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Hiawatha
Hiawatha ( , ; ), also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks.
Joseph Brant
Mohawk leader (1742-1807)
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Northern Cheyenne politician, athlete and rancher
Joe Medicine Crow
American historian (1913–2016)
Great Peacemaker
Native American prophet who founded the Iroquois Confederacy
Little Wolf
Northern Cheyenne chief (1820–1904)
Little Turtle
Chief of the Miami people (c. 1747 – July 14, 1812)
Nana
warrior and chief of the Chihenne band of the Chiricahua Apache (1800–1896)
Tuskaloosa
Tuskaloosa (less commonly spelled as Tuskalusa, Tastaluca, Tuskaluza) (birthdate unknown, - 1540) was a paramount chief of a Mississippian chiefdom in what is now the U.S. state of Alabama. His people were ancestors to the several southern Native American confederacies (the Choctaw and Creek peoples) who later emerged in the region. The modern city of Tuscaloosa, Alabama is named in his honor.
Washakie
thumb|right|Washakie holding a pipe Washakie (1804/1810 – February 20, 1900) was a prominent leader of the Shoshone people during the mid-19th century. He was first mentioned in 1840 in the written record of the American fur trapper, Osborne Russell. In 1851, at the urging of trapper Jim Bridger, Washakie led a band of Shoshones to the council meetings of the Treaty of Fort Laramie. Essentially from that time until his death, he was considered the head of the Eastern Shoshones by the representatives of the United States government. In 1979, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerne
Naiche
Chief Naiche ( ; –1919) was the final hereditary chief of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.
Hendrick Theyanoguin
Mohawk leader
Big Elk
Native American tribal chief
Wooden Leg
Northern Cheyenne warrior (1858–1940)
Earl Old Person
Blackfeet leader
Apesanahkwat
Apesanahkwat (born January 19, 1949) is a Native American tribal leader, activist, and film and television actor.
Emma Fielding Baker
leader of the Mohegan Pequots (1828–1916)
Solomon Bibo
Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man (1853–1934)
Plenty Coups
Crow Nation Chief (1848–1932)
A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye
Aka-Omahkayii (also Ackomokki or A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye (Blackfoot syllabics: , meaning Old Swan), was the name of three Siksiká chiefs between the late 1700s and 1860.
Sha-có-pay, The Six, Chief of the Plains Ojibwa
Sha-có-pay is an oil-on-canvas painting from life by American artist George Catlin, from 1832. It depicts an Indigenous American named Sha-có-pay, who was chief of the Plains Ojibwe. It was painted at Fort Union.
Four Mohawk Kings
1710 group of Mohawk emissaries to Britain