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White Eagle formally abdicated his position as hereditary chief on May 8, 1904, to his son and successor, Horse Chief Eagle, who would ultimately be recognized as the last hereditary chief in the United States [1] due to the enactment of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act of 1936 prohibiting non-democratic Native American governments.
After the elder White Calf died in 1903, while a guest of President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., White Calf became the last chief of the Blackfoot Tribe. [2] He died at Blackfeet Indian hospital, of attack of flu according to the Choteau Acantha, however the Indian agency said pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 63 and is buried in ...
Basil F. Heath (March 18, 1917 – January 24, 2011), [1] better-known by his stage name, Chief White Eagle, was an actor, stuntman and television personality whose career spanned several decades beginning with the 1940 film, Northwest Passage. He also appeared in television programming in the Chicago, Illinois, area. [2] [3]
Pamunkey chief after the death of his brother, Chief Powhatan. He led the Indian massacre of 1622. Osceola: 1804–1838 1830s Seminole: The principal leader of the Second Seminole War, he led a small band successfully resisting the U.S. Army for over two years before his capture in 1837. King Philip: c. 1639–1676 1660s–1670s Wampanoag
The Principal Chief was elected by the National Council, which was the legislature of the Nation. The Cherokee Nation–West adopted a similar constitution in 1833. In 1839 most of the reunited nation was reunited in Indian Territory, after forced removal from the Southeast. There they adopted one constitution.
At the time of the murder of Chief Doublehead, Thomas Norris Clark, John D. Chisholm, and Major Return J. Meigs had been appointed the executors of the estate by Chief Doublehead, and he wished that his estate be disposed of in the manner of white people and his wishes were read and approved by the Cherokee Council.
Sitting Bull: The Hostile Sioux Indian Chief (1914) [77] Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre (1927), with Chief Yowlachie in the title role [78] Annie Oakley (1935), played by Chief Thunderbird [79] Annie Get Your Gun (1950), played by J. Carrol Naish [80] Sitting Bull (1954), with J. Carrol Naish again in the title role [81]
' White Eagle '), after the debacle at Adobe Walls on June 27, 1874, he was renamed Isatai'i. [2] [3] Isatai'i gained enormous prominence for a brief period in 1873-74 as a prophet and "messiah" of Native Americans. He succeeded, albeit temporarily, in uniting the autonomous Comanche bands as no previous Chief or leader had ever done.