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Also Known As Mahpiua Luta
Born 1822 • Platte River • Nebraska
Died December 10, 1909 (aged 87) • Pine Ridge • South Dakota
Role In Plains Wars

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Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
Sioux chief
Quanah Parker
Quanah Parker
Native American leader
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse
Oceti Sakowin chief
Gall
Gall
Sioux chief
Tecumseh
Tecumseh
Shawnee chief
Black Hawk or Makataimeshekiakiah, painting by Charles Bird King, c. 1837.
Black Hawk
Sauk and Fox leader
Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa
American writer
Dull Knife
Cheyenne chief
Geronimo
Geronimo
Apache leader
Pontiac
Pontiac
Ottawa chief
Cochise
Apache chief
Ella Cara Deloria
Sioux scholar, ethnographer, writer, and translator
Joseph Brant
Joseph Brant
Mohawk chief
Metacom (King Philip)
Metacom
Wampanoag leader
Nana
Nana
Apache leader
Spotted Tail
Spotted Tail
Sioux leader
Mangas Coloradas
Apache chief
Osceola
Osceola
Seminole leader
Manuelito
Manuelito
Navajo chief
The Prophet
Shawnee leader

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Tecumseh. Battle of the Thames, Ontario, Canada, and the death of Tecumseh. Col. Richard M. Johnson with the Kentucky volunteers on left battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Native American Shawnee chief. North American indian. (See Notes)
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