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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.3 KB (397 words) - 05:44, 1 March 2018
- 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.968 B (142 words) - 20:57, 13 May 2014
- '''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 15.2 KB (275 words) - 04:30, 5 March 2018
- ...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)749 B (92 words) - 17:57, 28 May 2014
- '''Seminole (Native American) teacher and missionary''' ...hip captain named Bemeau, whose name he took. He became a ship's carpenter and converted to Christianity.2 KB (265 words) - 05:57, 1 March 2018
- '''Algonquin (Native American) captive and translator''' ...educational and religious material for Native American converts. An island and harbor in2 KB (201 words) - 15:36, 1 October 2014
- '''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.2 KB (227 words) - 16:43, 17 June 2014
- ...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 tr2 KB (336 words) - 06:23, 1 March 2018
- 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.2 KB (233 words) - 04:08, 3 March 2018
- ...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)1 KB (177 words) - 20:32, 28 May 2014
- ...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. Such1 KB (171 words) - 16:43, 17 June 2014
- ...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 in4 KB (670 words) - 04:59, 4 March 2018
- ...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.2 KB (240 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2018
- ...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.6 KB (877 words) - 03:49, 5 March 2018
- ...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 inte3 KB (466 words) - 04:09, 5 March 2018
- ...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.3 KB (440 words) - 04:10, 5 March 2018
- '''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.3 KB (364 words) - 04:29, 5 March 2018
- '''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 fronti3 KB (417 words) - 05:26, 1 March 2018
- '''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 [[Crazy2 KB (216 words) - 19:42, 16 June 2014
- ...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.3 KB (481 words) - 13:51, 18 June 2021