Nominations for the 2024 Emmy Awards have been announced, and Indigenous actors have broken ground.

On Wednesday, July 17, the Television Academy announced the series and performers to be honored at this year's ceremony on September 15, which included several historic nominations for Indigenous actors and stories. Reservation Dogs, a groundbreaking show of indigenous representation, also received overdue accolades for its third and final season, which ended in September 2023.

Reservation Dogs, a beloved but underrated series about four teenagers growing up on a reservation in Oklahoma, earned DiFara Woon-A-Tay, who played Bear Smallhill on the show, Outstanding Comedy Series and nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Despite constant praise from critics throughout its run, this is the first time that a Hulu FX comedy co-produced by Starlin Harjo and Taika Waititi has been recognized by the Academy beyond one nomination for sound editing in 2023.

“Reservation Dogs” received a total of four nominations this year, including editing and cinematography, giving it much-needed recognition as America's first indigenous writer-director and comedy with an indigenous cast and crew.

Meanwhile, two history-making nominations were received in the Supporting Actress in a Limited Series category. Lily Gladstone took home the honor for her role as Officer Cam Bentland in Hulu's Under the Bridge. Her nomination comes just months after she also made history at this year's Academy Awards with a Best Actress nomination for her role in “Killer in the Flower Moon.”

In addition to Gladstone, actress and professional boxer Kari Reyes was nominated for her role as Captain Evangeline Navarro in HBO's True Detective: Night Country.

Gladstone, Reyes, and Un'atay became the first three indigenous actors in history to be nominated in their respective categories.

Until this landmark year for indigenous representation, only one indigenous person had ever been nominated for an Emmy in the acting category: in 2007, August Schellenberg was nominated for the HBO TV movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Sitting Bull and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie.

These were not the only diversity winners in the 2024 Emmy nominations.

FX's Japanese historical epic “Shobu ga Gotoku” received the most nominations of the year with 25, including acting nods for stars Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada. Meanwhile, Sofia Vergara became the first Latina actress to be nominated for Best Actress in a Limited Series for “Griselda,” and Selena Gomez became the most nominated Latina producer ever in the comedy category.

Netflix's surprise hit miniseries “Baby Reindeer” also received multiple nominations, including a Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series nomination for Nava Mau, the first trans woman in Emmy history. Mau is the second trans woman in Emmy history, after Laverne Cox, who was nominated in 2014 for Orange is the New Black.

The 2024 Emmys, which honor television for the June 2023-May 2024 season, will air live on Sunday, September 15 on ABC from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles