N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

male, 75 years old
Navarre Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn, N(avarre) Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, the West…American, NativeAmerican
Navarre Scott Momaday (born February 27, 1934) is a Native American (Kiowa) writer. He is the son of the writer Natachee Scott Momaday and the...
Washington Irving

Washington Irving

male, deceased (1859)
U.S. minister to Spain, United States Ambassador to Spain, New York lawyer, historian, New York writer, Biographer…American, NativeAmerican
Washington Irving was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van...
George Catlin

George Catlin

male, deceased (1872)
William Clark, old west, NativeAmerican, Artist of the American West, American, From Jersey City
George Catlin was an American painter, author and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West. Following a brief...
American Horse

American Horse

male, deceased (1876)
George Hyde, Anson Mills, Cheyenne River Agency, Miniconjou, Battle of Slim Buttes, nineteenth century…NativeAmerican
American Horse (ca. 1820?-1876) was a minor headman of the Miniconjou Lakota during the Plains Indian wars of the last half of the nineteenth...
American Horse

American Horse

male, deceased (1908)
NativeAmerican, Lakota tribe, oglala sioux, Sioux, leader, From South Dakota
American Horse (1840-December 16, 1908) was a chieftain of the Oglala Sioux during the Sioux Wars of the 1870s. He was also the nephew of the elder...
George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer

male, deceased (1876)
Custer's Last Stand, from Ohio, American Indian Wars killed in action, Comanche Campaign, Indian Wars, From Monroe, Michigan…NativeAmerican, american civil war
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876) was a United States Army cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian...

Bill Miller

male, 54 years old
The BoDeans, Peter Rowan, Under The Pink, Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, "Best Native American Music Album", Cedar Dream Songs…native american flute, NativeAmerican, American
Bill Miller (born 1955) is an American, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter of Mohican heritage. He was born on the Stockbridge-Munsee...
Big Foot

Big Foot

male, deceased (1890)
Si Thanka, Sioux, Lakota Sioux, Lakota tribe, leader, U.S. Army…Murdered Native American, NativeAmerican
Big Foot (Si Thanka) (1824? - December 29, 1890), also known as Spotted Elk, was the name of a chief of a sub-group of the Lakota Sioux. He was son...
Little Wolf

Little Wolf

male, deceased (1904)
Cheyenne, Little Coyote, Red Cloud's War, O'kohomoxhaahketa, Cheyenne language, Treaty of Fort Laramie…NativeAmerican
Little Wolf is a fairly common name among American Indians. More than one Cheyenne chief bore the name, an early example being a Southern Cheyenne...
Mary Youngblood

Mary Youngblood

female
Dance with the Wind, Beneath the Raven Moon, Native American Music Awards, Aleut, Alaska Native, Flutist…native american flute, Native American flutist, NativeAmerican
Mary Youngblood is a Native American flutist in Northern California. She is half Aleut, and half Seminole. Her music has become very highly...