List of fictional Native Americans facts for kids
This is the list of fictional Native Americans from notable works of fiction (literatures, films, television shows, video games, etc.). It is organized by the examples of the fictional indigenous peoples of the United States, ones that are historical and others that are modern.
Contents
Literature
This section contains examples of the writing of both native and non-native authors.
| Native American | Work | Notes | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agnes Adams | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | The Spokane Indian who lives on the Spokane Indian reservation in her life. She is the mother of Arnold Spirit Jr. | Sherman Alexie |
| Arnold Spirit Jr. (Junior) | A 14-year-old boy who lives on the reservation with his parents. | ||
| Arnold Spirit Sr. | Junior's father who could have been a jazz musician. | ||
| Zits (Michael) | Flight | A 15-year-old boy who is the foster child and the main character of the story. | |
| Thomas Builds-the-Fire | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | The character who appears in "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona". | |
| Victor Joseph | One of the main characters of the short story collection. | ||
| Coyote Springs | Reservation Blues | An all-Indian rock and blues band of the Spokane tribe. | |
| Esselen Girl | The Lariat | She was the first Esselen Indian to be converted by Spanish Franciscan friar Fray Luis. | Jaime de Angulo |
| Hualala | The medicine man and the husband of the Esselen Girl. | ||
| Little Bear | The Indian in the Cupboard | A small plastic figurine that magically comes to life in a cupboard. He also appeared in the following sequels:
|
Lynne Reid Banks |
| Great Big Little Panther | Peter and Wendy | The big chief of the Native Americans, known as the "Redskins", of the Pickaninny tribe in the fictional island of Neverland. | J. M. Barrie |
| Tiger Lily | The tribal princess of the Redskins and the daughter of Great Big Little Panther. | ||
| Shining Pearl | Peter and the Secret of Rundoon | The daughter of Chief Fighting Prawn and the analog of Tiger Lily. | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |
| Fighting Prawn | Peter and the Starcatchers | The chieftain of the fictional Mollusk Tribe. | |
| Cheyenne people | Little Big Man |
|
Thomas Berger |
| Kicking Bird | Dances with Wolves | The Sioux medicine man. | Michael Blake |
| Stands-With-A-Fist | She is the adoptive daughter of Kicking Bird and the wife of Lieutenant John Dunbar (aka Dances-with-Wolves). | ||
| Chief Ten Bears | |||
| Winds-In-His-Hair | A Sioux warrior. | ||
| Wolf | Tiger Eyes | A mysterious native climber. | Judy Blume |
| Running Dog | Black Fox | Matt Braun | |
| Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson | Mercy Thompson series | The young Blackfoot woman who is a "Walker", a shapeshifter in which she turns into a coyote in the night though not linked to the moon. | Patricia Briggs |
| Zack Banning | Comanche Moon | The son of the Comanche chief. | Virginia Brown |
| Waukewa | Waukewa's Eagle | A young Indian boy who befriends a broken-winged eagle. | James Buckham |
| Toriano | Adobe Walls | The son of the Apache Chief. | W. R. Burnett |
| Corby | Children of the Dust | The Cheyenne boy. | Clancy Carlile |
| Chingachgook | Leatherstocking Tales | The Mohican chief and the companion of Natty Bumppo. | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Magua | Huron warrior in the novel The Last of the Mohicans. | ||
| Uncas | Chingachgook's son | ||
| Hard Heart | The Prairie | A brave, trustworthy Pawnee warrior. | |
| Chief Mahtoree | A crafty Teton Sioux chief. | ||
| Tachechana | The wife of Mahtoree. | ||
| Soft Rain | Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears | A young Cherokee girl who lives in the Tsalagi community of North Carolina with her parents and her younger brother, Hawk Boy. | Cornelia Cornelissen |
| Scarface | The Book of Myths | A scarred Native American warrior who is rewarded to marry the Chief's daughter after saving the Sun God's son, Morning Star, from giant birds of prey. | Amy Cruse |
| She-Who-Is-Alone | The Legend of the Bluebonnet | A Comanche girl who has lost her parents. Based on the original Native American folklore, retold and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. (This was later adapted as the 2nd story of "Tales of the First People, Vol I: Spirit Tales" in 2016) | Tomie dePaola |
| Morning Girl and Star Boy | Morning Girl | The two Taíno siblings who recreate a life on the Bahamian island. | Michael Dorris |
| Walnut/Sees-Behind-Trees | Sees Behind Trees | ||
| Christine George Taylor | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | She has been separated from her husband, Elgin Taylor. | |
| Aunt Ida George | She is a legal mother of Christine. | ||
| Rayona Diane Taylor | The half-Native American daughter of Christine and Elgin. | ||
| Cogewea | Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range | The protagonist who is both Indigenous and Euro-American. | Mourning Dove |
| Blue Back | Drums Along the Mohawk | A friendly Oneida man. | Walter D. Edmonds |
| Celestine James | The Beet Queen | The half-Native American who would become a best friend of Mary Adare. | Louise Erdrich |
| Omakayas (aka Little Frog) |
The Birchbark House | She is the main character of the story. She also appeared in the following sequels, The Game of Silence and The Porcupine Year.
Omakayas has her family included in the story:
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| Fleur Pillager | Four Souls | An Ojibwe woman. | |
| LaRose Iron | LaRose | A Native American boy and the titular character of the story. | |
| Landreaux and Emmaline Iron | The parents of LaRose Iron. | ||
| Dusty Ravich | The son of Peter and Nola Ravich and the best friend of LaRose Iron. | ||
| Father Damien Modeste | Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse | The priest of the Ojibwe people. | |
| Marie Lazarre Kashpaw | Love Medicine | She is the wife of Nector Kashpaw. | |
| Nector Kashpaw | He is the son of Rushes Bear and Kashpaw; the husband of Marie Lazarre Kashpaw. | ||
| Evelina Harp | The Plaque of Doves | The girl who is part Ojibwe and part white. | |
| Mooshum | The grandfather of Evelina Harp. | ||
| Antone "Joe" Coutts | The Round House | The 13-year-old Ojibwe son of Geraldine and Bazil Coutts. | |
| Laughing Boy | Laughing Boy | Oliver La Farge | |
| Slim Girl | |||
| Lotus | Mountain Man | A lone woman who is left alive after an Indian massacre. The historical novel that is a largely fictionalized retelling of the experiences of Liver-Eating Johnson, a real-life mountain man. | Vardis Fisher |
| Tess | Soldier Sister, Fly Home | A 13-year-old girl who is having a hard time understanding what it means to be part Navajo and part white; a sister of Gaby. A story that is inspired by the death of Lori Piestewa, illustrated by Shonto Begay. | Nancy Bo Flood |
| Chief Bear | Thirteen Moons | The local chief of the Cherokee Nation. | Charles Frazier |
| Featherstone | |||
| Billie Wind | The Talking Earth | A girl of the Seminole tribe who has to find the answers to believe the legends about the earth spirits and talking animals. | Jean Craighead George |
| Apaches and Comanches | Savage Sam | A group of Indians who can abduct Travis and Arliss Coates and Lisbeth Searcy. | Fred Gipson |
| Dark Water | An Undisturbed Peace | The daughter of the powerful Cherokee chief and one of the main characters of the story. | Mary Glickman |
| Crow Chief | Crow Chief: A Plains Indian Story | Paul Goble | |
| Falling Star | The savior. | ||
| Brave Indian Boy | The Gift of the Sacred Dog | ||
| Indian Girl | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | ||
| Iktomi | Iktomi series | The Plains Indian trickster. | |
| Chief's Daughter | Star Boy | Retold and illustrated by Paul Goble. | |
| Star Boy | The son of Morning Star and Evening Star and the titular character of the story. | ||
| Morning Plume | The Storm Maker's Tipi | One of the two Blackfoot hunters. | |
| Sacred Otter | The father of Morning Plume and one of the two Blackfoot hunters. | ||
| Nophaie | The Vanishing American | A young Navajo and the main character of the story. | Zane Grey |
| Blackfoot Chief | The Big Sky | The tribal chief of the Blackfeet and the late father of Teal Eye. | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
| Teal Eye | The Blackfoot princess and the wife of Boone Caudill. | ||
| Chief Heavy Runner | Fair Land, Fair Land | The Blackfoot chief. | |
| Little Wing | The granddaughter of the Shoshone chief and the wife of Hezekiah Higgins. | ||
| Bernadette Manuelito | Leaphorn & Chee series | The wife of Officer Jim Chee. She was formerly a federal Customs Patrol Officer and is now a Navajo Tribal Police Officer. | Tony Hillerman and Anne Hillerman |
| Jim Chee | One of the two Navajo Tribal Police Officers. | ||
| Joe Leaphorn | One of the two Navajo Tribal Police Officers and the "Legendary Lieutenant". | ||
| Wusamequin | Spirited | A young medicine man who alerts his warriors to capture Isabella Sevens and her father. A retelling of Beauty and the Beast and an homage to The Last of the Mohicans. | Nancy Holder |
| Ezol Day | Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story | A postal clerk in the Indian Territory. | LeAnne Howe |
| Hope Little Leader | A Choctaw pitcher for the fictitious team of the Miko Kings. | ||
| Buffalo Horn | Flaming Star | He was a native hunter. | Clair Huffaker |
| Pacer Burton | He is a half-breed, half Native American and half white. | ||
| Soldat du Chene | Little House on the Prairie | He is the French-speaking chief of the Osage Nation in Kansas, loosely based on the real-life Osage chief. | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Alessandro Assis | Ramona | A young native sheepherder. | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| Ramona | The title character who is a Scottish-Native American orphan girl, raised by Señora Gonzaga Moreno. | ||
| Fish Hawk | Old Fish Hawk | The last of the Osage Indians. | Mitchell F. Jayne |
| Melissa Little Brid | The Cold Dish | A local Indian girl. | Craig Johnson |
| Henry Standing Bear | Walt Longmire series | A Cheyenne man who is a friend of Sheriff Walt Longmire. | |
| John Morgan/Shunkawakan | A Man Called Horse | Although John Morgan was not born to the Sioux natives but to be a Boston aristocrat, he was at first being held captive by those people until he later became a member of their tribe. His Native-American name Shunkawakan means "Horse" in the Sioux language for he was treated as a horse. | Dorothy M. Johnson |
| Chief Yellow Hand | He is the chief of the Sioux tribe. | ||
| Inuit Girl | Mama, Do You Love Me? | Illustrated by Barbara Lavallee. | Barbara M. Joosse |
| Mama | The mother of an Inuit girl. | ||
| Bromden | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | A large yet docile half-Native American "chief" who is mute and deaf; the first person narrator of the story. | Ken Kesey |
| Lum | Truth and Bright Water | The cousin of Tecumseh and the son of tribal leader Franklin. | Thomas King |
| Tecumseh | A 15-year-old Blackfoot boy of the Truth town in rural Montana and the first person narrator of the story; the son of Helen and Elvin and the nephew of Auntie Cassie. He is named after the famous Shawnee chief. | ||
| Turtle | The Bean Trees; Pigs in Heaven |
A three-year-old Cherokee girl who was adopted by Taylor Greer. | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Chief Scar | The Searchers | The tribal leader of the band of Comanches, known as Nawyecka. | Alan Le May |
| A Frog Girl | Frog Girl | Girl travels through underground of frogs, saves her town, and sets free frogs that were captured. | Paul Owen Lewis |
| The Yeehats | The Call of the Wild | The Native American group. | Jack London |
| Grey Beaver | White Fang | A Native American chief who is the first master of a wolfdog, White Fang. | |
| Hiawatha | The Song of Hiawatha | An Ojibwe warrior in the 1855 epic poem. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Minnehaha | She was a Dakota woman who was the lover of Hiawatha. | ||
| Mudjekeewis | Loosely based on the Ojibwe mythological spirit of the same name. | ||
| Nokomis | Hiawatha's grandmother who fell from the Moon. | ||
| Ruby and Mogie Yellow Lodge | Skins | The Lakota Sioux brothers of the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation. | Adrian C. Louis |
| Renee LaRoche | Along the Journey River | Renee is the first "openly out Indigenous lesbian" in a detective novel. | Carole LaFavor |
| Pearce | Breakheart Pass | The Indian agent and lawman. | Alistair MacLean |
| Strong Wind | The Indian Cinderella | He is the Indian warrior who goes invisible and later ends up marrying the Chief's disfigured daughter. | Cyrus MacMillan |
| Rough-Faced Girl | The Rough-faced Girl | An Algonquin girl who is disfigured but has to win over a mysterious man, the Invisible Being, to be his bride. A retelling folklore inspired by Cinderella, illustrated by David Shannon. | Rafe Martin |
| Nscho-tschi | Old Firehand | She was the daughter of the late Chief Intschu-tschuna and the sister of Chief Winnetou. | Karl May |
| Winnetou | He is the Native American hero who succeeds his father Intschu-tschuna as the chief of the Mescalero Apache. He is a friend and blood brother of German cowboy Old Shatterhand. | ||
| Kimmy | Grandmother's Dreamcatcher | Illustrated by Stacey Schuett. | Becky Ray McCain |
| Chippewa Grandmother | The grandmother of Kimmy. | ||
| Blue Duck | Lonesome Dove series | The leader of a band of renegade Indians and Caucasian bandits; the son of Chief Buffalo Hump. | Larry McMurtry |
| Chief Buffalo Hump | The Comanche war-chief and the father of Blue Duck. Based on the real-life Buffalo Hump. | ||
| Kicking Wolf | The Comanche warrior and accomplished horse thief. | ||
| Catherine LaLoup Leon | The Surrounded | The daughter of the Salish chief, wife of Max Leon, and the mother of Archilde Leon. | D'Arcy McNickle |
| Taha Aki | Twilight | He was one of the last spirit chiefs and the first shape-shifter of the Quileute tribe in La Push, Washington. | Stephenie Meyer |
| Billy Black | The elder of the Quileute tribe. | ||
| Ephraim Black | He was the last chief of the Quileute tribe and the great-grandfather of Jacob Black. | ||
| Jacob Black | An attractive protector of the Quileute tribe and the son of Billy Black. | ||
| Harry Clearwater | He was the elder of the Quileute tribe who died of a heart attack in New Moon. | ||
| Leah Clearwater | She is the daughter of Harry and Sue Clearwater, who is the only known female shape-shifting wolf in the history of the Quileute tribe. | ||
| Seth Clearwater | Leah's younger brother who transforms into a wolf around the same time as his sister. | ||
| Sam Uley | He is the Alpha, or the leader, and the oldest member of the La Push pack; the ex-boyfriend of Leah Clearwater. When he was young, Sam and his mother Allison had been abandoned by his father Joshua. | ||
| Lame Beaver | Centennial | The Arapaho warrior and chieftain and one of the main characters of the story. | James A. Michener |
| Abel | House Made of Dawn | The main character of the story. | N. Scott Momaday |
| Moyo | Runaway Papoose | A young Navajo shepherd boy. Illustrated by Carl Moon. | Grace Moon |
| Nah-tee | A four-year-old Indian girl. | ||
| Azákia | Ouabi; Or the Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos | A woman of the Illinois Indian tribe. | Sarah Wentworth Morton |
| Ouábi | The husband of Azákia. | ||
| Logan | Logan | Based on Logan the Orator | John Neal |
| Tituba | Rachel Dyer | Based on Tituba | |
| Karana/Won-a-pa-lei | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Based upon a true story of Juana Maria, illustrated by Ted Lewin. Karana is a sister of Ramo and Ulape and the main character of the story. | Scott O'Dell |
| Bright Morning | Sing Down the Moon | The girl of the Navajo tribe and the main character of the story. | |
| Zia | Zia | The older sister of Mando and the niece of the late Karana; the mother of Rontu, Karana and young Mando. | |
| Chief Spotted Wolf | Arrow in the Sun | The legendary Cheyenne chieftain. | T. V. Olsen |
| Blue | There There | The girl who lives in the area of Oakland, California. | Tommy Orange |
| Calvin Johnson | A young native man | ||
| Jacquie Red Feather | A counselor. | ||
| Octavio Gomez | A cousin of Daniel Gonzales. | ||
| Orvil Red Feather | A Cheyenne teenage grandson of Jacquie Red Feather. | ||
| Thomas Frank | A Cheyenne drummer who worked formerly as a custodian at the Indian Center. | ||
| Chief Showcase | Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down | The last surviving native in the fictional Yellow Back Radio region. | Ishmael Reed |
| Me’ma | Me’ma and the Great Mountain | The indigenous girl of an oppressed village called Sunken Creek. | Lorin Morgan Richards |
| Kimi | Blue Birds | A girl from the Roanoke tribe who befriends with the English girl named Alis. | Caroline Starr Rose |
| Elk | The Horsecatcher | An adolescent Cheyenne and the main character who wants to be a wild horse tamer; the son of Elk River, nephew of Owl Friend, and younger brother of Two Wolves. | Mari Sandoz |
| Elk River | The headman of the band of Southern Cheyenne people and the father of Two Wolves and Elk. | ||
| Buddy Red Bird | The Powwow Highway | The member of the Cheyenne tribe in Lame Deer, Montana. | David Seals |
| Moki | The Biography of a Grizzly | A Cree Indian and one of the main characters of the story. | Ernest Thompson Seton |
| Kwani | Kwani series | An eponymous character who was born into the long extinct fictional Anasazi tribe. | Linda Lay Shuler |
| Tayo | Ceremony | The Laguna Pueblo man and the central character of the story who is half-Pueblo and half-white. | Leslie Marmon Silko |
| Attean | The Sign of the Beaver | He is the grandson of the Indian chief. | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Rick | The Culled | The main protagonist who belongs to the Haudenosaunee people. | Simon Spurrier |
| Martha Tom | Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom | A young Choctaw girl who befriends with a slave and his son, Little Mo. | Tim Tingle |
| Danny Blackgoat | Danny Blackgoat series | A Navajo teenage boy. | |
| Rose Goode | House of Purple Cedar | A Choctaw girl who escapes as twenty other native girls have died when the Choctaw community, Skullyville, has been destroyed; the granddaughter of Amafo and Pokoni. | |
| Isaac | How I Became a Ghost; When a Ghost Talks, Listen |
A Choctaw boy who did not survived the Trail of Tears and ended up becoming a ghost. | |
| Sarah Nita | The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow | A Navajo girl, in part of the Dear America book series. | Ann Turner |
| Injun Joe | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | The nemesis of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. | Mark Twain |
| Shining Lighttower | Battle Cry | A Navajo Indian who is a member of the radio squad. | Leon Uris |
| Fast Horse | Fools Crow | The son of Boss Ribs and a friend of Fools Crows. | James Welch |
| Fools Crow/White Man's Dog | The son of Chief Rides-at-the-Door and Double Strike Woman. | ||
| Red Paint | She is the wife of Fools Crow and the daughter of Heavy Shield Woman and Yellow Kidney, leader of the horse raid. | ||
| Running Fisher | The brother of Fools Crow. | ||
| Charging Elk | The Heartsong of Charging Elk | The Oglala Sioux man. | |
| Virgil First Raise | Winter in the Blood | The main character and the first person narrator of the story. | |
| Massai | Broncho Apache | The last Apache warrior, based on the real-life Massai. | Paul Wellman |
Comics
| Native American | Comic title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Big Chief Keen-eyed-Mole | The Adventures of Tintin | The sachem of the Blackfoot Indians. |
| Akwas | Akwas | The titular character of the comic strip. |
| Super-Chief Flying Stag | All-Star Western | The 15th-century Iroquois. |
| Thomas Fireheart ("Puma") | The Amazing Spider-Man | He is a werecat of Native American descent. |
| Charles Little Sky ("Portal") | The Avengers | He is a Native American mutant superhero from Hartsdale, New Mexico, who is a director of A.R.M.O.R. |
| William Talltrees | A man who is known as "Red Wolf" and is born in modern times in Wolf Point, Montana; the son of the Cheyenne tribal leader, Thomas Talltrees. | |
| Little Plum | The Beano | Little Plum-Stealing-Varmint |
| Chini | Blueberry | Daughter of the aging Chief Cochise of the Navajo tribe, who is in the love triangle between Blueberry and Vittorio. |
| Lone Eagle/Quanah | The cruel Apache Indian determined to defeat the white people who does his best to urge the Navajos to wage war. | |
| Chinook | Buddy Longway | A young Sioux Native American woman who is married to a trapper, Buddy Longway, with whom she has two children Jeremy and Kathleen. |
| Jesse Black Crow | Captain America | |
| Chief Medicine Crow | Cowboys & Aliens | The leader of the Apache Indians. |
| Warhawk | The Apache warrior. | |
| Geronimo Jr. ("G-Junior") | Cyborg 009 | Also known as Cyborg 005, he is a Native American who becomes the strongman of the 00 Cyborgs. A Japanese manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori. |
| Maya Lopez ("Echo") | Daredevil | A Native American superheroine who has been raised by the evil Kingpin |
| Wyatt Wingfoot | Fantastic Four | The member of the fictional Keewazi Indian reservation in Oklahoma and the supporting character. |
| Wildrun | Fantastic Four Annual | He is known as the Red Wolf of the 19th century in the Wild West. |
| Black Condor | Freedom Fighters | The team member of the Freedom Fighters. |
| Charlie Iron-Knife ("Spirit") | G.I. Joe | He is the member and original tracker of the G.I. Joe Team who was born to the poor Native American family in the Taos Pueblo Reservation. |
| John Proudstar ("Thunderbird") | Giant-Size X-Men | An Apache Indian and a Human Mutant who was a short-lived member of the X-Men. |
| Young Raven | High Moon | The granddaughter of a legendary Native American character, Raven the Trickster; she is a Red Indian mystic and the lover of the African American outlaw, Eddie Conroy. |
| Manitou Dawn and Manitou Raven | Justice League | The team members; Raven is a variant of the television character Apache Chief. |
| Super-Chief Jon Standing Bear | The team member of the Justice League of America. | |
| Equinox | Justice League United | The team member. |
| Dawnstar | Legion of Super-Heroes | Her home planet of Starhaven was colonized by the Native Americans. |
| Lonesome Polecat | Li'l Abner | |
| Johnny Wakely | Marvel Spotlight | He was adopted by the white couple in the late 19th century. |
| Jason Strongbow ("American Eagle") | Marvel Two-in-One | He is a member of the Navajo Nation who attempted to seize a mining company from excavating a mountain sacred to his tribe. |
| Danielle "Dani" Moonstar | The New Mutants | She is a North Cheyenne superheroine who is one of the mutants as well as a member of the X-Men, Young X-Men and Fearless Defenders. |
| James Jonathan Proudstar ("Warpath") | New Mutants | Also known as "Thunderbird", he is the younger brother of the late John Proudstar and the member of the New Mutants. |
| Ompa-pa | Oumpah-pah | The native of the fictional Flatfeet tribe. |
| Bunnokees | Popol Out West | The Native American rabbits. |
| Wildstar | R.E.B.E.L.S. | The ancestor of Dawnstar. |
| Jake Red Cloud | Red Cloud Comics | He is a Native American of Quechua and Lakota ancestry who possesses mutant superhuman strength and speed. |
| Little Beaver | Red Ryder | He is the juvenile Indian sidekick of Red Ryder. |
| Thomas Thunderhead | Red Wolf | |
| Chief Redeye | Redeye | An overweight chief of the fictional Chickiepan tribe and the father of Tawnee and Pokey. |
| Tanglefoot | A cowardly and stupid warrior of the Chickiepan tribe. | |
| Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse | Scalped | Also known as Dashiell Bradford, he is a full-blooded Oglala Lakota who left the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation at age fifteen before his return with a vengeance. |
| Dino Poor Bear | A young man who struggles to make a living on the reservation and encounters Dash. | |
| Gina Bad Horse | The estranged mother of Dash and a longtime activist who pushes for the rights of the Indians. | |
| Chief Lincoln Red Crow (aka John Rayfield Bustill) | A bullish Lakota elder who is the President of the Oglala Tribal Council and the Sheriff of the Tribal Police. | |
| Minnie Ha-Cha | Steve Roper and Mike Nomad | She is the girlfriend of Chief Wahoo. |
| Chief Wahoo | He is one of the main characters of the comic strip. | |
| Super-Chief Saganowahna | Superman | The member of Supermen of America. |
| Lilyth | Tex | She was the daughter of the Navajo Chief and the wife of Tex Willer. |
| Red Cloud | The Navajo shaman. | |
| Tex Willer (aka Eagle of the Night) | Besides being a Texas ranger, he becomes the tribal chief of the Navajo as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs agent when he is married to the late Lilyth. | |
| Tiger Jack | The Navajo warrior. | |
| Moon Fawn | Tomahawk | She was the daughter of Chief Grey Elk of the Apaches, sister of Wise Owl and the wife of Tom Haukins. |
| Little Pigeon | Tumbleweeds | The daughter of the Poohawk Chief who is a "flower among the weeds". She has five suitors: Limpid Lizard, Green Gills, Lotsa Luck, Bucolic Buffalo, and Hulking Hawk. |
| Turok | Turok, Son of Stone | A Native American warrior who first appeared in Four Color Comics. |
| Ukala | Ukala | Protagonist of the comic strip. |
| Forge | Uncanny X-Men | He is from the Cheyenne nation and the member of the X-Men. |
| Bright-Sky-After-Storm ("Arak") | The Warlord | The son of Star-of-Dawn of the fictional Quontauka tribe. |
| Ohiyesa "Pow Wow" Smith | Western Comics | The character who started in Detective Comics. |
| Silver Fox | Wolverine | A member of the First Nation Blackfoot Confederacy who works for the HYDRA terrorist organization and is the former love interest of Wolverine. |
| Buffalo Seed | Yakari | A Sioux boy who dreams of becoming the greatest hunter. |
| Rainbow | A Sioux girl and a friend of Yakari. | |
| The-One-Who-Knows | The chief and shaman of the Sioux tribe. | |
| Yakari | The main title character who has the ability to talk to animals. | |
| Chief Zilverpijl/Silver Arrow | Zilverpijl | The eponymous character who is a resourceful and wise chief of the Kiowa; the blood brother of Falcon and Moonbeam. |
| Jenny Everywhere | Jenny Everywhere | A superhero who exists in all universes at once. |
Theatre
| Native American | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Lonesome Polecat | Li'l Abner | 1956 Broadway musical based on the comic strip of the same name. |
| Metamora | Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags | The member of the Wampanoags and the protagonist of the 1829 play by John Augustus Stone. |
| Nehmeokee | The wife of Metamora. | |
| "Chief" Bromden | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1963 play by Dale Wasserman, based on Ken Kesey's novel of the same name. |
| Chief Fighting Prawn | Peter and the Starcatcher | 2009 play based on the children's novel of the same name. |
| Great Big Little Panther | Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up | The 1904 theatre play by J. M. Barrie prior to his novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. |
| Tiger Lily |
Film
Live action
| Native American | Film title | Notes | Portrayed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galasko | Alone yet Not Alone | A strong Indian warrior. Based on the novel of the same name by Tracy Leininger Craven. | Ozzie Torres |
| Hannawoa | The brother of Galasko. | Tony Wade | |
| Sam Birdwater | Americathon | A billionaire leader of the natives. | Chief Dan George |
| Massai | Apache | 1954 film that was based on the novel Broncho Apache by Paul Wellman. | Burt Lancaster |
| Chief Victorio | Apache Drums | The tribal leader of the Mescalero Apaches. Based on the unpublished story Stand at Spanish Boot by Harry Brown. | N/A |
| Chato | Apache Warrior | George Keymas | |
| Chikisin | Dehl Berti | ||
| Katawan | Better known as "Apache Kid", he is the protagonist of the film. | Keith Larsen | |
| Marteen | Rodolfo Acosta | ||
| Chief Nantan | John Miljan | ||
| Native American Chief | The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | Nick Ramus | |
| Chief Chattez | Arrowhead | The Apache chief. Based on the novel Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett. | Frank de Kova |
| Toriana | The son of Chief Chattez and one of the main characters of the film. | Jack Palance | |
| Chief Tahlequah | Badman's Territory | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Pvt. Shining Lighttower | Battle Cry | The Navajo phonetalkers. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Leon Uris. | Jonas Applegarth |
| Pvt. Crazy Horse | Felix Noriego | ||
| Pike Dexter | Big Eden | A shy and quiet Native American who owns the local general store and has a crush on gay artist Henry Hart (Arye Gross). | Eric Schweig |
| Teal Eye | The Big Sky | Based on the novel of the same name by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | Elizabeth Threatt |
| Black Cloud | Black Cloud | A Navajo man and the titular character of the film. | Eddie Spears |
| Sammi | The girlfriend of Black Cloud. | Julia Jones | |
| Black Buffalo | The Black Dakotas | The son of Chief War Cloud, who desires the extermination of all of the white people. | Jay Silverheels |
| Chief War Cloud | Black Buffalo's father and the chief of the Sioux tribe. | John War Eagle | |
| Indian Chief | Blazing Saddles | The Yiddish-speaking Native American chief. | Mel Brooks (also the director of the film) |
| Johnny Black Hawk | Bone Eater | A Native American who agitates for violence. | Adoni Maropis |
| Sheriff Steve Evans | He is the local sheriff who is half Native American. | Bruce Boxleitner | |
| Chief Storm Cloud | The local Indian chief. | Michael Horse | |
| Tall Trees | Bone Tomahawk | An educated Native American who is called "the professor". | Zahn McClarnon |
| Chief White Hand | Breakheart Pass | The tribal chief of the natives. Based on the novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. | Eddie Little Sky |
| Black Hawk | Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Running Deer | Rodd Redwing | ||
| Chief White Cloud | Chief Yowlachie | ||
| Aristotle Joseph | The Business of Fancydancing | The Spokane man of the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington state. | Gene Tagaban |
| Seymour Polatkin | A gay Spokane poet and the main character. | Evan Adams | |
| Blackfoot People | Cattle Queen of Montana |
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Lance Fuller Anthony Caruso Rodd Redwing Yvette Dugay |
| White Bull Legrew | Cold Pursuit | The rival of Trevor "Viking" Calcote (Tom Bateman). The 2019 remake of the 2014 Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance. | Tom Jackson |
| Blue Eagle | The Cowboy and the Indians | Frank Lackteen | |
| Lakoma | Jay Silverheels | ||
| Chief Long Arrow | Chief Yowlachie | ||
| Lucy Broken Arm | Claudia Drake | ||
| Black Knife | Cowboys & Aliens | The Chiricahua Apache chief. Based on the graphic novel of the same name. | Raoul Trujillo |
| Ben Logan | Crooked Arrows | The traditionalist Tribal Chairman and the father of Joe Logan. | Gil Birmingham |
| Joe Logan | The mixed-blood Native American who is also known as "Logan the Legend". | Brandon Routh | |
| Nadie Logan | Chelsea Ricketts | ||
| Black Shawl | Dances with Wolves | 1990 film based on the famous novel of the same name by Michael Blake. | Tantoo Cardinal |
| Kicking Bird | The Sioux medicine man. | Graham Greene | |
| Otter | Michael Spears | ||
| Smiles-A-Lot | A Sioux youth. | Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse | |
| Stands-With-A-Fist | The adoptive daughter of Kicking Bird. | Mary McDonnell | |
| Stone Calf | Jimmy Herman | ||
| Chief Ten Bears | Floyd Westerman | ||
| Wind-In-His-Hair | A Sioux warrior. | Rodney A. Grant | |
| Worm | Jason R. Lone Hill | ||
| Jim Chee | The Dark Wind | Based on the novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman. | Lou Diamond Phillips |
| Joe Leaphorn | Fred Ward | ||
| Black Wolf | Daughter of Dawn | An 83-minute-long silent film. | Jack Sankadota |
| Dawn | The daughter of the chief of Kiowa and the main character. | Esther LeBarre | |
| Kiowa Chief | Hunting Horse | ||
| Red Wing | These characters are portrayed by the children of Comanche leader Quanah Parker. | Wanada Parker | |
| White Eagle | White Parker | ||
| High Tree | Davy Crockett, Indian Scout | William Wilkerson | |
| Red Hawk | The innocent partner of Davy Crockett (George Montgomery). | Phillip Reed | |
| Sleeping Fox | Chief Thundercloud | ||
| Brother Wolf | The Dead and the Damned | An Apache warrior | Rick Mora |
| Nobody | Dead Man | A Native American who was forcibly raised by whites. | Gary Farmer |
| Hunter | The Doe Boy | A young Cherokee man who is a haemophiliac. | James Duval (adult) Andrew J. Ferchland (child) |
| Marvin Fishinghawk | Gordon Tootoosis | ||
| Pete Chasing Horse | Dreamkeeper | A Lakota elder and a storyteller. | August Schellenberg |
| Sam Chasing Horse | The father of Shane Chasing Horse. | Gil Birmingham | |
| Shane Chasing Horse | The 17-years-old Lakota grandson of Pete Chasing Horse. | Eddie Spears | |
| Blue Back | Drums Along the Mohawk | Based on the novel of the same name by Walter D. Edmonds. | Chief John Big Tree |
| Santana | El Condor | The Apache chief. | Iron Eyes Cody |
| Chief Grey Bear | End of the Trail | Basil F. Heath | |
| Nurse St. Cloud | Ernest Goes to Camp | The granddaughter of Chief St. Cloud. | Victoria Racimo |
| Old Indian 'Chief St. Cloud' | The Indian owner of Kamp Kikakee. | Iron Eyes Cody | |
| Chief Black Hawk | Fighting Pioneers | Chief Standing Bear | |
| Eagle Feathers | Chief Thundercloud | ||
| Wa-No-Na | The daughter of Chief Black Hawk. | Ruth Mix | |
| Tall Eagle | Firewalker | Will Sampson | |
| Fish Hawk | Fish Hawk | 1979 film based on the novel Old Fish Hawk by Mitchell F. Jayne. | Will Sampson |
| Buffalo Horn | Flaming Star | Based on the novel of the same name by Clair Huffaker. | Rodolfo Acosta |
| Pacer Burton | He is a mixed-blood, son of the Kiowa woman and the Texan man. | Elvis Presley | |
| Yaqui | Four Guns to the Border | Jay Silverheels | |
| Cora Smallhill | Four Sheets to the Wind | The mother of Cufe and Miri Smallhill. | Jeri Arredondo |
| Cufe Smallhill | One of the main characters of the film. | Cody Lightning | |
| Frankie Smallhill | Richard Ray Whitman | ||
| Miri Smallhill | The sister of Cufe Smallhill. | Tamara Podemski | |
| Grey Bear | Frontier Fury | Stanley Brown (uncredited) | |
| Aranjo | The Ghost Dance | The local Indian shaman. | Henry Bal |
| Nahalla | The evil spirit of a long-dead warrior who possesses Aranjo. | ||
| Grayeagle | Grayeagle | The man of the Cheyenne nation and the title character of the film. | Alex Cord |
| Running Wolf | The Cheyenne chief. | Paul Fix | |
| Scar | A Shoshone warrior. | Jacob Daniels | |
| Standing Bear | One of the main characters of the film. | Iron Eyes Cody | |
| Crow Chief | The Hallelujah Trail | The tribal chief of the Crow people. | Eddie Little Sky |
| Chief Five Barrels | One of the tribal Sioux chiefs. | Robert J. Wilke | |
| Chief Walks-Stooped-Over | The second chief of the Sioux. | Martin Landau | |
| Sam Two Feathers | Harry and Tonto | Chief Dan George | |
| Acacia | Hex | The two daughters of the recently deceased Native American shaman. | Hillarie Thompson |
| Oriole | Tina Herazo | ||
| Hiawatha | Hiawatha |
Based on the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. |
Jesse Cornplanter (1913) Vince Edwards (1952) Frederick Warder (1984) Gary "Litefoot" Davis (1997) |
| Minnehaha |
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Soon-Goot (1913) Yvette Dugay (1952) Terry Diab (1984) Irene Bedard (1997) |
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| Mudjekeewis |
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Stuart Randall (1952) Russell Means (1997) |
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| Nokomis |
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Katherine Emery (1952) Yvonne Bryceland (1984) Sheila Tousey (1997) |
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| Chief Megissogwon | Hiawatha | The leader of the Dakotah tribe and the father of Hiawatha. | Ian MacDonald |
| Black Hawk | Hostiles | He is the son of the Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk. | Adam Beach |
| Elk Woman | The wife of Black Hawk and the sister-in-law of Living Woman. | Q'orianka Kilcher | |
| Little Bear | He is the son of Black Hawk and Elk Woman. | Xavier Horsechief | |
| Living Woman | She is the sister of Black Hawk and the daughter of Yellow Hawk. | Tanaya Beatty | |
| Yellow Hawk | Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk, the sickly and imprisoned war-chief and one of the main characters of the film; the father of Black Hawk and Living Woman and the grandfather of Little Bear. | Wes Studi | |
| Chief Little Pain-in-the-Neck | Hurry, Charlie, Hurry | Janette Fern | |
| Moaning Low | Connie Montoya | ||
| Chief Poison Arrow | Noble Johnson | ||
| Little Bear | The Indian in the Cupboard | 1995 film based on the children's novel of the same name. | Gary "Litefoot" Davis |
| Chief Yellow Snake | The Indians Are Coming | 1930 serial film based on the book The Great West That Was by William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. | Chief Thunderbird (uncredited) |
| Karana | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Based on the novel of the same name by Scott O'Dell. | Celia Kaye |
| Ramo | Karana's six-year-old brother. | Larry Domasin | |
| Chief Paint-His-shirt-Red | Jeremiah Johnson | The chief of the Crow tribe. | Joaquín Martínez |
| Chief Two-Tongues Lebreaux | 1972 film partly based on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in the books Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker and Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher. | Richard Angarola | |
| Johnny Firecloud | Johnny Firecloud | The Vietnam War native. | Victor Mohica |
| Nenya | The teacher on the reservation. | Sacheen Littlefeather | |
| Chatow | Jonathan of the Bears | Knifewing Segura | |
| Shaya | An Indian squaw. | Melody Robertson | |
| Chief Tawanka | Floyd Westerman | ||
| Stanley Pike | Journey Through Rosebud | Eddie Little Sky | |
| Attean | Keeping the Promise | The television film based on the children's novel The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. | William Lightning |
| Chief Saknis | The grandfather of Attean. | Gordon Tootoosis | |
| Moki | King of the Grizzlies | 1970 film based on the novel The Biography of a Grizzly. | John Yesno |
| Chingachgook | The Last of the Mohicans |
Based on the novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper. |
Theodore Lorch (1920) Robert Barrat (1936) Ned Romero (1977) Russell Means (1992) |
| Magua | Wallace Beery (1920) Bruce Cabot (1936) Robert Tessier (1977) Wes Studi (1992) |
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| Uncas | Alan Roscoe (1920) Phillip Reed (1936) Don Shanks (1977) Eric Schweig (1992) |
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| Laughing Boy | Laughing Boy | The titular character of the film based on the novel of the same name by Oliver La Farge. | Ramon Novarro |
| Slim Girl/Lily | The Indian maiden who was raised by whites. | Lupe Vélez | |
| The Eagle Boy | The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle | A Hopi boy who defies tribal law and frees a sacrificial, sacred eagle. | Stanford Lomakema |
| Lonesome Polecat | Li'l Abner | 1940 film based on the comic strip of the same name by Al Capp. | Buster Keaton |
| Burns-Red-in-the-Sun | Little Big Man | 1970 film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Thomas Berger. | Steve Shemayne |
| Little Horse | Robert Little Star | ||
| Old Lodge Skins | The good-hearted tribal leader of the Cheyenne nation. | Chief Dan George | |
| Shadow-That-Comes-in-Sight | A Cheyenne brave. | Ruben Moreno | |
| Sunshine | The daughter of Shadow-That-Comes-in-Sight. | Aimée Eccles | |
| Younger Bear | Cal Bellini (adult) Steve Miranda (young) |
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| Tonto | The Lone Ranger |
Based on the WXYZ radio and the television series of the same name. |
Chief Thundercloud (1938) Jay Silverheels (1952–58) Michael Horse (1981) Johnny Depp (2013) |
| Angry Horse | The Lone Ranger (1956) | Michael Ansara | |
| Chief Red Hawk | Frank de Kova | ||
| Chief Big Bear | The Lone Ranger (2013) | The elderly tribal leader of Comanche. | Saginaw Grant |
| Whitestar | The Lost Empire | A woman of the Indian reservation who joins the mission with her old friend Angel Wolfe (Melanie Vincz). | Raven De La Croix |
| Chief Wannatoka | Love at Stake | Nick Ramus | |
| Denali | The Magnificent Seven | An exiled Comanche warrior. | Jonathan Joss |
| Red Harvest | The Comanche warrior who is the youngest of the Seven. | Martin Sensmeier | |
| John Morgan/Shunkawakan | A Man Called Horse; The Return of a Man Called Horse; Triumphs of a Man Called Horse |
He was originally an English aristocrat until he became the chieftain of the Sioux tribe. Based on the short story of the same name by Dorothy M. Johnson. | Richard Harris |
| Batise | A Man Called Horse | He is a half-breed native whose mother was Sioux and father was French. | Jean Gascon |
| Buffalo Cow Head | An old squaw. | Judith Anderson | |
| Running Deer | The lovely young sister of Chief Yellow Hand. | Corinna Tsopei | |
| Yellow Hand | Chief Yellow Hand of the Sioux tribe. | Manu Tupou | |
| Chief Yellowstone | Massacre River | Iron Eyes Cody | |
| Yellow Hawk | Masterson of Kansas | The peace-seeking Indian chief. | Jay Silverheels |
| Chief Dan | Missionary Man | Richard Ray Whitman | |
| J.J. | The local Native American carpenter who is dead. Mention only. | N/A | |
| Junior | The teenage nephew of the late J.J. | John D. Montoya | |
| Kiowa | The 15-year-old sister of Junior. | Chelsea Ricketts | |
| Assistant Chief Lance | Titos Menchaca | ||
| Nancy | The mother of Kiowa and Junior and the sister of J.J. | Kateri Walker | |
| White Deer | The father of J.J. and Nancy and the grandfather of Kiowa and Junior. | August Schellenberg | |
| Nightwolf | Mortal Kombat: Annihilation | Based on the Mortal Kombat video game series. | Gary "Litefoot" Davis |
| Cross Otter | The Mountain Men | Cal Bellini | |
| Heavy Eagle | The ruthless Blackfoot warrior. | Stephen Macht | |
| Chief Iron Belly | Victor Jory | ||
| Medicine Wolf | David Ackroyd | ||
| Running Moon | The wife of Heavy Eagle. | Victoria Racimo | |
| Black Cloud | My Pal, the King | Jim Thorpe | |
| Ahbleza | The Mystic Warrior | The young brave of Mahto, the fictional Lakota-speaking tribe. | Robert Beltran (adult) Doug Toby (young) |
| Heyatawin | Devon Ericson | ||
| Chief Olepi | The chief of the Mahto tribe and the father of Anbleza. | Nick Ramus | |
| Pesla | James Remar | ||
| Tonweya | Rion Hunter (adult) David Yanez (young) |
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| Wanagi | The ancient seer of Mahto. | Ron Soble | |
| Navajo Joe | Navajo Joe | The solitary Navajo rider who opposes the group of bandits responsible for attacking his tribe. | Burt Reynolds |
| Spotted Bear | The Nebraskan | Jay Silverheels | |
| Wingfoot | One of the main characters of the film. | Maurice Jara | |
| Yellow Knife | Pat Hogan | ||
| Mike | Never Cry Wolf | He was adopted by Ootek and Woman. Based on the autobiography of the same name by Farley Mowat. | Samson Jorah |
| Ootek | A traveling Inuit. | Zachary Ittimangnaq | |
| Aivaaq | On the Ice | The two survived Iñupiat teenagers. | Frank Qutuq Irelan |
| Qalli | Josiah Patkotak | ||
| "Chief" Bromden | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 film based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. | Will Sampson |
| Blue Feather | One Little Indian | Lois Red Elk | |
| Jimmy Wolf | Jay Silverheels | ||
| Mark | A young boy who was raised by an Indian and is on the run with his camel companion, Rosie, trying to find his tribe. | Clay O'Brien | |
| Old Indian | Richard Hale | ||
| Little Moonlight | The Outlaw Josey Wales | A young Navajo woman. Based on the Western novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales by Forrest Carter. | Geraldine Keams |
| Lone Watie | An elder Cherokee. | Chief Dan George | |
| Chief Iron Eyes | The Paleface | Iron Eyes Cody | |
| Wapato | The medicine man. | Henry Brandon | |
| Chief Yellow Feather | Chief Yowlachie | ||
| Pathfinder | Pathfinder | The elder chief of the native tribe and the title character of the film. | Russell Means |
| Starfire | The daughter of the Pathfinder. | Moon Bloodgood | |
| Chief Great Big Little Panther | Peter Pan |
Based on the 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie. |
Jack Charles (2015) |
| Tiger Lily | Anna May Wong (1924) Carson Gray (2003, USA) Ray Garcia (2003, Indie) Rooney Mara (2015) |
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| Blue Feather | The Phantom Rider | The native sidekick of the Phantom Rider. | George J. Lewis |
| Phantom Rider | He is a masquerade of the main protagonist, Dr. Jim Sterling. | Robert Kent | |
| Chief Yellow Wolf | Chief Thundercloud | ||
| Taylor | Poltergeist II: The Other Side | The Native American shaman. | Will Sampson |
| Buddy Red Bow | Powwow Highway | Based on the novel of the same name by David Seals. | A Martinez |
| Eagle Feather | The Prairie | Based on the novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Running Deer | Jay Silverheels | ||
| Naru | Prey | She is the fierce warrior of the Comanche tribe, and the sister of Taabe, who along with her Carolina dog companion Sarii stalks the prey of the titular alien within Lawton, Oklahoma, based on the Predator franchise. | Amber Midthunder |
| Running Wolf | The Quick and the Dead | 1987 television film based on the novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. | Larry Sellers |
| Little Beaver | Red Ryder | Several film adaptions of the Western comic strip Red Ryder have been made throughout the 1940s. Here are some examples:
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Tommy Cook (1940) Robert Blake (1944–47) Don Reynolds (1949) |
| Corn Blossom | Redskin | The sweetheart of Wing Foot. | Julie Carter (young woman) Lorraine Rivero (child) |
| Navajo Jim | Tully Marshall (adult) George Walker (teenager) |
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| Wing Foot | A young Navajo man and the main character of the film. | Richard Dix (adult) Philip Anderson (child) |
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| Chief White Cloud | Renegade Girl | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Hank Storm | Renegades | Lou Diamond Phillips | |
| Red Crow | The father of Hank Storm. | Floyd Westerman | |
| Chief Red Cloud | Revolt at Fort Laramie | The tribal leader of the Great Sioux Nation. | Eddie Little Sky |
| Honchwah | Revolution | Larry Sellers | |
| Ongwata | Graham Greene | ||
| Chief Screaming Eagle | The Ridiculous 6 | A Native American chief who adopts Tommy Stockburn (Adam Sandler), one of the six Stockburn brothers who the Indian tribe calls him "White Knife". | Saginaw Grant |
| Smoking Fox | A Native American woman who has been arranged to marry Tommy Stockburn. | Julia Jones | |
| Chief Eagle Feather | Romance of the West | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Little Brown Jug | Don Reynolds | ||
| Chief Grey Wolf | Rustlers of Red Dog | 1935 serial remake of The Indians Are Coming, based on the book The Great West That Was by William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Chief Scarface | Jim Thorpe | ||
| Chief Longfeather | Santa Fe | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Cajou | Saskatchewan | The Cree half-brother of Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd). | Jay Silverheels |
| Chief Dark Cloud | Anton Moreno | ||
| Spotted Eagle | Anthony Caruso | ||
| Jim Aherne Jr./Warbonnet | The Savage | He was raised by the Sioux natives. | Charlton Heston (adult) Orly Lindgren (child) |
| Running Dog | Don Porter | ||
| Chief Yellow Eagle | The tribal chief of the Great Sioux Nation. | Ian MacDonald | |
| Apaches | Savage Sam |
Based on the children's novel of the same name. |
Dean Fredericks Pat Hogan Rodolfo Acosta Rafael Campos |
| Chief Cicatriz (Scar) | The Searchers | The tribal chief of the Nawyecka band of the Comanches. Based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alan Le May. | Henry Brandon |
| Matuwir | Seven Cities of Gold | The son of the local chief. Based on the novel The Nine Days of Father Serra by Isabelle Gibson Ziegler. | Jeffrey Hunter |
| Ula | The sister of Matuwir and the daughter of the local chief. | Rita Moreno | |
| Falling Leaves | Shanghai Noon | Also referred to as the Indian Wife, she is the daughter of the Sioux chief, who has been accidentally engaged to Chon Wang (Jackie Chan). | Brandon Merrill |
| Chief Pony-That-Walks | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | One of the main characters of the film. | Chief John Big Tree |
| Red Shirt | Noble Johnson | ||
| Chief Sky Eagle | Basil F. Heath | ||
| Chief Cyclone | Silly Billies | Chief Thunderbird | |
| Trigger | Ethan Laidlaw | ||
| Clifford Rainfather | Sioux City | The grandfather of Jesse Goldman. | Apesanahkwat |
| Dawn Rainfeather | The biological mother of Jesse. | Tantoo Cardinal | |
| Jesse Rainfeather Goldman | A young Lakota Sioux who was adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple, Douglas (Adam Roarke) and Leah Goldman (Melinda Dillon). | Lou Diamond Phillips (also a director of the film) Ronny Quintanar, Jr. (young) |
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| Russell White | Gary Farmer | ||
| Mogie Yellow Lodge | Skins | Based on the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis. | Graham Greene |
| Ruby Yellow Lodge | Eric Schweig | ||
| Gabriel Jimmyboy | Smith! | One of the main characters of the film. | Frank Ramírez |
| Suzy Song | Smoke Signals | She is a friend of Thomas' late father. Based on the short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. | Irene Bedard |
| Thomas Builds-the-Fire | One of the main characters of the film. | Evan Adams | |
| Victor Joseph | Adam Beach | ||
| Running Fox | Soldier Blue | Based on the novel Arrow in the Sun by T. V. Olsen. | Jorge Russek |
| Spotted Wolf | The Cheyenne chief. | Jorge Rivero | |
| Mattotaupa | The Sons of Great Bear | The chief of the Bears clan of Oglala Lakotas. | Adolf Peter Hoffmann |
| Tokei-ihto | The war chieftain of the Bear Band and the main character of the film; the son of Mattotaupa. | Gojko Mitić | |
| Bloody Knife | Stolen Women: Captured Hearts | 1997 television film loosely based on the life of Anna Morgan who was captured by the Cheyenne Indians. | Apesanahkwat |
| Cetan | A young native who is half white from his father the soldier. | William Lightning | |
| Chief Luta | Saginaw Grant | ||
| Tokalah | The tribal leader of the band of Lakota Indians. | Michael Greyeyes | |
| T. Hawk | Street Fighter | 1994 film based on the video game series of the same name. | Gregg Rainwater |
| Grandma Maisy Blue Legs | Thunderheart | One of the tribal elders. | Sarah Brave |
| Grandpa Sam Reaches | One of the tribal elders. | Ted Thin Elk | |
| Leo Fast Elk | The tribal council of the Native Americans in South Dakota | Allan R. J. Joseph | |
| Maggie Eagle Bear | The Indian schoolteacher and political activist. | Sheila Tousey | |
| Walter Crow Horse | The Indian tribal police officer. | Graham Greene | |
| Wolf Ortiz | Tiger Eyes | A mysterious native climber. Based on the novel of the same name by Judy Blume. | Tatanka Means |
| Injun Joe | Tom Sawyer |
Based on the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. |
Frank Lanning (1918) Charles Stevens (1930) Victor Jory (1938) Kunu Hank (1973) Eric Schweig (1995) Kaloian Vodenicharov (2014) Stephen Lang (2015) |
| Prairie Flower | Tonka | 1958 film based on the book Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse by David Appel. | Joy Page |
| Chief Sitting Bull | John War Eagle | ||
| Spotted Tail | Eddie Little Sky | ||
| Strong Bear | Rafael Campos | ||
| White Bull | A young Sioux and the main character of the film. | Sal Mineo | |
| Yellow Bear | The Sioux cousin of White Bull. | H. M. Wynant | |
| Taha Aki | The Twilight Saga | He was one of the last spirit chiefs and the first shape-shifter of the Quileute tribe. Based on the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer. | Byron Chief-Moon |
| Billy Black | The elder of the Quileute tribe. | Gil Birmingham | |
| Jacob Black | An attractive protector of the Quileute tribe and the main character of the film series. | Taylor Lautner | |
| Harry Clearwater | He was the elder of the Quileute tribe who died of a heart attack in New Moon. | Graham Greene | |
| Leah Clearwater | She is the daughter of Harry and Sue Clearwater, who is the only known female shape-shifting wolf in the history of the Quileute tribe. | Julia Jones | |
| Seth Clearwater | Leah's younger brother who transforms into a wolf around the same time as his sister. | Boo Boo Stewart | |
| Sam Uley | He is the Alpha, or the leader, and the oldest member of the La Push pack; the ex-boyfriend of Leah Clearwater. When he was young, Sam and his mother Allison had been abandoned by his father Joshua. | Chaske Spencer | |
| Guyasuta | Unconquered | Chief Guyasuta of the Senecas. Based on the real-life Guyasuta. | Boris Karloff |
| Hannah | The daughter of Chief Guyasuta and the wife of Martin Garth (Howard Da Silva). | Katherine DeMille | |
| Pontiac | Based on the real-life Pontiac. | Robert Warwick (uncredited) | |
| Red Corn | Iron Eyes Cody | ||
| Sioto | The tribal medicine man. | Marc Lawrence | |
| Blandy | The Vanishing American | He was raised by the Navajos. Based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Zane Grey. | Scott Brady |
| The Navajos |
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Julian Rivero Gloria Castillo Jay Silverheels Charles Stevens George Keymas |
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| Chief | Wagons East | The unnamed tribal leader of the Sioux territory. | Russell Means |
| Little Feather | Rodney A. Grant | ||
| Chief Maygro | War Arrow | The tribal chief of the Seminole tribe. | Henry Brandon |
| Pino | Dennis Weaver | ||
| Santanta | Jay Silverheels | ||
| Ben Crowkiller/Dead Crow Wolf | War Party | The Blackfeet Indians. | Dennis Banks |
| Freddie Man Wolf | Saginaw Grant | ||
| The Crow | Rodney A. Grant | ||
| Sonny Crowkiller | They are three young Blackfeet men who fight for freedom during the battle between Blackfeet Indians and U.S. Cavalry. | Billy Wirth | |
| Skitty Harris | Kevin Dillon | ||
| Warren Cutfoot | Tim Sampson | ||
| Hannoc | When the Redskins Rode | The Indian prince of the Delaware tribe. | Jon Hall |
| Morna | The intended bride of Hannoc. | Sherry Moreland | |
| Chief Shingiss | The leader of the Delaware tribe and the father of Hannoc. | Pedro de Cordoba | |
| Grey Beaver | White Fang | 1991 film based on the novel of the same name. | Pius Savage |
| Lily Joseph | White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf | The Haida princess and one of the main characters of the film sequel to White Fang. | Charmaine Craig |
| Moses Joseph | The chief of the Haida tribe in Alaska and the uncle of Lily. | Al Harrington | |
| Peter Joseph | The son of Chief Moses and Katrin Joseph, and the cousin of Lily | Anthony Ruivivar | |
| American Horse | White Feather | The Cheyenne tribesman. Based on the story My Great-Aunt Appearing Day in Lilliput magazine by John Prebble. | Hugh O'Brian |
| Appearing Day | The fiancée of American Horse and the love interest of Josh Tanner (Robert Wagner). | Debra Paget | |
| Chief Broken Hand | The chief of Cheyenne. | Eduard Franz | |
| Little Dog | The brother of Appearing Day. | Jeffrey Hunter | |
| Buckskin Frank | Wild West Days | The Indian who is one of the henchmen of Matt Keeler (Russell Simpson). The film serial based on the novel by W. R. Burnett. | Charles Stevens |
| Chief Red Hatchet | The tribal chief who is one of Matt Keeler's henchmen. | Chief Thunderbird | |
| Jim Thorpe | Windrunner | A native football star who is a ghost. | Russell Means |
| Crow Brother | Windwalker | Nick Ramus | |
| Smiling Wolf | One of the main characters of the film. | Nick Ramus | |
| Tashina | The wife of Windwalker and the mother of Smiling Wolf and the Crow Warrior. | Serene Hedin | |
| Windwalker | The titular character who is the father of Smiling Wolf and the Crow Warrior. | Trevor Howard (adult) James Remar (young) |
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| Agnes First Raise | Winter in the Blood | 2013 film produced by author Sherman Alexie, based on the 1974 novel of the same name by James Welch. | Julia Jones |
| Lame Bull | Gary Farmer | ||
| Virgil First Raise | The main character of the film. | Chaske Spencer | |
| Yellow Calf | Saginaw Grant | ||
| Pale Flower | Winterhawk | The Indian wife of the trapper, Guthrie (Leif Erickson). | Sacheen Littlefeather |
| Winterhawk | The Blackfoot chief and the title character of the film. | Michael Dante |
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| Native American | Film title | Notes | Voiced by |
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| Indian Mice | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | The people of the Native American mice tribe. | various |
| Cholena | An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island | The Lenape princess and the daughter of Chief Wulisso; the main character of the film. She is a parody of Pocahontas. | Elaine Bilstad (speaking) Leeza Miller (singing) |
| Tankho | The buxom handmaiden of Cholena and a minor character of the film. | ||
| Chief Wulisso | The leader of the underground Lenape Native American mice village. | David Carradine | |
| Hunter | Anima | An unnamed Native American hunter and warrior who searches for his prey. | José Vicente |
| Chief | Asterix Conquers America | Sylvain Lemarie | |
| Medicine Man | Thomas Piper | ||
| Minihooha/Ha-Tschi | The daughter of the chief. | Kristiane Backer | |
| Chakashi | Atlantis: Milo's Return | A Native American wind spirit. | Floyd Westerman |
| Dr. Joshua Strongbear Sweet | Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Atlantis: Milo's Return |
He is the medic of Native American and African American descent. | Phil Morris |
| Denahi | Brother Bear | He is the middle brother of Kenai and the late Sitka and the narrator of the film. | Jason Raize (young) Harold Gould (older) |
| Kenai | Brother Bear; Brother Bear 2 |
The main character who gets turned into a bear as punishment. | Joaquin Phoenix (original) Patrick Dempsey (sequel) |
| Sitka | Brother Bear | Denahi and Kenai's older brother | D. B. Sweeney |
| Tanana | The shaman-woman of Kenai's tribe. | Joan Copeland | |
| Atka | Brother Bear 2 | A man who lives in the neighboring Inuit village and the former fiancé of Nita. | Jeff Bennett |
| Chief Chilkoot | He is the chief of the Inuit tribe. | Jim Cummings | |
| Nita | She is the daughter of Chief Chilkoot and the niece of Siqniq and Taqqiq; the wife of Kenai. | Mandy Moore | |
| Siqniq and Taqqig | Nita's two aunts and Chilkoot's sisters or sisters-in-law. | Wendie Malick and Kathy Najimy |
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| Redskin Indians | Californy 'er Bust | They are a group of the Native American dogs who bear the striking resemblance of Goofy in the 1945 Disney short film. | N/A |
| Daisy June | The Daffy Duckaroo | An Indian girl who is actually a New Yorker. The 1942 Looney Tunes short film starring Daffy Duck. | Sara Berner |
| Little Beaver | A hulking Indian boyfriend of Daisy June. | Mel Blanc | |
| Chief | The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound | The tribal leaders of the Native American yellow coonhounds. | Frank Welker |
| Chieftess | B. J. Ward | ||
| Desert Flower | She is the daughter of the Chief and Chieftess and the love interest, and later wife, of Huckleberry Hound. | B. J. Ward | |
| Indian Fleas | A Horse Fly Fleas | A group of the Native American fleas that inhabit the dog. The 1947 Looney Tunes short film featuring A. Flea. | Mel Blanc |
| Hiawatha | Little Hiawatha | An animated short film produced by Walt Disney, inspired by The Song of Hiawatha poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. | N/A |
| Indian Cats | Peter-No-Tail in Americat | They are a group of Native American cats who use magic to give Peter-No-Tail a long, golden tail, earning him the alias "Peter Gold-Tail". | various |
| Big Chief | Peter Pan | The Disney animated film based on J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or, the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up. | Candy Candido |
| Squaw | June Foray | ||
| Tiger Lily | The daughter of the Big Chief and the Redskin princess. | N/A | |
| Indian Wolves | Pioneers Days | The wolf-type Injuns who plan for war against settlers, in the 1930 Disney short film starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. | N/A |
| Windlifter | Planes: Fire & Rescue | The anthropomorphic Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane helicopter of Native American heritage who can hoist a huge tank of fire retardant or dozens of trees. | Wes Studi |
| Kekata | Pocahontas | The shaman of the Powhatan tribe. | Gordon Tootoosis (speaking) Jim Cummings (singing) |
| Kocoum | He was a strong and serious warrior of the Powhatan tribe and the fiancé of Pocahontas. Loosely based on the real-life Kocoum. | James Apaumut Fall | |
| Nakoma | Pocahontas; Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World |
She is the best friend of Pocahontas. | Michelle St. John |
| Pocahontas | Loosely based on the real-life Pocahontas, she serves as an adventurous Indian princess of the Powhatan tribe, which is why she is officially included for the Disney Princess franchise to the English. | Irene Bedard (speaking) Judy Kuhn (singing) |
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| Chief Powhatan | The father of Pocahontas and the leader of the Powhatan tribe. Based on the real-life Powhatan. | Russell Means (speaking) Jim Cummings (singing) |
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| Uttamatomakkin ("Uti") | Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World | Pocahontas's bodyguard. Based upon the real-life Uttamatomakkin (Tomocomo). | Brad Garrett (briefly) |
| Medicine Woman | The Simpsons Movie | She is the mysterious Inuit shaman who saves Homer Simpson from a polar bear. She also appears in the Season 21 episode "Boy Meets Curl". | Tress MacNeille |
| Little Creek | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | A young Lakota man and one of the main characters of the film. | Daniel Studi |
| Injurin' Joe | Tom Sawyer | An American black bear and the antagonist of the direct-to-video film based on the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. | Hank Williams Jr. Kevin Michael Richardson |
| Chief Rain-In-The-P-P-Puss | Tom Tom Tomcat | The leader of the Native American bicolor cats. The 1953 short film starring Tweety and Sylvester the Cat. | Mel Blanc |
| Andar | Turok: Son of Stone | 2008 animated film based on the comic books of the same name by Western Publishing and Dell Comics. | Adam Gifford |
| Catori | She is the mother of Ander and the sister-of-law of Turok. | Irene Bedard (adult) Iyari Limon (teenager) |
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| Chichak | The main antagonist of the film. | Robert Knepper | |
| Nashoba | He is the brother Turok, the father of Ander and the husband of Catori. | Gil Birmingham (adult) Matthew Yang King (teenager) |
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| Turok | The main protagonist of the film. | Adam Beach (adult) Rick Mora (teenager) |
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| Injun Joe | Wagon Heels | The Native American "Super Chief" whose name is a play on the Santa Fe train run of the same name and shares the same name with the main antagonist from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The 1945 Merrie Melodies short film starring Porky Pig. | Mel Blanc |
| Says Nothing | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | A Native American toon bullet who has been used for Eddie Valiant's (Bob Hoskins) revolver gun. 1988 animated/live-action hybrid film based on the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf. | N/A |
Television
Live action series
| Native American | Series title | Notes | Portrayed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosalind "Roz" Friendly | Alaska Daily | A Native Alaskan and star reporter for the Daily Alaskan in Anchorage | Grace Dove |
| Alexander "Alex" Longshadow | Banshee | He is the tribal chief and the rival of Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen). | Anthony Ruivivar |
| Deputy Bill Raven | He was formerly the officer of the fictional Kinaho Reservastion Police Department who becomes a deputy of Banshee. | Chaske Spencer | |
| Running Dog | Black Fox | Three-part miniseries that aired on CBS, based on the novel of the same name by Matt Braun. | Raoul Trujillo |
| Black Thunder | By Way of the Stars | 1992 miniseries based on the German children's novel The Long Journey of Lukas B. by Willi Fährmann. | Eric Schweig |
| Cree Chief | The unnamed chief of the Cree tribe. | Gordon Tootoosis | |
| Blue Leaf | Centennial | 1978 miniseries with 12 episodes that aired on NBC. Based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener. | Maria Potts Monika Ramirez (teenager) Maria Yolanda Aguayo (child) |
| Clay Basket | The beautiful daughter of Lame Beaver and the wife of Pasquinel; the mother of Jacques and Marcel Pasquinel and Lucinda McKeag. | Barbara Carrera | |
| Lame Beaver | The Arapaho man and the main character of the miniseries. | Michael Ansara David Yanez (child) |
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| Chief Lost Eagle | The tribal chief of the Arapaho. | Nick Ramus | |
| Chief Walks-The-Clouds | Children of the Dust | The 1995 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Clancy Carlile. | Byron Chief-Moon |
| White Wolf/Corby White | A young man who was raised by whites. | Billy Wirth | |
| Mingo | Daniel Boone | An Oxford-educated half-British Native American and the companion of Daniel Boone (Fess Parker). | Ed Ames |
| Black Wing | Death Valley Days | The chief of the Ute tribe, in the episode "A Key for the Fort". | George Keymas |
| Grace Cardinal | Degrassi: The Next Generation and Degrassi: Next Class | Appeared in 75 episodes. | Na'ku'set Gould |
| Chief Black Kettle | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Based on the real-life Black Kettle. | Nick Ramus |
| Byron Sully | A Cheyenne man and the main character of the series. | Joe Lando | |
| Cloud Dancing | Larry Sellers | ||
| Crazy Cat | F Troop | The heir apparent of the fictional Hekawi tribe. | Don Diamond |
| Chief Wild Eagle | The leader of the Hekawi tribe. | Frank de Kova | |
| Ohanzee "Hanzee" Dent | Fargo | The mysterious Native American tracker and hitman for the Gerhardt family. | Mark Acheson (Season 1) Zahn McClarnon (Season 2) |
| Sasappis | Ghosts | The ghost of a cynical Lenape Native American. | |
| Joseph Black Moon | Hell on Wheels | A Cheyenne Christian convert preacher. | Eddie Spears |
| Chief Many Horses | Father of Joseph Black Moon and Cheyenne chieftain. | Wes Studi | |
| Pawnee Killer | Son of Chief Many Horses and brother to Joseph Black Moon. | Gerald Auger | |
| Danny Lightfoot | Hey Dude | A Hopi Native American and one of the main characters of the series. | Joe Torres |
| Satangkai | How the West Was Won | The chief of the Sioux Nation. | Ricardo Montalban (guest) |
| Chief Featherman | Howdy Doody | A marionette. | |
| Princess SummerFallWinterSpring | She is a member of the fictional Tinka Tonka tribe. | marionette Judy Tyler Linda Marsh (briefly) |
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| Chief Thunderthud | The head of the fictional Ooragnak ("Kangaroo" spelled backwards) tribe. | Bill Le Cornec marionette |
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| Dr. Gabrielle Whitecloud | The Incredible Hulk | She helps Dr. David Banner (Bill Bixby) research a possible Hulk from the distant past. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits | Kim Cattrall (guest) |
| Lone Wolf | Elder of Native American tribe. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits | Chief Dan George (guest) | |
| Rick | Native American who tries to stop Dr. Banner and Dr. Whitecloud from taking ruins. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits | A Martinez (guest) | |
| Thomas Logan | Dr. David Banner contacts Logan who created an herbal medicine with a calming effect in an attempt to control the Hulk transformation. Season 2, Episode 4: Rainbow's End | Ned Romero (guest) | |
| Dog Star | Into the West | The older brother of Loved-by-the-Buffalo and Thunder Heart Woman. | Pony Boy Osuniga Michael Spears Gil Birmingham |
| Growling Bear | The elder Lakota medicine man. | Gordon Tootoosis | |
| Loved-by-the-Buffalo/White Feather | One of the main characters of the miniseries. | Chevez Ezaneh Simon R. Baker George Leach Steve Reevis Joseph M. Marshall III |
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| Margaret Light Shines Wheeler | The Native wife of the British photographer, Ethan Biggs (Daniel Gillies), and the daughter of the wheelwright, Jacob Wheeler (Matthew Settle), and Thunder Heart Woman. | Chantry Bruised Head Summer Rae Birdyellowhead Sage Galesi Irene Bedard |
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| Prairie Fire | A Cheyenne chief. | Jay Tavare | |
| Running Fox | The older brother of Loved-by-the-Buffalo and Thunder Heart Woman. | Mathew Strongeagle Zahn McClarnon Russell Means |
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| Red Lance | Running Fox's grandson. | Malachi Tsoodle-Nelson Eddie Spears |
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| Sleeping Bear | The surviving son of Dog Star and nephew of Loved-by-the-Buffalo, Thunder Heart Woman and Running Fox. | Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse | |
| Thunder Heart Woman | The sister of Loved-by-the-Buffalo, Running Fox and Dog Star; the wife of the trapper, Thomas Lebeck (Scott Heindl), and Jacob Wheeler (John Terry). | Sarah Weston Tonantzin Carmelo Sheila Tousey |
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| Voices That Carry | Red Lance's younger brother and the second grandson of Running Fox. | Nakotah LaRance Chaske Spencer |
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| Chacrow | Jamestown | He is the Native American go-between the settlers and the Pamunkey tribespeople. | Kalani Queypo |
| Opchanacanough | The chief, or king, of the Pamunkey Tribe. Based on the real-life Opchanacanough. | Raoul Trujillo | |
| Winganuske | Chacrow's sister who is married to Henry Sharrow (Max Beesley) as a gift. | Rachel Colwell | |
| Nakoma | The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Native American friend of Adams (Dan Haggerty) and Mad Jack (Denver Pyle). | Don Shanks (series regular) |
| Chief Jack Lame Horse | Little House on the Prairie | A Native American who saves Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) from freezing to death. Season 1, Episode 22: Survival
Based on the children's novel series of the same name by Laura Ingalls Wilder. |
Robert Tessier (guest) |
| Tonto | The Lone Ranger | He is the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) himself. | Jay Silverheels |
| Blue Duck | Lonesome Dove miniseries |
Based on the novel series of the same name by Larry McMurtry. |
Frederic Forrest (1989) Adam Beach (2008) |
| Chief Buffalo Hump |
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Eric Schweig (1996) Wes Studi (2008) |
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| Famous Shoes | The Kickapoo tracker.
|
Wes Studi (1995) David Midthunder (2008) |
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| Kicking Wolf |
|
Jonathan Joss | |
| Hector | Longmire | A Cheyenne ex-boxer. Based on the Walt Longmire mystery novels by Craig Johnson. | Jeffrey De Serrano |
| Henry Standing Bear | The main character of the series. | Lou Diamond Phillips | |
| Jacob Nighthorse | A local Cheyenne businessman and the antagonist of the series. | A Martinez | |
| Mandy | A young Cheyenne woman who is hired to assist in the legal-aid office on the Cheyenne reservation. | Tamara Duarte | |
| Chief Mathias | The head of the Cheyenne reservation's tribal police. | Zahn McClarnon | |
| May Still Water | A Cheyenne woman. | Irene Bedard | |
| Sam Poteet | A Cheyenne White warrior and sage. | Hank Cheyne | |
| Aaya | Neverland | The daughter of the Kaw Chief. The 2011 Syfy/Sky Movies miniseries that serves as a prequal story of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. | Q'orianka Kilcher |
| Kaw Chief | The leader of the Kaw tribe. | George Aguilar | |
| Dave the Cook | Northern Exposure | He is the cheerful Native American cook of the Brick who has been replaced by Eugene as a new cook. | William J. White |
| Ed Chigliak | A mild-mannered half-Native Alaskan who was raised by the Tlingits when he was a foundling child. | Darren E. Burrows | |
| Leonard Quinhagak | The cousin of Marilyn Whirlwind and the mentor of Ed Chigliak; a native medicine man. | Graham Greene | |
| Lester Haines | As a Haida, Lester is the first native to crack top five wealthiest men in the interior; he is also the fourth wealthiest. | Apesanahkwat | |
| Marilyn Whirlwind | The Native Alaskan receptionist of the series' central character, Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow). | Elaine Miles | |
| One-Who-Waits | The ghost of a long-dead chief from the Native American Bear clan and the spirit guide of Ed Chigliak. | Floyd Westerman | |
| Tiger Lily | Once Upon a Time | Presented in Season 6, Tiger Lily is originally a fairy who has to remove her status and relocate in Neverland after being tricked by the Black Fairy (aka Fiona) into banishing all children to the Land Without Magic. | Sara Tomko |
| Chief Black Cloud | Paradise | The tribal chief in the episode "The Burial Ground". | Nick Ramus |
| John Taylor | The Native American medicine man and a close friend of Ethan Allen Cord (Lee Horsley). | Dehl Berti | |
| Chief Ken Hotate | Parks and Recreation | The leader of the fictitious, local Wamapoke tribe in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana. | Jonathan Joss |
| Skye Nakaiye | The Puzzle Place | He is a White Mountain Apache boy from Indian reservation in Arizona and one of the main characters of the show. | Peter Linz (Seasons 1–2) Matt Vogel (Season 3) |
| Reagan Wells | Rutherford Falls | She is a member of the fictional Minishonka Nation who juggles loyalty to both her lifelong friend Nathan Rutherford (Ed Helms) and her people. | Jana Schmieding |
| Terry Thomas | He is the CEO of the Minishonka's casino who envisions big things for both Reagan and the success of their tribe. He is also the father of Maya Thomas (Kiawentiio Tarbell). | Michael Greyeyes | |
| William "Billy" Twofeathers | Shining Time Station | He is the Native American railroad engineer on the fictitious Indian Valley Railroad. Billy also appeared in the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad, portrayed by Russell Means. | Tom Jackson |
| Charges the Enemy | The Son | Tatanka Means | |
| Prairie Flower | Elizabeth Frances | ||
| Toshaway | The Comanche tribal chief. | Zahn McClarnon | |
| Anthwara | Star Trek | Leader of Native American colony on Cardassian owned planet of Dorvan V. Season 7, Episode 20: Journey's End | Ned Romero (Guest) |
| Commander Chakotay | First Officer aboard the starship USS Voyager. He was formerly a member of the Maquis resistance. | Robert Beltran | |
| Goro | He is the chief of the indigenous tribe (modeled on Native Americans) on the fictional planet Amerind, half a galaxy away from Earth, in the episode "The Paradise Syndrome". | Richard Hale | |
| Lakanta | Native American colonist on Cardassian owned planet Dorvan V. He later revealed to be The Traveler (Eric Menyuk). Season 7, Episode 20: Journey's End | Tom Jackson (guest) | |
| Miramanee | She is the tribal priestess of the planet Amerind and the daughter of Chief Goro. In the episode "The Paradise Syndrome", Miramanee was under influence of the belief that Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), who had a suffered amnesia, was a god by the name of "Kirok" whom her tribespeople hailed as. She was also married to Kirk, who said that he would stay at the tribe with her until her death. | Sabrina Scharf | |
| Salish | He is the medicine chief among the tribe of his people, in the episode "The Paradise Syndrome". After Captain Kirk (aka Kirok) used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive the tribal child and has been accepted by the elders as their god, Salish lost his position as a medicine chief. He even lost Miramanee, whom he was bound to marry, as she rejected him for Kirk. | Rudy Solari | |
| Cherokee Lawshe | True Women | She is half Creek. The CBS miniseries based on the novel by Janice Woods Windle. | Julie Carmen |
| Tarantula | The Comanche warrior. | Michael Greyeyes | |
| Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill | Twin Peaks | The Native American who works at the Twin Peaks sheriff's department under Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean). | Michael Horse |
| Jackie "Jacqueline" White | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | She is an insecure socialite who is formerly Lakota but passes as white, hating her Native American heritage, as she purchases contact lenses to make her eyes blue and dyes her hair blonde. | Jane Krakowski |
| Raymond Firewalker | Walker, Texas Ranger | The paternal uncle of Cordell Walker (Chuck Norris) | Floyd Westerman (season 1) Apesanahkwat (season 2) |
| Akecheta | Westworld | The host and elder of the Ghost Nation and a recurring character of the series based on the 1973 film of the same name. | Zahn McClarnon |
| Etu | One of the members of the Ghost Nation. | Booboo Stewart | |
| Kohana | The wife of Akecheta. | Julia Jones | |
| Wichapi | One of the members of the Ghost Nation. | Irene Bedard | |
| Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah | Yancy Derringer | He is the silent shotgun-toting Pawnee Indian who communicates only by sign language; the sidekick of Yancy Derringer (Jock Mahoney). | X Brands |
| Chief Thomas Rainwater | Yellowstone | He is the tribal chairman of the fictional Broken Rock Indian Reservation who along with his bodyguard Mo (Moses Brings Plenty) seeks to reclaim the Yellowstone ranch from the Dutton family for which he considers it was stolen from the Indians who originally lived in it. | Gil Birmingham |
| Buck Cross/Running Buck | The Young Riders | The half-Kiowa who is a close friend of Ike McSwain (Travis Fine). | Gregg Rainwater |
Animated series
| Native American | Series title | Notes | Voiced by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annie Redfeather | Adventures from the Book of Virtues | She is a 10-year-old girl of a Native American descent. Based on the anthology story The Book of Virtues by William Bennett. | Kath Soucie (seasons 1–2) Adrienne Carter (season 3) Denise Tan (overdub) |
| Injun Joe | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | A Japanese anime television series based on Mark Twain's famous novel of the same name. | Eiji Kanie, Kenji Utsumi (Japanese) Tom Wyner (English) |
| Rusty Smith | American Dad! | He is the Native American half-brother of Stan Smith, brother-in-law of Francine Smith and paternal uncle of Hayley and Steve Smith, who lives in Arizona with his wife Sooleawa'Uha and seldom-speaking son Glen. | Lou Diamond Phillips |
| Kai Green | Ben 10 | She is a Navajo girl who is one of the first love interests of Ben Tennyson. | Bettina Bush |
| Wes Green | The grandfather of Kai Green and the retired Plumber operative. | Miguel Nájera | |
| Marshal BraveStarr | BraveStarr | He is the galactic Native American marshal of New Texas and the main character of the series. He also appeared in an animated film, BraveStarr: The Movie. | Pat Fraley |
| Charles Little Bull | The Casagrandes | Charles is a college student of Lakota heritage who begins to tutor Carlota Casagrande at the fictional Great Lakes City Library in the Season 2 episode "Undivided Attention". He is considered the first Lakota character to appear in a major animated program. | Robbie Daymond |
| Apache Chief | Challenge of the Superfriends | A Native American superhero whose Manitou Raven is his variant. | Regis Cordic (debut) Michael Rye Al Fann (one episode) |
| Laughing Bull | Cowboy Bebop | He is an old shaman of Native American descent who lives on Mars. | Takehiro Koyama (Japanese) Michael Gregory (English) |
| Upa | Dragon Ball | Also known in English dub as Littlefoot or Little Feather, he is the son of the warrior-chief Bora, whose Karinga Tribe is based on Native Americans and serves as the guardians of the Korin Tower in the Sacred Land of Korin. Upa has been a friend to Goku, with whom he had fought the Red Ribbon Army. He and Bora also appeared in the anime film, Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure. | Mitsuko Horie (child) Masaaki Ōkura (teen) Takeshi Kusao (adult) |
| Leonard Cornfeathers | Family Guy | Appearing in the Season 1 episode "The Son Also Draws", Leonard is the boss of the Native American casino called Geronimo's Palace, where he makes up the vision quest when Peter Griffin pretends to be a Native American himself just to get his car back. There are also the American Indian elders who serve as the employees in Geronimo's Palace, including:
|
Bobby Slayton |
| Great Big Little Panther | Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates | An animated television series that aired on Fox, based on the Peter Pan story by J. M. Barrie. | Michael Wise |
| Hard-to-Hit | The younger brother of Tiger Lily and the son of Great Big Little Panther; the prince of the Native American tribe. | Aaron Lohr | |
| Tiger Lily | Cree Summer | ||
| Broken Feather | The Funny Company | Tom Thomas | |
| Super Chief | Named after the crack passenger train in the Santa Fe Railroad. | N/A | |
| Spirit | G.I. Joe | Spirit, the native from the Taos Pueblo Reservation in Taos, New Mexico, appears in the following animated series:
|
Gregg Berger (1985) Maurice LaMarche (1989) Marc Thompson (2005) |
| Coyote | Gargoyles | A Native American trickster spirit. Based on the mythology of the same name. | Gregg Rainwater |
| Elisa Maza | Elisa, the NYPD detective, is half Native American on her father's side. | Salli Richardson | |
| Natsilane ("Nick") | A Native American young man of the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by the Haida and Tlingit mythological hero of the same name. | Gregg Rainwater | |
| Peter Maza | A Native American who was formerly an NYPD officer and is the father of Elisa Maza. | Michael Horse | |
| Ruffled Feathers | Go Go Gophers | The last two surviving Indian gophers. | Sandy Becker |
| Chief Running Board | George S. Irving | ||
| Chief Crazy Coyote | The Huckleberry Hound Show | The regular Indian nemesis of Huckleberry Hound. | Don Messick |
| Jesse Cosay | Infinity Train | An Apache teen from Arizona. | Robbie Daymond |
| Sheriff Ohiyesa Smith | Justice League Unlimited | He appeared in a time-travel episode "The Once and Future Thing" as a sheriff of Elkhorn in the 1880s. | Jonathan Joss |
| John Redcorn III | King of the Hill | A Native American "healer" | Victor Aaron (season 1) Jonathan Joss (seasons 2–13) |
| Joseph John Gribble | The biological son of John Redcorn who has been raised by the Gribble family, despite his obvious Native American features. | Brittany Murphy (1997–2000) Breckin Meyer (2000–2009) |
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| Geronimo | Kinnikuman | Geronimo is a human Cherokee warrior who becomes the Justice Choujin in his teenage years. He is the adoptive son of Chief Cheyenne and the older brother of Amy. | Kaneto Shiozawa |
| BW | Long Gone Gulch | A sardonic Native American bounty hunter who hangs around the saloon. According to series creator Zach Bellissimo, the "BW" in her name doesn't mean anything. | Amber Midthunder |
| Nehtan Kon | Molly of Denali | Also often referred to as "Grandpa Nat", he is Molly Mabray's maternal grandfather and Layla's father. | Lorne Cardinal |
| Shahnyaa "Molly" Mabray | A 10-year-old Alaska Native vlogger of the fictional Qyah village whose parents Walter and Layla Mabray own and run the Denali Trading Post. She is the first Alaska Native protagonist to ever appear in children's animated television program that aired on PBS Kids. | Sovereign Bill | |
| Tooey Ookami | A young boy who is half Alaska Native and half Japanese and one of Molly's best friends. | Sequoia Janvier (season 1) Zane Jasper (season 2) |
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| Keruyan | Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac | An Indian man who left his tribe to raise his son Ron like the "white people" in the Sierra Nevada. Based on the novel of the same name by Ernest Thompson Seton. | Jun Hazumi |
| Ron | A young Indian boy who raised the two bear cub siblings, Jackie and Gill, after their mother was shot and killed accidentally by Keruyan. | Yoshiko Matsuo | |
| Chief Thunderhooves | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | He is the chieftain of the native buffalo tribe who along with Little Strongheart and the rest of the buffalo puts the frontier ponies in the nearby town of Appleoosa into conflict for planting an apple grove at their running ground, until Twilight Sparkle and her pony friends establish peace between the two groups, in the Season 1 episode "Over a Barrel". | Scott McNeil |
| Brave Paw | Paw Paws | He is the close friend of Princess Paw Paws. | Thom Pinto |
| Laughing Paw | Alexandra Stoddart | ||
| Meanos | The Meanos are a group of villainous Indians.
|
Stanley Ralph Ross Frank Welker |
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| Mighty Paw | The strongest and biggest of the Paw Paws. | Robert Ridgely | |
| Princess Paw Paws | She is the daughter of Wise Paw. | Susan Blu | |
| Trembly Paw | The coward of the Paw Paws. | Howard Morris | |
| Wise Paw | The tribal chief of the Paw Paws. | John Ingle | |
| Principal Cutler | The Replacements | The Inuit principal of the fictional George Stapler Middle School. | Jeff Bennett |
| Indian Witch Doctor | Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | Appearing in the Season 1 episode "Decoy for a Dognapper", the Indian Witch Doctor was one of the monstrous villains in the series who planned to kidnap all of the dogs, including Scooby-Doo. It is later revealed that he is actually dog trainer Buck Masters in disguise. | Don Messick |
| Bill Yellow Hawk | South Park | He is a gay Native American man who develops his feelings for Randy Marsh after being kissed by him in Season 21 episode "Holiday Special". | N/A |
| Chief Running Water | He is the chief of the Ute tribe | Matt Stone | |
| Chief Runs-With-Premise | He is the greedy Indian chief and the owner of Three Feathers Indian Casino who plots to demolish South Park in the Season 7 episode "Red Man's Greed". His son Premise-Running-Thin, who has been very sick, shares a drink with one of the infected Chinese men. | ||
| Little Bear | The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't | An Indian boy and one of the main characters of the Thanksgiving television special produced by Hanna-Barbera. | Kevin Cooper |
| Brock Sampson | The Venture Bros. | He is described as "half-Swedish, quarter-Polish, and quarter-Winnebago" from Nebraska. | Patrick Warburton |
| Chief Justice | An Indian crimefighter who owns a titanium teepee. Mentioned only. | N/A | |
| Princess Tinyfeet | A Native American girl who bears a striking resemblance to Mia on the Land O'Lakes logo and was also the wife of Sergeant Hatred; the daughter of Chief Justice. | Suzanne Gilad (briefly) | |
| J.R. | Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa | A Native American bison who tends to ramble about the scientific principles of his inventions and occasionally aids the trio of the C.O.W.-Boys whenever the situation needs it. | Michael Horse |
| Ellen Crow | Wildfire | An Indian girl who provides moral support on Earth. | Lilly Moon |
Radio
| Native American | Radio title | Notes | Played by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonto | The Lone Ranger | 1933 WXYZ radio show prior to the television series of the same name. | John Todd |
| Little Beaver | Red Ryder | 1942 radio series based on the Western comic strip of the same name. | Tommy Cook (1942) Frank Bresee (1942-46) Henry Blair (1944–47) Johnny McGovern (1947–50) Anne Whitfield (1950–51) Sammy Ogg (1950–51) |
See also
- Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States
- How (greeting)
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