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Also Known As Matilda Picotte Galpin • Wambdi Autepewin
Born 1820 • South Dakota
Died December 18, 1888 (aged 68) • Miles City • Montana
Mary Crow Dog
Sicangu Lakota activist and author
Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Powhatan princess
N. Scott Momaday
N. Scott Momaday
American author
Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa
American writer
Maria Tallchief
Maria Tallchief
American dancer
Ella Cara Deloria
Sioux scholar, ethnographer, writer, and translator
Marjorie Tallchief
American dancer
Russell Means
Russell Means
Oglala Sioux activist
Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Shawnee chief
Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.
Black Hawk
Sauk and Fox leader
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
American author, academic, musician and artist
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen
American author and scholar
Sacagawea
Sacagawea
Native American explorer
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
Sioux chief
Alexander McGillivray
Creek chief
Ovide Mercredi
Canadian First Nations leader
Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker
Native American leader
Sarah Winnemucca
Sarah Winnemucca
Native American educator, author and lecturer
Dull Knife
Cheyenne chief
Geronimo
Geronimo
Apache leader