List of famous american indian chiefs

Name Life Years Active Tribe Of Origin Comments Black Elk1863–1950 1870–1890s LakotaA prominent Wichasha Wakan of the Oglala Lakota, he was a combatant at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

During the late 1880s, he was involved in the Ghost Dance movement and was injured at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Black Hawk1767–1838 1810s–1830s SaukSauk chief who led the Sauk ant Fox tribes against the United States off and on during the early 19th century, from the War of 1812 until his eventual defeat following the Black Hawk War.

Black Kettlec. 1803–1868 1850s–1860s CheyenneCheyenne chief who resisted the American settlement of the Kansas and Colorado territories during the 1860s. After his village was destroyed during the Sand Creek massacre, he participated in the Colorado War with the Comanche and Kiowa negotiating several treaties with the United States before his death at Battle of Wa