List of People From Nebraska - Native Americans

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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