Influential Native Americans:

1. Red Cloud Oglala Lakota (Sioux) warrior

1822-1909
2. Nana (1800 1896) Warrior, military leader
3. Cochise Apache leader 1815 1874
4. Edmonia Lewis (1844 1907 ) artist,
sculptor
5. Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865 1915)
doctor
6. Geronimo (1829 1909) Warrior, Military
Leader Apache
7. Maria Tall Chief Osage ballerina 1924
8. Crazy Horse (1840 1877) Lakota Sioux
warrior
9. Will Rogers (1879 1935) Cherokee actor
and philanthropist
10.
Geronimo (1829 1909) Chiricuhua
Apache warrior
11.
Sitting Bull (1831 1890) Sioux warrior
and chief
12.
Russell Means (d. 2012) Film Actor,
Activist
13.
Mildred Loving (1939 2008) Civil
Rights Activist
14.
Chief Joseph (1840 1904) Nez Perce
15.
R.C. Gorman (1931 2005) Painter,
sculptor
16.
Sarah Winnemucca (1844 1891)
Author Activist, Writer
17.
Kicking Bear (born: Matos Wanartaka)
1853?-1904 Oglala Sioux, then Minneconjou

Sioux sub-chief medicine man

18.
Ishi -1918, Yahi, California "the last
wild Indian in North America, a man of
Stone Age culture."
19.
Wodziwob 1918, Paiute - Nevada, New
Mexico; A prophet and a shaman
20.
Wovoka (Jack Wilson) 1858-1932,
Paiute, Nevada , activist
21.
Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa, Nicholas Black
Elk) 1863-1950; Oglala Lakota (Sioux),
Northern Great Plains, famous holy man,
traditional healer, and visionary,
22.
Dan George 1899-1981, Tsleilwaututh;
Burrard Reserve, Vancouver Island; actor,
spokesman
23.
Esther Ross 1904-1988; Stillaguamish;
Western Washington State activist
24.
Bob Satiacum 1929-1991; Puyallup;
Western Washington State activist
25.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller 1945-; Cherokee;
Oklahoma, California, Arkansas leader
26.
Richard Oakes (Mohawk) take over of
Alcatraz
27.
Dr. Elosia Garcia Tamez Apache legal
activist
28.
Charlene Teters activist Rosa Parks of
American Indians
29.
John Herrinton Chickasawk, astronaut
30.
Cory Witherill Navajo, race car drive
31.
Notah Begay Navajo, golfer
32.
Winona Laduke Anishinabeg, activist,
author, polititian
33.
Litefoot, Cherokee actor, rapper,

corporation owner
34.
Naomi Lang, ice skater
35.
Sandra Sunrising Osawa, Makah, film
producer and director
36.
Sherman Alexia, Spokane, poet,
novelist, film
37.
Patty Talahongva, Hopi journalist
38.
Ivy Stranahan Seminole activist
39.
Willie King, - Creek, Seminole activist,
preacher