Sites related to specific Native American individuals, or groups of individuals.
Submissions may include historical figures, athletes, actors, etc. Artists, artisans, singers, and dancers should be listed under the appropriate topical category.
Charles "Chief" Bender was an Ojibway major-league pitcher in the early 20th century. He was the first American Indian inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame.
Black Kettle was a 19th-century Cheyenne chief. He was one of the strongest proponents of peace with the white settlers, but nonetheless suffered two brutal massacres of his people at Sand Creek and Washita.
Mary Jemison, or Dehgewanus, was not born Indian. She was a white teenager when she was captured by the Shawnee, but a Seneca family ransomed her and raised her as their own, and she lived with her adopted people all her life.
Cynthia Ann Parker was not born Indian, but was adopted by a Comanche family at the age of 9. She was later captured by the Americans, and when they would not let her return to her Comanche family, she committed suicide. She was the mother of Quanah Parker, a noted Comanche chief.
Daughter of Omaha chief Joseph LaFlesche, Susan LaFlesche Picotte was the first American Indian woman to earn a medical degree (in the late 19th century).
Matoaka, popularly known as Pocahontas, was a real person. She was eleven or twelve when she met John Smith; the romance between them was a later invention. She may or may not actually have saved his life. Smith said so, but this was in a letter of recommendation to the queen, and it was customary to exaggerate as much as possible in those. Certainly she helped the colonists by bringing them food. She was held hostage by the British at one point, but it's unclear whether this was a true hostage situation or a formality she agreed to (both were common in that era). She married an Englisman, John Rolfe, and died young of European disease.
This category is for the historical figure Pocahontas. Sites about the fictional Disney character should go elsewhere, please.
Kahnungdatlageh, or Ridge, was a controversial 19th-century Cherokee politician who signed away land rights and was assassinated by other Cherokee leaders.
Louis Francis Sockalexis was the first Indian athlete in major league baseball. He had an impressive season in 1897, but did not succeed in the majors due to racism and alcohol abuse.
Squanto was a 17th-century Indian youth who, through two European enslavements, learned English and avoided the annihilation of his village. He threw his lot in with the Pilgrims and saved them from near-certain death, for which he is remembered at Thanksgiving celebrations.
Zintkala Nuni (Lost Bird) was a Sioux infant who survived the 1890 massacre of Wounded Knee shielded beneath her mother's body. She was adopted by a white military officer and had a short, tragic life.