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  • '''Apache (Native American) poet''' ...y the time he was five his mother had been murdered by her second husband, and his father was dead from alcoholism.
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  • McShane was adopted at three weeks of age by a retired US Army officer and his wife; his mother was a Métis Indian. His behavior when he was 16 was s ...the Cuckoo's Nest, Who's Line Is it Anyway?, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Crazy for a Kiss.
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  • '''Pequot (Native American) Methodist missionary and author''' ...en his grandmother broke his arm he was rescued by an uncle and a neighbor and then fostered by whites until he was 15.
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  • ...nd raised in [[Alabama]]. He helped translate St. John's gospel into Creek and also wrote hymns in the language. Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduction. ([[New York]]: Facts on File, 1992)
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  • '''Seminole (Native American) teacher and missionary''' ...hip captain named Bemeau, whose name he took. He became a ship's carpenter and converted to Christianity.
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  • '''Algonquin (Native American) captive and translator''' ...educational and religious material for Native American converts. An island and harbor in
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  • '''Arapaho (Native American) priest''' ...es and turned over to white soldiers. He was [[adopted]] by a white couple and sent to a military academy where he was an outstanding student.
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  • ...ican, always identified himself as one, and registered his son as a Native American on his birth certificate). ...was then raised by a Kiowa stepfather and Cheyenne stepmother. In 1868 he and his stepmother were captured by white soldiers, part of General Custer's tr
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  • Assiniboine (Native American) captive and warrior leader of the Lakota Sioux ...) and named him Hohay (Jumping Bull). Hohay became devoted to Sitting Bull and when he retired from warfare, Jumping Bull took his place as war leader.
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  • ...Tai May (not a person but a sacred image, part of the Sun Dance religion) and was responsible for unwrapping the image during important rites. He lived t Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduction. ([[New York]]: Facts on File, 1992)
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  • ...eida tribe. He rose to become one of their two paramount chiefs during the American Revolution, when he supported the colonists against the British. ...ntended to take the place of a specific dead person, often a war casualty, and in some societies had to become completely acculturated or be killed. Such
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  • ...her brother and sister, who were captured by the Hidatsa people, enslaved, and became acculturated. ...neau and Sacagawea as guides and interpreters. Sacagawea was then pregnant and gave birth to her first child, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, at Fort Mandan in
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  • ...e Black Hawk War (1832) and survived two assassination attempts by the Sac and Fox tribes. ...aubena Grove, [[Illinois]], but local settlers bought him land near Seneca and built him a house, where he spent the rest of his life.
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  • ...y just about every culture which had the opportunity, was powerful enough, and needed the labor slaves could provide. ...cases slavery was degrading psychologically and physically for its victims and morally brutalizing for its practitioners.
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  • ...hite men in 1774, and in 1779 their mother left him and his seven brothers and sisters to be raised by relatives, including Chief Blackfish, who also fost In 1808 at Tippecanoe he and Tenskwatawa founded what they hoped would be a pan-tribal movement, an inte
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  • ...ther left them in 1779 to be raised by relatives, including older brothers and sisters (one of whom was the future Chief [[Tecumseh]], 1768-1813). When he was between nine and 12 he lost an eye in an accident with an arrow.
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  • '''Also known as William Aelxander Clarke and Alejandro Bustamanti''' ...h father, and spent some years in the USA, apparently without legal papers and for some of the time under an assumed name.
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  • '''Shoshone (Native American) mountain man''' ...ill too young to leave his mother. However in 1811 he became Clark's ward, and was educated by him in St. Louis. When he grew up he returned to the fronti
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  • '''Lakota Sioux (Native American) holy man''' Horn Chips was orphaned as a young child and raised by his grandmother. Later he was [[adopted]] by the uncle of [[Crazy
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  • ...In 1862, after the [[Minnesota]] Sioux uprising he escaped with his uncle and grandmother into Manitoba, to avoid white reprisals. His father, Many Ligh ...o school in the Dakota Territory. For the next 17 years he attended school and college, eventually graduating from Boston University Medical School.
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  • Hensley's mother died when he was a baby and he was fostered by his grandmother for five years, until she died. Then he He became a secular and spiritual leader of the Winnebago, Dakota and Ojibwa peoples, spreading the Peyote religion among them.
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  • ...whites and made Hoo-moo-thy-ah largely responsible for his younger brother and sister. ...iers and their Pima and Maricopa scouts. He was then taken to Ft. McDowell and given to Lt. E.D. Thomas, who named him Mike Burns. He was given back to Ca
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  • ...ily|immediate family]] died while he was a young child and he grew up poor and alone. ...ntil 1858. He later came into conflict with the church, leading to poverty and alcoholism. Two of his children also became missionaries.
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  • ...ng of her employer (whose daughter he later married), who had him educated and fostered by an elderly lay brother, Don Antonio Salanueva. ...ed to power in 1853 Juárez was expelled with other liberal intellectuals, and went into exile in the USA, where he conspired to overthrow the dictator.
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  • ...le of Big Hole ([[Montana]]) in 1877 and his mother was captured by whites and exiled to [[Oklahoma]] soon afterwards. ...s a delegate to the Presbyterian General Assembly representing both whites and Indians.
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  • ...09, "after 1911," "last reported living in Rome in 1911," 1911?, and "date and place of her death are unknown." ...college in 1859. She was accused of trying to poison two fellow-students, and in spite of being acquitted (her lawyer was [[John Mercer Langston]]), she
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  • ...ge party, at which he was [[adopted]] by Lone Wolf I to replace Tau ah kia and given the name Lone Wolf. In 1879 he succeeded to the chieftainship. ...the lands of the Kiowa, once covering [[Oklahoma]], [[Kansas]], [[Texas]] and part of [[Mexico]], had been reduced to 160 acres per person.
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  • ...eau of Indian Affairs boarding school he became a famous football fullback and was an active Methodist. He interpreted for [[Lone Wolf II]] in [[Washingto Hirschfelder, Arlene, and Molin, Paulette. [[Encyclopedia]] of Native American Religions: An Introduction. ([[New York]]: Facts on File, 1992)
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  • ...frican American, but young Sylvester always thought of himself as a Native American. ...n Calgary, where he worked as a journalist, writing many stories about the Native Canadians of the western provinces.
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  • Mason's father, a white trader, died in 1828 and she was raised by two different missionary families, rather than by her Cre She married a white minister in 1843 and in 1858 they emigrated to England, where she had nine children.
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  • ...inik. With no immunity to European diseases, four of the people soon died, and one returned to Greenland, leaving only little Minik. ...he had become too acculturated to successfully make a complete transition, and went back to [[New York]] in 1916. He soon died in the 1918 flu pandemic. H
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  • ...he left his father, who was unable to afford to educate the brilliant boy, and fostered by a better-off family. ...1 he returned to the Yavapai people, found the remnants of his own family, and in 1906 helped them in their legal fight to keep their lands, which were un
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  • ...itionalist Winnebago family, Mountain Wolf Woman converted to Christianity and then to Peyotism. ...in her birth family. She was an influential member of the Peyote religion, and foretold her own death in 1960.
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  • ...acknowledged reason for this was to eradicate Native American and Alaskan Native culture. ...ny respects this was like the treatment meted out to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children.
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  • ...chief, Nocona. After 25 years, in 1860, she was recaptured by the whites, and died in 1864. Parker's father also died about that time, leaving him a teen ...of some white ways but also promoted traditionalist ways such as peyotism and polygamy. He was active in the fight to legalize the Peyote religion.
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