(Cherokee). First person documented as having reached the summit of Denali: Walter Harper (Athabascan). First Native American head coach of a college sports team: Albert Andrew Exendine (Delaware Tribe). 1916 First American Indian Day celebrated in May 1916. The day was created by Red Fox James (Blackfeet Tribe). 1918 First known use of Indigenous Code Talkers as part of a U.S. military effort: Choctaw, Cherokee, and Navajo were all Code Talkers in World War I. 1920s 1921 First all-Native American National Guard: Haskell unit of the Kansas National Guard. First Native American woman pilot: Bessie Coleman (Cherokee heritage). 1922 First Native American student to take part in a world conference: Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee). First woman to serve as chief of the Seminole tribe: Alice Brown Davis (Seminole). 1923 First chair of the Navajo Tribal Council: Henry Chee Dodge (Navajo). 1924 First Navajo person to earn a law degree: Thomas Henry Dodge (Navajo). First all-Native American cavalry created in the United States: Troop C, 114th Cavalry. First Native American to captain the United States Hockey Team: Clarence Able (Chippewa). First Native American woman elected to a state legislature: Cora Belle Reynolds Anderson (Chippewa). First Alaska Native elected to the Alaskan Territorial Legislature: William L. Paul (Tlingit). First Native American to carry the United States flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games: Clarence "Taffy" Abel (Chippewa). 1926 First Native American in the NHL New York Rangers November 16, 1926: Clarence "Taffy" Abel (Chippewa). First Native American woman to hold state office in Oklahoma: Jessie Elizabeth Randolph Moore (Chickasaw). First national reform group with only Native American membership: National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) by Zitkala-Sa (Yankton Dakota) and Raymond Bonnin (Yankton Dakota). 1927 First Native American to earn a degree as a registered nurse: Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail (Crow). 1929 First Native American to serve as Vice President of the United States: Charles D. Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi). 1930s 1930 First accredited nursing program for Native Americans: Sage Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. First enrolled Native American woman to earn a pilot's license: Mary Riddle (Clatsop/Quinault). 1932 First Native American woman elected to the Montana State Legislature: Dolly Smith Akers (Assiniboine). First Native American to open the Olympic Games: Charles D. Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi). 1935 First Native American woman elected as president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: Roberta Campbell Lawson (Delaware Tribe). 1939 First Native American to win national and