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Notable American Indians
Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka
Charles Curtis
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- Sherman Alexie,
writer
- Paula Gunn Allen, Pueblo-Sioux poet, novelist, critic
- Dennis Banks, Anishinabe (Ojibwa) activist
- Adam Beach, Ojibwa actor
- Elias Boudinot, Cherokee leader in the American Revolution
- Joseph Brant, Mohawk chief
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne chief and U.S. senator from Colorado
- Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco), Seminole leader
- Black Elk, Oglala Lakota holy man
- Black Hawk, Sauk Leader
- Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief
- Canonicus,
Narragansett chief
- Captain Jack, Modoc subchief
- Cochise,
Apache chief
- Cornplanter,
Seneca chief
- Crazy Horse,
Oglala Sioux chief
- Charles Curtis, Kaw senator and vice president of the United States (1929-33)
- Delaware Prophet, Native American religious leader
- Vine Deloria, Jr., Leading Standing Rock Sioux scholar, writer and activist
- Michael Dorris, Modoc (ancestry) writer
- Louise Erdrich, Ojibway (ancestry) writer
- Chris Eyre, Cheyenne and Arapaho filmmaker
- Gall, Sioux
chief
- Geronimo,
Apache political leader
- Graham Greene, Oneida actor
- Handsome Lake, Seneca religious leader
- Hendrick,
Mohawk chief
- Hiawatha,
Onondaga chief
- Ishi, Last Yahi tribesperson
- Joseph, Nez
Percé chief
- Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Indian tribal leader and publisher
N. Scott Momaday
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- Keokuk, Sac
and Fox chief
- Winona LaDuke, Ojibwa activist and writer
- Edmonia Lewis, Ojibwa sculptor
- Sacheen Littlefeather, Yaqui (ancestry) actress
- Little Turtle, Miami chief
- James Logan,
Mingo chief
- Lone Wolf,
Kiowa chief
- Mangas Coloradas, Apache chief
- Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee chief
- María Martínez, Tewa Pueblo potter
- Massasoit,
Wampanoag chief
- Russell Means, Lakota activist and actor
- Alexander McGillivray, Creek chief
- William McIntosh, Creek chief
- Miantonomo,
Narragansett chief
- Billy Mills, Sioux athlete
- N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa and Cherokee poet, author, scholar, and painter
- Samson Occom, Mohegan clergyman
- Opechancanough, Pamunkey Indian chief
- Osceola,
Seminole leader
Robbie Robertson
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- Quanah Parker, Comanche chief
- Leonard Peltier, Ojibwa and Lakota activist
- Pocahontas,
Powhatan peacemaker
- Pontiac,
Ottawa chief
- Popé, Pueblo
medicine man
- Powhatan,
Powhatan chief
- Red Cloud,
Oglala Sioux chief
- Red Jacket,
Seneca chief
- Ben Reifel,
Sioux activist and U.S. representative from South Dakota
- Louis Riel,
Métis leader
- Robbie Robertson, Mohawk songwriter and guitarist
- Will Rogers,
Cherokee actor and humorist
- John Ross, Cherokee chief
- Sacajawea,
Shoshone interpreter
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cree activist, songwriter, singer, and artist
- Samoset, Algonquin leader
- Seattle,
Suquamish Indian leader
- Sequoyah,
inventor of the Cherokee syllabary
Sequoyah
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- Shawnee Prophet, Shawnee religious leader
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo poet and novelist
- Jay Silverheels, Mohawk actor
- Sitting Bull, Sioux chief
- Smohalla,
Wanapun chief and religious leader
- Squanto,
Pawtuxet interpreter
- Wes Studi, Cherokee actor
- Maria Tallchief, Osage ballerina
- Tecumseh,
Shawnee chief
- Catherine Tekakwitha, Mohawk holy woman
- Jim Thorpe,
Sac and Fox Olympian
- John Trudell, Sioux musician, poet, activist
- Uncas,
Mohegan chief
- Victorio,
Apache chief
- Nancy Ward (Nanye-hi), Cherokee leader and "Beloved Woman"
- William Weatherford, Creek chief
- Wovoka, Paiute religious leader
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