Across
- 2. author who won the Pulitzer Prize
- 4. only Japanese-American who served in the US Army Air Forces during WWII
- 5. inventor of Kool-Aid
- 10. artist who designed much of the art in the Nebraska state capitol
- 11. author who began writing to support her family after her husband died
- 13. started Arbor Day to encourage people to plant trees
- 14. author who often wrote about Native American cultures
- 17. Ponca chief who sued the US government
- 19. traveled around the world with his Wild West show
- 20. one of the first female airmail pilots
- 21. activist who fought for child labor laws
Down
- 1. US senator and founder of the Omaha World Herald newspaper
- 3. ran for US president three times but was never elected
- 6. leader of the Lakota tribe who fought for the rights of his people
- 7. hand-planted a forest in the sandhills of Nebraska
- 8. took photographs of early settlers and their sod homes
- 9. Catholic priest who founded Boys Town
- 12. anthropologist and author of topics in nature
- 13. civil rights leader
- 15. considered the "Father of the Unicameral"
- 16. first female Native American doctor
- 18. publisher of Omaha Star newspaper for African Americans