Native American

Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)

a Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617)

Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838)

Sauk leader who aided the United States against Black Hawk (1790-1848)

famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)

a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)

Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrims (1580-1661)

Apache leader of the resistance to United States troops in Arizona (1812-1874)

Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)

a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)

a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905)

a chief of the Sioux; took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops (1831-1890)

leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909)

Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)

a Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)

leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904)

the Shoshone guide and interpreter who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition part of the way

a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived

a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast

a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings

a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska

a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy

a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico

a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC

a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900

a member of one of the tribes of American Indians who lived a nomadic life following the buffalo in the Great Plains of North America

a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi

a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake

any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska

a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages

any member of the warlike North American Indian peoples formerly living in New York State; the Iroquois League were allies of the British during the American Revolution

a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages

a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages

a member of any of about two dozen Native American peoples called `Pueblos' by the Spanish because they live in pueblos (villages built of adobe and rock)

(slang) offensive term for Native Americans

a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America

a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States

a member of a group of peoples of Mexico

a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska

a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language

a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska

a member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo (`eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit (`the people')

a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch

a married male American Indian

an American Indian woman

a member of a native Indian group in South America

a member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay

a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and Bolivia

a member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay

a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire

a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles

a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America