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