Attakullakulla (1700x12–c. 1780), leader of the Cherokee Indians, was born in the Overhill Cherokee country (present-day eastern Tennessee). His parentage is uncertain. He was known among the British colonists as the Little Carpenter because he built a strong relationship with the British. ...
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Attakullakulla (1700x12–c. 1780), leader of the Cherokee Indians
Izumi Ishii
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Big Bear [Mistahimaskwa] (c. 1825–1888), leader of the Plains Cree Plains Cree chief
John L. Tobias
Big Bear [Mistahimaskwa] (c. 1825–1888), leader of the Plains Cree, was born north of Fort Carlton in Ruperts Land, Northwest Territories, the son of Black Powder (d. c.1864), a minor chief. His parents were of Plains Cree and Saulteaux background. Big Bear...
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Blackfish [Cottawamago, Mkahdaywaymayqua] (1729?–1779), leader of the Shawnee Indians
Troy O. Bickham
Blackfish [Cottawamago, Mkahdaywaymayqua] (1729
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Brant, Joseph (1743–1807)
Maker: Gilbert Stuart
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Joseph Brant (1743–1807) by Gilbert Stuart, 1786 [detail] Collection of the Duke of Northumberland. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Brant, Joseph [Thayendanegea] (1743–1807), leader of the Mohawk Indians
Carl Benn
Brant, Joseph [Thayendanegea] (1743–1807), leader of the Mohawk Indians, was born in 1743, probably in March, in or near Cuyahoga (near present-day Akron, Ohio). His parents, Peter Tehowaghwengaraghkwin and Margaret (fl. 1735–1780), were ordinary Mohawks with limited links to the tribe's leading families....
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Garakonte [Daniel Garakontié] (d. 1677), Native American leader
Daniel K. Richter
Garakonte [Daniel Garakontié] (d. 1677), Native American leader, is of unknown parentage. He first appears in Euro-American documents in May 1654, when he led a delegation of Onondaga Iroquois to Montreal. By that time he had already achieved prominence as an orator, or ritual specialist who spoke for hereditary chiefs on public occasions. There is no evidence that he himself held a hereditary title or was a clan headman. Yet in the general ferment caused by European colonization, orators often achieved influence far beyond their traditional role....
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Hendrick [Tiyanoga, Thoyanoguen] (c. 1680–1755), leader of the Mohawk Indians
Troy O. Bickham
Hendrick [Tiyanoga, Thoyanoguen] (c. 1680–1755), leader of the Mohawk Indians, was born about 1680, the son of a Mohegan father and Mohawk mother. By 1710 he had risen to a position of prominence, holding the rank of sachem among the Mohawk and living in the village of ...
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Massasoit (c. 1600–1661), leader of the Algonquian Indians
Alfred A. Cave
Massasoit (c. 1600–1661), leader of the Algonquian Indians, was born near Bristol, Rhode Island. The exact date of his birth and the names of his parents are unknown. He rose to become sachem (chief) of a band of southern New England Algonquian Indians later known to the English as the Wampanoag Pokanoket. In March 1621 he entered into an alliance with a group of English separatist puritans who had established a small and vulnerable village at ...
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McGillivray, Alexander (1750–1793), American Indian leader
Edward J. Cashin
McGillivray, Alexander (1750–1793), American Indian leader, was born on 15 December 1750 at Little Tallassee, a Creek Indian village on the Coosa River in Upper Creek country. He was one of the three children of Lachlan McGillivray (1719–1799), prominent Scottish trader and planter...
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Metacom [Philip; called King Philip] (c. 1630–1676), leader of the Algonquian Indians
Jill Lepore
Metacom [Philip; called King Philip] (c. 1630–1676), leader of the Algonquian Indians, was born in or near Mount Hope in what is now Rhode Island, the second son of Massasoit (also known as Osamequin) (c. 1600–1661), Wampanoag sachem, who, in 1620, greeted the first pilgrims in the land they named ...
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Miantonomo (1600?–1643), leader of the Narragansett Indians
Alfred A. Cave
Miantonomo (1600
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Nimham, Daniel (c. 1726–1778), leader of the Mohican Indians
Troy O. Bickham
Nimham, Daniel (c. 1726–1778), leader of the Mohican Indians, was born into the Wappinger branch of the Mohican Indians, the son of one Nimham, a headman. Nimham first appears in the historical record in 1756, when 225 Wappingers moved from the New York...
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Norton, John (1770–1831?)
Maker: Thomas Phillips
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John Norton (1770–?1831) by Thomas Phillips, 1816 Collection of the Duke of Northumberland. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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Norton, John [called Teyoninhokarawen] (1770–1831?), leader of the Mohawk Indians
Carl Benn
Norton, John [called Teyoninhokarawen] (1770–1831
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Occom, Samson (1723–1792), leader of the Mohegan Indians and Presbyterian clergyman
Bernd C. Peyer
Occom, Samson (1723–1792), leader of the Mohegan Indians and Presbyterian clergyman, was born in a Mohegan village near New London, Connecticut, in 1723, the son of Joshua Ockham and Sarah Samson, both Mohegans. At seventeen he was converted to Christianity by James Davenport...
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Occom, Samson (1723–1792)
Maker: Jonathan Spilsbury
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Samson Occom (1723–1792) by Jonathan Spilsbury, pubd 1768 (after Mason Chamberlin) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Opechancanough (d. c. 1646), leader of the Pamunkey Indians
J. Frederick Fausz
Opechancanough (d. c. 1646), leader of the Pamunkey Indians, was born of unknown parentage but was according to tradition the second eldest brother of Powhatan, principal Pamunkey (Virginia Algonquin) leader, and, therefore, the uncle of Pocahontas, and was thought by colonists to have lived to be a hundred years old. He is most famous for leading the ...
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Ostenaca [Oustenaca] (d. before 1780?), leader of the Cherokee Indians
John Oliphant
Ostenaca [Oustenaca] (d. before 1780
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Ostenaca (d. before 1780?)
Maker: unknown engraver
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Ostenaca (d. before 1780?) by unknown engraver, pubd 1762 © Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
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Pontiac (1713x25–1769), leader of the Ottawa Indians
Daniel K. Richter
Pontiac (1713x25–1769), leader of the Ottawa Indians, was probably born in an Ottawa village near Detroit, of mixed Ottawa and Chippewa or Miami parentage. His only known wife was Kantuckeegan (fl. 1763–1815); the couple had at least two sons.
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