American-Indian Biographies—A to Z
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff
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Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka
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- Sherman Alexie, writer
- Paula Gunn Allen, Pueblo-Sioux poet, novelist, critic
- Dennis Banks, Anishinabe (Ojibwa) activist
- Adam Beach, Ojibwa actor
- Elias Boudinot, Cherokee leader in the American Revolution
- Joseph Brant, Mohawk chief
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne chief and U.S. senator from Colorado
- Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco), Seminole leader
- Black Elk, Oglala Lakota holy man
- Black Hawk, Sauk Leader
- Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief
- Canonicus, Narragansett chief
- Captain Jack, Modoc subchief
- Cochise, Apache chief
- Cornplanter, Seneca chief
- Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief
- Charles Curtis, Kaw senator and vice president of the United States (1929-33)
- Delaware Prophet, Native American religious leade
- Vine Deloria, Jr., Leading Standing Rock Sioux scholar, writer and activist
- Michael Dorris, Modoc (ancestry) writer
- Louise Erdrich, Ojibway (ancestry) writer
- Chris Eyre, Cheyenne and Arapaho filmmaker
- Gall, Sioux chief
- Geronimo, Apache political leader
- Graham Greene, Oneida actor
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- Handsome Lake, Seneca religious leader
- Hendrick, Mohawk chief
- Hiawatha, Onondaga chief
- Ishi, Last Yahi tribesperson
- Joseph, Nez Percé chief
- Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Indian tribal leader and publisher
- Keokuk, Sac and Fox chief
- Winona LaDuke, Ojibwa activist and writer
- Edmonia Lewis, Ojibwa sculptor
- Sacheen Littlefeather, Yaqui (ancestry) actress
- Little Turtle, Miami chief
- James Logan, Mingo chief
- Lone Wolf, Kiowa chief
- Mangas Coloradas, Apache chief
- Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee chief
- María Martínez, Tewa Pueblo potter
- Massasoit, Wampanoag chief
- Russell Means, Lakota activist and actor
- Alexander McGillivray, Creek chief
- William McIntosh, Creek chief
- Miantonomo, Narragansett chief
- Billy Mills, Sioux athlete
- N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa and Cherokee poet, author, scholar, and painter
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- Samson Occom, Mohegan clergyman
- Opechancanough, Pamunkey Indian chief
- Osceola, Seminole leader
- Quanah Parker, Comanche chief
- Leonard Peltier, Ojibwa and Lakota activist
- Pocahontas, Powhatan peacemaker
- Pontiac, Ottawa chief
- Popé, Pueblo medicine man
- Powhatan, Powhatan chief
- Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux chief
- Red Jacket, Seneca chief
- Ben Reifel, Sioux activist and U.S. representative from South Dakota
- Louis Riel, Métis leader
- Robbie Robertson, Mohawk songwriter and guitarist
- Will Rogers, Cherokee actor and humorist
- John Ross, Cherokee chief
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- Sacajawea, Shoshone interpreter
- Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cree activist, songwriter, singer, and artist
- Samoset, Algonquin leader
- Seattle, Suquamish Indian leader
- Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee syllabary
- Shawnee Prophet, Shawnee religious leader
- Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Pueblo poet and novelist
- Jay Silverheels, Mohawk actor
- Sitting Bull, Sioux chief
- Smohalla, Wanapun chief and religious leader
- Squanto, Pawtuxet interpreter
- Wes Studi, Cherokee actor
- Maria Tallchief, Osage ballerina
- Tecumseh, Shawnee chief
- Catherine Tekakwitha, Mohawk holy woman
- Jim Thorpe, Sac and Fox Olympian
- John Trudell, Sioux musician, poet, activist
- Uncas, Mohegan chief
- Victorio, Apache chief
- Nancy Ward (Nanye-hi), Cherokee leader and "Beloved Woman"
- William Weatherford, Creek chief
- Wovoka, Paiute religious leader
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