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1863–1950. 1870–1890s. Lakota. A prominent Wichasha Wakan of the Oglala Lakota, he was a combatant at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. During the late 1880s, he was involved in the Ghost Dance movement and was injured at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Black Hawk. 1767–1838. 1810s–1830s. Sauk.
Yvette Herrell, Cherokee Nation, Congresswoman from New Mexico. Chuck Hoskin, Cherokee Nation, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 6th district. Shane Jett, Cherokee Nation, member of the Oklahoma Senate from the 17th district. Myron Lizer, Navajo / Comanche, Vice President of the Navajo Nation.
Dakota people. The Dakota (pronounced [daˈkˣota], Dakota: Dakȟóta or Dakhóta) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota. The four bands of Eastern Dakota are the ...
To pay homage to the rich ancestry of Native Americans, it helps to know of current-day people who share in the heritage. With that in mind, we gathered this list of 20 famous Native Americans ...
There were four leading chiefs of the Seminole, a Native American tribe that formed in what was then Spanish Florida in the present-day United States.They were leaders between the time the tribe organized in the mid-18th century until Micanopy and many Seminole were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s following the Second Seminole War.
Charles A. Halleck, U.S. Congressman (Rensselaer) Lee H. Hamilton, U.S. Congressman (Bloomington) Clifford Hardin, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (Knightstown) Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States. William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States and Governor of Indiana Territory.
Hiawatha. Hiawatha (/ ˌhaɪəˈwɒθə / HY-ə-WOTH-ə, also US: /- ˈwɔːθə / -WAW-thə: Haiëñ'wa'tha [hajẽʔwaʔtha] [4]), also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both.
Tecumseh's confederacy. Tecumseh's confederacy was a confederation of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of North America which formed during the early 19th century around the teaching of Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa. [2] The confederation grew over several years and came to include several thousand Native American warriors.