Pontiac or Obwandiyag, was an Ottawa leader who became famous for his role in Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–1766), an American Indian struggle against the British military occupation of the Great Lakes region following the British victory in the French and Indian War. Historians disagree about Pontiac's importance in the war that bears his name. Nineteenth century accounts portrayed him as the mastermind and leader of the revolt, …

Saint Isaac Jogues was a Jesuit missionary who travelled and worked among the Native Americans in North America. He gave the original European name to Lake George, calling it "Lac du Saint Sacrement", "Lake of the Holy Sacrament". He is regarded as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1930 Jogues, St. Jean de Brébeuf and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuits or laymen associated with them, were canonized as "The North American Martyrs," or "St.

Washakie (1804-1900) was a renowned warrior who united several bands of the Shoshone tribe around 1840. Originally named "Pinaquana" ("Smell of Sugar"), he was born in his father's Salish (or Flathead) tribe, and was given the name Washakie when he joined his mother's Shoshone tribe. Although the name by which he would be widely known has been translated in various ways, it apparently dealt with his tactics in battle.

Simon Girty (1741 - February 18, 1818) was an American colonial of Scots-Irish ancestry who served as a liaison between the British and their Native American allies during the American Revolution. He was portrayed as a villain in many early history texts of the United States. Born in Pennsylvania, Girty and his brothers were taken prisoners when still children by the Senecas and adopted by them. It would be 7 years before Girty returned to his family, …

Mary Rosamund Haas (born January 12, 1910; died May 17, 1996) was an American linguist who specialized in North American Indian languages, Thai, and historical linguistics. Haas was born on January 12, 1910 in Richmond, Indiana, where she attended high school, and later Earlham College. At the University of Chicago she undertook graduate work on comparative philology. Her first published paper, "A Visit to the Other World, a Nitinat Text", …

Robert Henry Lowie (June 12, 1883 - September 21, 1957) was an Austrian-born American anthropologist. An expert on North American Indians, he was instrumental in the development of modern anthropological theory. Lowie was born in Vienna, but came to the United States in 1893, graduated from the College of the City of New York (A.B.) in 1901, and from Columbia University (Ph.D.) in 1908, where he studied under Franz Boas.

Rocki Roads (born December 22, 1974 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA) is a pornographic actress and model of Italian, French Canadian and North American Indian descent.

Dr. John H. Moore is a professor of anthropology at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. His research specialties include North American Indian ethnology, kinship, demography, and sociocultural evolution. His fieldwork includes research with the Cheyenne, Mvskoke Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, Cree and Pamunkey. His most recent work is a demographic exploration of the feasibility of space colonization, …

Egushawa (c.1726 - March 1796), also spelled Egouch-e-ouay, Agushaway, Agashawa, Negushwa, and many other variants, was a war chief and principal political chief of the Ottawa tribe of North American Indians. His name is loosely translated as "The Gatherer" or "Brings Together" ("c.f." Ojibwe "agwazhe'waa", "to quilt something(s); to blanket someone(s)").

Charles Frederick Newcombe (September 15 1851 - October 19 1924) was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher. Newcome was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, England as the eighth of fourteen children. His parents were William Lister Newcombe (1817-1908) and Eliza Jane (Rymer) (1816-1888), both from New York. He received his MB from the University of Aberdeen in 1873 and his MD in 1878. He married Marian Arnold (1857-1891) in 1879.

Steffen Basho-Junghans (born 1953) is a German guitarist and composer. He was born in North Thuringia in the former German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany). At the age of 17 he taught himself to play acoustic guitar and in 1978 formed the folk band Wacholder. In 1979, influenced by the American guitarist Leo Kottke, he began performing solo instrumental music on 6- and 12-string guitar.

Fred Waite (September 28, 1853-September 24, 1895) was a Native American who turned into a cowboy and joined Billy the Kid's gang. Waite was a member of the Chickasaw tribe, and he was born in Fort Arbuckle, Oklahoma. Waite found work in New Mexico with John Tunstall, who was later to be one of the leaders of the Tunstall-McSween vs. Dolan war, better known as the Lincoln County War. Waite was a farmer for Tunstall.

David Plante is an American novelist. He was born David Robert Plante in Providence, Rhode Island, of French-Canadian and Indian descent. He is a 1961 graduate of Boston College and a professor of creative writing at Columbia University. He is one of the most prominent contemporary LGBTQ authors, and his novels examine homosexuality in a variety of contexts, his male characters ranging from openly gay to sexually ambiguous.

Montague Chamberlain (born St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, April 5, 1844; died Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Feb. 10, 1924) was a Canadian-American businessman, naturalist, and ethnographer. He spent the first few decades of his life as a bookkeeper and later manager of a grocery company in St. John. In his mid-twenties, he also became a dedicated amateur ornithologist. In 1883 he co-founded the American Ornithologists' Union, …