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A war chief of the Lakota, he took part in Red Cloud's War and Black Hills War. Red Cloud: 1822–1909 1860s–1890s Oglala Lakota: A chief of the Oglala Lakota, he was one of several Lakota leaders who opposed the American settlement of the Great Plains winning a short-lived victory against the U.S. Army during Red Cloud's War. Red Jacket: c ...
The Principal Chief was elected by the National Council, which was the legislature of the Nation. The Cherokee Nation–West adopted a similar constitution in 1833. In 1839 most of the reunited nation was reunited in Indian Territory, after forced removal from the Southeast. There they adopted one constitution.
The hereditary chiefs of the Upland Forest served as the "titular chief" and was in charge of foreign relations. [1] When the last hereditary chief died in 1869, the Osage Nation was in need of a new government. The United States Osage Agent, Cyrus Beede, encouraged the Osage to form an elected form of government.
List of Choctaw chiefs is a record ... Indian termination policy was a policy that the United States Congress legislated in 1953 to assimilate the Native American ...
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.
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 ...
Damodaram Sanjivayya, 2nd Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and the first Dalit Chief Minister of an Indian state. [51] [52] Ram Sundar Das, former Chief Minister, Bihar [53] Bhola Paswan Shastri, former Chief Minister of Bihar [54] Jagannath Pahadia, former Chief Minister of Rajasthan [54]
Native American religious leaders are in Category:Religious figures of the indigenous peoples of North America; For Native American politicians, see Category:Native American politicians; For indigenous Canadian leaders, see Category:Aboriginal leaders in Canada