Find A Grave - Native Americans

Barnard, Timpoochee
Yuchi Leader. Born one of eight children of a Scots trader, Timothy Barnard, and a Yuchi woman. He was taught the Yuchi dialect of his mother, the English of his father, and the Muscogee dialect of the Creek people since the Yuchi people had been largely exterminated or absorbed by the Creek and Cherokee by the 18th century. Barnard served as the agent of the Lower Creeks in 1793 and 1794 and was one of the interpreters at the Treaty of Coleraine in 1796. In January 1814 Barnard was...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Fort Mitchell National Cemetery, Fort Mitchell, Russell County, Alabama, USA
Bear, Chief Yellow b. 1842 d. 1887
Native American Chief. He was a chief of the Southern Arapaho tribe. His Indian name was Wuk-Nee-Haw-Nay. He was the highest ranking warrior in the lodge and signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867. This treaty granted the Southern Arapaho a reservation between the Arkansas and Cimarron Rivers in the Indian Territory (presently Oklahoma). In 1880 he was a member of the delegation that went to Washington DC to discuss reservation boundaries. Yellow Bear and his nephew, Chief Quanah Parker, went...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Plot: SECTION IV SITE 1026-E
Bear, Sitting b. 1810 d. June 8, 1871
Native American Leader. He was one the leading Chiefs of the Kiowas and head of the Kiowa honor society called "Koitsenk", or the "Ten Bravest Warriors". He was also known as Satank and Set-Angya. Sitting Bear led numerous raids against the Northern Tribes, settlers, wagon trains and army posts. An able and couragous warrior, he was well respected by the Kiowa and Comanche. In 1867 he reluctantly signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty, but when placed on the Fort Sill Reservation in Oklahoma he...[Read More] (Bio by: Randy)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Bears, Chief Ten d. November 23, 1872
Native American Chief. He was born about 1790 and shortly thereafter was orphaned when his band was wiped out by another band of Indians, probably the Lakota tribe. His Indian name was Paruasemana (Parra-wah-ser-man-oh) and he was born into the Yamparika (Root-eaters) tribe or Northern Comanche. He first became chief of the Ketahto (Don't Wear Shoes) local band. Later he became chief of all the Yamparika division. He did not come into the attention of the Americans until 1853 when he signed the...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Fort Sill Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA
Berto, Augusto b. February 4, 1889 d. April 29, 1953
Musician, Composer. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he learned to play the bandoneon (a type of accordion) and was a noted composer of tangos. His compositions included "La Payanca," "Don Esteban," "Flora," "Qué Bronca," "The Prayer" and many others. During the 1920s to 1930s, he toured Spain, France and America, performing with the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Cementerio de la Chacarita, Buenos Aires, Capital Federal, Argentina
Plot: Panteón SADAIC, 2s 3 #372
Big Bear, Chief b. 1825 d. January 17, 1888
Cree Indian Leader. A noted leader and great warrior, Big Bear was born about 1825 near Fort Carlton to the Cree-Ojibwa chief Black Powder. Eventually becoming a Cree leader, and spokesman for discontented Indians, Big Bear refused to sign Treaty six in 1876, linking it as bait meant to trap the Indians. By 1884, he was convinced that any form of overt resistance to the white man was futile. He then cooperated with another Cree leader, Poundmaker, and urged united Indian action, in an attempt...[Read More] (Bio by: Mongoose)
Poundmaker Indian Reserve, Cut Knife, Saskatchewan, Canada
Big Foot, Chief b. 1823 d. December 29, 1890
Native American Chief. Big Foot and his people lived on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota and were among the strongest belivers in the Ghost Dance ceremony when it arrived among the Lakota in the spring of 1890. The hunger and misery that had followed the final break-up of the reservation in 1889 made the Lakota keenly receptive to the Ghost Dance message of messianic renewal, and the movement swept rapidly through their encampments, causing local Indian Agents to react with alarm...[Read More] (Bio by: Mongoose)
Wounded Knee Monument, Pine Ridge, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA
Plot: Mass Grave
Big Tree b. 1841 d. November 27, 1929
Kiowa War Chief. The first Native American tried in a civil court, a case that received international attention because it treated his acts as common criminal acts rather than crimes of a people at war. After the Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 sent the Kiowa to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma, he and other Kiowa warriors left the reservation and made continuous raids on white settlers in northwestern Texas, including scalping, torture and burning of captives. On May 18, 1871, he joined...[Read More] (Bio by: Claudia Naugle)
Rainy Mountain Cemetery, Mountain View, Kiowa County, Oklahoma, USA
Bigheart, Chief. Peter Cassi b. 1838 d. October 5, 1915
Osage Chief. He was voted principal chief on June 1, 1908 and served until his death in 1915. The 1908 election was the first held after the 1906 Osage Allotment Act created the tribal council as the governing body and mandated that it be headed by a principal chief. Prior to that, he was chief of the William Penn Band of the Tribe. He was a respected leader of his people and a negotiator who fought and delayed allotment of the reservation even after the 1893 amendment of the Dawes Act...[Read More] (Bio by: TimelessSpirits)
Fairfax Cemetery, Fairfax, Osage County, Oklahoma, USA
Black Hawk, Chief [cenotaph] b. 1767 d. October 3, 1832
Sauk Indian Leader. Indian Chief Black Hawk died in 1832 and was buried on James Jordan's farm near Iowaville. On July 3, 1839, James Turner, a local dentist, stole the corpse, fled to Quincy, Illinois, cooked off the flesh in a hog-scalding kettle, and prepared to exhibit the skeleton. The Iowa governor insisted on its return, then gave the skeleton to a physician friend, who kept it here in his Burlington office. A fire destroyed both office and bones in 1855.
Iowaville Cemetery, Selma, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA
Blackbird, Andrew Jackson b. 1815 d. September 7, 1908
Native American. He was an important figure in the history of the Odawa (Ottawa) tribe and was the son of a chief. His name was "MACK-E-TE-BE-NESSY". Educated in the traditions of the Odawa he also attended Euro-American schools including present-day Eastern Michigan University. Mr. Blackbird bought a building in Harbor Springs, Michigan around 1858, when the town was inhabited mostly by Odawa people. From here he ran the post office and wrote a history of the Odawa. He also served many other...[Read More] (Bio by: Jim Shearer)
Lakeview Cemetery, Harbor Springs, Emmet County, Michigan, USA
Boudinot, Elias b. 1802 d. June 22, 1839
Cherokee leader. Editor of the Cherokee Phoenix. Born Gallegina (also known as Buck) Watie, son of Oo-watie at Oothcaloga in the Cherokee Nation in what is now northwest Georgia, he was the elder brother of Stand Watie. He was sent to Cornwall, Connecticut, to attend the American Boarding School. He enrolled in school as Elias Boudinot after having met and been impressed by another [Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Worcester Mission Cemetery, Park Hill, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, USA
Bowles, Chief Diwali b. 1756 d. July 16, 1839
Chief Bowles was born in North Carolina about 1756. Settlers from a North Carolina settlement killed Bowles father when Bowles was a young boy and that the vengeful fourteen year old killed his fathers murderers. Chief Bowles and his people lived in the valley of the St. Francis in southeast Missouri until 1811. During that year there was a violent earthquake. The ground shook and sank in many places. The Bowles and many of his people thought that the Great Spirit was warning them to move. Many...[Read More] (Bio by: GuyB)
Chief Bowles Monument, Alto, Cherokee County, Texas, USA
Brant, Joseph 'Thayendanegea' b. 1742 d. November 24, 1807
Mohawk Leader. Born on the banks of the Ohio River to Tehonwagh' kwangeraghkwa of the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk. In his early youth, Thayendanega became a favorite of Sir William Johnson, the British Superintendent of Northern Indians of America. Thayendanega was among a number of young Mohawks who were selected by Johnson to attend Moor's Charity School for Indians at Lebanon, Connecticut where he became known as Joseph Brant. Brant left school at about age 13 and followed Sir William into...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Mohawk Chapel Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Bruner, Joseph b. September 20, 1872 d. January 13, 1957
'Uncle Joe Bruner' was the first baby born in Tulsa, Indian Territory (Oklahoma would not become a state until 1907). His parents, Lucy and John Bruner, both full-blooded Creeks came from Alabama when Tulsa was still just a settlement known among the Indians as Lokerbroker, or as they pronounced it, "Lochopoke," Turtle Clan. Ark-tar-yah-cho-chee was the Indian name given to the first baby, born Sept. 20, 1872. Joe Bruner was educated in the Creek national school in Wealaka, and later attended...[Read More] (Bio by: Wayne Sampson)
Old Sapulpa Cemetery, Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma, USA
Chalk d. September 16, 1878
Arapaho Scout. Attached to the Fourth Cavalry stationed at Fort Reno in Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) he was one of the army scouts that led Captain Joseph Rendlebrock’ s unit in pursuit of a band of Northern Cheyenne that fled the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency near Fort Reno in an event later known as the Cheyenne Outbreak. On the morning of September 13, the soldiers came within sight of the Cheyenne band. Chalk was sent to present the Cheyenne with the army’s terms for returning to...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: He was killed during an uprising with the Northern Cheyennes at Turkey Springs
Fort Reno Post Cemetery, El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma, USA
Chato, Chief Alfred b. 1860 d. August 13, 1934
Native American Tribal Chief. A Chiricahua (Great Mountain) Apache Chief and warrior, he led raiding-parties along with Apache Chiefs, Bonito, Victorio, and Geronimo killing settlers in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexican territories. Eventually he surrendered along with Bonito to General George Crook and components of his 6th Calvary on May 29, 1883. After surrendering he became a United States Army scout and led an expedition into Sierra Madre Mexico. Chato also led a peace delegation to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bedford W. Sipes)
Mescalero Indian Cemetery, Mescalero, Otero County, New Mexico, USA
Chetzemoka, Chief d. 1888
Klallam Chief. The Klallam were led by Chetzemoka's older brother S'Hai-ak when white settlers first arrived in their territory around 1851 and it was he who granted permission for their settlement, Port Townsend. When S'Hai-ak drowned soon after, Chetzemoka succeeded to leadership of the Klallam. Chetzemoka was friendly toward the new settlers who dubbed him Duke of York. In the early 1850's he traveled to San Francisco impressing Chetzemoka and solidly placing him as allied to the Americans...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Laurel Grove Cemetery, Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington, USA
Cobell, Elouise b. November 5, 1945 d. October 16, 2011
Native American Leader. An elder of the Niitsi'tapi people, she worked as treasurer of the Blackfeet Nation. During the course of her job, she noticed irregularities that led her to question the federal government's management of Indian trust funds. As a result, she became the lead plaintiff in Cobell v. Salazar, a class-action lawsuit against the United States government. The Native American plaintiffs claimed that the U.S. government had incorrectly accounted for Indian trust assets which...[Read More] (Bio by: ZenPanda)
Non-Cemetery Burial, Buried on the family ranch in Glacier County, Montana
Cochise, Chief b. 1823 d. June 8, 1874
Actual date of birth unknown. "Cochise," derived from the Apache word "cheis," or "oak," led his Chokonen Apaches (rising sun people), often called Chiricahuas, through their first conflicts and dealings with the United States. He was among the most powerful and respected of Apache leaders and his influence extended far beyond his own band. He was one of the few Apache leaders whose influence transcended his own band and could bring together many of the diverse family groups that made up the...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Schaller)
Body lost or destroyed, Buried in the Dragoon Mountains of Arizona, location unknown.

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