Native Americans
Listing of Notable Native Americans of Nebraska with Tribal Affiliations.
- Joba Chamberlain. New York Yankees pitcher. Ho-Chunk
- Crazy Horse (1838–1877), great warrior of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Pre-statehood.
- Angel De Cora Dietz Hinook-Mahiwi-Kalinaka (Fleecy Cloud Floating in Place) Painter, illustrator, American Indian advocate.
- Chief Waukon Decorah
- He Dog
- Hononegah Ho-Chunk
- High Horse
- Francis La Flesche Zhogaxe (1857–1932) First Native American Anthropologist, Author. Omaha people
- Susan La Flesche Picotte Born on Omaha Reservation 1865. First Native American woman to earn a medical degree.
- Susette LaFlesche Tibbles "Bright Eyes" Born in Bellvue, 1854. Writer (published in New York Tribune, Omaha World-Herald...) and trial translator and media source for the plight of the Ponca people and Standing Bear during the Trial of Standing Bear May 1879. Omaha/Ponca
- Little Eagle
- Little Hawk
- Mountain Wolf Woman Ho-Chunk
- Red Bird
- Red Cloud (1822–1909), chief of the Oglala Sioux
- Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr.
- Chief Standing Bear (1829?–1908), Civil rights leader and at the fore of the famous petition to stay on traditional homelands post-removal as documented in The Trial of Standing Bear. In this trial the state was led to recognize that Native Americans are human beings.
- John Trudell Civil Rights activist, Community Activist, Speaker, Poet, Performer, Musician, Actor. Santee
- Yellow Thunder
- Kim Winona (October 10, 1930 – June 1978) Actress.
- Raymond Yellow Thunder Nebraska Ranch Hand killed in a notable hate crime in 1972 in Gordon. Oglala Lakota
- James Young Deer
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