Native American Heroes and Leaders – Legends of America (original) (raw)
Indian Council of War
List of Notable Native Americans
Full Articles:
George Bent – Cheyenne-American Soldier & Leader
American Horse – A Shrewd Sioux Chief
Chief Black Kettle – A Peaceful Leader
Edward “Ned” Bushyhead – Cherokee Lawman
Cochise – Strong Apache Leader
Dull Knife – Northern Cheyenne Chief
Charles Alexander Eastman – Sioux Doctor, Author and Reformer
Chief Gall – Aggressive Sioux Leader
Geronimo – The Last Apache Holdout
Hollow Horn Bear – Brule Sioux Chief
Chief Joseph – Leader of the Nez Perce and a True American
Little Crow – Leader of the Santee Uprising
Little Wolf – Courageous Leader of the Cheyennes
Lozen – Apache War Woman & Prophet
Nana, Apache War Chief by A.F. Randall, 1884
Osceola – Leading the Seminole
Old Schonchin – Modoc Chief and Warrior
Susan La Flesche Picotte – First Native Physician
Pocahontas – Legendary Indian Princess
Chief Pontiac – Masterminding a Rebellion
Rain-in-the-Face – Strategic Sioux Warrior
Red Cloud – Lakota Warrior & Statesman
Roman Nose – Cheyenne War Chief
Chief John Ross of the Cherokee Nation
Sacagawea drawing by E.S. Paxson
Sacagawea – Leading Lewis & Clark
Sequoyah – Inventor of Written Cherokee
Sitting Bull – Lacota Chief & Holy Man
Spotted Tail – Warrior, Chief & Negotiator
Victorio – Fighting for Ancestral Lands
Fred Waite – Chickasaw Outlaw Turned Politician
Stand Watie – Brigadier General of the Civil War
Walkara – Horse Thief and Walker War Leader
Kaitchkona Winema – Woman Chief of the Modoc
Wovoka – Paiute Medicine Man & the Ghost Dance
© Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated November 2022.
Ghost Dance
Also See
Ancient Cities of Native Americans