List of Indigenous people of the Americas

North America

Canada

Generally referred to as

Greenland

Mexico

This issue is complicated because a great majority of Mexicans are

United States

Central America

• Agüeybaná (The Great Sun) - "supreme cacique" in Puerto Rico
• Agüeybaná II - Cacique in Puerto Rico
• Arasibo - Cacique in Puerto Rico
• Taíno), Cacique
  in Cuba
• Hayuya - Cacique in Puerto Rico
• Jumacao - Cacique in Puerto Rico
• Taíno
  )
• Taíno
  )
• Carib
  )
• Taíno
  )
• Taíno
  )
• Taíno
  )
• Taíno
  )

Guatemala

• Miguel Ángel Asturias, novelist, Nobel prize winner in literature
• Quiché
  )
• Concepción Ramírez, activist, appears on the Guatemalan 25-centavo coin

Nicaragua

• Myrna Cunningham, Miskita physician, feminist and Indigenous rights activist

South America

Bolivia

• Roberto Mamani Mamani (b. 1962), Aymara painter
• Alejandro Mario Yllanes (1913–1960), Aymara painter and printmaker
• Evo Morales, Aymara politician, president of Bolivia
• Guarayo
  politician

Brazil

• Daniel Munduruku
• Bebeto

Chile

• Ainavillo (16th-century), Mapuche toqui
• Butapichón (17th-century), Mapuche toqui
• Cadeguala (16th-century), Mapuche toqui
• Calfucurá (late 1770s–1873), Mapuche military leader from Patagonia
• Caupolicán (died 1558), Mapuche toqui
• Santos Chávez
  (1934–2001), Mapuche printmaker
• Elicura Chihuailaf (born 1952), Mapuche poet

Colombia

• Quintín Lame (1880–1967), Paez political leader and author

Ecuador

• Camilo Egas, Mestizo, painter and educator, 1889–1962
• Eugenio Espejo, Mestizo journalist, hygienist, lawyer, and satirical writer, 1747–1795
• Oswaldo Guayasamín, Quechua painter and sculptor, 1919–1999
• Eduardo Kingman, Mestizo painter, 1913–1998
• Luis Macas, Quechua anthropologist and politician, born 1951
• Hauo
  preacher and church elder, born 1935
• Kichwa
  politician, lawyer and Indigenous leader from Cotacachi, born 1961
• Antonio Vargas, Quechua politician

Peru

• Tupac Amaru
  , military figure and last Inca
• Túpac Amaru II (1738-1781), leader of massive Andean uprising against Spanish colonial rule
• Túpac Katari (c. 1750-1781), leader of an Andean uprising
• Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, writer
• Inca
  ancestry
• Alejandro Toledo, President
• Cuzco School
  painter
• Magaly Solier, Quechua actress
• Manco Cápac, Sapa Inca
• Ollanta Humala, President of Peru
• Q'orianka Kilcher, Quechua actress
• Martín Chambi, Quechua photographer
• Diego Quispe Tito, Quechua painter

See also

• List of Indigenous artists of the Americas
• List of writers from peoples Indigenous to the Americas

Notes