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Makataimeshekiakiak
Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838)
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Cochise
Apache leader of the resistance to United States troops in Arizona (1812-1874)
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Tashunca-Uitco
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)
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Geronimo
Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909)
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Hiawatha
a Native American chieftain who argued for peace with the European settlers (16th century)
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Keokuk
Sauk leader who aided the United States against Black Hawk (1790-1848)
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Massasoit
Wampanoag leader who aided the Pilgrims (1580-1661)
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Rebecca Rolfe
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)
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Pontiac
famous chief of the Ottawa who led an unsuccessful rebellion against the British (1715-1769)
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Wahunsonacock
Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia; father of Pocahontas (1550?-1618)
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Rain-in-the-Face
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)
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Sacagawea
the Shoshone guide and interpreter who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition part of the way
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George Guess
Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)
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Tecumseh
a famous chief of the Shawnee who tried to unite Indian tribes against the increasing white settlement (1768-1813)
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Chief Joseph
leader of the Nez Perce in their retreat from United States troops (1840-1904)
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Red Cloud
leader of the Oglala who resisted the development of a trail through Wyoming and Montana by the United States government (1822-1909)
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Sitting Bull
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)
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American Indian, Indian, Red Indian
a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
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South American Indian
a member of a native Indian group in South America
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Carib, Carib Indian
a member of an American Indian peoples of northeastern South America and the Lesser Antilles
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Arawak, Arawakan
a member of a widespread group of Amerindians living in northeastern South America
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Algonquian, Algonquin
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
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Anasazi
a Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings
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Athabascan, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan
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
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Maya, Mayan
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
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Nahuatl
a member of any of various Indian peoples of central Mexico
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Olmec
a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC
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Zapotec, Zapotecan
a member of a large tribe of Mesoamericans living in southern Mexico whose civilization flourished around 300 to 900
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Buffalo Indian, Plains Indian
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
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Chickasaw
a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
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Coeur d'Alene
a member of an Amerindian people living in northern Idaho around Coeur d'Alene Lake
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Creek
any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
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Haida
a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska
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Hoka, Hokan
a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
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Iroquois
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
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Muskhogean, Muskogean
a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages
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Penutian
a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Penutian languages
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Pueblo
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)
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Salish
a member of a group of North American Indians speaking a Salishan language and living on the northwest coast of North America
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Shoshone, Shoshoni
a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States
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Taracahitian
a member of a group of peoples of Mexico
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Tlingit
a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians living in southern Alaska
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Wakashan
a member of one of the peoples in British Columbia and Washington who speak the Wakashan language
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Tupi
a member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay
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Guarani
a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and Bolivia
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Maraco
a member of the South American people living in Argentina and Bolivia and Paraguay
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Kechua, Quechua
a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire
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Aleut, Aleutian
a member of the people inhabiting the Aleutian Islands and southwestern Alaska
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Eskimo, Esquimau, Inuit
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')
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Paleo-American, Paleo-Amerind, Paleo-Indian
a member of the Paleo-American peoples who were the earliest human inhabitants of North America and South America during the late Pleistocene epoch
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sannup
a married male American Indian
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squaw
an American Indian woman