- Morning Star
Morning Star was a great chief to the Northern Cheyenne people during the 19th century. He was noted for his active resistance to Western expansion and the Federal government. It is due to the courage and determination held by Morning Star and other Cheyenne leaders that the Northern Cheyenne still possess a homeland in their traditional country (present-day Montana). Although he was known as "Dull Knife" ("Motšêške Ôhnêxahpo") to local settlers, … - Black Kettle
Chief Black Kettle (born 1801 - 1807, died November 27, 1868) was a Cheyenne leader who unsuccessfully attempted to resist white settlement from Kansas and Colorado territories. He survived the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 but died in the 1868 Battle of Washita River. - Christian Brando
Christian Brando (born 11 May, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is the eldest of the offspring of the late actor Marlon Brando. He was convicted of the voluntary manslaughter of his half-sister Cheyenne's boyfriend on 16 May 1990 at Marlon Brando's residence on Mulholland Drive. He was released from prison in 1996. - Clint Walker
Norman Eugene "Clint" Walker (born May 30, 1927) is an American actor best known for his cowboy role as "Cheyenne Bodie" in the TV Western series, "Cheyenne". Walker was born in Hartford, Illinois. He left school to work at a factory and on a river boat, then joined the United States Merchant Marine at 17 during the tail end of World War II. After leaving the Merchant Marines, he worked at odd jobs in Brownwood, Texas, Long Beach, California, and Las Vegas, … - Two Moons
Two Moons was a chief of the Cheyenne Native American tribe. He participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He was one of three models for the Indian Head nickel. He owned two large moons in his bedrooms. He sold them for $15, 000 to the Washington D.C. Museum in 1921. - Little Wolf
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 chief who participated in a famous horse-stealing raid (c. 1830) on the Comanches with Yellow Wolf. The later and better known Little Wolf ("Cheyenne": "O'kohomoxhaahketa", sometimes transcribed 'Ohcumgache' or 'Ohkomhakit', more correctly translated Little Coyote) was a Northern Cheyenne Chief (c. - Frank Lucas
I am a US House Representative for the state of OK. I am a Republican. My religion is Baptist. I am Married. I received my BS from Oklahoma State University. I live in Cheyenne. I was born in Cheyenne, OK. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "10952 Northwest Expy., Ste. B, Yukon, OK 73099". - Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born April 13, 1933) is an American politician. He was a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005 and was for some time the only Native American serving in the U.S. Congress. Campbell was a U.S. Representative from 1987 to 1993, when he was sworn into office as a Senator following his election on November 3, 1992. Campbell also serves as one of forty-four members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, … - Roman Nose
Roman Nose, a.k.a. Arched Nose (real name Woo-ka-nay or Woqini) (c. 1835 - 1868) was a Cheyenne warrior society leader and one of the most esteemed warriors of the Plains Indian Wars of the 1860s. - Plenty Coups
Plenty Coups (otherwise known as Aleek-chea-ahoosh) (1848 - 1932) was a Crow chief and visionary leader. He allied Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought, because the Sioux and Cheyenne (who were opposing white settlement of the area) were the traditional enemies of the Crow. Plenty Coups had also had a vision when he was very young that non-Native people would ultimately take control of his homeland (Montana), … - Rain-In-The-Face
Rain-in-the-Face (also known as Ito-na-gaju or Exa-ma-gozua) (c. 1835 - September 14, 1905) was a warchief of the Lakota tribe of Native Americans. His mother was a Dakota related to the band of famous Chief Inkpaduta. He was among the Indian leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn. Born in the Dakota Territory near the forks of the Cheyenne River about 1835, … - Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia M. Lummis (born September 10, 1954) is a Republican lawyer and rancher in Cheyenne who served as the Wyoming state treasurer from 1999-2007 -- the 29th person to hold the position. In that capacity, she managed over $8 billion in annual funds and was elected president of the Western State Treasurer's Association. Earlier, she was a member of the Wyoming State Senate (1982-1994) and the Wyoming House of Representatives (1979-1982). - Peter Brown
Peter Brown (born October 5 1935) is an American television actor known for his role as Deputy Johnny McKay opposite John Russell (who played Marshal Dan Troop) in the 1958 Warner Bros. western series "Lawman". Brown was born in New York City as Pierre Lind de Lappe. His mother, Mina Reaume, was a stage and radio actress. He has an older brother, Phillip, and two younger half brothers, Paul and Michael. - Ty Hardin
Ty Hardin (born in New York City, USA, on January 1, 1930) is a former actor best known as the star of the 1950s western television series "Bronco". Born Orton Hungerford, Hardin was raised in Texas and attended Lamar High School. He served in the Korean War in the early 1950s, and after his return, he began taking college courses at Texas A&M. By 1957, Hardin had made his way to Hollywood and was put under contract by Paramount. - L. Q. Jones
L.Q. Jones (born August 19, 1927 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American character actor and film director, best-known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah. Born Justus Ellis McQueen Jr., he made his film debut in 1955's "Battle Cry", with Van Heflin, under his birth name. His character was named L.Q. Jones, and when it was suggested to him by film producers that he change his screen name for future pictures, … - He Dog
He Dog (Lakota: "Sunka Bloka") (ca. 1840-1936). A member of the Oglala Lakota, He Dog was closely associated with Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. - Robert Horton
Robert Horton (born July 29, 1924), a prominent American television actor, was most noted for the role of Flint McCullough in the TV series "Wagon Train" (1957-1962). (When Horton quit that series, he was quickly replaced with near-lookalike Robert Fuller.) According to an item in the 4-20-1959 issue of Time magazine, Horton's measurements were 42-31-40. Horton also played Ronald Reagan's role in the TV version of "Kings Row" (1955), … - Jim Baker
Jim Baker (1818-1898), trapper, scout and guide was a friend of Jim Bridger and Kit Carson and one of General John C. Fremont's favorite scouts. He was one of the most colorful figures of the old west. Born in Belleville, Illinois, at 21 he was recruited by Jim Bridger as a trapper for the American Fur Company and on May 22, 1839 left St. Louis with a large party heading for the annual rendezvous in the mountains. - Tim Sandlin
Tim Sandlin was born in Oklahoma in 1950 and spent his summer rite-of-passage years in Wyoming while his Dad worked seasonally for Grand Teton National Park. He worked over 40 entry-level jobs including driving an ice cream truck, skinning elk, cooking in a Chinese restaurant, trail inventory for the Forest Service, caretaker of rental cabins, gardener for the Rockefellers, pizza parlor manager, belt buckle buffer, and multiple dishwashing jobs. - Ray Hunkins
Raymond Breedlove "Ray" Hunkins (born ca. 1939) is an attorney, rancher, former police officer, United States Marine Corps veteran, and the Republican nominee for Governor of Wyoming in the general election held on November 7, 2006. Hunkins resides in Wheatland, a small town in Platte County north of Cheyenne. Hunkins first sought the Republican nomination for governor in 2002 but was defeated by the more "moderate" candidate, Eli Bebout of Riverton, … - William J. Fetterman
William Judd Fetterman (1833? - December 21, 1866) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the subsequent Red Cloud's War on the Great Plains. Fetterman and all his immediate command were killed during the Fetterman massacre. Fetterman was probably born in New London, Connecticut, although there is some uncertainty. He enlisted in the Union army in Delaware in 1861. - Lame White Man
Lame White Man, or "Ve'ho'enohnenehe", was a Southern Cheyenne battle chief who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876 and was killed there. He was also known as Bearded Man (to the Lakota) and Mad Hearted Wolf ("Hahk o ni"). He was the husband of Twin Woman and father to Red Hat and Crane Woman. During the battle he wore a captured cavalry jacket found tied to the cantle of a saddle. - Esther Hobart Morris
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 - April 2, 1902) was a leader in the American woman's suffrage movement. She was also the first woman to serve as a justice of the peace in the United States. Esther Hobart Morris was born in Tioga County, New York. Orphaned at age 11, she was apprenticed to a seamstress and became a successful milliner and businesswoman. As a young woman she was active in the anti-slavery movement. Widowed in 1845, she moved to Peru, Illinois, … - Martin Rev
Martin Rev (full name Martin Reverby) is the instrumentalist from New York punk-era electronic band Suicide. He has also released a number of solo albums for a handful of labels, including ROIR and Puu. His style on these recordings varies wildly from release to release, from prototypical electronic no wave ("Martin Rev") to bubblegum pop ("See Me Ridin," "Strangeworld") to heavy synthesizer rock ("To Live"). - John H. Moore
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, … - Jay Tavare
Jay Tavare is an actor of Native American/Latino descent. He has played a number of Native Americans in movies, including a Seminole in "Adaptation", an Apache in "The Missing", a Cherokee in "Cold Mountain", and a Cheyenne in "Into the West". His mother was White Mountain Apache and his father was Navajo. - Harvey Pratt
Harvey Phillip Pratt (born 1941) is a Native American artist. Celebrated as a painter and sculptor, he is also considered one of the leading forensic artists in the United States. Formerly retired as an Assistant Director with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, he is now employed with the agency as a full time forensic specialist. - Buffalo Calf Road Woman
Buffalo Calf Road Woman was a Northern Cheyenne woman who was the sister of a male Native American fighter who was involved in the Battle of Rosebud. The battle had been going poorly, and the Cheyenne and Sioux, who were allied under the leadership of Crazy Horse, had been retreating, leaving her wounded brother, Chief Comes in Sight, on the battlefield, when she suddenly rode out into the battlefield at full speed and grabbed her brother, carrying him to safety. - Jimmy Carl Black
Jimmy Carl Black (born James Inkanish, Jr. on February 1, 1938) is a drummer, vocalist and "Indian of the group" for The Mothers of Invention. Born in El Paso, Texas, he is best known for his Cheyenne heritage and his drooping moustache. His trademark line was "Hi Boys and Girls, I'm Jimmy Carl Black, and I'm the Indian of the group." He has been credited on some Mothers albums as playing "drums, vocals, and poverty". - Diane Brewster
Diane Brewster (born 11 March 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri; died 12 November 1991) was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster Samantha Crawford in "Maverick"; pretty young second-grade teacher Miss Canfield in "Leave It to Beaver"; and doomed wife Helen Kimble in "The Fugitive". - Hoebel
E. Adamson Hoebel was Regents Professor Emeritus of anthropology at the University of Minnesota. He held a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where he also attended the seminars of Karl N. Llewellyn, who taught at the Columbia Law School from 1925-1951. Llewellyn (1893–1962) was the most important figure associated with the American Legal Realism of the 1920s and 1930s, … - John Sparks
John Sparks (August 30, 1843-May 22, 1908) was a two-term Governor of Nevada, and was nicknamed Honest John. Like his predecessor, Reinhold Sadler, Sparks was a cattleman and his rise to political power was evidence of the decline of the mining industry and the rise of the ranching industry in Nevada. John Sparks was born in Winston County, Mississippi on August 30, 1843. His family was one of those known as "new lands families", … - Carlos Romero
Carlos Romero is an American actor, noted for his many appearances on television. His credits include: "Cheyenne", "Zorro", "Maverick", "77 Sunset Strip", "Rawhide", "Ben Casey", "I Spy", "Perry Mason", "The Virginian", "The Big Valley", "The Fugitive", "The Invaders", "The Wild Wild West", "Mannix", "The Mod Squad", "The High Chaparral", … - Henry Roman Nose
Chief Henry Roman Nose (1856 - 1917) was a Southern Cheyenne Chief. Roman Nose's life spanned the most turbulent times for the Cheyenne people, and he is remembered as a peacemaker who helped his people make the transition from a nomadic lifestyle to a settled existence. - Mark Kellogg
Mark Kellogg was a newspaper reporter killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Kellogg rode with George Armstrong Custer during the battle and was evidently one of the first men killed by the Sioux and Cheyenne. His dispatches were the only press coverage of Custer and his men in the days leading up to the battle. As a newspaper stringer whose reports were picked up around the country, … - Hayden Rorke
William Henry Rorke was an American actor best known for playing the psychiatrist Col. Dr. Alfred E. Bellows on the hit 60's sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie". - Madlyn Rhue
Madlyn Rhue was an American character actress. Rhue was born in Washington, D.C. From the 1950s to the 1990s, Rhue (née Madeleine Roche) appeared in some twenty movies, including "Operation Petticoat" (1959) and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963). She also was a guest star in dozens of TV shows, including a 1967 appearance as Khan Noonien Singh's love interest in the Star Trek episode "Space Seed". - Joseph D. Selby
Joseph David Selby (August 9, 1950 - April 20, 2007) was a Cheyenne lawyer who served as municipal judge from 1978-1982 and as a Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives from District 41 in Laramie County from 1995-1997. Selby was born in Monaca in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, west of Pittsburgh, to Frank G. Selby (1922-1996) and Nellie Selby (1923-1992). - Robert Schliske
Robert Paul Edward Schliske, I (July 2, 1924 - June 21, 2007), was a founder of Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne and a former Republican member of the Wyoming House of Representatives. He served in the House from 1971-1975 during the administration of Republican Governor Stanley K. Hathaway. Schlikse was born in a farmhouse east of Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Paul Schliske and the former Hattie Hansch. That same year, the family moved to Carpenter, … - Jim Siedow
Jim Siedow (June 12, 1920 - November 20, 2003) was an American actor, best known for his role in "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre". Siedow was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He began acting in his high school drama class, and later on, moved to New York City, New York, where he started appearing in theatre productions. During World War II, Siedow served with the Army Air Corps, and after the war, Siedow moved to Chicago, Illinois and started doing radio work.
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