10 Famous Native Americans
America's history begins with the Native Americans and the English settlers they encountered. Read our list of Native American leaders and heroes, inluding Sequoyah, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse.
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Native Americans, such as Sitting Bull and Squanto, were important figures in American history. Here you can learn about Native Americans who have left a lasting impression in our history.
Featured Article: Massasoit
Massasoit (1580-1661), a chief of the Wampanoag Indians. At the time of the Pilgrim landing, 1620, the Wampanoags lived between Narragansett Bay and Cape Cod. See more »
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Black Hawk
Black Hawk (Indian name: Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak) (17671838), leader of the Sac and Fox Indians in the Black Hawk War of 1832, the last Indian war east of the Mississippi River.
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Langlade, Charles Michel de (1729-1801), a French-Canadian fur trader and a leader of Indian auxiliaries in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
See more »Chief Joseph
Joseph (1840-1904), a chief of the Nez Perce Indians. His Indian name was Hin-mah-too-yahlatkekht ("Thunder Rolling Down From the Mountain").
See more »Cochise
Cochise , (1812-1874), a chief of the Chiricahua Apache tribe. One of the most famous chieftains in American Indian history, he fought white settlers and soldiers in the Southwest during the so-called Apache Wars.
See more »Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse (Indian name: Tashunca-Uitco) (1842-1877), a chief of the Oglala Sioux Indians.
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Geronimo, (18291909), a warrior of the Chiricahua tribe of Apache Indians. United States army troops pursued his band through desert and mountains in one of the last Indian wars.
See more »James Logan
Logan, James or John (1725-1780), an American Indian leader. His Indian name was Tah-gah-jute.
See more »John Ross
Ross, John (1790-1866), an American Indian chief. Although only one-eighth Indian, Ross was chief of the Cherokee nation from 1839 until his death.
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Keokuk (1780-1848), a leader of the Sac (Sauk) tribe of Indians, notable as an orator and diplomat.
See more »Little Turtle
Little Turtle (1752-1812), a chief of the Miami Indians. He was born in northeastern Indiana.
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Massasoit (1580-1661), a chief of the Wampanoag Indians. At the time of the Pilgrim landing, 1620, the Wampanoags lived between Narragansett Bay and Cape Cod.
See more »Oliver Otis Howard
Howard, Oliver Otis (1830-1909), a United States army officer. As commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-72, he helped establish Howard University for blacks.
See more »Osceola
Osceola (1800-1838), a leader of Indians in the Second Seminole War. He was probably born among Creek Indians on the Tallapoosa River, Georgia.
See more »Ouray
Ouray (1833-1880), an Indian chief of the Uncompahgre Ute tribe. He maintained peace with the whites, not through friendship but because he believed it to be in the best interests of the Utes.
See more »Pocahontas
Pocahontas (1595-1617), the Indian heroine who befriended the early Virginia colonists.
See more »Quanah
Quanah, or Quanah Parker (1845-1911), a Comanche Indian leader. He headed 700 Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne warriors on June 24, 1874, in an attack on buffalo hunters at Adobe Walls, Texas.
See more »Red Cloud
Red Cloud, or Makhpia-sha (1822-1909), a principal chief of the Oglala Teton Sioux Indians and leader in the fighting often called Red Cloud's War, 1866-68.
See more »Red Jacket
Red Jacket, or Sa-go-ye-wat-ha (1756-1830), a Seneca Indian orator and chief. He was called Red Jacket because of his fondness for the uniform coats given him by British officers.
See more »Sacajawea
Sacajawea, Sacagawea or Sakakawea (1787-1884), a Shoshoni Indian woman who served as an interpreter and a guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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