List of Native American leaders
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This is a list of famous Native American Chiefs and Leaders. For other famous Native Americans, see List of Native Americans.
- Big Foot also known as Spotted Elk
- Black Elk
- Black Hawk
- Blue Jacket -(Shawnee)
- Billy Bowlegs- (Seminole)
- Joseph Brant- Mohawk chief (Later years in Canada)
- Buckongahelas- (Lenape)
- Captain Jack - (Modoc)
- Cochise
- Cornplanter- (Seneca)
- Cornstalk -(Shawnee)
- Crazy Horse
- The Great Peacemaker - of the Haudenosaunee nation
- Geronimo
- Hayowentha
- Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)
- Chief Logan (Mingo)
- Neolin- The "Delaware Prophet" (Lenape)
- Osceola
- King Philip (Metacom)
- Pontiac (Ottawa)
- The Prophet (Tenskwatawa) (Shawnee)
- Rain in the Face
- Lozen - female warrior and prophet
- Red Cloud
- Red Jacket
- Chief G. Anne Richardson (Chief of the Rappahannock tribe - first female chief in Virginia since the 1700's)
- Major Ridge (Cherokee)
- Sakayengwaraton
- Shingas (Lenape)
- Chief Seattle- Duwamish
- Sitting Bull- (Sioux)
- Tamanend (Lenape)
- Tecumseh (Shawnee)
- Tuscaloosa Chief of Choctaws (1500s)(tall-6'6")
- Stand Watie
- Wovoka - Founder of the Ghost dance movement