Peltier, Leonard: (born September 12, 1944) is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian

Movement (AIM). In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for first degree murder in the shooting of two FBI agents during a 1975 conflict on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Pocahontas: born Matoaka, and later known as Rebecca Rolfe, (1595 March 1617) was a Virginia Indian notable for
her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. Pocahontas was the daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief] of a network of tributary tribal nations in the Tidewater region of Virginia. In a well-known historical anecdote, she is said to have saved the life of an Indian captive, Englishman John Smith, in 1607 by placing her head upon his own when her father raised his war club to execute him. She was captured by the English during Anglo-Indian hostilities in 1613, and held for ransom. She converted to Christianity and took the name Rebecca. When the opportunity arose for her to return to her people, she chose to remain with the English. In April 1614, she married tobacco planter John Rolfe, and in January 1615, bore him a son, Thomas Rolfe. Pocahontas's marriage to John Rolfe in 1614 was the first recorded interracial marriage in American history.

Pontiac: was a chief of the Ottawa tribe who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion (17631766),
an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War. Historians disagree about Pontiac's importance in the war that bears his name. Nineteenth-century accounts portrayed him as the mastermind and leader of the revolt, while some subsequent interpretations have depicted him as a local leader with limited overall influence. Powhaten: Powhatan was the leader, or chief, of the Powhatan federation of Indians that occupied Virginia in the early seventeenth century. At the time of settlement, Powhatan and the Pamunkeys had reduced about thirty tribes and 8,000 persons into an area of control that extended from Jamestown to the Potomac. As the English saw him, Powhatan was "a tall well proportioned man, with a sower looke" who ruled with an iron hand. Few doubt his word was law and he did hold life and death powers over his many subjects.

Rain in the Face: was a war chief of the Lakota tribe of Native Americans. His mother was a Dakota related to the band
of famous Chief Inkpaduta. He was among the Indian leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn.

Red Cloud: (1822 December 10, 1909) was a war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He led as a chief
from 1868 to 1909. One of the most capable Native American opponents the United States Army faced, he led a successful campaign in 18661868 known as Red Cloud's War over control of the Powder River Country in northeastern Wyoming and southern Montana. After signing the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), he led his people in the important transition to reservation life.

Red Jacket: was a Native American Seneca orator and chief of the Wolf clan.[1] He negotiated on behalf of his nation
with the new United States after the American Revolutionary War, when the Seneca as British allies were forced to cede much land, and signed the Treaty of Canandaigua (1794). He helped secure some Seneca territory in New York state, although most of the people had migrated to Canada for resettlement after the defeat of the British.

Reifel, Ben: was a public administrator and politician of Lakota Sioux and German-American descent. He had a career
with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, retiring as area administrator. He ran for the US Congress from the East River region of South Dakota, and was elected as the first Lakota to serve in the House of Representatives. He served five terms as a Republican United States Congressman from the (now obsolete) First District.

Riel, Louis: was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of
the Mtis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Riel sought to preserve Mtis rights and culture as their homelands in the Northwest came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence. He is regarded by many today as a Canadian folk hero.

Robertson, Robbie: is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known for his work as lead guitarist and
primary lyricist within The Band. The son of a Native American mother and Jewish father, Robbie Robertson spent time as a child at Six Nation Indian Reservation where he received guitar lessons and excelled quickly.

Rogers, Will: (November 4, 1879 August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social
commentator and motion picture actor. He was one of the world's best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s. Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son," Rogers was born to a prominent Cherokee Nation family in Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma). He traveled around the world three times, made 71 movies (50 silent films and 21 "talkies"), wrote more than 4,000 nationally-syndicated newspaper columns, and became a world-famous figure. He was the leading political wit of the Progressive Era, and was the top-paid Hollywood movie star at the time. Rogers died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post, when their small airplane crashed in Alaska.

Ross, John: (October 3, 1790August 1, 1866), also known as Guwisguwi (meaning in Cherokee a "mythological or rare
migratory bird"), was the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from 18281866, serving longer in this position than any other person. Described as the Moses of his people,[1] Ross influenced the former Indian nation through such tumultuous events as the relocation to Indian Territory and the American Civil War.

Sacajawea: was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter
and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States. She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806.

Saint-Marie, Buffy: is a Canadian-American Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist,[1] educator,
pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism. She founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans

Samoset: (15901653) was the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims. On March 16, 1621, the settlers
were more than surprised when Samoset strolled straight through the middle of the encampment at Plymouth Colony and greeted them in English, which he had begun to learn from an earlier group of Englishmen to arrive in what is now Maine. Member of the Wampanoag tribe.

Seattle: A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal
relationship with David Swinson "Doc" Maynard. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state ofWashington, was named after him. A widely publicized speech arguing in favor of ecological responsibility and respect of native Americans' land rights has been attributed to him.

Sequoyah: was a Cherokee silversmith. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary,
making reading and writing in Cherokee possible. This was the only time in recorded history that a member of a nonliterate people independently created an effective writing system. After seeing its worth, the people of the Cherokee Nation rapidly began to use his syllabary and officially adopted it in 1825. Their literacy rate quickly surpassed that of surrounding European-American settlers.

Shawnee Prophet: Tenskwatawa was a Native American religious and political leader of the Shawnee tribe, known
as The Prophet or the Shawnee Prophet. He was the brother of Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee. He was originally given the name Lalawethika (He Makes a Loud Noise or The Noise Maker). He denounced Americans as children of the devil and mobilized the Indians in the Midwest to fight them, but his movement was defeated in the War of 1812 when his brother was killed, and he went to the area now known as Argentine, Kansas.

Silko, Leslie Marmon: is a Native American writer of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, and one of the key figures in the First
Wave of what literary critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance. She was an original recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant, now known as the "Genius Grant", in 1981 and the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. She currently resides in Tucson, Arizona.

Silverheels, Jay: (May 26, 1912 March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk First Nations actor. He was well known for
his role as Tonto, the faithfulAmerican Indian companion of the character, The Lone Rangerin a long-running American television series. Son of a Canadian Mohawk tribal chief and military officer, A.G.E. Smith.

Sitting Bull: was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man who led his people as a tribal chief during years of resistance to
United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.

Smohalla: (Dreamer) (1815 - 1895) Wanapum nineteenth-century dreamer-prophet associated with the Dreamers
movement among Native American people in the Pacific Northwests Columbia Plateau region.

Squanto: was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral
to their survival. He was a member of the Patuxet tribe, a tributary of the Wampanoag Confederacy.

Studi, Wes: is an American actor of Cherokee ancestry, who has earned notability for his portrayal of Native
Americans in film.He has appeared in well-received Academy Award-winning films, such as Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans (1992), the award-winning Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and the Academy Award-nominated film The New World (2005). He most recently portrayed General Linus Abner (an analogue to the biblical Abner) in the NBC series Kings, and Eytukan in James Cameron's box office blockbuster Avatar.

Sun dance: a religious ceremony practiced by a number of Native American and First Nations Peoples, primarily those
of the Plains Nations. Each tribe has its own distinct practices and ceremonial protocols. Many of the ceremonies have features in common, such as specific dances and songs passed down through many generations, the use of a traditional drum, praying with the pipe, offerings, fasting, and in some cases the ceremonial piercing of skin. Although not all Sun Dance ceremonies include dancers being ritually pierced, the object of the Sun Dance is to offer personal sacrifice as a prayer for the benefit of one's family and community.

Tabananica: (translates to Hears the sunrise). Comanche chief. After the United States Army failed to enforce the
provisions of the Medicine Lodge Treaty prohibiting white mans entry into tribal lands, Tabananica was one of the notable chiefs joining Quanah Parker in raids into TX.

Tallchief, Maria: (born January 24, 1925) was the first Native American to become prima ballerina. From 1942 to
1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is even better known for her time with the New York City Ballet, from its founding in 1947 through 1965.

Tecumseh: was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy (known asTecumseh's
Confederacy) which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812.

Tekakwitha, Catherine: informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 April 17, 1680), is a Roman
Catholic saint, who was an AlgonquinMohawk virgin and religious laywoman. . Known for her virtue of chastity and corporal mortification of the flesh, as well as being shunned by her tribe for her religious conversion to Catholicism, she is the fourth Native American to be venerated in the Roman Catholic Church.

Thorpe, Jim: translated as "Bright Path"; (May 28, 1888 March 28, 1953) was an American athlete of both Native
American and European ancestry. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals for the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football (collegiate and professional), and also played professional baseball and basketball.

Trudell, John: is an American author, poet, actor, musician, and former political activist. He was the spokesperson for
the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Uncas: was a sachem of the Mohegan who through his alliance with the English colonists in New England against other
Indian tribes made the Mohegan the leading regional Indian tribe in lower Connecticut. Uncas led his forces in joint attacks with the English against the Wampanoag in King Phillips War. During the Pequot War, Uncas was allied with the English and against the Pequots.

Victorio: was a warrior and chief of the Chihenne band of the Chiricahua Apaches in what is now theAmerican states
of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua.

Ward, Nancy: was a Beloved Woman of the Cherokee, which means that she was allowed to sit in councils and to make
decisions, along with the chiefs and other Beloved Women. She believed in peaceful coexistence with the EuropeanAmericans and helped her people as peace negotiator and ambassador. She also introduced them to farming and dairy production bringing substantial changes to the Cherokee society.

Weatherford, William: was a Creek (Muscogee)chief of the Upper Creek towns who led the Red Sticks' offensive in
the Creek War (18131814) against the United States.

Wovoka: also known as Jack Wilson, was the Northern Paiute religious leader who founded the Ghost Dance movement.
Wovoka means "cutter" or "wood cutter" in the Northern Paiute language.