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Odawa chief who resisted British settlement of the Great Lakes region during the Pontiac's Rebellion. Rain-in-the-Face. c. 1835–1905. 1860s–1870s. Hunkpapa Lakota. A war chief of the Lakota, he took part in Red Cloud's War and Black Hills War. Red Cloud. 1822–1909. 1860s–1890s.
The Greatest Indian was a poll sponsored by Reliance Mobile and conducted by Outlook magazine, in partnership with CNN-IBN and The History Channel. The poll was conducted from June to August 2012, with the winner, B. R. Ambedkar, announced on 11 August. A program associated with the poll aired from 4 June until 15 August.
Nimrod Jarret Smith (1837–1893) was 4th Principal Chief of the Eastern Band and a Confederate Army veteran of the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is made up of descendants of Cherokee primarily from along the Oconaluftee River in Western North Carolina, in today's Cherokee County.
Plenty Coups (Crow: Alaxchíia Ahú, [1] "many achievements"; c. 1848 – 1932) was the principal chief of the Crow Tribe and a visionary leader.. He allied the Crow with the whites when the war for the West was being fought because the Sioux and Cheyenne (who opposed white settlement of the area) were the traditional enemies of the Crow.
It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka ˈijɔtakɛ]; [4] c. 1837 – December 15, 1890) [5][6] was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies. Sitting Bull was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to ...
Kechewaishke was born around 1759 at La Pointe on Madeline Island (Mooningwanekaaning) in the Shagawamikong region. Now part of Wisconsin, La Pointe was a key Ojibwa village and trading center for the empire of New France, which was fighting the Seven Years' War against Great Britain at the time of Kechewaishke's birth. [2]
Indian National Congress: 22 February 1993 6 March 2003 18 N. Rangaswamy: Puducherry: 27 October 2001 4 September 2008 15 years, 101 days Indian National Congress: 16 May 2011 6 June 2016 All India N.R. Congress: 7 May 2021 Incumbent: 19 Sheila Dikshit: Delhi: 3 December 1998 28 December 2013 15 years, 25 days Indian National Congress: 20 Raman ...