Names of famous indian chiefs

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    List of Native American leaders of the Indian Wars

    Name Life Years Active Tribe Of Origin Comments Black Elk– –s LakotaA prominent Wichasha Wakan of the Oglala Lakota, he was a combatant at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. During the late s, he was involved in the Ghost Dance movement and was injured at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Black Hawk– s–s SaukSauk chief who led the Sauk and Fox tribes against the United States off and on during the early 19th century, from the War of until his eventual defeat following the Black Hawk War. Black Kettlec. – s–s CheyenneCheyenne ledare who resisted the American settlement of the Kansas and Colorado territories during the s. After his village was destroyed during the Sand Creek massacre, he participated in the Colorado War with the Comanche and Kiowa negotiating several treaties with the United States before his death at Battle of Washita River. Blue Jacketc. &#;– c.&#; s–s Shawnee

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    Group of Native American Chiefs

    This Great Native American Chiefs online exhibit was put tillsammans as part of a University of Michigan Library diversity goal. The exhibit creators both have a strong interest in Native American history and culture. They feel that Native Americans have been misunderstood, and that their history has not always been accurately written about in history books.  This exhibit is about reaching out to an audience which has an interest in Native Americans, and learning about their existence, culture and history. There are some interesting stories told here, and many more to tell.  

    Geronimo (aka Goyathlay)

    Chief: Geronimo (Bedonkohe Apache Leader: aka Goyathlay)

    Born: June 16, near Turkey Creek (Gila River), Apache land contested by Mexico, and currently known as New Mexico

    Died: February 17, Fort Sill, Oklahoma

    Nationality: Apache

    Geronimo was an Apache leader who belonged to the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe.

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    Tecumseh, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull: Three Great Indian Leaders

    By J. Jay Myers

    Many brave and wise Indian leaders appeared and gained respect and fame in the late 18th and early 19th century. Only a few of them, however, had the diplomatic skills and charisma to go beyond leading their own bands and their own tribes to form and lead intertribal alliances. Tecumseh the Shawnee, Red Cloud the Oglala Sioux and Sitting Bull the Hunkpapa Sioux all had the right stuff to become legends.

    Born around somewhere near present-day Springfield, Ohio, Tecumseh developed an early hatred for the white man&#;s steady encroachment into Indian homelands. When he was 6 years old, after invading Virginia frontiersmen killed his father, his mother took him to the spot and cried out to him: &#;Avenge! Avenge!&#; At age 12, too young to be a warrior, Tecumseh watched George Rogers Clark and some 1, men defeat his people and burn his town. Filled with bitterness, he swore vengeance on the Long Knives.