List of Native Americans of the United States

List of Native Americans of the United States

This is a list of note worthy Native Americans born within the area now known as the United States, which includes Alaska natives, Pacific Islanders and indigenous people to the Americas. [ [http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmbioaz.html Notable American Indians] ] [ [http://www.nativeamericans.com/FamousNativeAmericans.htm Famous Native Americans] ] The focus of this list is Native Americans that have gained notoriety as tribal leaders, spiritual leaders, interpreters, activists, actors, artists, athletes, military people, musicians, politicians, writers and etc....

A

*Ai -- (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche) Poet
*Sherman Alexie -- (Spokane, Coeur d'Alene) author and comedian
*Paula Gunn Allen -- (Pueblo, Sioux) poet, literary critic, activist, and novelist.
*William Apess -- (Pequot) author and minister
*Attakullakulla -- (Cherokee) chief
*Marilou Awiakta -- (Cherokee) author and poet

B

*Jimmy Santiago Baca -- (Apache, Chicano) author and poet
*Dennis Banks -- (Anishinabe) activist, teacher, lecturer, author and co-founder of (AIM) the American Indian Movement.
*Jim Barnes -- (Choctaw) editor, author, poet and founder of the Chariton Review Press.
*Betty Louise Bell -- (Cherokee) author and editor
*Diane E. Benson -- (Tlingit) politician, inspirational speaker, poet and author
*Chuck Billy -- (Pomo)Singer for the heavy metal band Testament
*Billy Bowlegs -- (Seminole) chief
*Sherwin Bitsui -- (Navajo) poet
*Black Elk -- (Oglala Lakota) holy man
*Black Hawk -- (Sauk) Leader
*Black Kettle -- (Cheyenne) chief
*Andrew Blackbird -- (Ottawa) leader, historian, and author
*Kimberly M. Blaeser -- (Chippewa, Anishinaabe) author and poet
*Elias Boudinot -- (Cherokee) leader, journalist and publisher
*Joseph Brant -- (Mohawk) leader
*Ignatia Broker -- (Ojibway) author
*Joseph Bruchac -- (Abenaki) author and poet
*Buffalo Bird Woman -- (Hidatsa) writer

C

*Ben Nighthorse Campbell -- (Northern Cheyenne) chief, U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator
*Canonicus -- (Narragansett) chief
*Captain Jack -- (Modoc) chief
*Gladys Cardiff -- (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) writer and poet
*Lorna Dee Cervantes -- (Chicana) writer and poet
*Chainbreaker -- (Seneca) warchief
*Joba Chamberlain -- (Ho-Chunk) pitcher for the New York Yankees
* Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse -- (Lakota) Medicine man, actor
*Chrystos -- (Menominee) activist and poet
*Cochise -- (Chiricahua) chief
*Allison Hedge Coke -- (Wendat, Metis, Tsalagi, Creek) author and poet
*Holmes Colbert -- (Chickasaw) government official
* Winchester Colbert -- (Chickasaw) chief
*Tom Cole --(Chickasaw) Congressman from Oklahoma
*Robert J. Conley -- (Cherokee) author
*Elizabeth Cook-Lynn -- (Crow Creek, Lakota, Sioux) author, poet, editor, and co-founder of the Wicazo Sa Review
*Calvin Coolidge -- 30th President of the United States of America
*Cornplanter -- (Seneca) chief
*Jesse Cornplanter -- (Seneca) author and artist
*Crazy Horse -- (Oglala Lakota) chief
*Mary Crow Dog -- (Lakota) author
*Pierre Cruzatte -- (Omaha) member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
*Charles Curtis -- (Kaw, Osage, Pottawatomie) U.S. Senator and 31st Vice President of the United States

D

*Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- (Tlingit) author and poet
*Brent Michael Davids -- (Stockbridge Mohican) composer and flutist
*Susan Deer Cloud -- (Blackfoot, Seneca, Mohawk) author and poet
*Delaware Prophet -- (Lenni Lenape) religious leader
*Ella Cara Deloria -- (Yankton Sioux) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist
*Vine Deloria, Jr. -- (Oglala Lakota) theologian, historian, writer and activist
*Michael Dorris -- (Modoc) writer
*Dragging Canoe -- (Cherokee) War Chief
*Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz -- professor, activist, and writer
*Jimmie Durham -- (Cherokee) sculptor, essayist and poet

E

*Charles Eastman -- (Sioux) author, physician and helped found the Boy Scouts of America.
*Larry EchoHawk --(Pawnee) Attorney General of Idaho
*Jacoby Ellsbury -- (Navajo), outfielder for the Boston Red Sox
*Louise Erdrich -- (Anishinaabe, Ojibway, Chippewa) writer and poet
*Chris Eyre -- (Cheyenne, Arapaho) director and producer

F

*Logan Fontenelle -- (Omaha) chief and interpreter
*L. Frank -- (Tongva, Ajachmem) Indian artist, tribal scholar, writer and activist

G

*Chief Gall -- (Hunkpapa Lakota) chief
*Diane Glancy -- (Cherokee) poet, author and playwright
*Geronimo -- (Chiricahua Apache) leader
*Owl Goingback -- (Choctaw, Cherokee) author
*Jewelle Gomez -- (Ioway) writer
*Janice Gould -- (Maidu) writer

H

*Janet Campbell Hale -- (Coeur d'Alene/Koutenay) writer
*Handsome Lake -- (Seneca) religious leader
*Joy Harjo -- (Muscogee) poet, musician, and author
*Ira Hayes -- (Pima) One of five Marines, along with a United States Navy corpsman, immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima.
*William Least Heat-Moon -- (Osage) writer
*King Hendrick -- (Mohawk) chief
*Gordon Henry -- (Chippewa) writer
*John Herrington -- (Chickasaw) NASA astronaut .
*Hiawatha -- (Onondaga, Mohawk) chief was credited as the founder of the Iroquois confederacy
*Linda Hogan -- (Chickasaw) poet, storyteller, academic, environmentalist and writer.
*LeAnne Howe -- (Choctaw) author and scholar
*Al Hunter -- (Anishinaabe) writer and poet

I

*Ishi -- (Yana) Last tribesperson
*Alootook Ipellie -- (Inuit) illustrator and writer

J

*Stephen Graham Jones -- (Blackfeet) author
*Chief Joseph -- (Nez Percé) chief and humanitarian
*Betty Mae Tiger Jumper -- (Seminole) the first female chief of the Seminole tribe of Florida, she was also a publisher
*Daniel Heath Justice -- (Cherokee) author

K

*Maude Kegg -- (Ojibwa) writer, folk artist, and cultural interpreter
*Keokuk -- (Sac, Fox) chief
*Thomas King -- (Cherokee) novelist and broadcaster

L

*Winona LaDuke -- (Ojibwa) activist and writer
*Susan La Flesche Picotte -- (Omaha) first female Native American physician.
*Carole LaFavor -- (Ojibwa) noevlist and activist
*Hyapatia Lee -- (Cherokee) actress
*Edmonia Lewis -- (Ojibwa) sculptor
*Sacheen Littlefeather -- (Yaqui) actress
*Little Turtle -- (Miami) chief
*James Logan -- (Mingo) chief
*Clayton J. Lonetree -- Winnebago U.S. Marine and Spy for the KGB
*Lone Wolf -- (Kiowa) chief
*Phil Lucas -- (Choctaw) filmmaker, actor, writer, producer, director and editor

M

*Major Ridge - Cherokee chief, led Lighthorse Patrol and signed the Treaty of New Echota.
*Mangas Coloradas - Apache chief
*Wilma Mankiller - Cherokee chief
*Joseph Marshall III
*María Martínez - Tewa Pueblo potter
*Massasoit - Wampanoag chief
*John Joseph Mathews
*Janet McAdams
*Alexander McGillivray - Creek chief
*William McIntosh - Creek chief
*D'Arcy McNickle
*Mardi Oakley Medawar
*Russell Means - Lakota activist and actor
*Miantonomo - Narragansett chief
*Devon A. Mihesuah
*Billy Mills - Sioux athlete
*Deborah A. Miranda
*N. Scott Momaday - Kiowa and Cherokee poet, author, scholar, and painter
*Irvin Morris
*Mountain Wolf Woman
*Mourning Dove

N

*Nora Naranjo-Morse
*Nas'Naga
*Jim Northrup
*Nila NorthSun

O

*Samson Occom - Mohegan clergyman
*Opechancanough - Pamunkey Indian chief
*Simon J. Ortiz
*Osceola - Seminole leader
*Chief Ouray - Southern Ute Tribe leader
*Louis Owens

P

*Ely S. Parker - U.S. Army Brigadier General
*Quanah Parker - Comanche chief
*Elise Paschen
*Leonard Peltier - Ojibwa and Lakota activist
*William S. Penn
*Robert L. Perea
*Lori Piestewa - Died in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
*Lionel Little Eagle Pinn
*Lawrence (Pun) Plamondon
*Pocahontas - Powhatan peacemaker
*Leopold Pokagon - Potawatomi
*Simon Pokagon - Potawatomi
*Chief Pontiac - Ottawa chief
*Popé - Pueblo medicine man
*Susan Power
*Powhatan - Powhatan chief
*Pushmataha - Choctaw chief and U.S. Army Brigadier General

Q

*Ron Querry

R

*Red Cloud - Oglala Sioux chief
*Red Jacket - Seneca chief
*Delphine Red Shirt
*Ben Reifel - Sioux activist and U.S. representative from South Dakota
*Carter Revard
*Will Rogers - Cherokee actor and humorist
*Will Rogers, Jr.
*John Rollin Ridge
*Wendy Rose
*John Ross - Cherokee chief

*Sacajawea -- Shoshone interpreter
*Samoset -- Algonquin leader
*Carol Lee Sanchez
*William Sanders
*Greg Sarris
*Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
*Chief Seattle -- Suquamish Indian leader
*Sequoyah -- inventor of the Cherokee syllabary
*Shawnee Prophet -- Shawnee religious leader
*Leslie Marmon Silko -- Laguna Pueblo poet and novelist
*Sitting Bull -- Sioux chief
*Andrea Smith
*Cynthia Leitich Smith
*Smohalla -- Wanapun chief and religious leader
*Sonuk Mikko -- Captain in the Indian Home Guard during the American Civil War
*Squanto -- Pawtuxet interpreter
*Standing Bear -- Ponca Indian Chief
*Luther Standing Bear
*James Thomas Stevens
*Wes Studi -- Cherokee actor

T

*Chief Tahachee
*Maria Tallchief - Osage ballerina
*Margo Tamez
*Luci Tapahonso
*Tecumseh - Shawnee warrior
*Catherine Tekakwitha - Mohawk holy woman
*Randy'L He-dow Teton - Shoshone woman who posed as the model for the US Sacagawea dollar coin, first issued in 2000. She is the first Native American woman to appear on an American coin.
*William Clyde Thompson - Texas Choctaw leader who fought against the Dawes Commission for Choctaw enrollment.
*Jim Thorpe - Sac and Fox Olympian
*George Tinker
*Haunani-Kay Trask
*Mililani Trask
*Gail Tremblay
*David Treuer
*John Trudell - Sioux musician, poet, activist
*Mark Turcotte
*Richard Twiss
*E. Donald Two-Rivers

U

*Uncas - Mohegan chief

V

*James Vann - (Cherokee) richest man in the Cherokee Nation and was one of the richest men in the Western Hemisphere in the early 1800s.
*Victorio- (Apache) chief
*Gerald Vizenor

W

*Velma Wallis
*Alice Walker
*Anna Lee Walters
*Nancy Ward - Cherokee leader and "Beloved Woman"
*Stand Watie - Cherokee Nation leader and a brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
*William Weatherford - Creek chief
*James Welch
*Sarah Winnemucca - Paiute leader, warrior, and interpreter,
*Craig Womack
*Wovoka, Paiute religious leader

Y

*Yellow Bird
*Ray Young Bear

Z

*Ofelia Zepeda
*Zitkala-Sa

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