NATIVE AMERICANS

LEADERS OF THE PAST...

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General Native American Resources	Native American Nations Homepages
Education	Organizations And Government Sources
Leaders of the Past	Ghosts from the Past
Messages & Personal Homepages	Native Peoples' Web Ring
Images	Movies

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Susan LaFlesche Picotte, daughter of an Omaha chief, she was the bridge between her people and the new culture.
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SITTING BULL (TATANKA YOTANKA) 1834 - 1890.
Leader of the Sioux tribe (Hunkpapa), born in the region of Grand River in present-day South Dakota. Under his leadership, the Sioux resisted efforts of the U.S. government to annex their lands and force them to settle on reservations...
1. Chief Sitting Bull
2. Biography of Sitting Bull by THE WEST TV-series
GERONIMO (GOYATHLAY) 1829 - 1909.
Leader of the Chiricahua tribe of North American Apache Indians, born in present-day Clifton, Arizona. After his wife, children, and mother were killed by Mexicans in 1858, he participated in a number of raids against Mexican and American settlers, but eventually settled on a reservation. Later in life he adopted Christianity and took part in the inaugural procession of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905.
He dictated his memoirs in "Geronimo's Story of His Life" published in 1906.
1. Chief Geronimo
2. Geronimos Final Resting Place
CRAZY HORSE (TASHUNCAHUITCO) 1849 - 1877.
Leader of the Oglala tribe of the Sioux, known for his part in the Sioux uprising of 1875 - 1877. In 1875 he joined forces with Sitting Bull. Both leaders defeated a column of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Col. George A. Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
1. Crazy Horse
2. Biography of Crazy Horse by THE WEST TV-Series
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MORE GREAT NATIVE AMERICANS
1. Leaders & Great Chiefs: From American Horse to Wovoka
A list prepared by Glenn Welker.
2. Chief Seattle (Sealth)
"The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the Earth" - Article February 1996 in the Wild West Magazine. Link to The History Net.
3. Iroquois Chief & Union Officer Ely Parker
"One Real American", a lifelong friend and trusted aide of Ulysses S. Grant. Link to The History Net.
4. Biography of Chief Joseph by THE WEST TV Series
5. Chief Joseph's Final Resting Place
6. Biography of Gall by THE WEST TV Series
7. Biography of Chief Looking Glass by THE WEST TV Series
8. Biography of Chief Red Cloud by by THE WEST TV Series
9. Biography of Sacagawea by THE WEST TV Series
She was the daughter of a Shoshone Chief and she was an indispensible part of the Lewis & Clark expedition the year 1804. More on Sacagawea (By Julia White).
10. Biography of Pope' by THE WEST TV Series
He was a religious leader that organized and led the most successful Indian uprising in the history of the American West.
11. Biography of Big Foot by THE WEST TV Series
12. Biography of Black Kettle by THE WEST TV Series
13. Biography of Wovoka (Jack Wilson) by THE WEST TV Series
The father of the "Ghost Dance".
14. Red Cloud's Final Resting Place
15. Spotted Tail's Final Resting Place
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FRIENDS OF THE INDIANS...
1. Buffalo Bill
was a friend of the Indians. Otherwise, Sitting Bull would not have performed with him in his Wild West Show. Near the end of his life he wrote "All my interests are still with the west - the Modern West". He used his fame and public attention as a soapbox for western causes, for the rights of Indians and women, and for conservation. As early as 1879 he cautioned the government to "never make a single promise to the Indians that is not fulfilled". All frontier scouts respected the Indian, he said. "Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government." America was the Indian's heritage, and the Indian had only fought for what was his. He was also critical of the hide-hunters of the 1870s and 1880s for slaughtering the buffalo "cruelly, recklessly".
He is best remembered through the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming.
Biographies presented by THE WEST TV Series:
Buffalo Bill
2. Frank Cushing (1857 - 1900)
A pioneer Ethnologist and friend of the Zuni Pueblo Indians, one of the most important white observers of Native American culture in the 19th century.
3. Alice Fletcher (1833 - 1923)
A pioneer Ethnologist and a leader in the movement to bring Native Americans into the mainstream of white society.
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