A Few Red Lake Role Models

• Delana Smith- Red Lake Miss Indian World  

• Henry Boucha-Hockey 

• T.J. Oshie-Hockey

• Natalie Nicholson- Curling

• Thomas X (Thomas Barrett)-Musician

• Baby Shel(Shel Cook)-Musician

• Baptist Thunder- Football

• Dalton Johnson Walker-Journalist/Native American Writer

• Stacey Thunder- Actress

• Grace White-First Red Lake female athlete (Basketball) to be offered a Division I Scholarship. (Denver)

Notable Red Lakers as currently listed on Wikipedia

• Jody Beaulieu, director of tribal library and archives

• Donna Bergstrom, retired USMC officer, running for the Minnesota Senate in 2016

• Brenda Child, Educator and author, history professor, University of Minnesota. Author of: Boarding School Seasons (2000); Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community (2012)

• Leon F. Cook, president of the National Congress of American Indians from 1971 to 1972.

• Patrick DesJarlait, artist.

• Sam English, painter, activist. Noted fine artist, painter, and activist for various causes, including that of Native American chemical dependency, health, and wellness organizations.

• Adam Fortunate Eagle, Native American political activist.

• Roger Jourdain (1913-2002), elected the first Chairman of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa in 1959, in the tribe's first popular election of leader; served until 1990.He was selected in 1986 as the Indian Man of the Year by the American Indian Heritage Foundation.

• Bill Lawrence (1939-2010), owner-editor of Native American Press/Ojibwe News since 1988

• Charlie Norris, professional wrestler.

• Gary Sargent, professional hockey player.

• Thomas J. Stillday, Jr., spiritual leader of the Red Lake Nation, tribal council member, served as first non-Judeo/Christian Minnesota Senate Chaplain from 1997 to 1998.

• Ginger Thompson, tribal archeologist who specializes in the Ojibwe

• William Whipple Warren, Minnesota territorial legislator (1851-1853) and first Ojibwe historian, wrote a work combining oral history and recognized European-American criteria; his History of the Ojibway People, Based Upon Traditions and Oral Statements (1885), was published posthumously and reprinted in 2009 in an annotated edition

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