Former attorney and mixed martial arts fighter Sharice Davids made history when she became one of the first two Native American women to be elected to the US Congress.
It was such a big deal, noted National Geographic, because only 300 of the roughly 12,000 Congress lawmakers since 1789 have been of Native American descent - and all of them were men.
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