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List of Taínos. This is a list of known Taíno, some of whom were caciques (male and female tribal chiefs ). Their names are in ascending alphabetical order and the table may be re-sorted by clicking on the arrows in the column header cells. The Taíno were the indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser ...
1863–1950. 1870–1890s. Lakota. A prominent Wichasha Wakan of the Oglala Lakota, he was a combatant at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. During the late 1880s, he was involved in the Ghost Dance movement and was injured at the Wounded Knee Massacre . Black Hawk. 1767–1838. 1810s–1830s. Sauk.
Running Eagle was oldest among her siblings and was residing in Southern Alberta, Canada. [ 5] She was also known as "Brown Weasel Woman." She was born into the Piikáni Piegan Tribe of the Blackfeet Nation. [ 6] Running Eagle had three younger sisters and two brothers. [ 7] As a child, she preferred to play with boys rather than girls, and at ...
Márohu. God of the moon and of rain, rainstorms, and floods; Boinayel's twin brother. Maketaori Guayaba. The god of Coaybay or Coabey, the land of the dead. Opiyel Guabiron. A dog-shaped god that watched over the dead; often associated with the Greek Cerberus .
According to oral tradition, she knocked Custer off his horse at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Buffalo Calf Road Woman, or Brave Woman, ( c. 1844 [ 1] – 1879) was a Northern Cheyenne woman who saved her wounded warrior brother, Chief Comes in Sight, in the Battle of the Rosebud (as it was named by the United States) in June 1876.
List of women warriors in folklore. The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred ...
Chief Earth Woman was a nineteenth-century Ojibwa woman and a significant figure in Ojibwa history. [ 1] She claimed that she had gained supernatural powers from a dream, and for this reason, accompanied the men on the warpath. [ 2] While some Ojibwa warrior women responded to necessity, Chief Earth Woman chose to become a warrior, entering ...
Pages in category "Native American women in warfare" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.