List of People From New Mexico - Native Americans

Native Americans

  • Popé (ca. 1630 – ca. 1688) Leader of the Pueblo Revolt.
  • Cochise (1812–1874), Chiricahua Apache chief
  • Victorio (1825–1880), Chiricahua Apache chief
  • Geronimo (1829–1909), Chiricahua Apache chief
  • Annie Dodge Wauneka (1895 – 1997), Navajo health educator, winner of Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Willard Hughes Rollings (1948–2008), Part Cherokee, historian of Native Americans
  • N. Scott Momaday (1934), Kiowa, Cherokee Pulitzer Prize-winning author

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