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TOP 10 GREATEST INDIAN CHIEFS

California Indian Education's tribal resource is being compiled to introduce young Native American Indian students to a few of their nations' most famous Indian chiefs of North America, brave tribal leaders and warriors who have left their mark on the recorded history of our great lands — please do your own research to learn more in-depth facts, tribal biographies and their most noteworthy quotes about these famous Native American Indians.

The California Indian Education website's "Top Ten" Indian chiefs is not so much about listing the top 10 chiefs of all time (which will forever be debatable), but our Indian guide is about beginning a study resource to familiarize students with some of the most important and influential Native American leaders of the recorded history.

FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEFS LEADERS WARRIORS QUOTATIONS SPEECHES

INDIAN CHIEFS, WARRIORS, LEADERS
GERONIMO
Geronimo
Apache
1829-1909
JOESPH
Chief Joseph
Nez Percé
1840-1904
BENITO
Benito Juarez
Zapoteca
1806-1872
MATAWEER
Cinon Mataweer
Kumeyaay
1800s
TECUMSEH
Tecumseh
Shawnee
1768-1813
CASTILLO
Adam Castillo
Cahuilla
1885–1953
HATAM
Chief Hatam
Kumeyaay
c. 1805-1874
VP CURTIS
Charles Curtis
Kaw
1860-1936
JACK
Captain Jack
Modoc
1837-1873
CRAZY HORSE
Crazy Horse
Lakota
c. 1845-1877
RUSSELL
Russell Means
Oglala Lakota
1939-2012
AMERICAN
American Horse
Sioux
c. 1800-1876
ANNA
Anna Prieto-Sandoval
Kumeyaay
1934-2010
DAN
Chief Dan George
Tsleil-Waututh
1899-1981
RICHARD
Richard Milanovich
Cahuilla
1942-2012
Mangas
Mangas Coloradas
Apache
c. 1793-1863
BLACKHOOF
Black Hoof
Shawnee
c. 1740-1831
CRAZY HORSE
Cochise
Apache
1812-1874
Red Jacket
Red Jacket
Seneca
c. 1750-1830
CHIEF
Chief Seattle
Duwamish
c. 1780-1866
SHACKNASTY
Shacknasty Jim
Modoc
c. 1851–1881
Red Cloud
Red Cloud
Lakota
1822–1909
Standing Bear
Standing Bear
Ponca
c. 1834-1908
SITTING BULL
Sitting Bull
Lakota
c. 1831-1890
Pontiac
Chief Pontiac
Ottawa
1720-1769
Osceola
Osceola
Seminole
1804-1838
MANKILLER
Wilma Mankiller
Cherokee
1945-2010
MANUELITO
Chief Manuelito
Navajo
1818-1893
AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBAL COLORS
TRADITIONAL American Indian Quotations

MEDICINE WHEELUpon suffering beyond suffering:

The Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world; a world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations; a world longing for light again.

I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

In that day, there will be those among the Lakota who will carry knowledge and understanding of unity among all living things and the young white ones will come to those of my people and ask for this wisdom.

I salute the light within your eyes where the whole Universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am that place within me, we shall be one.

- Crazy Horse, Oglala Lakota Sioux (circa 1840-1877)

Crazy Horse is quoted as saying while he sat smoking the Sacred Pipe with Sitting Bull for the last time — Crazy Horse was killed four days later by US Army soldiers in a hand-to-hand scuffle as they attempted to imprison him. There are no known photographs of Crazy Horse, he would not permit anyone to take his picture, presumably, Crazy Horse believed a photograph stole or unnaturally held the soul of the person(s) pictured.

WORLD (non-Indian) Quotations
WORLD PERSPECTIVE

FAMOUS NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEFS ON HORSES WEARING CEREMONIAL FEATHERED WAR BONNETS HOLDING TRIBAL STAFFS

SIX FAMOUS NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEFS IN HEADDRESS AND ON HORSEBACK

SIX 19TH CENTURY NATIVE AMERICAN LEADERS ON HORSEBACK (l-r) — Little Plume (Piegan), Buckskin Charley (Ute), Geronimo (Chiricahua Apache), Quanah Parker (Comanche), Hollow Horn Bear (Brulé Sioux), and American Horse (Oglala Sioux). Photo: Edward S. Curtis, circa 1900.

SOVEREIGN TRIBAL NATIONS

AMERICAN TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY — LEGAL BASIS: The Constitution of the United States, U.S. Supreme Court, federal and state laws, as well as historical treaties all support the federally-recognized Native American tribes' present-day legal rights to self-government and certain forms of limited tribal sovereignty....

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Produced by Ernie Salgado, Soboba tribal member.
Made in America Research & Design: Gary Ballard, San Diego blogger.

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