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Cherokee
The Cherokee ( , ; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their ancestral homelands, living in towns along river valleys in what is now southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, parts of western South Carolina, northern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama, with hunting grounds extending into Kentucky. Together, these lands encompassed approximately 40,000 square miles.
Iroquois
The Iroquois ( ), also known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy ( ; ), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America. They were known by the French during the colonial years as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy. They have also been called the Six Nations (Five Nations before 1722).
Wyandot people
North American ethnic group
Choctaw
The Choctaw ( ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, historically based in what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. The Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are enrolled primarily in three federally recognized tribes: the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians in Louisiana. The Yowani Choctaw, a historic Choctaw band, are federally recognized as a people within the Caddo Nation and are also enrolled as citizens of the Choctaw Nati
Lenape
thumb|Two Delaware Nation citizens, Jennie Bobb and her daughter Nellie Longhat, in [[Oklahoma, in 1915]] The Lenape (, , ; ), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada.
Muscogee
The Muscogee (English: ), Mvskoke or Mvskokvlke (, in the Muscogee language), also known as Muscogee Creek or just Creek, are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands in the United States. Their historical homelands are in what now comprises southern Tennessee, much of Alabama, western Georgia and parts of northern Florida.
Shawnee
thumb|right|A collage of Shawnee people The Shawnee ( ) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language.
Mahican
The Mohicans or Mahicans ( or ) are an Eastern Algonquian Native American tribe that historically spoke an Algonquian language. As part of the Eastern Algonquian family of tribes, they are related to the neighboring Lenape, whose indigenous territory was to the south as far as the Atlantic coast. The Mohicans lived in the upper tidal Hudson River Valley, including the confluence of the Mohawk River (where present-day Albany, New York, developed) and into western New England centered on the upper Housatonic River watershed. After 1680, due to conflicts with the powerful Mohawk to the west durin
Chickasaw
The Chickasaw ( ) are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as a member of the Muskogean language family. In the present day, they are organized as the federally recognized Chickasaw Nation.
Seneca
indigenous people of North America
Onondaga Nation
one of the original five constituent nations of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy
Oneida
ethnic group in North America
Cayuga people
North American ethnic group
Miami people
Native American nation originally found in what is now Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
Tuscarora Nation
Native American Nation
Joseph Brant
Mohawk leader (1742-1807)
Ho-Chunk
The Ho-Chunk, also known as Hoocąk, Hoocągra, or Winnebago are a Siouan-speaking Native American people whose historic territory includes parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois. Today, Ho-Chunk people are enrolled in two federally recognized tribes: the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.
Sauk people
North American ethnic group
Catawba people
federally-recognized Indian Nation in South Carolina, United States
Crispus Attucks
African American/Native American, first victim of the Boston Massacre
Red Jacket
Seneca chief (1750-1830)
Little Turtle
Chief of the Miami people (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812)
Cornstalk
Native American in the American Revolution
Mingo
thumb|upright|Statue of Chief Logan, a notable Mingo leader, in [[Logan, West Virginia]]
Cornplanter
John Abeel III (–February 18, 1836) known as '''Gaiänt'wakê' (Gyantwachia – "the planter") or 'Kaiiontwa'kon' (Kaintwakon'' – "By What One Plants") in the Seneca language and thus generally known as Cornplanter, was a Seneca chief and diplomat. As a war chief, Cornplanter fought in the American Revolutionary War on the side of the British. After the war Cornplanter led negotiations with the United States and was a signatory of the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784), the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794), and other treaties. He helped ensure Seneca neutrality during the Northwest Indian War.
Nancy Ward
Cherokee Ghighau, or Beloved Woman, and warrior, introduced dairying to the Cherokee and advocating for the return of matriarchy
Blue Jacket
War chief of the Shawnee people (c. 1743 – c. 1810)
Molly Brant
Canadian aboriginal leader
Dragging Canoe
Cherokee war chief and leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee
Charles Michel de Langlade
American fur trader
Handsome Lake
Seneca religious leader
Skenandoa
John Skenandoa (; – March 11, 1816), also called Shenandoah () among other forms, was an elected chief (a so-called "pine tree chief") of the Oneida. He was born into the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannocks, but was adopted into the Oneida of the Iroquois Confederacy. When he later accepted Christianity, he was baptized as "John", taking his Oneida name Skenandoa as his surname. Based on a possible reconstruction of his name in its original Oneida, he is sometimes called "Oskanondonha" in modern scholarship. His tombstone bears the spelling Schenando ().
Alexander McGillivray
Muscogee leader (1750-1793)
Guyasuta
Guyasuta (c. 1725–c. 1794; , "he stands up to the cross" or "he sets up the cross") was an important Native American leader of the Seneca people in the second half of the eighteenth century, playing a central role in the diplomacy and warfare of that era. Although he became friends with George Washington in 1753, he sided with the French against Britain during the French and Indian War and fought against the British in Pontiac's War. He later supported the British during the American Revolutionary War. In his final years, he engaged in peacemaking to end the Northwest Indian War.
Black Hoof
Chief of the Shawnee Indians
Ahaya
Ahaya (c. 1710 – 1783) was the first recorded chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. European-Americans called him Cowkeeper, as he held a very large herd of cattle. Ahaya was the chief of a town of Oconee people near the Chattahoochee River. Around 1750 he led his people into Florida where they settled around Payne's Prairie, part of what the Spanish called tierras de la chua, "Alachua Country" in English. The Spanish called Ahaya's people cimarones, which eventually became "Seminoles" in English. Ahaya fought the Spanish, and sought friendship with the British, allying with them af
Nonhelema
thumb|Nonhelema monument