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Sauk chief who led the Sauk ant Fox tribes against the United States off and on during the early 19th century, from the War of 1812 until his eventual defeat following the Black Hawk War. Black Kettle: c. 1803–1868 1850s–1860s Cheyenne: Cheyenne chief who resisted the American settlement of the Kansas and Colorado territories during the
Siŋté Máza was the Chief's tribal name. Asked why the white people call him Iron Tail, he said that when he was a baby his mother saw a band of warriors chasing a herd of buffalo, in one of their periodic grand hunts, their tails standing upright as if shafts of steel, and she thereafter called his name Siŋté Máza as something new and novel.
Billie chaired during an expansion of Indian gaming and time of increased tribal wealth and economic development. 2003 [ 20 ] –2011: [ 21 ] Mitchell Cypress 2011–2016: [ 22 ] Jim Billie , re-elected and again removed by Seminole Tribal Council in a unanimous vote (4–0) on account of "various issues with policies and procedures of the ...
Black Horse or Tu-ukumah (died c. 1900), was a Comanche war chief. [1] After Bull Bear died in 1874, Black Horse was promoted to second chief in the Quahadi band of Comanche. He surrendered to the United States Army at Fort Sill , Indian Territory, at the end of the Red River War in early 1875. [ 1 ]
William Weatherford, also known after his death as Red Eagle (c. 1765 – March 24, 1824), was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War (1813–1814) against Lower Creek towns and against allied forces of the United States.
Annawan served as chief counselor and head captain under King Philip in the eponymous King Philip's War against the New England colonists, having earlier served under Philip's father, sachem Massasoit, in wars with other New England Indian tribes. [1] He was recognized as a great and valiant warrior, even among his enemies. [1]
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Samuel Houston Mayes, c. 1921. Samuel Houston Mayes (May 11, 1845 – December 12, 1927) of Scots/English-Cherokee descent, was elected as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), serving from 1895 to 1899.