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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.
Schools that removed all references to Native American culture or were deemed not to have references to Native American culture as part of their athletics programs: Alcorn State University – Lorman, Mississippi - Logo is a large A, mascot is the "Bravehawk". Lycoming College (Warriors) Eastern Connecticut State University (Warriors)
Plains Indian warfare. During the American Indian Wars of the mid to late 19th century, Native American warriors of the Great Plains, sometimes referred to as braves in contemporary colonial sources, [1] resisted westward expansion onto their ancestral land by settlers from the United States. [2] Though a diverse range of peoples inhabited the ...
The practice of deriving sports team names, imagery, and mascots from Indigenous peoples of North America is a significant phenomenon in the United States and Canada. The popularity of stereotypical representations of American Indians in global culture has led to a number of teams in Europe also adopting team names derived from Native Americans.
Tenskwatawa (brother) Tecumseh (/ tɪˈkʌmsə, - si / tih-KUM-sə, -see; c. 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Shawnee chief and warrior who promoted resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. A persuasive orator, Tecumseh traveled widely, forming a Native American confederacy and promoting intertribal unity.
Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tȟašúŋke Witkó[2] [tˣaˈʃʊ̃kɛ witˈkɔ], lit. 'His-Horse-Is-Crazy'; c. 1840 – September 5, 1877) [3] was a Lakota war leader of the Oglala band in the 19th century. He took up arms against the United States federal government to fight against encroachment by White American settlers on Native American territory ...
Victorio (Bidu-ya, Beduiat; ca. 1825–October 14, 1880) was a warrior and chief of the Warm Springs band of the Tchihendeh (or Chihenne, often called Mimbreño) division of the central Apaches in what is now the American states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua. In Victorio's War from September 1879 ...
Also taking place in 2022 was the New York State Education Department's decision to require every school district in the state with Native American-themed mascots – or Native American-themed team names (such as "Warriors") – to change them unless receiving approval for an exemption from a state- or federally-recognized tribe; any district ...