Red Bird

Red Bird

male, deceased (1828)
Red Bird was a war chief of the Ho-Chunk (or "Winnebago") tribe. He was born in 1788 and his name derived from the two preserved red birds that he...
Mountain Wolf Woman

Mountain Wolf Woman

female, deceased (1960)
Mountain Wolf Woman, or <b>Kéhachiwinga</b>;, was a Native American woman of the Ho-Chunk tribe. She was born in April 1884 into the Thunder Clan i...
Henry Atkinson

Henry Atkinson

male, deceased (1842)
Henry Atkinson (1782 - 1842) was a U.S. army officer. Atkinson was a native of North Carolina. He entered the army in 1808 as a captain in the...
Paul Radin

Paul Radin

male, deceased (1959)
Paul Radin was a widely-read American anthropologist of the early twentieth century. A student of Franz Boas at Columbia, the Lodz-born Radin...
Yellow Thunder

Yellow Thunder

male, deceased (1874)
Yellow Thunder (Ho-chunk name Wahkanjahzeegah also given as Wakunchakookah, born in 1774) was a chief of the Ho-Chunk tribe. Historians statethat...

Michael Murphy

male
Michael John Murphy is a folk musician based in Omaha, Nebraska. He plays various instruments, notably the guitar and Native American flute. He is...

Chief Waukon Decorah

male, deceased (1868)
Waukon Decorah, c. 1780-1868 was a Native American Chief. According to the Wisconsin Historical Society's Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Chief...
Henry Mower Rice

Henry Mower Rice

male, deceased (1894)
Henry Mower Rice (November 29, 1816 - January 15, 1894) was an American politician. Henry Rice was born on November 29, 1816, in Waitsfield,...
Jean-Baptiste Faribault

Jean-Baptiste Faribault

male, deceased (1860)
Jean-Baptiste Faribault was a trader with the Indians and early settler in Minnesota. His father Barthélemy Faribault, a lawyer of Paris, France, s...

Kenneth Vavrina

male
Father Ken Vavrina (born 1936) is a Roman Catholic priest and activist in Omaha, Nebraska. He has been involved in many events in North Omaha since...