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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

  
  
• 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

  
  
• 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

  
  
• 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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