Native american biographies

Native Americans bios, from Alexie to Wovoka

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• Sherman Alexie, writer
• Paula Gunn Allen, Pueblo-Sioux poet, novelist, critic
• Dennis Banks, Anishinabe (Ojibwa) activist
• Adam Beach, Ojibwa actor
• Elias Boudinot, Cherokee leader in the American Revolution
• Joseph Brant, Mohawk chief
• Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Northern Cheyenne chief and U.S.

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• Billy Bowlegs (Holata Micco), Seminole leader
• Black Elk, Oglala Lakota holy man
• Black Hawk, Sauk Leader
• Black Kettle, Cheyenne chief
• Canonicus, Narragansett chief
• Captain Jack, Modoc subchief
• Cochise, Apache chief
• Cornplanter, Seneca chief
• Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux chief
• Charles Curtis, Kaw senator and vice president of the United States (1929-33)
• Delaware Prophet, Native American religious leade
• Vine Deloria, Jr., Leading Standing Rock Sioux scholar, writer and activist
• Michael Dorris, Modoc (ancestry) writer
• Louise Erdric