A Lemhi Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter and guide during their exploration of the Western United States
Notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia
A prominent Apache leader who fought against Mexico and Texas for their expansion into Apache tribal lands during the Apache Wars
Won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football (collegiate and professional), and also played professional baseball and basketball
His surrender in the Nez Perce War, included the words 'From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever'
A chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, he was also an author, poet, and an Academy Award-nominated actor
Civil rights activist best known for presenting a declinatory speech on behalf of Marlon Brando, when he won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Godfather
A prominent figure among his people in the Pacific Northwest, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers
An Ottawa war chief who became noted for his role in a 1763–1766 American Indian struggle against British military occupation of the Great Lakes region in a war named for him
A war leader of the Oglala Lakota, he fought against U.S. encroachments on the territories and way of life of the Lakota people and led a combined group of nearly 1,500 Lakota and Cheyenne in a surprise attack against General George Crook’s force of 1,000 soldiers and 300 Crow and Shoshone warriors
A prominent female Paiute activist and educator; she helped gain release of her people from the Yakama Reservation following the Bannock War of 1878
A member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), convicted of first degree murder in the shooting of two FBI agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
He was a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005 and also serves as one of forty-four members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe
A Patuxet man who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in what is now Massachusetts
Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during a war named for him and an ally of Britain in the War of 1812
Was a silversmith who invented the Cherokee syllabary, thus earning him a place on the list of inventors of writing systems as well
Medicine man and holy man of the Oglala Lakota that was a rescuer at the Wounded Knee Massacre and a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people in resistance to U. S. government policies, he was the Lakota leader in the Battle of Little Bighorn against Custer
Was leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principal chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache and the leader of an uprising that began in 1861
A pre-historical Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois confederacy
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