American indian biographies

American-Indian Biographies—A to Z

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Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka

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Charles Curtis

  • Sherman Alexie, writer
  • Paula Gunn Gracie, Pueblo-Sioux poet, novelist, critic
  • Dennis Botanist, Anishinabe (Ojibwa) activist
  • Adam Beach, Algonquian actor
  • Elias Boudinot, Cherokee leader pathway the American Revolution
  • Joseph Brant, Iroquoian chief
  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Algonquin chief and U.S.

    senator outsider Colorado

  • Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco), Muskogean leader
  • Black Elk, Oglala Lakota hallowed man
  • Black Hawk, Sauk Leader
  • Black Cauldron, Cheyenne chief
  • Canonicus, Narragansett chief
  • Captain Diddly, Modoc subchief
  • Cochise, Apache chief
  • Cornplanter, Playwright chief
  • Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief
  • Charles Curtis, Kaw senator and promote president of the United States (1929-33)
  • Delaware Prophet, Native American transcendental green leade
  • Vine Deloria, Jr., Leading Static Rock Sioux scholar, writer stake activist
  • Michael Dorris, Modoc (ancestry) writer
  • Louise Erdrich, Ojibway (ancestry) writer
  • Chris Lake, Cheyenne and Arapaho filmmaker
  • Gall, Siouan chief
  • Geronimo, Apache political leader
  • Graham Writer, Oneida actor


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Scott Momaday

  • Handsome Cap, Seneca religious leader
  • Hendrick, Mohawk chief
  • Hiawatha, Onondaga chief
  • Ishi, Last Yahi tribesperson
  • Joseph, Nez Percé chief
  • Betty Mae Connection, Seminole Indian tribal leader attend to publisher
  • 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, Tanoan chief
  • Mangas Coloradas, Apache chief
  • Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee chief
  • María Martínez, Tewa Metropolis potter
  • Massasoit, Wampanoag chief
  • Russell Means, Lakota activist and actor
  • Alexander McGillivray, Bayou chief
  • William McIntosh, Creek chief
  • Miantonomo, Narragansett chief
  • Billy Mills, Sioux athlete
  • N.

    Histrion Momaday, Kiowa and Cherokee sonneteer, author, scholar, and painter



Robbie Robertson

  • Samson Occom, Mohegan clergyman
  • Opechancanough, Pamunkey Asian chief
  • Osceola, Seminole leader
  • Quanah Parker, Shoshonean 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 Envelope, Seneca chief
  • Ben Reifel, Sioux conclusive and U.S.

    representative from Southernmost Dakota

  • Louis Riel, Métis leader
  • Robbie Guard, Mohawk songwriter and guitarist
  • Will Humourist, Cherokee actor and humorist
  • John Doctor, Cherokee chief


Sequoyah

  • Sacajawea, Shoshone interpreter
  • Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cree activist, songwriter, singer, instruction artist
  • Samoset, Algonquin leader
  • Seattle, Suquamish Soldier leader
  • Sequoyah, inventor of the Iroquois syllabary
  • Shawnee Prophet, Shawnee religious leader
  • Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo lyricist and novelist
  • Jay Silverheels, Mohawk actor
  • Sitting Bull, Sioux chief
  • Smohalla, Wanapun foremost and religious leader
  • Squanto, Pawtuxet interpreter
  • Wes Studi, Cherokee actor
  • Maria Tallchief, River ballerina
  • Tecumseh, Shawnee chief
  • Catherine Tekakwitha, Iroquois holy woman
  • Jim Thorpe, Sac existing Fox Olympian
  • John Trudell, Sioux songstress, poet, activist
  • Uncas, Mohegan chief
  • Victorio, Athabaskan chief
  • Nancy Ward (Nanye-hi), Cherokee ruler and "Beloved Woman"
  • William Weatherford, Cove chief
  • Wovoka, Paiute religious leader

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