Native American Indian Leaders “C...-”
for the social studies classroom and home schoolers.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Canassatego
Canonicus

Mangas Coloradas
Cochise
Cornplanter

Contemporary Native Americans - Ben Nighthorse Campbell Poster

Ben Nighthorse Campbell
b. 4-13-1933; Auburn, CA

Ben Nighthorse Campbell was a U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1993 until 2005. He was for a time the only Native American serving in the U.S. Congress. Campbell was the third Native American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and the second Native American (after Charles Curtis R-Kansas) to serve in the U.S. Senate. Campbell also serves as one of forty-four members of the Council of Chiefs of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe. FYI - Campbell competed in judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. (Source: Wikipedia)

• political process posters

Canassatego
b. c. 1684; New York
d. c. 1750

A leader in the Onondaga nation, Canassatego is best remembered for a speech he gave at the 1744 Treaty of Lancaster, recommending that the British colonies emulate the Iroquois Confederacy.

Canonicus
b. c. 1565; Rhode Island
d. 6-4-1647

Canonicus was a chief of the Narragansett people of current day Rhode Island when the Pilgrims arrived in the New World. He granted Roger Williams the tract of land which became the nucleus of the colony of Providence Plantation.

Cochise
b. c. 1805; Arizona
d. 6-8-1874

Cochise, a chief of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache, was the leader of an uprising that began in 1861. Cochise County, Arizona is named after him.

FYI - the great chief Mangas Coloradas was Cochise's father-in-law.

Mangas Coloradas, or Dasoda-hae
b. c. 1793; Southwest US
d. 1-18-1863; Fort McLane, New Mexico

Mangas Coloradas was a chief of the Chiricahua Apache who fought both the Mexicans, and then the Americans.

During the 1820s and 30s the main Apache enemy was the Mexicans who had just won independence from Spain in 1821. The Apache's gave safe passage through their homelands to the U.S. soldiers during the Mexican-American War in 1846, but the influx of miners lead to conflict.

He was murdered while in the custody of the US Army.

Mangas Coloradas' daughter Dos-Teh-Seh married Cochise.

Kiontwogky “Cornplanter” Giclee Print

Cornplanter
b. c. 1750; Canawaugus (Caledonia) NY
d. 2-18-1836; Warren Co., PA

Seneca war chief Kiontwogky, known as Cornplanter, was the son of a Seneca mother and a Dutch fur trader father.

He had decided to live peacefully but was drawn into the conflict known as the Revolutionary War. The Iroquois Confederacy suffered greatly from the scorched earth campaign of the victorious and vengeful Americans.

Crazy Horse
b. c. 1840
d. 9-5-1877; Red Cloud Agency, near Crawford, NE

Crazy Horse fought against the US federal government to save the traditions of the Lakota Sioux way of life. Crazy Horse Memorial is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

• Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas

Charles Curtis
b. 1-25-1860; Kansas Territory
d. 2-8-1936; Washington, DC.

Charles Curtis, who as a child lived with his maternal grandparents on the Kaw reservation, was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator, and the 31st Vice President of the United States (under Herbert Hoover). He was the first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the two highest offices in the United States government's executive branch.

• Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity