Will Rogers

Will Rogers

male, deceased (1935)
Oklahoma (state) actor, Silent film actor, cherokee, American, vaudeville, Elks…Oklahoma actor, NativeAmerican, from Oklahoma
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer,...
Jim Thorpe

Jim Thorpe

male, deceased (1953)
NativeAmerican, baseball, death by myocardial infarction, Associated Press, Sac and Fox, Athlete at the 1912 Summer Olympics…from Oklahoma, American football executive, Native American sportspeople, American, American football
Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (May 28 1888–March 28 1953) was an American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sp...
Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris

male, 69 years old
martial arts, actor, Walker Texas Ranger actor, Walker, Texas Ranger, television actor, martial artist…American, Oklahoma (state) actor, Oklahoma actor, American Christian, NativeAmerican
Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born 10 March 1940) is an American martial artist, action star, and Hollywood actor who is known for playing Cordell...
Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

female
writer, Creek tribe, American, Tulsa, creek, NativeAmerican…Academy of American Poets
The love of language that Harjo possesses comes from her father's grandfather who was a full-blood Creek Baptist minister and her mother who...
Linda Hogan

Linda Hogan

female, 62 years old
environmentalist, Oklahoma writer, short stories, Colorado writer, American, chickasaw…NativeAmerican, Oklahoma Book, native, Native American Authors Project
Linda Hogan (born 1947) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.
Wes Studi

Wes Studi

male, 62 years old
film actor, The New World, American, American military, Opechancanough, Captain John Smith…NativeAmerican, Geronimo An American Legend actor, born in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma
Born in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, Studi was schooled on a reservation. Until he attended grade school, he spoke only Cherokee. In 1967, he was...
Black Kettle

Black Kettle

male, deceased (1868)
Cheyenne, NativeAmerican, from Oklahoma, Cheyenne tribe, Murdered Native American, leader
Chief Black Kettle (born 1801 - 1807, died November 27, 1868) was a Cheyenne leader who unsuccessfully attempted to resist white settlement from...
Quanah Parker

Quanah Parker

male, deceased (1911)
from Texas, Comanche Campaign, NativeAmerican, from Oklahoma, Texas Ranger Division, comanche
Quanah Parker (c. late 1840s - February 23, 1911) was a Native American leader, the son of Comanche chief Peta Nocona and "Anglo-Texan" Cynthia Ann...
Maria Tallchief

Maria Tallchief

female, 84 years old
Ulster-Scot, Scots-Irish, ballet dancer, Osage Nation, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, Ballets Russes…American, NativeAmerican, from Oklahoma, born in Fairfax, Oklahoma
Maria Tallchief (January 24, 1925) was an American ballerina. From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is best...
Litefoot

Litefoot

male, 37 years old
Reach The Rez Tour, Native Style, Tribalistic Funk, from San Bernardino County, California, activist, from the Inland Empire, California…From Tulsa, Oklahoma, NativeAmerican, from Oklahoma, American, cherokee nation of oklahoma
Litefoot (born on August 5, 1972; also goes by the name G. Paul Davis) is a Native American rapper and the founder of the Red Vinyl record label.