: Tahnee Robinson (Northern Cheyenne). First woman chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians: Phyliss J. Anderson (Choctaw). 2014 First Native American named a United States Ambassador to the United Nations: Keith Harper (Cherokee Nation). First Native American woman to become a federal judge in the United States: Diane Humetewa (Hopi). 2015 First Native American-owned cannabis shop: Elevation, opened by the Squaxin Island Tribe. 2016 First Native American to receive an electoral vote for President of the United States: Faith Spotted Eagle (Yankton Sioux Tribe) First Native American woman to receive an electoral vote for Vice President of the United States: Winona LaDuke (White Earth Ojibwe) 2017 First Native-American to serve in the Wyoming State Senate: Affie Ellis (Navajo). 2018 First Native American women elected to the United States Congress: Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) and Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo). First Native American to serve as a law clerk for the Supreme Court of the United States: Tobi Merrit Edwards Young (Chickasaw Nation). 2019 First Native American to earn an honorary award from the Academy Awards: Wes Studi (Cherokee Nation). First Native American United States Poet Laureate: Joy Harjo (Mvskoke/Cherokee). First delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation: Kimberly Teehee (Cherokee Nation). First American nationally distributed children's show to feature an Alaska Native as the lead character: Molly of Denali, premiered in 2019. 2020s 2020 First painting on canvas by a Native American artist in the National Gallery of Art: I See Red: Target, by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes). First Native American to compete in the Tour de France: Neilson Powless (Oneida). First U.S. tribe to contribute heirloom seeds to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault: the Cherokee Nation. First Native American openly transgender person elected to office in America: Stephanie Byers, elected to the Kansas state House of Representatives (Chickasaw Nation). First Alaska Native to be featured on United States currency: Elizabeth Peratrovich (Tlingit). First Native American to play for the National Women's Soccer League: Madison Hammond (Navajo and San Felipe Pueblo). 2021 First Native American to win a Caldecott Medal: Michaela Goade for We Are Water Protectors (Tlingit and Haida tribes). First Native American to serve as a US Cabinet secretary (Secretary of the Interior): Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo). 2022 First Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music: Raven Chacon (Navajo). First