This list of Native Americans a notable individuals who are Native Americans in the United States , including Alaska Natives and American Indians.[1] [2] Native American identity is a complex and contested issue. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village . Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American identity.[3]
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Elsie Allen , Cloverdale Pomo basketweaverMarcus Amerman , Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma multimedia artistAnnie Antone , Tohono O'odham basketweaverSpencer Asah , Kiowa artistJames Auchiah , Kiowa artistMartha Berry , Cherokee Nation beadwork artistKelly Church , (Pottawatomi /Odawa/Ojibwe) basket maker, painter, and educatorAmanda Crowe , Eastern Band Cherokee woodcarver and educatorDennis Cusick , Tuscarora painter, ca. 1800–1824Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty , Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux quillworker and beadwork artistEdmonia Lewis , African-American/Mississauga Ojibwe -descendent sculptorLitefoot , Cherokee Nation actor, hip hop artistMaría Martínez , San Ildefonso Pueblo potterNampeyo , Hopi-Tewa potterNora Naranjo-Morse , Santa Clara Pueblo artistJeri Redcorn , Caddo /Citizen Potawatomi b. ca. 1940) potterLawney Reyes , Confederated Colville Tribes (Sinixt ) artist, author, and curatorCarol Lee Sanchez , Laguna Pueblo author and artist
Ahaya (ca. 1710 – 1783), first recorded chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe.[4] : 381 Attakullakulla , Cherokee chief [5] Awashonks , Sakonnet 17th century female chief[6] Bill John Baker , Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation [7] Black Hawk , Sauk chiefBlack Kettle , Cheyenne chiefAndrew Blackbird , Odawa leader, historian, and authorKimberly M. Blaeser , (White Earth Ojibwe ) author and poetElias Boudinot , Cherokee leader, journalist and publisherBilly Bowlegs , Seminole chiefJoseph Brant , Mohawk leaderCarlos (Calusa) (died 1567), king of the Calusa people of Southwest FloridaCanonicus , Narragansett chiefChief Gall , (Hunkpapa Lakota ) chiefCochise , Chiricahua Apache chiefColorow , Ute chiefCornplanter , Seneca chief and diplomatCrazy Horse , Oglala Lakota chiefCuerno Verde , Spanish name for Tavibo Naritgant, a leader of the Comanche, likely of the Kotsoteka Comanche, in the late 18th century.Logan Fontenelle , Omaha chief and interpreterGeronimo , Chiricahua Apache leaderCaptain Jack , Modoc chiefRed Jacket , Seneca Nation chiefOverton James , Chickasaw , educator, former Governor of the Chickasaw Nation Old Chief Joseph , Nez Perce former chieftain, father of Chief Joseph Chief Joseph , Nez Percé chief, war leader, and humanitarianJuanillo , chief of the Guale Nchiefdom Betty Mae Tiger Jumper , first female chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida , also a publisherHiawatha , Onondaga -Mohawk chief was credited as the founder of the Iroquois confederacy John Horse , African-American leader of the Black Seminole .David Hill (Mohawk) , Mohawk chief during the American RevolutionKeokuk , (Sac , Fox ) chiefKing Hagler , Catawba chiefLittle Turkey was First Beloved Man of the Cherokee people , becoming the first Principal Chief of a united Cherokee Nation in 1794Little Turtle , Miami chiefLone Wolf the Elder , Kiowa chiefLone Wolf the Younger , Kiowa leaderMajor Ridge , Cherokee chief, led Lighthorse Patrol and signed the Treaty of New Echota.Mangas Coloradas , Apache chiefWilma Mankiller , Cherokee Nation chiefManuelito , Navajo chief, diplomat, and warrior.Massasoit , Wampanoag chiefAlexander McGillivray , Muscogee Creek Nation chiefWilliam McIntosh , Muscogee Creek Nation chiefPeter McQueen , Muscogee Creek Nation chief, prophet, trader and warrior from Talisi (Tallassee, among the Upper Towns in present-day Alabama).Metacomet , Wampanoag chiefMiantonomo , Narragansett chiefOlotoraca (1548–1573), subchief of a tribe of Fort San Mateo , Florida.Oratam , sachem of the Hackensack Indians Osceola , Seminole leaderChief Oshkosh , Menominee leaderChief Ouray , Ute Tribe leaderOpechancanough , Pamunkey chiefQuanah Parker , Comanche chiefPawhuska , Osage ChiefThomas Perryman , Creek leader in GeorgiaPeter Chartier , Pekowi chiefPowhatan , Pamunkey chiefChief Pontiac , Odawa chiefRed Cloud , Oglala Lakota chiefChief G. Anne Richardson (Chief of the Rappahannock tribe – first female chief in Virginia since the 18th century)Qualchan , 19th-century Yakama chiefJohn Ross , Cherokee chiefJuan Sabeata , Jumano chiefGreg Sarris , Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria tribal chairman, author, and professorSitting Bull , Hunkpapa Lakota chiefChad Smith , former Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation Samoset (Abenaki , 1590–1653), first Indigenous American leader to contact the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts (March 16, 1621)Smohalla , Wanapum chief and religious leaderSaturiwa , chief of the Saturiwa (a Mocama tribe of Timucua people, located in St. Johns River in Florida ), during the 16th centurySeattle , Suquamish /Duwamish leaderStanding Bear , Ponca chiefTouch the Clouds , (Mahpia Icahtagya ), Teton Lakota chiefTuskaloosa , paramount chief of a Mississippian chiefdom in AlabamaUncas , Mohegan chiefVictorio , Chiricahua Apache chiefWeetamoo , Pocasset Wampanoag , 17th-century female chiefWhite Plume , Kaw chiefYellow Bird , Walla Walla chiefYonaguska , Cherokee chiefWilliam Weatherford , Muscogee Creek chiefWhite Hair (Pawhuska ), the name of several Osage chiefs
Chainbreaker , Seneca war chiefRoy Benavidez , (Yaqui ), decorated U.S. Army Master sergeant and Medal of Honor recipientOllokot , Nez Perce war chieftainIra Hayes , (Akimel O'odham ) one of five Marines, along with a United States Navy corpsman, immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima John Horse (Black Seminole ), warrior in the Second Seminole War in FloridaKilma S. Lattin , (Pala Band of Mission Indians ), decorated U.S. Army former First Lieutenant and Soldiers Medal recipientClayton J. Lonetree , Winnebago /Navajo U.S. Marine and convicted KGB spyLouis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr. (Navajo-descent), highly decorated WWII United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne DivisionEly S. Parker , (Seneca ) U.S. Army Brigadier GeneralLori Piestewa , Hopi veteran, died in the 2003 invasion of IraqPopé , Ohkay Owingeh religious and military leaderSanta Anna (Comanche war chief) Sonuk Mikko , Seminole , Captain in the Indian Home Guard during the American Civil War often referred to as Billy Bowlegs Tecumseh , Shawnee warrior and statesmanWilliam Clyde Thompson , Texas Choctaw leader who fought against the Dawes Commission for Choctaw enrollmentLuis Tupatu , Pueblo leader of the northern pueblos following the Pueblo revolt Nancy Ward , Cherokee warrior, diplomat, and "Beloved Woman"Washakie , Shoshone warrior, diplomat, chief, leaderStand Watie , Cherokee leader and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil WarJohn Watts (also known as Young Tassel ), a leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee (or "Lower Cherokee") during the Cherokee-American wars Dragging Canoe , Cherokee war chiefPushmataha , Choctaw chief and U.S. Army Brigadier GeneralJosé Naranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo ), warrior who fought in the Spanish troops against the Apaches and participated in the Villasur expedition
Bill Anoatubby , (Chickasaw Nation ), Governor of the Chicksaw Nation since 1987Diane E. Benson , (Tlingit ) politician, inspirational speaker, poet and authorLisa Johnson Billy , Chickasaw Nation , Oklahoma State Legislator and Chickasaw Tribal LegislatorAda E. Brown , Choctaw Nation , Federal Judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of TexasBen Nighthorse Campbell , Northern Cheyenne chief, U.S. Representative , U.S. Senator , and silversmithBrad Carson , Cherokee Nation , former Democratic U.S. congressman from Oklahoma Holmes Colbert , Chickasaw government officialTom Cole , Chickasaw Nation , Congressman from OklahomaCharles Curtis , (Kaw /Osage /Prairie Band Potawatomi ) U.S. Senator and 31st Vice President of the United States Sharice Davids , Ho-Chunk , U.S. Representative from KansasAffie Burnside Ellis , Navajo , first Native American to serve in the Wyoming SenateDeb Haaland , Laguna Pueblo , U.S. Representative from New Mexico, 54th United States Secretary of the Interior Diane Humetewa , Hopi , Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, former U.S. Attorney for the District of ArizonaEnoch Kelly Haney (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma ), tribal leader, Oklahoma state legislator, and artistKeith Harper , Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma , U.S. representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva Larry Echo Hawk , Pawnee Nation , former Democratic Attorney General of Idaho and former United States Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs Yvette Herrell , Cherokee Nation , Congresswoman from New MexicoChuck Hoskin , Cherokee Nation , member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 6th districtShane Jett , Cherokee Nation , member of the Oklahoma Senate from the 17th districtMyron Lizer , Navajo / Comanche , Vice President of the Navajo NationByron Mallott (Tlingit ), former Lieutenant Governor of Alaska Green McCurtain Choctaw Nation chief, Vice President of the Sequoyah Constitutional ConventionDavid T. McCoy , Turtle Mountain Chippewa state politician and attorneyMarkwayne Mullin , Cherokee Nation , Congressman from OklahomaMary Peltola , Yup'ik , Congresswoman from Alaska; first Alaska Native member of Congress, first woman to represent Alaska in the House, first representative from Alaska to have been born in the stateBen Reifel , Sicangu Lakota , activist and Congressman from South DakotaMichael J. Stickman , Alaska Athabascan , first Chief of the Nuwato Tribal Council Kimberly Teehee , Cherokee Nation , Democratic White House Senior Policy Advisor for Native American AffairsJames Vann , Cherokee businessman and politicianPeterson Zah , Navajo politicianAndi LeBeau , Northern Arapaho from Wyoming
William Apess , (Pequot ) Methodist ministerBlack Elk , Oglala Lakota religious leaderCharles J. Chaput (Prairie Potawatomi ), Roman Catholic bishopNeolin , (Lenni Lenape ) religious leaderGeorge Tinker , Osage Nation theologianKennekuk , Kickapoo spiritual leaderHandsome Lake , Seneca religious leaderSamson Occom , Mohegan clergymanSt. David Pendleton Oakerhater , Southern Cheyenne warrior, artist, deacon, and saint in the Episcopal ChurchOral Roberts , Choctaw Nation preacherJohn Slocum , Squaxin Island Tribe , founder of the Indian Shaker Church Kateri Tekakwitha , Mohawk /Algonquian convert, canonized saint in the Roman Catholic ChurchPeter the Aleut (Unangax ), also known as Cungagnaq, martyr and saint in some jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church.[8] Tenskwatawa , Shawnee religious leaderWovoka , Paiute religious leader and founder of the Ghost Dance religion
Louise Abeita , Isleta Pueblo , 1926–2014Richard Aitson (Kiowa /Plains Apache , 1953–2022), beadwork artist and poetSherman Alexie , Spokane /Coeur d'Alene novelist and comedianPaula Gunn Allen , Laguna Pueblo poet, literary critic, activist, and novelistWilliam Apess (Pequot , 1798–1839), Methodist ministerAnnette Arkeketa , Otoe-Missouria /Muscogee [9] Jim Barnes , Choctaw editor, author, poet and founder of the Chariton Review PressGloria Bird , Spokane authorSherwin Bitsui , Navajo poetIgnatia Broker , White Earth Ojibwe authorGregory Cajete , Santa Clara Pueblo [10] Elizabeth Cook-Lynn , Crow Creek Sioux author, poet, editor, and co-founder of the Wíčazo Ša Review David Cusick , Tuscarora illustrator and author, ca.1780–ca.1831Nora Marks Dauenhauer , Tlingit author and poetPhilip J. Deloria , Standing Rock Sioux Tribe [11] Ella Cara Deloria , Yankton Dakota /Standing Rock Sioux , 1889–1971Vine Deloria, Jr. , Yankton Dakota /Standing Rock Sioux , 1933–2005Natalie Diaz , Mojave poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educatorMichael Dorris , Modoc writerHeid E. Erdrich , Turtle Mountain Ojibwe writer and poetLouise Erdrich , Turtle Mountain Ojibwe writer and poetJanice Gould , Maidu writerJanet Campbell Hale , Coeur d'Alene /Ktunaxa /Cree writerGordon Henry , White Earth Ojibwe writerLinda Hogan , Chickasaw Nation poet, storyteller, academic, environmentalist and writer.Victoria Howard (Clackamas Chinook , c. 1865–1930), storytellerJoy Harjo , Muscogee Nation poet, musician, and author, US poet laureateStephen Graham Jones , Blackfeet authorDaniel Heath Justice , Cherokee Nation authorCarole LaFavor , Ojibwe novelist and activistLayli Long Soldier , Oglala Lakota poet, writer, feminist, artist, and activistJohn Joseph Mathews , Osage authorDeborah A. Miranda , Esselen /Chumash author and poetN. Scott Momaday (Kiowa , 1934–2024) poet, author, scholar, and painterIrvin Morris , Navajo authorMourning Dove , Syilx author, 1888–1936Cynthia Leitich Smith , Muscogee authorTommy Orange , Cheyenne-Arapaho novelist and writerSimon J. Ortiz , Acoma Pueblo poetWilliam S. Penn , Nez Perce authorRobert L. Perea , Oglala Lakota novelist, educator, and veteranSusan Power , Standing Rock Dakota authorCarter Revard , Osage Nation author and poetJohn Rollin Ridge , Cherokee authorWendy Rose , Hopi /Miwok authorJane Johnston Schoolcraft , Ojibwe authorLeslie Marmon Silko , Laguna Pueblo -descent poet and novelistJames Thomas Stevens , Mohawk author and educatorLuci Tapahonso , Diné poetDavid Treuer , Leech Lake Ojibwe authorMark Turcotte , Turtle Mountain Ojibwe authorGerald Vizenor , White Earth Ojibwe writer and professorAnna Lee Walters , Pawnee /Otoe authorJames Welch , Blackfeet /Gros Ventre author and poetWilliam S. Yellow Robe, Jr. (Fort Peck Assiniboine , 1950–2021), actor, author, director, educator, playwright, and poet[12] Ray Young Bear , Meskwaki authorOfelia Zepeda , Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual
Irene Bedard , Iñupiaq /Yupik /Cree /Métis actress, director, producer, activistNathan Lee Chasing His Horse , Lakota actorChris Eyre , Southern Cheyenne-Arapaho director and producerKiowa Gordon , Hualapai actorPhil Lucas , Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, director, and editorRussell Means , Oglala Lakota activist and actorWill Rogers , Cherokee actor and humoristWill Sampson , Muscogee Nation painter and actorEddie Spears , Brulé Lakota actorMichael Spears , Brulé Lakota actorLuther Standing Bear , Oglala Lakota , author and actorWes Studi , Cherokee Nation actorSheila Tousey , Menominee actorFloyd Red Crow Westerman , Sisseton Dakota actor and musician
Chuck Billy , Pomo -descent singer for the thrash metal band, TestamentRadmilla Cody , (Navajo ) model, singer and activistBrent Michael Davids , Stockbridge Mohican composer and flutistR. Carlos Nakai , Navajo musicianSupaman , Apsáalooke rapperTaboo (rapper) , Shoshone -descent rapper and singerJohn Trudell , Santee Dakota , musician, poet, activistFrank Waln , Sicangu Lakota rapperGreg T. Walker , Muscogee southern rocker, Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd
Taffy Abel , (Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa ), Hall of Fame NHL Hockey Player, The First Native American in the Winter Olympics (1924 Silver medal), The First Native American in the NHL (1926), Broke the NHL Color Barrier in 1926Ron Baker , Citizen Potawatomi NBA player with the Washington WizardsNotah Begay III , Navajo PGA Tour golferJohnny Bench , Choctaw Hall of Fame CatcherChief Bender , White Earth Ojibwe Hall of Fame pitcherSam Bradford , Cherokee Nation , American football quarterbackGerald Brisco , Chickasaw Nation Pro Wrestler and WWE talent scoutJack Brisco , Chickasaw Nation Pro Wrestler, Former NWA World ChampionEllison "Tarzan" Brown , Narragansett U.S. Olympian/Marathon RunnerJoba Chamberlain , Ho-Chunk pitcher for the Detroit Tigers Chris Chavis , Lumbee professional wrestler, Better Known As "Tatanka."Rod Curl , (Wintu ) PGA tour golferFrank Dufina (Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians ), professional golferJacoby Ellsbury CRIT Navajo outfielder for the New York Yankees Angel Goodrich , (Cherokee Nation ) WNBA basketball playerJoe Guyon (Chippewa ), American football halfback and baseball player. Won the NFL championship with the New York Giants in 1927 .Al Hoptowit (Yakama ), American football playerBronson Koenig , Ho-Chunk basketball player currently on an NBA two-way contractAshton Locklear Artistic Gymnast of Lumbee tribe. 2014 World Champion (Team), 2 x 2014 Pan American Champion (Team, Uneven Bars), 2 x 2016 Pacific Rim Champion (Team, Uneven Bars)Kyle Lohse , Nomlaki pitcher, Milwaukee BrewersEdward "Wahoo" McDaniel , Choctaw /Chickasaw professional wrestlerBilly Mills , Oglala Lakota athleteAnthony Seigler , Navajo , MLB player[13] Shoni Schimmel , Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation , WNBA playerSonny Sixkiller , Cherokee Nation American football quarterback Louis Sockalexis (Penobscot ), Major League Baseball playerJim Thorpe (Sac and Fox Nation ), Olympic Gold medalist in track and field, gridiron football and baseball playerChris Wondolowski , (Kiowa ), soccer player for the San Jose Earthquakes and United States national team Kerry Werner , (Kiowa ), cyclistLyle Thompson , (Onondaga ), pro Lacrosse playerJim Ross , (Cherokee Nation ), WWE wrestling announcer
Dennis Banks , Leech Lake Ojibwe activist, teacher, lecturer, author and co-founder of the American Indian Movement Mary Brave Bird , Sicangu Lakota activist. She was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events.Clyde Bellecourt White Earth Ojibwe activist and co-founder of the American Indian MovementCarter Camp , Ponca activist[14] Don Coyhis , Mohican , sobriety leader and mental health activist, lecturer and author. Founder of Wellbriety, a holistic approach that emphasizes community support for individuals as well as a return to cultural roots for Native American communities.Billy Frank Jr. , Nisqually , environmental leader and treaty rights. He was the founder and chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries CommissionWinona LaDuke , White Earth Ojibwe environmental activist and writer. She was known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development.Susan LaFlesche Picotte , Omaha /Ponca /Iowa activist, first female Native American physician. She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of land to members of the Omaha tribe.Susette LaFlesche Tibbles , Omaha /Ponca /Iowa spokesperson for Native American rightsKatherine Smith , (Navajo ) activist and defender of Navajo landsBetty Osceola , Miccosukee educator, conservationist, anti-fracking, and clean water advocate in the Florida Everglades Deborah Parker (Tulalip Tribes , born 1970),[15] [16] [17] Leonard Peltier , Turtle Mountain Chippewa /Lakota activist. A member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), he is imprisoned for first-degree murder for the shooting of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian ReservationElizabeth Peratrovich , Tlingit civil rights activist. Peratrovich and her husband were instrumental in the successful Alaska Native Sisterhood and Alaska Native Brotherhood campaign against racial discrimination in Alaska, culminating in the 1945 enactment of the Anti-Discrimination Act.Lawrence Plamondon , Grand Traverse Odawa /Ojibwe activist and storyteller. He helped found the White Panther Party. He was the first hippie to be listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Plamondon's father was half-Odawa and his mother was part-Ojibwe.D'Arcy McNickle , Salish Kootenai author, activist, and anthropologistZitkala-Sa , Yankton Dakota writer and activist. She was co-founder of the National Council of American Indians , supporting Native civil rights. In addition, she served as its president until her death in 1938. She wrote several books about the Native American cultures and is one of the most influential Native American activists of the twentieth century.Simon Pokagon , Pokagon Potawatomi author and Native American advocate.Leopold Pokagon , Pokagon Potawatomi storyteller and activist. He tried to protect and promote the Potawatomi communities living in the St. Joseph River Valley and their lands.Luana Reyes , Confederated Colville Tribes (Sinixt ) health activist and educator, 1933–2001[18] Sarah Winnemucca , Northern Paiute advocate for the rights of Native Americans and served US forces as a messenger, interpreter, and guide, and as a teacher for imprisoned Native Americans. She also wrote the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman."
Jessie Little Doe Baird (Mashpee Wampanoag , born 1963), linguist and preserver of the Mashpee language Hobomok , Wampanoag interpreterDon Luis (died 1571), Kiskiack or Paspahegh guide and interpreter for a party of Jesuit missionaries in VirginiaJoseph James and Joseph James, Jr. , Kaw /Osage interpreters and guidesToby Riddle (1848–1920), Modoc interpreter and diplomatSacajawea , Shoshone interpreterJohn Sassamon , Massachusett , interpreterSequoyah (Cherokee ), inventor of the Cherokee syllabary Squanto (c. 1585–November 1622), also known as Tisquantum , last surviving Patuxet , interpreter for the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts
Charlie LeDuff , Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa journalist, writer, and media personalityRob Capriccioso , Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians , journalist and writerTerri Crawford Hansen , Ho-Chunk /Potawatomi journalist, and authorJohn Christian Hopkins , Narragansett people journalist, authorJim Northrup , Fond du Lac Ojibwe columnist and political writerWillie Ottogary , Northwestern Shoshone journalist and leader.Will Rogers, Jr. , Cherokee Nation journalist and politicianMark Trahant , Shoshone -Bannock , print and broadcast journalist, and author
Buffalo Bird Woman , Hidatsa womanGregory Cajete , Santa Clara Pueblo ethnobotanist, author, and educatorIshi , Yana educator and last member of his tribeFrancis LaFlesche , Omaha /Ponca /Iowa ethnologist and authorRobert J. Conley , Cherokee authorVine Deloria, Jr. , Yankton Dakota /Standing Rock Nakota theologian, historian, writer and activistCharles Eastman , Santee Dakota author, physician and helped found the Boy Scouts of America.LeAnne Howe , Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma author and scholarJoseph Marshall III , Lakota educator and authorDevon A. Mihesuah , Choctaw Nation historian, author, and editorJoe Medicine Crow , Crow Nation anthropologistNila NorthSun , Shoshone /Ojibwe author and historianLuana Ross , Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes sociologist and authorDelphine Red Shirt , Oglala writer and chair of OCIDWIP at the United Nations Richard Twiss , Sicangu Lakota educator and authorWaziyatawin , Wahpetunwan Dakota historian, educator, and author
George Bent , Cheyenne , soldier, warrior, interpreter, and cultural informantPolly Cooper , Oneida Tribe aid to the Continental Army during the American Revolution at Valley Forge Jesse Cornplanter , Seneca author and artistLeonard Crow Dog , Sicangu Lakota medicine man, activist, and authorPierre Cruzatte , Omaha member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition .Deganawida (Haudenosaunee ), founder of the Iroquois Confederacy, more respectfully called The Great Peacemaker Larry EchoHawk , Pawnee head of the BIA, former Attorney General of IdahoJohn Herrington , Chickasaw Nation NASA astronautJames and Ernie , Navajo comedy duoMaude Kegg , Mille Lacs Ojibwe writer, folk artist, and cultural interpreterMountain Wolf Woman , Ho-Chunk autobiographerOwl Woman , Cheyenne negotiator, peacemaker, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame Pocahontas , aka Matoaka , Powhatan mediator with the earliest colonists in Jamestown[21] Rattling Blanket Woman (Miniconjou ), mother of Crazy Horse Paul Chaat Smith , Comanche /Choctaw , writer, Associate Curator of the National Museum of the American Indian [14] Maria Tallchief , Osage Nation ballerinaMarjorie Tallchief , Osage Nation ballerinaRandy'L He-dow Teton , Shoshone -Bannock , model for the US Sacagawea dollarTsali , Eastern Cherokee warrior, chief, and martyr
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