American indian biographies
American-Indian Biographies—A to Z
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Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka
A-G | H-M | O-R | S-W
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
N. 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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