Ward Churchill

Ward Churchill

male, 61 years old
Military personnel of the Vietnam War University of Colorado mass media ethnic studies political activism World Trade Center attacks … american indian
Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer, Vietnam veteran, political activist, and academic. He is a professor of ethnic... More
Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

male, deceased (1895)
from Talbot County, Maryland death by myocardial infarction egalitarianism Immigration to the United States Newspaper founder American newspaper publisher … american indian
Frederick Douglass (February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called... More
Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

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

William Henry Harrison

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

Peter Matthiessen

male, 81 years old
nature writer tax resister novelist In the Spirit of Crazy Horse At Play in the Fields of the Lord Paris Review … american indian
Peter Matthiessen (born May 221927 in New York City) is an American naturalist and author of historical fiction and non-fiction. Matthiessen's work... More

W. Richard West Jr.

male, 65 years old
Harvard University U.S. Congress Stanford University alumni U.S. Federal Government from San Bernardino County, California Peace Chief … american indian 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... More
Handsome Lake

Handsome Lake

male, deceased (1815)
Christian Seneca quaker Native American american indian Seneca tribe
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.... More
Chief Pontiac

Chief Pontiac

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

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

female, 69 years old
American anti-Vietnam War activist emeritus Socialist Party of America memoirist Student for a Democratic Society ethnic studies … american indian
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is an American professor of ethnic studies, radical leftist, feminist activist, and writer. In the 1960s and 1970s, she was... More