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Chief Seattle
Duwamish chief
Marie Smith Jones
last speaker of the Eyak language (1918–2008)
Quanah Parker
Native American Indian leader (1845–1911)
Wovoka
Wovoka ( – September 20, 1932), also known as Jack Wilson, was the Paiute religious leader who founded a second episode of the Ghost Dance movement. Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.
Raoni Metuktire
Kayapo chief
John Ross
1st principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
Spotted Tail
Brulé Sioux chief, Native American leader (1823–1881)
Manuelito
Chief Manuelito or Hastiin Chʼil Haajiní ("Sir Black Reeds", "Man of the Black Plants Place") (c. 1818–1893) was one of the principal headmen of the Diné people before, during and after the Long Walk Period. Manuelito translates to Little Immanuel. He was born to the ''Bit'ahnii or ″Folded Arms People Clan″, near the Bears Ears in southeastern Utah about 1818. As many Navajo, he was known by different names depending upon context. He was ("Holy Boy"), ("Son-in-Law of Late Texan"), Hastiin Ch'ilhaajinii'' ("Man of the Black Plants Place") and as (War Chief, "Warrior Grabbed Enemy") to other Din
Two Moon
Chief of Cheyenne Tribe (1847–1917)
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.
Blue Jacket
War chief of the Shawnee people (c. 1743 – c. 1810)
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Buffalo Calf Road Woman
Cheyenne woman warrior
Toby Riddle
Modoc interpreter (c. 1848–1920)
Tasunka Kokipapi
Oglala Lakota chief leader
Little Raven
Southern Inunaina (Arapaho) chief (c. 1810-1889)
Dragging Canoe
Cherokee war chief and leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee
Tanacharison
Tanacharison (; c. 1700 – 4 October 1754), also called Tanaghrisson (), was a Native American leader who played a pivotal role in the beginning of the French and Indian War. He was known to European-Americans as the "Half-King", a title also used to describe several other historically important Native American leaders. His name has been spelled in a variety of ways.
Barboncito
Barboncito or Hastiin Dághaaʼ (ca. 1820–1871) was a Navajo political and spiritual leader.
Elouise P. Cobell
tribal elder and activist, banker, rancher, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit Cobell v. Salazar (2009)
Looking Glass
Nez Percé War leader (1832–1877)
Chief Pocatello
Shoshone leader
White Man Runs Him
Crow scout (1858–1929)
Ehyophsta
Ehyophsta (, 1826 – 1915) was a Cheyenne woman warrior. She was the daughter of a chief, Stands-in-the-Timber, who died in 1849, and the niece of Bad Faced Bull. She fought in the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, and also fought the Shoshone that same year, where she counted coup against one enemy and killed another. She fought the Shoshone again in 1869, and during battle she stabbed and killed an enemy, saving a member of her own people.
Ten Bears
Comanche chief
Oconostota
Oconostota (c. 1707–1783) was a Cherokee skiagusta (war chief) of Chota, which was for nearly four decades the primary town in the Overhill territory, and within what is now Monroe County, Tennessee. He served as the First Beloved Man of Chota from 1775 to 1781.
Wooden Leg
Northern Cheyenne warrior (1858–1940)
Moving Robe Woman
Native American women
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
Peta Nocona
Comanche chief, husband of Cynthia Parker, father of Quanah Parker (1820–1860)
Plenty Coups
Crow Nation Chief (1848–1932)
Joe Capilano
Squamish leader (1850–1910)
Running Eagle
Blackfoot chief
Black Beaver
Delaware / Lenape chief, guide, rancher
Cockacoeske
Cockacoeske (pronounced Coke a cow ski) (also spelled Cockacoeskie) () was a 17th-century weroansqua of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".
Eskiminzin
Eskiminzin (''Ndee biyati' / Nnee biyati': "Men Stand in Line for Him"; or Hashkebansiziin, Hàckíbáínzín'' - "Angry, Men Stand in Line for Him", c. 1828–1894) was a local group chief of the Aravaipa band of the San Carlos group of the Western Apache during the Apache Wars.