a United States Senator: Hiram Rhodes Revels (Lumbee). 1875 First independent Cherokee-owned newspaper published: The Indian Progress and owned by Elias C. Boudinot (Cherokee). 1878 First Choctaw tribal newspaper: The Choctaw News. 1879 First Native American declared "a person within the meaning of the law" in the United States: Standing Bear (Ponca). 1880s 1881 First Native American anthropologist: Francis La Flesche (Omaha). 1883 First Native American woman to publish a book, Sarah Winnemucca (Northern Paiute), who published Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. 1886 First privately owned Chippewa periodical: The Progress founded by Theodore H. Beaulieu and Gustave Beaulieu (Chippewa/Ojibwe). 1889 First Native American woman to earn a Western medical degree from a Western college: Susan La Flesche (Omaha). First documented Native American U.S. Army nurses: Susan Bordeaux, Ella Clark, Anna B. Pleets, Josephine Two Bears (all Lakota). 1890s 1891 First novel published by a Native American woman: Wynema: A Child of the Forest by Sophia Alice Callahan (Muscogee). 1892 First Native American elected to the United States House of Representatives: Charles D. Curtis (Kaw/Osage/Potawatomi). 1893 First independent periodical published by and for the Osage people: The Wah-sha-she founded by George E. Tinker (Osage). First Native American woman to publish and edit a newspaper: Norma E. Standley Smiser (Choctaw). 1897 First Native American to play on a major league baseball team: Louis Sockalexis (Penobscot). 1898 First Native American to graduate from Stanford University: John Milton Oskison (Cherokee). 20th century 1900s 1903 First tribal newspaper published by the White Earth Ojibwe: The Tomahawk. 1908 First tribal newspaper published for the Quileute people: The Quileute Independent created by Webster Hudson (Quileute). First paniolos to win at the Frontier Days rodeo competition: Ikua Purdy (Native Hawaiian), Archie Ka'au'a (Native Hawaiian), and Jack Low (Native Hawaiian). 1909 First Native American film actor: James Young Deer (Nanticoke, 1876–1946). First Native American lawyer to argue a case before the Supreme Court: Lyda Conley (Wyandot). 1910s 1910 First Native American to graduate from Yale: Henry Roe Cloud (Ho-Chunk). 1911 First Native American to play in the NFL: Jim Thorpe (Sac & Fox Nation). 1912 First Native American to win gold medals for the United States in the Olympic Games: Jim Thorpe (Sac & Fox Nation). First American to win an Olympic medal (silver) in the 10,000 meter run: Lewis Tewanima (Hopi). 1913 First Native American to attend the United States Naval Academy: Joseph J. Clark