Noteable Native Americans

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Pre-colonial leader of the Iroquois Confederacy

Humorist, cowboy, newspaper columnist, film actor

19th century Oglala Lakota leader who fought the U.S. over encroachment of settlers.

Marine Corporal who was photographed helping to raise the US flag at Iwo Jima

Advisor and translator between the Mayflower colonists and the Pokanoket tribe in present-day Massachusetts

1964 Olympic champion in the 10,000 meters and 3 time All-American. Also a First Lieutenant in the US Marines

Chiricahua Apache leader and medicine man who fought the US and Mexico in the 1800s

Manitoba actor who starred in "Flags of Our Fathers", "Smoke Signals", and "Windtalkers"

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Nez Perce leader famous for the quote, "I will fight no more forever"

Gold medal winning decathlete and pentathlete, he also competed in professional American football, professional basketball and professional baseball.

Shawnee warrior and chief, born near present day Cillicothe Ohio in 1768

Coeur dAlene novelist, short-story writer and poet who adapted his book "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" into the first "all Indian" movie "Smoke Signals"

19th century Hunkpapa Lakota holy man and later a performer with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

Onkwehonwe Mohawk musician played guitar with The Band and Bob Dylan

Cherokee silversmith who created an independant, effective, original system which made reading and writing possible in his language.