Ward Churchill

Ward Churchill

male, 62 years old
Military personnel of the Vietnam War, University of Colorado, mass media, ethnic studies, political activism, World Trade Center attacks…American, americanindian
Ward Churchill is a professor at the University of Colorado who has accumulated much press because of a scheduled appearance thankfully canceled at...
Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

male, deceased (1820)
Kentucky militiamen in the American Revolution, Pennsylvania colonial, From Kentucky, from Missouri, Pioneer, British…americanindian, American folklore, American, English American, American Revolutionary War
Daniel Boone (October 22, 1734 - September 26, 1820) was an American pioneer and hunter whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk...
William Henry Harrison

William Henry Harrison

male, deceased (1841)
briefest presidency, Hampden-Sydney College alumni, death by sepsis, constitutional crisis, oldest, politician…americanindian, American military leader
William Henry Harrison was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. He served as the first Governor...
Anna Mae Aquash

Anna Mae Aquash

female, deceased (1975)
Red power, death by firearm in the United States, indigenous peoples, resistance movement, assassinated, from the Halifax Regional Municipality…Murdered Native American, americanindian, Native American, American Indian in the United States, American Indian Movement
Anna Mae Aquash (also Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or Anna Mae Pictou; first name also spelled Annie Mae; Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (b. in a small...
Peter Matthiessen

Peter Matthiessen

male, 82 years old
nature writer, tax resister, novelist, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Paris Review…American, americanindian
Peter Matthiessen (born May 221927 in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction. Matthiessen's work...

W. Richard West Jr.

male, 66 years old
Harvard University, U.S. Congress, Stanford University alumni, U.S. Federal Government, from San Bernardino County, California, Peace Chief…American, Native American, americanindian, national museum of the american indian
W. Richard West, Jr. (b. San Bernardino, California, January 6, 1943) is the founding and current director of the Smithsonian National Museum of...
Handsome Lake

Handsome Lake

male, deceased (1815)
Christian, Seneca, quaker, Native American, americanindian, Seneca tribe…indian reservation, American Revolutionary War, Native American in the American Revolution
Handsome Lake or Ganioda'yo (1735 - 10 August 1815) was a Seneca religious leader of the Iroquois people. He was also half-brother to Cornplanter....
Chief Pontiac

Chief Pontiac

male, deceased (1769)
Odawa, Pontiac's Rebellion, Native American, americanindian, Canadian historical figure, Murdered Native American…north american indian, French and Indian War
Pontiac or Obwandiyag, was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766), an American Indian struggle ag...

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

female, 70 years old
American anti-Vietnam War activist, emeritus, Socialist Party of America, memoirist, Student for a Democratic Society, ethnic studies…americanindian, American
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American professor of ethnic studies, radical leftist, feminist activist, and writer. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was...