American-Indian Biographies—A to Z

Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka

Charles Curtis

• 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

N. Scott Momaday

• 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

Robbie Robertson

• 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

Sequoyah

• 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