Native American Who was a important person?
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To Name a Few...\n\n    * Tori Amos, musician (part Cherokee)\n    * Irene Bedard (Inupiat Eskimo and French Canadian/Cree), actress\n    * Big Foot\n    * Black Elk\n    * Black Hawk\n    * Jimmy Carl Black (Cheyenne), musician\n    * Blue Jacket (Shawnee)\n    * Billy Bowlegs (Seminole)\n    * Joseph Brant, Mohawk chief (Later years in Canada)\n    * Buckongahelas (Lenape)\n    * Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Cheyenne), former senator from Colorado\n    * Captain Jack (Modoc)\n    * Brad Carson, U.S. Representative\n    * Cochise\n    * Tom Cole, U.S. Representative, Chickasaw\n    * Everett(Butch) Conway-(Grandmother Cheyenne) Retired Air Force\n    * Rita Coolidge, musician\n    * Cornplanter (Seneca)\n    * Cornstalk (Shawnee)\n    * Crazy Horse\n    * Rebecca Cummings, porn star (part Osage)\n    * Charles Curtis (Kaw), U.S. Vice-President\n    * Chad 'Corntassel' Smith, Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma\n    * Jesse Ed Davis, guitarist (full-blooded Kiowa tribe)\n    * The Great Peacemaker of the Haudenosaunee nation\n    * Michael Dorris, author\n    * Louise Erdrich, author\n    * Gerinimo\n    * Graham Greene (actor)\n    * Ira Hayes (Pima), World War II national hero\n    * Hayowentha\n    * William Least Heat-Moon, author\n    * Jimi Hendrix, musician (part Cherokee on both sides)\n    * Ishi\n    * Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)\n    * Yvonne Kauger-Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice\n    * Winona LaDuke, political activist (Chippewa father)\n    * Abraham Lincoln (mother Nancy Hanks allegedly a mixed-race Melungeon)\n    * Heather Locklear, part Cherokee\n    * Chief Logan (Mingo)\n    * Russell Means (Sioux), actor, political activist, writer\n    * Wilma Mankiller\n    * Karen McDougal, model (half Cherokee)\n    * Alexander McGillivray (Muscogee (Creek))\n    * Elaine Miles, (Cayuse/Nez Perce) actress Northern Exposure\n    * Billy Mills, Olympic gold medalist at 10,000 meters in 1964\n    * Catherine Montour, Wyandot and French\n    * Tiger Woods, golfer\n    * Nampeyo, Hopi potter\n    * Neolin, The "Delaware Prophet" (Lenape)\n    * Wayne Newton, singer\n    * Chuck Norris, actor (half Cherokee)\n    * Osceola\n    * Eli Parker\n    * Quanah Parker\n    * Leonard Peltier, Lakota Sioux\n    * King Philip (Metacom)\n    * Pocahontas\n    * Pontiac (Ottawa)\n    * The Prophet (Tenskwatawa) (Shawnee)\n    * Rain in the Face\n    * Lozen\n    * Red Cloud\n    * Red Jacket\n    * Major Ridge (Cherokee)\n    * Tom Ridge, Ruthenian, Irish, Cherokee\n    * Sacagawea\n    * Kelvin Sampson, head basketball coach at University of Oklahoma\n    * Sakayengwaraton\n    * Sequoyah (Cherokee)\n    * Shingas (Lenape)\n    * Leslie Marmon Silko\n    * Chief Seattle, Duwamish\n    * Sitting Bull (Sioux)\n    * Squanto\n    * Britney Spears\n    * Maria Tallchief\n    * Gladys Tantaquidgeon\n    * William Taptico (-1719) King of Wicomicco Indians\n    * Tecumseh (Shawnee)\n    * Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha, first Indigenous person considered for sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church\n    * Jim Thorpe (Sac and Fox, native name Wa-Tho-Huk)\n    * Tina Turner, Black, Navajo, Cherokee\n    * Tuscaloosa Chief of Choctaws (1500s)(tall-6'6")\n    * Gerald Vizenor, writer and academic\n    * Stand Watie\n    * James Welch\n    * Floyd Red Crow Westerman-(Sioux) Musician/Actor\n    * White Eyes (Lenape)\n    * Wovoka\n    * Link Wray, musician (Shawnee)\n    * Ray Young Bear\n    * Zitkala-Ša
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Start here: http://www.native-languages.org/blackfoot_culture.htm\n\nAmerican Indians relied on oral traditions, so you will have to identify your particular tribe and see if anyone knows its oral history. You will not find much useful help on Yahoo Answers about your particular family history.
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It's Native American.
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My opinion: Abe Lincoln. He helped to keep a divided nation together under some of the most adverse conditions and situations that any president has ever had to contend with- and not only on a national level but on a personal level as well. All that while having to sleep in an awkward angular position in a too-small bed, with a crazy woman by his side and Monica Lewinsky nowhere in sight! A true American hero if you ask me. :)
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I'm Native American specifically Mi'kmaq and I love it. I love all the respect that's found in the culture. It makes me unique because there aren't a lot of Native Americans left compared to all of the other nationalities. I love going to pow wows and seeing everyone's beautiful regalia. It's just amazing.
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The most successful American commander during the Indian Wars when considering number of men in his command versus time taken to finish a fight was Ranald Slidell Mackenzie (1840-1889).  He was known for his ability to inflict massive property damage without unnecessary loss of life.  He was highly respected by the Kiowa and Comanche chiefs who fought against him and he was responsible for much respectful and lenient treatment of the tribes both before and after they surrendered and went to the reservation.
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indians  thus known as NATIVE AMERICANS!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
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Native American, Mi-Wuk & Pomoma, Rosebud Lacota, Cherokee.  Yup.
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I think Native Americans are sooo nice!  I knew several full-blooded NA's from the Menominee tribe.  Very friendly folks. I think everyone believes NA's are still one with nature, even today.  I watched a lot of the Native American Grammy's (Nammy's?), and thought it was cool how the music ranged from folk music, pop, a reggaeton sound, and even almost hip-hop. I also liked how their dress, onstage, was from native attire to waaay more up-to-date than what I wear. I thought it proved that NA's don't just wear leather & feathers and play drums.  I think everyone feels guilty about the land that was taken away from people who initially welcomed the new visitors.  I have Shawnee blood in me from the Algonquian tribe.
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Are you talking about people from India or Native Americans
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Abraham Lincoln\n\n"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
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Someone who gives you something and then decides to take it back.\n\nIndian giver was termed when Native Americans would lend items to the settlers, in other words, let them borrow necessities. The settlers thought that this was a gift from the Native Americans; hence, they were shocked when the Native Americans asked for their items back.\n\nMany people confuse the term with greed, i.e. when you give someone a gift, and you take it back, it is considered being an "Indian Giver." This is the biggest misconception of the term "Indian Giver."\n\nSome consider the phrase a racial stereotype because using the term to denote a person who takes back what they previously gave implies that Native Americans might commonly practice this. It also uses the term Indian to denote Native American, which can be offensive to some.
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The Native Americans ,although unique people,are PEOPLE.They have their differences too.And the Chiefs were often at odds with each other on this subject.Many tribes split because of it.Some peaceful leaders,like washakie of the Shoshones made peace with the whites,while those like Quanna Parker of the Comanches fought desperately to resist removal.The Seminoles under Osceola,and Billy Bowlegs led their people into the everglades to avoid removal.So you see,they all dealt with things differently.The Natives are not all one people,but MANY individuals,with many individual leaders,tribes,ect.
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There could/would be as many different answers as there are people. One person who is important to me could not even be known of by others. Plus you have to take into consideration culture and when and where and how a person lived and who was influential at that time, etc.
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very important person
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Croatoan.  Pocahontas was a woman.  Iroquois is a tribe.