List of fictional Native Americans facts for kids
This article lists many fictional Native American characters from popular books, movies, TV shows, and video games. These characters represent different Indigenous peoples from North America, including the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Some are based on real historical figures, while others are modern creations.
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Fictional Characters in Books
This section shares examples of characters created by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors.
| Native American Character | Book Title | Notes | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arnold Spirit Jr. (Junior) | The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian | A 14-year-old Spokane boy living on an Indian reservation with his parents. | Sherman Alexie |
| Arnold Spirit Sr. | Junior's father, who had dreams of being a jazz musician. | ||
| Zits (Michael) | Flight | A 15-year-old foster child and the main character of the story. | |
| Thomas Builds-the-Fire | The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | A character who appears in the story "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona." | |
| Victor Joseph | One of the main characters in this collection of short stories. | ||
| Coyote Springs | Reservation Blues | An all-Indigenous rock and blues band from the Spokane tribe. | |
| Esselen Girl | The Lariat | The first Esselen Indigenous person converted by a Spanish friar. | Jaime de Angulo |
| Hualala | The medicine man and husband of the Esselen Girl. | ||
| Little Bear | The Indian in the Cupboard | A small plastic figurine that magically comes to life. He also appears in sequels like The Return of the Indian and The Secret of the Indian. | Lynne Reid Banks |
| Great Big Little Panther | Peter and Wendy | The chief of the Native Americans, called "Redskins," on the fictional island of Neverland. | J. M. Barrie |
| Tiger Lily | The tribal princess and daughter of Great Big Little Panther. She is often shown as a strong girl rescued by Peter Pan from Captain Hook. | ||
| Shining Pearl | Peter and the Secret of Rundoon | The daughter of Chief Fighting Prawn, similar to Tiger Lily. | Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson |
| Fighting Prawn | Peter and the Starcatchers | The chief of the fictional Mollusk Tribe. | |
| Cheyenne people | Little Big Man | Includes characters like Old Lodge Skins (the tribal chief), Younger Bear, and Sunshine. | Thomas Berger |
| Kicking Bird | Dances with Wolves | The Sioux medicine man. | Michael Blake |
| Stands-With-A-Fist | Kicking Bird's adopted daughter and wife of Lieutenant John Dunbar. | ||
| Chief Ten Bears | A respected chief. | ||
| Winds-In-His-Hair | A Sioux warrior. | ||
| Wolf | Tiger Eyes | A mysterious Native climber. | Judy Blume |
| Running Dog | Black Fox | A character in the story. | Matt Braun |
| Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson | Mercy Thompson series | A young Blackfoot woman who is a "Walker," meaning she can shapeshift into a coyote at night, 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 Indigenous boy who becomes friends with a broken-winged eagle. | James Buckham |
| Toriano | Adobe Walls | The son of the Apache Chief. | W. R. Burnett |
| Corby | Children of the Dust | A Cheyenne boy. | Clancy Carlile |
| Chingachgook | Leatherstocking Tales | A Mohican chief and friend of Natty Bumppo. | James Fenimore Cooper |
| Magua | The Huron warrior who is an enemy in The Last of the Mohicans. | ||
| Uncas | Chingachgook's son, who was killed by Magua. | ||
| Hard Heart | The Prairie | A brave and trustworthy Pawnee warrior. | |
| Chief Mahtoree | A clever Teton Sioux chief. | ||
| Tachechana | The wife of Mahtoree. | ||
| Soft Rain | Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears | A young Cherokee girl living in North Carolina with her family. | Cornelia Cornelissen |
| Scarface | The Book of Myths | A scarred Indigenous warrior who marries the Chief's daughter after saving the Sun God's son. | Amy Cruse |
| She-Who-Is-Alone | The Legend of the Bluebonnet | A Comanche girl who has lost her parents. This story is based on original Indigenous folklore. | Tomie dePaola |
| Morning Girl and Star Boy | Morning Girl | Two Taíno siblings who create a life on a Bahamian island. | Michael Dorris |
| Walnut/Sees-Behind-Trees | Sees Behind Trees | A character in the story. | |
| Christine George Taylor | A Yellow Raft in Blue Water | A character separated from her husband. | |
| Aunt Ida George | Christine's legal mother. | ||
| Rayona Diane Taylor | The daughter of Christine and Elgin, who is half-Indigenous. | ||
| Cogewea | Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range | The main character, 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 | A half-Indigenous character who becomes a best friend. | Louise Erdrich |
| Omakayas (aka Little Frog) | The Birchbark House | The main character of the story, who also appears in sequels. Her family includes her grandmother Nokomis, mother Yellow Kettle, father Deydey (half-white and half-Ojibwe), and siblings Angeline, Pinch, and Neewo. | |
| Fleur Pillager | Four Souls | An Ojibwe woman. | |
| LaRose Iron | LaRose | A Native American boy and the main character. | |
| Landreaux and Emmaline Iron | The parents of LaRose Iron. | ||
| Dusty Ravich | The best friend of LaRose Iron, who was accidentally shot. | ||
| Father Damien Modeste | Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse | A priest of the Ojibwe people. | |
| Marie Lazarre Kashpaw | Love Medicine | The wife of Nector Kashpaw. | |
| Nector Kashpaw | The son of Rushes Bear and Kashpaw, and husband of Marie Lazarre Kashpaw. | ||
| Evelina Harp | The Plaque of Doves | A girl who is part Ojibwe and part white. | |
| Mooshum | The grandfather of Evelina Harp. | ||
| Antone "Joe" Coutts | The Round House | A 13-year-old Ojibwe boy. | |
| Laughing Boy | Laughing Boy | The main character. | Oliver La Farge |
| Slim Girl | A character in the story. | ||
| Roger Two Hawks | The Gate of Time | An Iroquois combat pilot in World War II whose ancestors traveled to Europe. | Philip José Farmer |
| Lotus | Mountain Man | A lone woman who survived an Indigenous massacre. | Vardis Fisher |
| Tess | Soldier Sister, Fly Home | A 13-year-old girl trying to understand her Navajo and white heritage. | Nancy Bo Flood |
| Chief Bear | Thirteen Moons | The local chief of the Cherokee Nation. | Charles Frazier |
| Featherstone | A character in the story. | ||
| Billie Wind | The Talking Earth | A girl from the Seminole tribe who seeks answers about earth spirits and talking animals. | Jean Craighead George |
| Apaches and Comanches | Savage Sam | A group of Indigenous people who capture Travis, Arliss Coates, and Lisbeth Searcy. | Fred Gipson |
| Dark Water | An Undisturbed Peace | The daughter of a powerful Cherokee chief and a main character. | Mary Glickman |
| Crow Chief | Crow Chief: A Plains Indian Story | The chief of the Crow people. | Paul Goble |
| Falling Star | The savior in the story. | ||
| Brave Indian Boy | The Gift of the Sacred Dog | A brave boy. | |
| Indian Girl | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | A girl who loves wild horses. | |
| Iktomi | Iktomi series | A Plains Indigenous trickster character. | |
| Chief's Daughter | Star Boy | The daughter of the chief. | |
| Star Boy | The son of Morning Star and Evening Star, and the main character. | ||
| Morning Plume | The Storm Maker's Tipi | One of two Blackfoot hunters. | |
| Sacred Otter | The father of Morning Plume and one of the Blackfoot hunters. | ||
| Nophaie | The Vanishing American | A young Navajo and the main character. | Zane Grey |
| Teal Eye | The Big Sky | The daughter of a late Blackfoot chief and wife of Boone Caudill. | A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
| Chief Heavy Runner | Fair Land, Fair Land | The Blackfoot chief. | |
| Little Wing | The granddaughter of a Shoshone chief and wife of Hezekiah Higgins. | ||
| Bernadette Manuelito | Leaphorn & Chee series | The wife of Officer Jim Chee and a Navajo Tribal Police Officer. | Tony Hillerman and Anne Hillerman |
| Jim Chee | One of two Navajo Tribal Police Officers. | ||
| Joe Leaphorn | One of two Navajo Tribal Police Officers, known as the "Legendary Lieutenant." | ||
| Wusamequin | Spirited | A young medicine man who captures Isabella Sevens and her father. | 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 a fictional baseball team. | ||
| Buffalo Horn | Flaming Star | A Native hunter. | Clair Huffaker |
| Pacer Burton | A half-breed, half Native American and half white. | ||
| Soldat du Chene | Little House on the Prairie | A French-speaking chief of the Osage Nation in Kansas, based on a real chief. | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| Alessandro Assis | Ramona | A young Native sheepherder. | Helen Hunt Jackson |
| Ramona | The main character, a Scottish-Native American orphan girl. | ||
| Fish Hawk | Old Fish Hawk | The last of the Osage Indigenous people. | Mitchell F. Jayne |
| Melissa Little Brid | The Cold Dish | A local Indigenous girl. | Craig Johnson |
| Henry Standing Bear | Walt Longmire series | A Cheyenne man and friend of Sheriff Walt Longmire. | |
| John Morgan/Shunkawakan | A Man Called Horse | An English aristocrat who becomes a member of a Sioux tribe. His name Shunkawakan means "Horse." | Dorothy M. Johnson |
| Chief Yellow Hand | The chief of the Sioux tribe. | ||
| Inuit Girl | Mama, Do You Love Me? | An Inuit girl. | Barbara M. Joosse |
| Mama | The mother of the Inuit girl. | ||
| Bromden | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | A large, quiet half-Native American "chief" who narrates the story. | Ken Kesey |
| Lum | Truth and Bright Water | The cousin of Tecumseh and son of tribal leader Franklin. | Thomas King |
| Tecumseh | A 15-year-old Blackfoot boy from Montana, named after the famous Shawnee chief. | ||
| Turtle | The Bean Trees; Pigs in Heaven |
A three-year-old Cherokee girl adopted by Taylor Greer. | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Uglik | Night of the White Bear | A 16-year-old Inuit boy stalked by a polar bear in the Canadian Arctic. | Alexander Knox |
| Chief Scar | The Searchers | The leader of a band of Comanches. | Alan Le May |
| John Russell | Hombre | Raised by the Apaches, he leads stagecoach passengers to safety. | Elmore Leonard |
| A Frog Girl | Frog Girl | A girl who travels underground, saves her town, and frees captured frogs. | Paul Owen Lewis |
| The Yeehats | The Call of the Wild | A 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 epic poem. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Minnehaha | A Dakota woman and Hiawatha's love. | ||
| Mudjekeewis | Based on an Ojibwe mythological spirit. | ||
| Nokomis | Hiawatha's grandmother, who fell from the Moon. | ||
| Ruby and Mogie Yellow Lodge | Skins | Two Lakota Sioux brothers on a fictional Indian Reservation. | Adrian C. Louis |
| Renee LaRoche | Along the Journey River | The first "openly out Indigenous lesbian" in a detective novel. | Carole LaFavor |
| Pearce | Breakheart Pass | An Indian agent and lawman. | Alistair MacLean |
| Strong Wind | The Indian Cinderella | An Indigenous warrior who marries the Chief's daughter. | Cyrus Macmillan |
| Rough-Faced Girl | The Rough-faced Girl | An Algonquin girl who wins over a mysterious man. | Rafe Martin |
| Nscho-tschi | Old Firehand | The daughter of the late Chief Intschu-tschuna and sister of Chief Winnetou. | Karl May |
| Winnetou | A Native American hero who becomes chief of the Mescalero Apache. | ||
| Kimmy | Grandmother's Dreamcatcher | A young girl. | Becky Ray McCain |
| Chippewa Grandmother | Kimmy's grandmother. | ||
| Blue Duck | Lonesome Dove series | The leader of a group of renegade Indigenous people and bandits, son of Chief Buffalo Hump. | Larry McMurtry |
| Chief Buffalo Hump | A Comanche war-chief, based on the real Buffalo Hump. | ||
| Kicking Wolf | A Comanche warrior and horse thief. | ||
| Catherine LaLoup Leon | The Surrounded | The daughter of a Salish chief, wife of Max Leon, and mother of Archilde Leon. | D'Arcy McNickle |
| Taha Aki | Twilight | One of the last spirit chiefs and the first shape-shifter of the Quileute tribe. | Stephenie Meyer |
| Billy Black | The elder of the Quileute tribe. | ||
| Ephraim Black | The last chief of the Quileute tribe and great-grandfather of Jacob Black. | ||
| Jacob Black | A protector of the Quileute tribe and son of Billy Black. | ||
| Harry Clearwater | An elder of the Quileute tribe who died in New Moon. | ||
| Leah Clearwater | The only known female shape-shifting wolf in Quileute history. | ||
| Seth Clearwater | Leah's younger brother, who also transforms into a wolf. | ||
| Sam Uley | The leader of the La Push pack. | ||
| Lame Beaver | Centennial | An Arapaho warrior and chieftain, and a main character. | 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. | Grace Moon |
| Nah-tee | A four-year-old Indigenous girl. | ||
| Chomina | Black Robe | An elder Algonkin traveler who guides a Jesuit priest to a fictional Huron tribe. | Brian Moore |
| Azákia | Ouabi; Or the Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos | A woman of the Illinois Indigenous tribe. | Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton |
| Ouábi | The husband of Azákia. | ||
| Bald Eagle | Brother Jonathan: or, the New Englanders | Friend of the main character, Walter Harwood. | John Neal |
| Logan | Logan | Based on Logan the Orator. | |
| Tituba | Rachel Dyer | Based on Tituba. | |
| Karana/Won-a-pa-lei | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Based on the true story of Juana Maria, Karana is the main character and sister of Ramo and Ulape. | Scott O'Dell |
| Bright Morning | Sing Down the Moon | A girl from the Navajo tribe and the main character. | |
| Zia | Zia | The older sister of Mando and niece of Karana. | |
| Chief Spotted Wolf | Arrow in the Sun | A legendary Cheyenne chieftain. | T. V. Olsen |
| Blue | There There | A girl living in Oakland, California. | Tommy Orange |
| Calvin Johnson | A young Native man who owes money to his brother. | ||
| Jacquie Red Feather | A substance abuse 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 used to work 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 | An Indigenous girl from an oppressed village. | Lorin Morgan-Richards |
| Cuyloga | The Light in the Forest | The chief of a Lenni Lenape village who adopts John Butler. | Conrad Richter |
| Half Arrow | The Lenape cousin of John Butler/True Son. | ||
| Kimi | Blue Birds | A girl from the Roanoke tribe who becomes friends with an English girl. | Caroline Starr Rose |
| Elk | The Horsecatcher | A teenage Cheyenne who wants to be a wild horse tamer. | Mari Sandoz |
| Elk River | The headman of the Southern Cheyenne and father of Elk. | ||
| Buddy Red Bird | The Powwow Highway | A member of the Cheyenne tribe in Lame Deer, Montana. | David Seals |
| Moki | The Biography of a Grizzly | A Cree Indigenous person and a main character. | Ernest Thompson Seton |
| Kwani | Kwani series | A character born into the long-extinct fictional Anasazi tribe. | Linda Lay Shuler |
| Tayo | Ceremony | A Laguna Pueblo man who is half-Pueblo and half-white. | Leslie Marmon Silko |
| Attean | The Sign of the Beaver | The grandson of an Indigenous chief. | Elizabeth George Speare |
| Rick | The Culled | The main character, 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 a slave and his son. | Tim Tingle |
| Danny Blackgoat | Danny Blackgoat series | A Navajo teenage boy. | |
| Rose Goode | House of Purple Cedar | A Choctaw girl who escapes after her community is destroyed. | |
| Isaac | How I Became a Ghost; When a Ghost Talks, Listen |
A Choctaw boy who died during the Trail of Tears and became a ghost. | |
| Sarah Nita | The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow | A Navajo girl in the Dear America book series. | Ann Turner |
| Injun Joe | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | An enemy of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, described as a "half-breed" Native American. | Mark Twain |
| Shining Lighttower | Battle Cry | A Navajo Indigenous person who is part of a 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. | ||
| Red Paint | The wife of Fools Crow. | ||
| Running Fisher | The brother of Fools Crow. | ||
| Charging Elk | The Heartsong of Charging Elk | An Oglala Sioux man. | |
| Virgil First Raise | Winter in the Blood | The main character and narrator of the story. | |
| Massai | Broncho Apache | The last Apache warrior, based on the real Massai. | Paul Wellman |
Fictional Characters in Comics
| Native American Character | Comic Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Big Chief Keen-eyed-Mole | The Adventures of Tintin | The sachem of the Blackfoot Indigenous people. |
| Akwas | Akwas | The main character of the comic strip. |
| Super-Chief Flying Stag | All-Star Western | A 15th-century Iroquois character. |
| Elizabeth Twoyoungmen ("Talisman") | Alpha Flight | The daughter of Michael Twoyoungmen/Shaman of the First Nations, with magical abilities. |
| Thomas Fireheart ("Puma") | The Amazing Spider-Man | A werecat of Native American descent. |
| Charles Little Sky ("Portal") | The Avengers | A Native American mutant superhero and director of A.R.M.O.R.. |
| William Talltrees | Known as "Red Wolf," born in modern times and son of a Cheyenne tribal leader. | |
| Little Plum | The Beano | Little Plum-Stealing-Varmint. |
| Chini | Blueberry | Daughter of Chief Cochise of the Navajo tribe, in a love triangle. |
| Lone Eagle/Quanah | A cruel Apache Indigenous person determined to fight white people. | |
| Chinook | Buddy Longway | A young Sioux woman married to a trapper. |
| Jesse Black Crow | Captain America | A character in the comic. |
| Chief Medicine Crow | Cowboys & Aliens | The leader of the Apache Indigenous people. |
| Warhawk | An Apache warrior. | |
| Geronimo Jr. ("G-Junior") | Cyborg 009 | Also known as Cyborg 005, a Native American who becomes a strongman. |
| Maya Lopez ("Echo") | Daredevil | A Native American superheroine raised by the evil Kingpin. |
| Juan Diego de la Muerte ("El Muerto") | El Muerto: The Aztec Zombie | A young Native Mexican man who gains supernatural powers after being sacrificed. |
| Wyatt Wingfoot | Fantastic Four | A member of a fictional Keewazi Indian reservation and a supporting character. |
| Wildrun | Fantastic Four Annual | Known as the Red Wolf of the 19th-century Wild West. |
| Black Condor | Freedom Fighters | A team member of the Freedom Fighters. |
| Charlie Iron-Knife ("Spirit") | G.I. Joe | A member and tracker of the G.I. Joe Team, born on the Taos Pueblo Reservation. |
| John Proudstar ("Thunderbird") | Giant-Size X-Men | An Apache Native and a Human Mutant who was a short-lived member of the X-Men. |
| Young Raven | High Moon | The granddaughter of Raven the Trickster, a mystic and lover of Eddie Conroy. |
| Jenny Everywhere | Jenny Everywhere | A superheroine who exists in all universes at once. |
| Sandman/Soundman | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run | A Native American from the Arizona desert who enters a race to buy back his tribe's land. |
| Manitou Dawn and Manitou Raven | Justice League | Team members; Raven is a version of the television character Apache Chief. |
| Super-Chief Jon Standing Bear | A team member of the Justice League of America. | |
| Nayeli Constant ("Aztek") | Justice League of America | A Native Mexican superheroine chosen to fight against an Aztec dark god. |
| Miiyahbin Marten ("Equinox") | Justice League United | A teenage Cree superheroine and team member. |
| Dawnstar | Legion of Super-Heroes | Her home planet was colonized by Native Americans. |
| Lonesome Polecat | Li'l Abner | A character in the comic strip. |
| Johnny Wakely | Marvel Spotlight | Adopted by a white couple in the late 19th century. |
| Jason Strongbow ("American Eagle") | Marvel Two-in-One | A member of the Navajo Nation who tried to stop a mining company. |
| Danielle "Dani" Moonstar | The New Mutants | A North Cheyenne superheroine and mutant, member of the X-Men. |
| Alani Ryan ("Loa") | A surfing mutant superheroine from Maui, Hawaii, who is half-Native Hawaiian. | |
| James Jonathan Proudstar ("Warpath") | New Mutants | Also known as "Thunderbird," the younger brother of John Proudstar. |
| Ompa-pa | Oumpah-pah | A Native of the fictional Flatfeet tribe. |
| Bunnokees | Popol Out West | A group of Native American rabbits. |
| Wildstar | R.E.B.E.L.S. | An ancestor of Dawnstar. |
| Jake Red Cloud | Red Cloud Comics | A Native American with superhuman strength and speed. |
| Little Beaver | Red Ryder | The young Indigenous sidekick of Red Ryder. |
| Thomas Thunderhead | Red Wolf | A character in the comic. |
| Chief Redeye | Redeye | An overweight chief of the fictional Chickiepan tribe. |
| Tanglefoot | A cowardly warrior of the Chickiepan tribe. | |
| Asta Twelvetrees | Resident Alien | A nurse and daughter of a Mohawk shaman. |
| Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse | Scalped | A full-blooded Oglala Lakota who returns to his reservation. |
| Dino Poor Bear | A young man struggling on the reservation. | |
| Gina Bad Horse | The mother of Dash and an activist for Indigenous rights. | |
| Chief Lincoln Red Crow (aka John Rayfield Bustill) | A strong Lakota elder, President of the Tribal Council and Sheriff. | |
| Minnie Ha-Cha | Steve Roper and Mike Nomad | The girlfriend of Chief Wahoo. |
| Chief Wahoo | One of the main characters of the comic strip. | |
| Super-Chief Saganowahna | Superman | A member of Supermen of America. |
| Lilyth | Tex | The daughter of a Navajo Chief and wife of Tex Willer. |
| Red Cloud | A Navajo shaman. | |
| Tex Willer (aka Eagle of the Night) | A Texas ranger who becomes a Navajo tribal chief. | |
| Tiger Jack | A Navajo warrior. | |
| Moon Fawn | Tomahawk | The daughter of Chief Grey Elk of the Apaches. |
| Nelvana of the Northern Lights | Triumph-Adventure Comics | An Inuit mythical being with powers like invisibility and telepathy. |
| Little Pigeon | Tumbleweeds | The daughter of the Poohawk Chief, with five suitors. |
| Turok | Turok, Son of Stone | A Native American warrior. |
| Ukala | Ukala | The main character of the comic strip. |
| Forge | Uncanny X-Men | From the Cheyenne nation and a member of the X-Men. |
| Michael Twoyoungmen ("Shaman") | A member of the First Nations in Calgary and a team member of Alpha Flight. | |
| Bright-Sky-After-Storm ("Arak") | The Warlord | The son of Star-of-Dawn of a fictional tribe. |
| Ohiyesa "Pow Wow" Smith | Western Comics | A character who first appeared in Detective Comics. |
| Silver Fox | Wolverine | A member of the First Nation Blackfoot Confederacy and former love interest of Wolverine. |
| Buffalo Seed | Yakari | A Sioux boy who dreams of being a great hunter. |
| Rainbow | A Sioux girl and friend of Yakari. | |
| The-One-Who-Knows | The chief and shaman of the Sioux tribe. | |
| Yakari | The main character who can talk to animals. | |
| Chief Zilverpijl/Silver Arrow | Zilverpijl | A resourceful and wise chief of the Kiowa. |
Fictional Characters in Movies
Live Action Films
| Native American Character | Film Title | Notes | Portrayed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Galasko | Alone yet Not Alone | A strong Indigenous warrior. | Ozzie Torres |
| Hannawoa | Galasko's brother. | Tony Wade | |
| Sam Birdwater | Americathon | A billionaire leader of Indigenous people. | Chief Dan George |
| Massai | Apache | Based on the novel Broncho Apache. | Burt Lancaster |
| Chief Victorio | Apache Drums | The tribal leader of the Mescalero Apaches. | N/A |
| Chato | Apache Warrior | A character in the film. | George Keymas |
| Chikisin | A character in the film. | Dehl Berti | |
| Katawan | Known as "Apache Kid," the main character. | Keith Larsen | |
| Marteen | A character in the film. | Rodolfo Acosta | |
| Chief Nantan | A chief in the film. | John Miljan | |
| Native American Chief | The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again | A chief in the film. | Nick Ramus |
| Chief Chattez | Arrowhead | The Apache chief. | Frank de Kova |
| Toriana | The son of Chief Chattez and a main character. | Jack Palance | |
| Atanarjuat | Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | The "fast runner" in prehistoric Nunavut. | Natar Ungalaaq |
| Chief Tahlequah | Badman's Territory | A chief in the film. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Pvt. Shining Lighttower | Battle Cry | A Navajo phonetalker. | Jonas Applegarth |
| Pvt. Crazy Horse | A Navajo phonetalker. | Felix Noriego | |
| Tekehentahkhwa | Beans | Known as "Beans," a Mohawk preteen girl during the 1990 Oka Crisis. | Kiawentiio |
| Pike Dexter | Big Eden | A shy Native American who owns a local general store. | Eric Schweig |
| Teal Eye | The Big Sky | Based on the novel of the same name. | Elizabeth Threatt |
| Black Cloud | Black Cloud | A Navajo man and the main character. | Eddie Spears |
| Sammi | Black Cloud's girlfriend. | Julia Jones | |
| Black Buffalo | The Black Dakotas | The son of Chief War Cloud, who wants to remove all white people. | Jay Silverheels |
| Chief War Cloud | Black Buffalo's father and chief of the Sioux tribe. | John War Eagle | |
| Annuka | Black Robe | The daughter of an Algonquin traveler, who falls in love with Daniel Davost. | Sandrine Holt |
| Chomina | The Algonquin guide and Annuka's father. | August Schellenberg | |
| Indian Chief | Blazing Saddles | A stereotypical Yiddish-speaking Native American chief. | Mel Brooks |
| Johnny Black Hawk | Bone Eater | A Native American who encourages violence. | Adoni Maropis |
| Sheriff Steve Evans | The local sheriff, who is half Native American. | Bruce Boxleitner | |
| Chief Storm Cloud | The local Indigenous chief. | Michael Horse | |
| Tall Trees | Bone Tomahawk | An educated Native American called "the professor." | Zahn McClarnon |
| Chief White Hand | Breakheart Pass | The tribal chief of the Natives. | Eddie Little Sky |
| Black Hawk | Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory | A character in the film. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Running Deer | A character in the film. | Rodd Redwing | |
| Chief White Cloud | A chief in the film. | Chief Yowlachie | |
| Aristotle Joseph | The Business of Fancydancing | A Spokane man from the reservation. | Gene Tagaban |
| Seymour Polatkin | A gay Spokane poet and the main character. | Evan Adams | |
| Blackfoot People | Cattle Queen of Montana | Includes characters like Colorados, Natchakoa, Powhani, and Starfire. | Lance Fuller Anthony Caruso Rodd Redwing Yvette Dugay |
| White Bull Legrew | Cold Pursuit | A rival character in the film. | Tom Jackson |
| Blue Eagle | The Cowboy and the Indians | A character in the film. | Frank Lackteen |
| Lakoma | A character in the film. | Jay Silverheels | |
| Chief Long Arrow | A chief in the film. | Chief Yowlachie | |
| Lucy Broken Arm | A character in the film. | Claudia Drake | |
| Black Knife | Cowboys & Aliens | The Chiricahua Apache chief. | Raoul Trujillo |
| Ben Logan | Crooked Arrows | The traditional Tribal Chairman and father of Joe Logan. | Gil Birmingham |
| Joe Logan | A mixed-blood Native American, known as "Logan the Legend." | Brandon Routh | |
| Nadie Logan | A character in the film. | Chelsea Ricketts | |
| Black Shawl | Dances with Wolves | A character in the film. | Tantoo Cardinal |
| Kicking Bird | The Sioux medicine man. | Graham Greene | |
| Otter | A character in the film. | Michael Spears | |
| Smiles-A-Lot | A Sioux youth. | Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse | |
| Stands-With-A-Fist | Kicking Bird's adopted daughter. | Mary McDonnell | |
| Stone Calf | A character in the film. | Jimmy Herman | |
| Chief Ten Bears | A chief in the film. | Floyd Westerman | |
| Wind-In-His-Hair | A Sioux warrior. | Rodney A. Grant | |
| Worm | A character in the film. | Jason R. Lone Hill | |
| Jim Chee | The Dark Wind | A character in the film. | Lou Diamond Phillips |
| Joe Leaphorn | A character in the film. | Fred Ward | |
| Black Wolf | Daughter of Dawn | A character in the silent film. | Jack Sankadota |
| Dawn | The daughter of the chief of Kiowa and the main character. | Esther LeBarre | |
| Kiowa Chief | A chief in the film. | Hunting Horse | |
| Red Wing | Portrayed by children of Comanche leader Quanah Parker. | Wanada Parker | |
| White Eagle | Portrayed by children of Quanah Parker. | White Parker | |
| High Tree | Davy Crockett, Indian Scout | A character in the film. | William Wilkerson |
| Red Hawk | The innocent partner of Davy Crockett. | Phillip Reed | |
| Sleeping Fox | A character in the film. | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Brother Wolf | The Dead and the Damned | An Apache warrior who joins a bounty hunter. | Rick Mora |
| Nobody | Dead Man | A Native American forcibly raised by white people. | Gary Farmer |
| Hunter | The Doe Boy | A young Cherokee man with haemophilia. | James Duval (adult) Andrew J. Ferchland (child) |
| Marvin Fishinghawk | A character in the film. | Gordon Tootoosis | |
| Pete Chasing Horse | Dreamkeeper | A Lakota elder and storyteller. | August Schellenberg |
| Sam Chasing Horse | The father of Shane Chasing Horse. | Gil Birmingham | |
| Shane Chasing Horse | The 17-year-old Lakota grandson of Pete Chasing Horse. | Eddie Spears | |
| Blue Back | Drums Along the Mohawk | Based on the novel of the same name. | Chief John Big Tree |
| Santana | El Condor | The Apache chief. | Iron Eyes Cody |
| Chief Grey Bear | End of the Trail | A chief in the film. | Basil F. Heath |
| Nurse St. Cloud | Ernest Goes to Camp | The granddaughter of Chief St. Cloud. | Victoria Racimo |
| Old Indian 'Chief St. Cloud' | The Indigenous owner of Kamp Kikakee. | Iron Eyes Cody | |
| Chief Black Hawk | Fighting Pioneers | A chief in the film. | Chief Standing Bear |
| Eagle Feathers | A character in the film. | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Wa-No-Na | The daughter of Chief Black Hawk. | Ruth Mix | |
| Tall Eagle | Firewalker | A character in the film. | Will Sampson |
| Fish Hawk | Fish Hawk | Based on the novel Old Fish Hawk. | Will Sampson |
| Buffalo Horn | Flaming Star | A character in the film. | Rodolfo Acosta |
| Pacer Burton | A mixed-blood character, son of a Kiowa woman and a Texan man. | Elvis Presley | |
| María Nicolasa Cruz | Foolish, Foolish, But Not so Much | Known as "La India María," an Indigenous Mexican woman appearing in many films. | María Elena Velasco |
| Yaqui | Four Guns to the Border | A character in the film. | 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. | Cody Lightning | |
| Frankie Smallhill | A character in the film. | Richard Ray Whitman | |
| Miri Smallhill | The sister of Cufe Smallhill. | Tamara Podemski | |
| Grey Bear | Frontier Fury | A character in the film. | Stanley Brown (uncredited) |
| Nahalla | The Ghost Dance | The evil spirit of a warrior who possesses a local Indigenous shaman. | Henry Bal |
| Grayeagle | Grayeagle | A man of the Cheyenne nation and the main character. | Alex Cord |
| Running Wolf | The Cheyenne chief. | Paul Fix | |
| Scar | A Shoshone warrior. | Jacob Daniels | |
| Standing Bear | One of the main characters. | 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 | A character in the film. | Chief Dan George |
| Acacia | Hex | Two daughters of a deceased Native American shaman. | Hillarie Thompson |
| Oriole | Two daughters of a deceased Native American shaman. | Tina Herazo | |
| Hiawatha | Hiawatha | The main character, based on the poem The Song of Hiawatha. | Jesse Cornplanter (1913) Vince Edwards (1952) Frederick Warder (1984) Gary "Litefoot" Davis (1997) |
| Minnehaha | Hiawatha's love. | Soon-Goot (1913) Yvette Dugay (1952) Terry Diab (1984) Irene Bedard (1997) |
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| Mudjekeewis | A character in the film. | Stuart Randall (1952) Russell Means (1997) |
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| Nokomis | Hiawatha's grandmother. | Katherine Emery (1952) Yvonne Bryceland (1984) Sheila Tousey (1997) |
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| Chief Megissogwon | Hiawatha | The leader of the Dakotah tribe and Hiawatha's father. | Ian MacDonald |
| John Russell | Hombre | Based on the novel of the same name. | Paul Newman |
| Black Hawk | Hostiles | The son of Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk. | Adam Beach |
| Elk Woman | Black Hawk's wife. | Q'orianka Kilcher | |
| Little Bear | The son of Black Hawk and Elk Woman. | Xavier Horsechief | |
| Living Woman | Black Hawk's sister and Yellow Hawk's daughter. | Tanaya Beatty | |
| Yellow Hawk | Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk, a sickly war-chief and main character. | Wes Studi | |
| Chief Little Pain-in-the-Neck | Hurry, Charlie, Hurry | A chief in the film. | Janette Fern |
| Moaning Low | A character in the film. | Connie Montoya | |
| Chief Poison Arrow | A chief in the film. | Noble Johnson | |
| Little Bear | The Indian in the Cupboard | Based on the children's novel. | Litefoot |
| Chief Yellow Snake | The Indians Are Coming | A chief in the film. | Chief Thunderbird (uncredited) |
| Karana | Island of the Blue Dolphins | Based on the novel of the same name. | Celia Kaye |
| Ramo | Karana's six-year-old brother. | Larry Domasin | |
| Paint-His-shirt-Red | Jeremiah Johnson | The chief of the Crow tribe. | Joaquín Martínez |
| Swan | The daughter of Chief Two-Tongues Lebreaux, given as a bride to Jeremiah Johnson. | Delle Bolton | |
| Johnny Firecloud | Johnny Firecloud | A Vietnam War Native. | Victor Mohica |
| Nenya | A teacher on the reservation. | Sacheen Littlefeather | |
| Chatow | Jonathan of the Bears | A character in the film. | Knifewing Segura |
| Shaya | An Indigenous woman. | Melody Robertson | |
| Chief Tawanka | A chief in the film. | Floyd Westerman | |
| Stanley Pike | Journey Through Rosebud | A character in the film. | Eddie Little Sky |
| Attean | Keeping the Promise | A character in the television film. | William Lightning |
| Chief Saknis | The grandfather of Attean. | Gordon Tootoosis | |
| Moki | King of the Grizzlies | Based on the novel The Biography of a Grizzly. | John Yesno |
| Chingachgook | The Last of the Mohicans | A character in the film. | Theodore Lorch (1920) Robert Barrat (1936) Ned Romero (1977) Russell Means (1992) |
| Magua | A character in the film. | Wallace Beery (1920) Bruce Cabot (1936) Robert Tessier (1977) Wes Studi (1992) |
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| Uncas | A character in the film. | Alan Roscoe (1920) Phillip Reed (1936) Don Shanks (1977) Eric Schweig (1992) |
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| Laughing Boy | Laughing Boy | The main character. | Ramon Novarro |
| Slim Girl/Lily | An Indigenous maiden raised by white people. | Lupe Vélez | |
| The Eagle Boy | The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle | A Hopi boy who frees a sacred eagle. | Stanford Lomakema |
| Lonesome Polecat | Li'l Abner | Based on the comic strips. | Buster Keaton |
| Chief Cuyloga | The Light in the Forest | An Indigenous chief who adopts Johnny Butler. | Joseph Calleia |
| Half Arrow | True-Son's Indigenous cousin. | Rafael Campos | |
| Burns-Red-in-the-Sun | Little Big Man | A character in the film. | Steve Shemayne |
| Little Horse | A character in the film. | 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 | A character in the film. | Cal Bellini (adult) Steve Miranda (young) |
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| Tonto | The Lone Ranger | The Native American companion of the Lone Ranger. | Chief Thundercloud (1938) Jay Silverheels (1952–58) Michael Horse (1981) Johnny Depp (2013) |
| Angry Horse | The Lone Ranger (1956) | A character in the film. | Michael Ansara |
| Chief Red Hawk | A chief in the film. | Frank de Kova | |
| Chief Big Bear | The Lone Ranger (2013) | The elderly tribal leader of Comanche. | Saginaw Grant |
| Whitestar | The Lost Empire | A woman from the Indian reservation who joins a mission. | Raven De La Croix |
| Chief Wannatoka | Love at Stake | A chief in the film. | Nick Ramus |
| Denali | The Magnificent Seven | An exiled Comanche warrior. | Jonathan Joss |
| Red Harvest | A Comanche warrior, 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 |
An English aristocrat who becomes a Sioux chieftain. | Richard Harris |
| Batise | A Man Called Horse | A half-breed Native whose mother was Sioux and father was French. | Jean Gascon |
| Buffalo Cow Head | An old Indigenous woman. | 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 | A chief in the film. | Iron Eyes Cody |
| Yellow Hawk | Masterson of Kansas | A peace-seeking Indigenous chief. | Jay Silverheels |
| Chief Dan | Missionary Man | A chief in the film. | Richard Ray Whitman |
| J.J. | A local Native American carpenter who is dead. | 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 | An assistant chief. | Titos Menchaca | |
| Nancy | The mother of Kiowa and Junior. | Kateri Walker | |
| White Deer | The father of J.J. and Nancy. | August Schellenberg | |
| Nightwolf | Mortal Kombat Annihilation | Based on the Mortal Kombat video game series. | Litefoot |
| Cross Otter | The Mountain Men | A character in the film. | Cal Bellini |
| Heavy Eagle | A ruthless Blackfoot warrior. | Stephen Macht | |
| Chief Iron Belly | A chief in the film. | Victor Jory | |
| Medicine Wolf | A character in the film. | David Ackroyd | |
| Running Moon | The wife of Heavy Eagle. | Victoria Racimo | |
| Black Cloud | My Pal, the King | A character in the film. | Jim Thorpe |
| Ahbleza | The Mystic Warrior | A young brave of a fictional Lakota-speaking tribe. | Robert Beltran (adult) Doug Toby (young) |
| Heyatawin | A character in the film. | Devon Ericson | |
| Chief Olepi | The chief of the Mahto tribe and father of Anbleza. | Nick Ramus | |
| Pesla | A character in the film. | James Remar | |
| Tonweya | A character in the film. | Rion Hunter (adult) David Yanez (young) |
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| Wanagi | An ancient seer of Mahto. | Ron Soble | |
| Navajo Joe | Navajo Joe | A solitary Navajo rider who fights bandits. | Burt Reynolds |
| Spotted Bear | The Nebraskan | A character in the film. | Jay Silverheels |
| Wingfoot | One of the main characters. | Maurice Jara | |
| Yellow Knife | A character in the film. | Pat Hogan | |
| Mike | Never Cry Wolf | Adopted by Ootek and Woman. | Samson Jorah |
| Ootek | A traveling Inuit. | Zachary Ittimangnaq | |
| John Goodfeather | Older than America (American Evil) |
A Fond du Lac Indian Reservation police officer and son of a medicine man. | Adam Beach |
| Rain Many Lightnings O'Rourke | An Ojibwe elementary school teacher and John's fiancée. | Georgina Lightning | |
| Richard Two Rivers | An Indigenous Reservation radio DJ. | Wes Studi | |
| Steve Klamath | A Native American mayoral candidate. | Glen Gould | |
| Aivaaq | On the Ice | Two surviving Iñupiat teenagers. | Frank Qutuq Irelan |
| Qalli | Two surviving Iñupiat teenagers. | Josiah Patkotak | |
| "Chief" Bromden | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Based on the novel of the same name. | Will Sampson |
| Blue Feather | One Little Indian | A character in the film. | Lois Red Elk |
| Jimmy Wolf | A character in the film. | Jay Silverheels | |
| Mark | A young boy raised by an Indigenous person, on the run with his camel. | Clay O'Brien | |
| Old Indian | An elder character. | Richard Hale | |
| Little Moonlight | The Outlaw Josey Wales | A young Navajo woman. | Geraldine Keams |
| Lone Watie | An elder Cherokee. | Chief Dan George | |
| Chief Iron Eyes | The Paleface | A chief in the film. | Iron Eyes Cody |
| Wapato | The medicine man. | Henry Brandon | |
| Chief Yellow Feather | A chief in the film. | Chief Yowlachie | |
| Pathfinder | Pathfinder | The elder chief of a Native tribe and the main character. | Russell Means |
| Starfire | The daughter of the Pathfinder. | Moon Bloodgood | |
| Chief Great Big Little Panther | Peter Pan | A chief in the film. | Jack Charles (2015) |
| Tiger Lily | The daughter of the Big Chief and "princess" of the Redskins. | Anna May Wong (1924) Carson Gray (2003, USA) Ray Garcia (2003, Indie) Rooney Mara (2015) Alyssa Wapanatahk (2023) |
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| Blue Feather | The Phantom Rider | The Native sidekick of the Phantom Rider. | George J. Lewis |
| Phantom Rider | A masked main character. | Robert Kent | |
| Chief Yellow Wolf | A chief in the film. | Chief Thundercloud | |
| Taylor | Poltergeist II: The Other Side | A Native American shaman. | Will Sampson |
| Buddy Red Bow | Powwow Highway | Two Northern Cheyenne men who go on a journey of self-discovery. | A Martinez |
| Philbert Bono | Two Northern Cheyenne men who go on a journey of self-discovery. | Gary Farmer | |
| Eagle Feather | The Prairie | A character in the film. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Running Deer | A character in the film. | Jay Silverheels | |
| Naru | Prey | A fierce warrior of the Comanche tribe who hunts a titular alien. | Amber Midthunder |
| Wasape | A Comanche hunter who looks down on Naru. | Stormee Kipp | |
| Running Wolf | The Quick and the Dead | A character in the television film. | Larry Sellers |
| Little Beaver | Red Ryder | The young Indigenous sidekick of Red Ryder. | 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 | A character in the film. | Tully Marshall (adult) George Walker (teenager) |
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| Wing Foot | A young Navajo man and the main character. | Richard Dix (adult) Philip Anderson (child) |
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| Chief White Cloud | Renegade Girl | A chief in the film. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Hank Storm | Renegades | A character in the film. | 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 | A character in the film. | Larry Sellers |
| Ongwata | A character in the film. | Graham Greene | |
| Chief Screaming Eagle | The Ridiculous 6 | A Native American chief who adopts Tommy Stockburn. | Saginaw Grant |
| Smoking Fox | A Native American woman arranged to marry Tommy Stockburn. | Julia Jones | |
| Chief Eagle Feather | Romance of the West | A chief in the film. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Little Brown Jug | A character in the film. | Don Reynolds | |
| Chief Grey Wolf | Rustlers of Red Dog | A chief in the film. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Chief Scarface | A chief in the film. | Jim Thorpe | |
| Chief Longfeather | Santa Fe | A chief in the film. | Chief Thundercloud |
| Cajou | Saskatchewan | The Cree half-brother of Thomas O'Rourke. | Jay Silverheels |
| Chief Dark Cloud | A chief in the film. | Anton Moreno | |
| Spotted Eagle | A character in the film. | Anthony Caruso | |
| Jim Aherne Jr./Warbonnet | The Savage | Raised by the Sioux Natives. | Charlton Heston (adult) Orly Lindgren (child) |
| Running Dog | A character in the film. | Don Porter | |
| Chief Yellow Eagle | The tribal chief of the Great Sioux Nation. | Ian MacDonald | |
| Apaches | Savage Sam | Includes characters like Comanche Chief, Broken Nose, and Young Warrior. | Dean Fredericks Pat Hogan Rodolfo Acosta Rafael Campos |
| Chief Cicatriz (Scar) | The Searchers | The tribal chief of the Nawyecka band of the Comanches. | Henry Brandon |
| Matuwir | Seven Cities of Gold | The son of a local chief. | Jeffrey Hunter |
| Ula | The sister of Matuwir. | Rita Moreno | |
| Falling Leaves | Shanghai Noon | The daughter of a Sioux chief, accidentally engaged to Chon Wang. | Brandon Merrill |
| Chief Pony-That-Walks | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | One of the main characters. | Chief John Big Tree |
| Red Shirt | A character in the film. | Noble Johnson | |
| Chief Sky Eagle | A chief in the film. | Basil F. Heath | |
| Chief Cyclone | Silly Billies | A chief in the film. | Chief Thunderbird |
| Trigger | A character in the film. | 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 adopted by a wealthy family. | Lou Diamond Phillips (also a director of the film) Ronny Quintanar, Jr. (young) |
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| Russell White | A character in the film. | Gary Farmer | |
| Mogie Yellow Lodge | Skins | A character in the film. | Graham Greene |
| Ruby Yellow Lodge | A character in the film. | Eric Schweig | |
| Gabriel Jimmyboy | Smith! | One of the main characters. | Frank Ramírez |
| Suzy Song | Smoke Signals | A friend of Thomas' late father. | Irene Bedard |
| Thomas Builds-the-Fire | One of the main characters. | Evan Adams | |
| Victor Joseph | One of the main characters. | Adam Beach | |
| Running Fox | Soldier Blue | A character in the film. | 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. | Gojko Mitić | |
| Nat-u-Ritch | The Squaw Man (1914) The Squaw Man (1918) The Squaw Man (1931) |
The daughter of Chief Taby-Wana, who saves Captain James Wynnegate. | Red Wing (1914) Ann Little (1918) Lupe Vélez (1931) |
| Chief Taby-Wana | The chief of the Ute people. | Joseph Singleton (1914) Noah Beery (1918) Mitchell Lewis (1931) |
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| Bloody Knife | Stolen Women: Captured Hearts | A character in the television film. | Apesanahkwat |
| Cetan | A young Native who is half white. | William Lightning | |
| Chief Luta | A chief in the film. | Saginaw Grant | |
| Tokalah | The tribal leader of a band of Lakota Indigenous people. | Michael Greyeyes | |
| T. Hawk | Street Fighter | A Native American military sergeant. | 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 | A tribal council member who was murdered. | Allan R. J. Joseph | |
| Maggie Eagle Bear | An Indigenous schoolteacher and activist. | Sheila Tousey | |
| Walter Crow Horse | An Indian tribal police officer. | Graham Greene | |
| Wolf Ortiz | Tiger Eyes | A mysterious Native climber. | Tatanka Means |
| Injun Joe | Tom Sawyer | The enemy of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. | Frank Lanning (1918) Charles Stevens (1930) Victor Jory (1938) Kunu Hank (1973) Eric Schweig (1995) Kaloian Vodenicharov (2014) Stephen Lang (2015) |
| Prairie Flower | Tonka | The Indigenous wife of a trapper. | Joy Page |
| Chief Sitting Bull | A chief in the film. | John War Eagle | |
| Spotted Tail | A character in the film. | Eddie Little Sky | |
| Strong Bear | A character in the film. | Rafael Campos | |
| White Bull | A young Sioux and the main character. | Sal Mineo | |
| Yellow Bear | The Sioux cousin of White Bull. | H. M. Wynant | |
| Taha Aki | The Twilight Saga | One of the last spirit chiefs and the first shape-shifter of the Quileute tribe. | Byron Chief-Moon |
| Billy Black | The elder of the Quileute tribe. | Gil Birmingham | |
| Jacob Black | A protector of the Quileute tribe and the main character. | Taylor Lautner | |
| Harry Clearwater | An elder of the Quileute tribe who died. | Graham Greene | |
| Leah Clearwater | The only known female shape-shifting wolf in Quileute history. | Julia Jones | |
| Seth Clearwater | Leah's younger brother, who also transforms into a wolf. | Boo Boo Stewart | |
| Sam Uley | The leader of the La Push pack. | Chaske Spencer | |
| Guyasuta | Unconquered | Chief Guyasuta of the Senecas, based on the real historical figure. | Boris Karloff |
| Hannah | The daughter of Chief Guyasuta. | Katherine DeMille | |
| Pontiac | Based on the real Pontiac. | Robert Warwick (uncredited) | |
| Red Corn | A character in the film. | Iron Eyes Cody | |
| Sioto | The tribal medicine man. | Marc Lawrence | |
| Blandy | The Vanishing American | Raised by the Navajos. | Scott Brady |
| The Navajos | Includes characters like Chief Etenia, Yashi, and Beeteia. | 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 | A character in the film. | Rodney A. Grant | |
| Chief Maygro | War Arrow | The tribal chief of the Seminole tribe. | Henry Brandon |
| Pino | A character in the film. | Dennis Weaver | |
| Santanta | A character in the film. | Jay Silverheels | |
| Ben Crowkiller/Dead Crow Wolf | War Party | A Blackfeet Indigenous person. | Dennis Banks |
| Freddie Man Wolf | A Blackfeet Indigenous person. | Saginaw Grant | |
| The Crow | A Blackfeet Indigenous person. | Rodney A. Grant | |
| Sonny Crowkiller | Three young Blackfeet men who fight for freedom. | Billy Wirth | |
| Skitty Harris | A young Blackfeet man. | Kevin Dillon | |
| Warren Cutfoot | A young Blackfeet man. | Tim Sampson | |
| Hannoc | When the Redskins Rode | The Indigenous prince of the Delaware tribe. | Jon Hall |
| Morna | The intended bride of Hannoc. | Sherry Moreland | |
| Chief Shingiss | The leader of the Delaware tribe and father of Hannoc. | Pedro de Cordoba | |
| Grey Beaver | White Fang | Based on the novel of the same name. | Pius Savage |
| Lily Joseph | White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf | A Haida girl and a main character. | Charmaine Craig |
| Moses Joseph | The chief of the Haida tribe and Lily's uncle. | Al Harrington | |
| Peter Joseph | The son of Chief Moses, who was killed. | Anthony Ruivivar | |
| American Horse | White Feather | A Cheyenne tribesman. | Hugh O'Brian |
| Appearing Day | The fiancée of American Horse and love interest of Josh Tanner. | 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 | An Indigenous person who is a henchman. | Charles Stevens |
| Chief Red Hatchet | A tribal chief who is a henchman. | Chief Thunderbird | |
| Ben Shoyo | Wind River | The tribal police chief who helps solve a possible homicide. | Graham Greene |
| Martin Hanson | A resident whose daughter died from the cold. | Gil Birmingham | |
| Jim Thorpe | Windrunner | A Native football star who is a ghost. | Russell Means |
| Crow Brother | Windwalker | A character in the film. | Nick Ramus |
| Smiling Wolf | One of the main characters. | Nick Ramus | |
| Tashina | The wife of Windwalker. | Serene Hedin | |
| Windwalker | The main character, father of Smiling Wolf. | Trevor Howard (adult) James Remar (young) |
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| Agnes First Raise | Winter in the Blood | A character in the film. | Julia Jones |
| Lame Bull | A character in the film. | Gary Farmer | |
| Virgil First Raise | The main character. | Chaske Spencer | |
| Yellow Calf | A character in the film. | Saginaw Grant | |
| Pale Flower | Winterhawk | The Indigenous wife of a trapper. | Sacheen Littlefeather |
| Winterhawk | The Blackfoot chief and the main character. | Michael Dante |
Animated Films
| Native American Character | Film Title | Notes | Voiced by |
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| Indian Mice | An American Tail: Fievel Goes West | A tribe of Native American mice. | various |
| Cholena | An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island | A Lenape girl mouse and the main character. | Elaine Bilstad (speaking) Leeza Miller (singing) |
| Chief Wulisso | The leader of the underground Lenape Native American mice village. | David Carradine | |
| Hunter | Anima | An unnamed Native American hunter and warrior. | José Vicente |
| Chief | Asterix Conquers America | A chief in the film. | Sylvain Lemarie |
| Medicine Man | A medicine man in the film. | 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 |
A medic of Native American and African American descent. | Phil Morris |
| Denahi | Brother Bear | The middle brother and narrator. | Jason Raize (young) Harold Gould (older) |
| Kenai | Brother Bear; Brother Bear 2 |
The main character who turns into a bear. | Joaquin Phoenix (original) Patrick Dempsey (sequel) |
| Sitka | Brother Bear | Denahi and Kenai's older brother, who becomes a spirit. | D. B. Sweeney |
| Tanana | The shaman-woman of Kenai's tribe. | Joan Copeland | |
| Atka | Brother Bear 2 | A man from a neighboring Inuit village. | Jeff Bennett |
| Chief Chilkoot | The chief of the Inuit tribe. | Jim Cummings | |
| Nita | The daughter of Chief Chilkoot and wife of Kenai. | Mandy Moore | |
| Siqniq and Taqqig | Nita's two aunts. | Wendie Malick and Kathy Najimy |
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| Redskin Indians | Californy 'er Bust | A group of Native American dogs resembling Goofy. | N/A |
| Daisy June | The Daffy Duckaroo | An Indigenous girl who is actually from New York. | Sara Berner |
| Little Beaver | Daisy June's large Indigenous boyfriend. | Mel Blanc | |
| Thunder | Flood | A young Native Canadian woman fighting against colonization. | N/A |
| Chief | The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound | The tribal leader of Native American yellow coonhounds. | Frank Welker |
| Chieftess | The tribal leader of Native American yellow coonhounds. | B. J. Ward | |
| Desert Flower | The daughter of the Chief and Chieftess, and love interest of Huckleberry Hound. | B. J. Ward | |
| Indian Fleas | A Horse Fly Fleas | A group of Native American fleas living on a dog. | Mel Blanc |
| Watuna | The Legend of the North Wind | A descendant of the Mi'kmaq Indigenous people and a main character. | Luz Enparanza (Basque) Chelo Vivares (Spanish) Daniel Brochu (English) |
| Dave Kawena | Lilo & Stitch | A Native Hawaiian professional surfer. | Jason Scott Lee |
| Lilo Pelekai | A lonely young Native Hawaiian orphan girl who befriends Stitch. | Daveigh Chase | |
| Hiawatha | Little Hiawatha | Inspired by the The Song of Hiawatha poem. | N/A |
| Manili | The Little Polar Bear | An Inuit girl who helps Lars the Polar Bear solve a mystery. | Vanessa Petruo (original German) Kimberly J. Brown (English dub) |
| Indian Cats | Peter-No-Tail in Americat | A group of Native American cats who use magic. | various |
| Big Chief | Peter Pan | The chief of the Native Americans in the film. | Candy Candido |
| Squaw | A character in the film. | June Foray | |
| Tiger Lily | The daughter of the Big Chief and "princess" of the Redskins. | N/A | |
| Indian Wolves | Pioneers Days | Wolf-type Native Americans planning war against settlers. | N/A |
| Windlifter | Planes: Fire & Rescue | An anthropomorphic Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane helicopter of Native American heritage. | Wes Studi |
| Kekata | Pocahontas | The shaman of the Powhatan tribe. | Gordon Tootoosis (speaking) Jim Cummings (singing) |
| Kocoum | A strong warrior and fiancé of Pocahontas. | James Apaumut Fall | |
| Nakoma | Pocahontas; Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World |
The best friend of Pocahontas. | Michelle St. John |
| Pocahontas | An adventurous Indian princess of the Powhatan tribe, based on the real historical figure. | Irene Bedard (speaking) Judy Kuhn (singing) |
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| Chief Powhatan | The father of Pocahontas and leader of the Powhatan tribe. | Russell Means (speaking) Jim Cummings (singing) |
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| Uttamatomakkin "Uti" | Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World | Pocahontas's bodyguard. | Brad Garrett (briefly) |
| Medicine Woman | The Simpsons Movie | A mysterious Inuit shaman who saves Homer Simpson. | Tress MacNeille |
| Little Creek | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron | A young Lakota man and a main character. | Daniel Studi |
| Injurin' Joe | Tom Sawyer | An American black bear and antagonist. | Hank Williams Jr. Kevin Michael Richardson |
| Chief Rain-In-The-P-P-Puss | Tom Tom Tomcat | The leader of Native American bicolor cats. | Mel Blanc |
| Andar | Turok: Son of Stone | A character in the animated film. | Adam Gifford |
| Catori | The mother of Ander and sister-in-law of Turok. | Irene Bedard (adult) Iyari Limon (teenager) |
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| Chichak | The main antagonist. | Robert Knepper | |
| Nashoba | The brother of Turok and father of Ander. | Gil Birmingham (adult) Matthew Yang King (teenager) |
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| Turok | The main character. | Adam Beach (adult) Rick Mora (teenager) |
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| Injun Joe | Wagon Heels | A Native American "Super Chief." | Mel Blanc |
| Says Nothing | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | A Native American toon bullet used by Eddie Valiant. | N/A |
Fictional Characters in Television Shows
Live Action Series
| Native American Character | Series Title | Notes | Portrayed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rosalind "Roz" Friendly | Alaska Daily | A Native Alaskan star reporter investigating missing and murdered Indigenous women. | Grace Dove |
| Ka'kwet | Anne with an E | A Mi'kmaq girl who befriends Anne Shirley. | Kiawentiio |
| Alexander "Alex" Longshadow | Banshee | The tribal chief and rival of Kai Proctor. | Anthony Ruivivar |
| Deputy Bill Raven | A former officer who becomes a deputy. | Chaske Spencer | |
| Running Dog | Black Fox | A character in the miniseries. | Raoul Trujillo |
| Black Thunder | By Way of the Stars | A character in the miniseries. | Eric Schweig |
| Cree Chief | The unnamed chief of the Cree tribe. | Gordon Tootoosis | |
| Matthew Tommy | Cashing In | The owner of an Indigenous-owned casino. | Eric Schweig |
| Blue Leaf | Centennial | A character in the miniseries. | Maria Potts Monika Ramirez (teenager) Maria Yolanda Aguayo (child) |
| Clay Basket | The daughter of Lame Beaver and wife of Pasquinel. | Barbara Carrera | |
| Lame Beaver | An Arapaho man and main character. | 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 | A chief in the miniseries. | Byron Chief-Moon |
| White Wolf/Corby White | A young man raised by whites. | Billy Wirth | |
| Mingo | Daniel Boone | An Oxford-educated half-British Native American and companion of Daniel Boone. | Ed Ames |
| Black Wing | Death Valley Days | The chief of the Ute tribe. | George Keymas |
| Grace Cardinal | Degrassi: The Next Generation and Degrassi: Next Class | A character appearing in many episodes. | Na'ku'set Gould |
| Chief Black Kettle | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | Based on the real Black Kettle. | Nick Ramus |
| Byron Sully | A Cheyenne man and main character. | Joe Lando | |
| Cloud Dancing | A character in the series. | Larry Sellers | |
| Crazy Cat | F Troop | The heir apparent of a fictional Hekawi tribe. | Don Diamond |
| Chief Wild Eagle | The leader of the Hekawi tribe. | Frank de Kova | |
| Ohanzee "Hanzee" Dent | Fargo | A mysterious Native American tracker and hitman. | Mark Acheson (Season 1) Zahn McClarnon (Season 2) |
| Declan Harp | Frontier | A half-Cree and half-Irish outlaw fighting a fur trade monopoly. | Jason Momoa |
| Kamenna | An elder chief of a fictional Cree tribe. | Tantoo Cardinal | |
| Sasappis | Ghosts | The ghost of a cynical Lenape Native American. | Román Zaragoza |
| Chief Redwood | H.R. Pufnstuf | An anthropomorphic tree with a feathered headdress. | Walker Edmiston (voice) |
| John Hawk | Hawk | An Iroquois special detective. | Burt Reynolds |
| 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. | Gerald Auger | |
| Danny Lightfoot | Hey Dude | A Hopi Native American and a main character. | Joe Torres |
| Satangkai | How the West Was Won | The chief of the Sioux Nation. | Ricardo Montalbán (guest) |
| Chief Featherman | Howdy Doody | A marionette chief. | |
| Princess SummerFallWinterSpring | A member of a fictional tribe. | marionette Judy Tyler Linda Marsh (briefly) |
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| Chief Thunderthud | The head of a fictional tribe. | Bill Le Cornec marionette |
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| Dr. Gabrielle Whitecloud | The Incredible Hulk | Helps Dr. David Banner research a possible Hulk. | Kim Cattrall (guest) |
| Lone Wolf | Elder of a Native American tribe. | Chief Dan George (guest) | |
| Rick | A Native American who tries to stop Dr. Banner. | A Martinez (guest) | |
| Thomas Logan | Created an herbal medicine to control the Hulk transformation. | Ned Romero (guest) | |
| Dog Star | Into the West | The older brother of Loved-by-the-Buffalo. | 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. | 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 a British photographer. | 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. | 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. | Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse | |
| Thunder Heart Woman | The sister of Loved-by-the-Buffalo. | Sarah Weston Tonantzin Carmelo Sheila Tousey |
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| Voices That Carry | Red Lance's younger brother. | Nakotah LaRance Chaske Spencer |
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| Chacrow | Jamestown | A Native American go-between for settlers and tribespeople. | Kalani Queypo |
| Opchanacanough | The chief of the Pamunkey Tribe, based on the real historical figure. | Raoul Trujillo | |
| Winganuske | Chacrow's sister, married to Henry Sharrow. | Rachel Colwell | |
| Chester Lake | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | The first Native American detective in the Law & Order series. | Adam Beach |
| Big Chief Sitting Duck | Lidsville | An anthropomorphic feathered hat resembling a chief's headdress. | Walker Edmiston (voice) |
| Nakoma | The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams | Native American friend of Adams. | Don Shanks |
| Chief Jack Lame Horse | Little House on the Prairie | A Native American who saves Charles Ingalls. | Robert Tessier |
| Tonto | The Lone Ranger | The Native American companion of the Lone Ranger. | Jay Silverheels |
| Blue Duck | Lonesome Dove miniseries | A character in the miniseries. | Frederic Forrest (1989) Adam Beach (2008) |
| Chief Buffalo Hump | A chief in the miniseries. | Eric Schweig (1996) Wes Studi (2008) |
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| Famous Shoes | A Kickapoo tracker. | Wes Studi (1995) David Midthunder (2008) |
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| Kicking Wolf | A character in the miniseries. | Jonathan Joss | |
| Hector | Longmire | A Cheyenne ex-boxer. | Jeffrey De Serrano |
| Henry Standing Bear | The main character. | Lou Diamond Phillips | |
| Jacob Nighthorse | A local Cheyenne businessman and antagonist. | A Martinez | |
| Mandy | A young Cheyenne woman who works in a legal-aid office. | 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. | Q'orianka Kilcher |
| Kaw Chief | The leader of the Kaw tribe. | George Aguilar | |
| Injun Joe | The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Appeared in the pilot, chasing Huck Finn. | Ted Cassidy |
| Dave the Cook | Northern Exposure | A cheerful Native American cook. | William J. White |
| Ed Chigliak | A mild-mannered half-Native Alaskan raised by the Tlingits. | Darren E. Burrows | |
| Leonard Quinhagak | The cousin of Marilyn Whirlwind and a Native medicine man. | Graham Greene | |
| Lester Haines | A Haida who is one of the wealthiest men in the area. | Apesanahkwat | |
| Marilyn Whirlwind | The Native Alaskan receptionist. | Elaine Miles | |
| One-Who-Waits | The ghost of a long-dead chief and spirit guide. | Floyd Westerman | |
| Tiger Lily | Once Upon a Time | Originally a fairy who moves to Neverland. | Sara Tomko |
| Chief Black Cloud | Paradise | The tribal chief. | Nick Ramus |
| John Taylor | A Native American medicine man and friend. | Dehl Berti | |
| Chief Ken Hotate | Parks and Recreation | The leader of the local Wamapoke tribe. | Jonathan Joss |
| Dr. Thomas "Tommy" Oliver | Power Rangers | A character adopted by the Oliver family, who becomes a Power Ranger. | Jason David Frank |
| Skye Nakaiye | The Puzzle Place | A 10-year-old boy of Native American descent. | Peter Linz (Seasons 1–2) Matt Vogel (Season 3) |
| Phillip Kopus | The Red Road | A dangerous Ramapough Lenape Indian. | Jason Momoa |
| Elora Danan Postoak | Reservation Dogs | One of four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma. | Devery Jacobs |
| Bear Smallhill | One of four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma. | D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai | |
| Chester "Cheese" Williams | One of four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma. | Lane Factor | |
| Wilhelmina "Willie Jack" Jacqueline Sampson | One of four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma. | Paulina Alexis | |
| Asta Twelvetrees | Resident Alien | An Ute assistant to the town doctor. | Sara Tomko |
| Deputy Marshal Sam Buckhart | The Rifleman; Law of the Plainsman |
A deputy marshal. | Michael Ansara |
| Reagan Wells | Rutherford Falls | A member of a fictional Minishonka Nation. | Jana Schmieding |
| Terry Thomas | The CEO of the Minishonka's casino. | Michael Greyeyes | |
| William "Billy" Twofeathers | Shining Time Station | A Native American railroad engineer. | Tom Jackson |
| Charges the Enemy | The Son | A character in the series. | Tatanka Means |
| Prairie Flower | A character in the series. | Elizabeth Frances | |
| Toshaway | The Comanche tribal chief. | Zahn McClarnon | |
| Anthwara | Star Trek | Leader of a Native American colony. | Ned Romero (Guest) |
| Commander Chakotay | First Officer aboard the starship USS Voyager. | Robert Beltran | |
| Goro | The elder chief of an indigenous tribe. | Richard Hale | |
| Lakanta | A Native American colonist. | Tom Jackson (guest) | |
| Miramanee | The tribal priestess. | Sabrina Scharf | |
| Salish | The medicine chief among his tribe. | Rudy Solari | |
| Elizabeth | Tipi Tales | One of four Ojibway cousins. | Rebecca Gibson (voice) |
| Eugene "Junior" | One of four Ojibway cousins. | Ryan Rajendra Black (voice) | |
| Russell | One of four Ojibway cousins. | Herbie Barnes (voice) | |
| Samantha "Sam" | One of four Ojibway cousins. | Jan Skene (voice) | |
| Samantha "Sam" Woodburn | Tribal | The newly appointed chief of an indigenous police force. | Jessica Matten |
| Cherokee Lawshe | True Women | Half Creek. | Julie Carmen |
| Tarantula | A Comanche warrior. | Michael Greyeyes | |
| Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill | Twin Peaks | A Native American who works at the Twin Peaks sheriff's department. | Michael Horse |
| Jackie "Jacqueline" White | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | An insecure socialite who passes as white. | Jane Krakowski |
| Raymond Firewalker | Walker, Texas Ranger | The paternal uncle of Cordell Walker. | Floyd Westerman (season 1) Apesanahkwat (season 2) |
| Jack Lone Feather | The West Wing | Two Native Americans who encamp in the West Wing lobby. | Gary Farmer |
| Maggie Morningstar-Charles | Two Native Americans who encamp in the West Wing lobby. | Georgina Lightning | |
| Akecheta | Westworld | A host and elder of the Ghost Nation. | Zahn McClarnon |
| Etu | A member of the Ghost Nation. | Booboo Stewart | |
| Kohana | The wife of Akecheta. | Julia Jones | |
| Wichapi | A member of the Ghost Nation. | Irene Bedard | |
| Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah | Yancy Derringer | A silent shotgun-toting Pawnee Indigenous person. | X Brands |
| Chief Thomas Rainwater | Yellowstone | The tribal chairman of a fictional reservation. | Gil Birmingham |
| Buck Cross/Running Buck | The Young Riders | A half-Kiowa and close friend of Ike McSwain. | Gregg Rainwater |
Animated Series
| Native American Character | Series Title | Notes | Voiced by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annie Redfeather | Adventures from the Book of Virtues | A 10-year-old girl of Native American descent. | Kath Soucie (seasons 1–2) Adrienne Carter (season 3) Denise Tan (overdub) |
| Pow Wow | Adventures of Pow Wow | A pre-adolescent Native American boy who protects nature. | N/A |
| Injun Joe | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | An enemy in the Japanese anime series. | Eiji Kanie, Kenji Utsumi (Japanese) Tom Wyner (English) |
| Apache Chief | The All-New Super Friends Hour | A Native American superhero. | Regis Cordic (debut) Michael Rye Al Fann (one episode) |
| Rusty Smith | American Dad! | The Native American half-brother of Stan Smith. | Lou Diamond Phillips |
| Kai Green | Ben 10 | A Navajo girl and one of Ben Tennyson's first love interests. | Bettina Bush |
| Wes Green | The grandfather of Kai Green and a retired Plumber operative. | Miguel Nájera | |
| Bizou | Bizou | An Aboriginal Canadian princess who explores animals. | Paula Davis |
| Marshal BraveStarr | BraveStarr | The galactic Native American marshal and main character. | Pat Fraley |
| Thrasher | Captain Flamingo | An Inuit kid who calls Captain Flamingo for help. | Noam Zylberman |
| Charles Little Bull | The Casagrandes | A college student of Lakota heritage. | Robbie Daymond |
| Laughing Bull | Cowboy Bebop | An old shaman of Native American descent. | Takehiro Koyama (Japanese) Michael Gregory (English) |
| Upa | Dragon Ball | The son of a warrior-chief, and friend to Goku. | Mitsuko Horie (child) Masaaki Ōkura (teen) Takeshi Kusao (adult) |
| Leonard Cornfeathers | Family Guy | The boss of a Native American casino. | Bobby Slayton |
| Great Big Little Panther | Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates | A chief in the animated series. | Michael Wise |
| Hard-to-Hit | The younger brother of Tiger Lily and prince of the tribe. | Aaron Lohr | |
| Tiger Lily | A character in the animated series. | Cree Summer | |
| Broken Feather | Go Go Gophers | One of the last two surviving Native American gophers. | Tom Thomas |
| Super Chief | One of the last two surviving Native American gophers. | N/A | |
| Spirit | G.I. Joe | A Native from the Taos Pueblo Reservation. | Gregg Berger (1985) Maurice LaMarche (1989) Marc Thompson (2005) |
| Coyote | Gargoyles | A Native American trickster spirit. | Gregg Rainwater |
| Elisa Maza | A NYPD detective who is half Native American. | Salli Richardson | |
| Natsilane ("Nick") | A Native American young man from the Pacific Northwest. | Gregg Rainwater | |
| Peter Maza | A Native American and father of Elisa Maza. | Michael Horse | |
| Ruffled Feathers | Go Go Gophers | One of the last two surviving Native American gophers. | Sandy Becker |
| Chief Running Board | One of the last two surviving Native American gophers. | George S. Irving | |
| Chief Jirukoma | How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom | A tribal leader of a refugee camp. | Kenta Miyake (Japanese) Ray Hurd (English) |
| Komain | A tribal leader of a refugee camp. | Yuuki Hirose (Japanese) Jalitza Delago (English) |
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| Chief Crazy Coyote | The Huckleberry Hound Show | A regular Indigenous enemy of Huckleberry Hound. | Don Messick |
| Jesse Cosay | Infinity Train | An Apache teen from Arizona. | Robbie Daymond |
| White Feather | Jonny Quest | A Native American living in Quebec, Canada who can talk to animals. | Mike Road |
| Sheriff Ohiyesa Smith | Justice League Unlimited | A sheriff in a time-travel episode. | Jonathan Joss |
| Matthew Carver ("Kagagi") | Kagagi | A teenage Native Canadian who transforms into a Raven-type superhero. | Eric Wilson |
| John Redcorn III | King of the Hill | A Native American former "healer" and lover of Nancy Gribble. | Victor Aaron (season 1) Jonathan Joss (seasons 2–13) |
| Joseph John Gribble | The biological son of John Redcorn. | Brittany Murphy (1997–2000) Breckin Meyer (2000–2009) |
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| Geronimo | Kinnikuman | A human Cherokee warrior who becomes a Justice Choujin. | Kaneto Shiozawa |
| BW | Long Gone Gulch | A 21-year-old sardonic bounty hunter and Native American human. | Amber Midthunder |
| Nehtan Kon | Molly of Denali | Molly Mabray's maternal grandfather. | Lorne Cardinal |
| Shahnyaa "Molly" Mabray | A 10-year-old Alaska Native vlogger and the first Alaska Native protagonist in children's animated TV. | Sovereign Bill | |
| Tooey Ookami | A young boy who is half Alaska Native and half Japanese. | Sequoia Janvier (season 1) Zane Jasper (season 2) |
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| Keruyan | Monarch: The Big Bear of Tallac | An Indigenous man who left his tribe to raise his son. | Jun Hazumi |
| Ron | A young Indigenous boy who raised two bear cubs. | Yoshiko Matsuo | |
| Chief Thunderhooves | My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | The chieftain of a native buffalo tribe. | Scott McNeil |
| Brave Paw | Paw Paws | The close friend of Princess Paw Paws. | Thom Pinto |
| Laughing Paw | A character in the series. | Alexandra Stoddart | |
| Meanos | A group of villainous Indigenous people. | Stanley Ralph Ross Frank Welker |
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| Mighty Paw | The strongest and biggest of the Paw Paws. | Robert Ridgely | |
| Princess Paw Paws | 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 a fictional middle school. | Jeff Bennett |
| Grey Fox | The Scooby-Doo Show | A greedy Chippewa mastermind. | Lennie Weinrib |
| Red Herron | The Chippewa chief who suspects a legend. | John Stephenson | |
| Indian Witch Doctor | Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! | A villain who plans to kidnap dogs. | Don Messick |
| Dr. Paul Williams | Sealab 2020 | A Chinook oceanographer and leader of a research team. | Ross Martin |
| Patch Tribe | Shaman King | A group of Native American shamans overseeing a tournament. | Reiko Suzuki (Goldva) Hikaru Midorikawa (Silva) Kazuhiro Nakata (Kalim) Kentarō Itō (Nichrom) Satoshi Yamaguchi (Magna) Yasuhiro Mamiya (Radim) Shohei Kajikawa (Namari) Jiro Saito (Bron) Akihiro Tajima (Renim) Kōji Okino (Thalim) Hekiru Shiina (Rutherfor) Susumu Chiba (Zinc) |
| Bill Yellow Hawk | South Park | A gay Native American man. | N/A |
| Chief Running Water | The chief of the Ute tribe. | Matt Stone | |
| Chief Runs-With-Premise | A greedy Indigenous chief who owns a casino. | ||
| Motorcycle Apaches | Speed Racer | A tribal motorcycle gang. | Jack Grimes Jack Curtis |
| Eddy Skycedar | Spirit Rangers | One of three Chumash-Cowlitz siblings with powers. | Talon Proc Alford |
| Kodi Skycedar | One of three Chumash-Cowlitz siblings with powers. | Wačíŋyeya Iwáš'aka Yracheta | |
| Summer Skycedar | One of three Chumash-Cowlitz siblings with powers. | Isis Celilo Rogers | |
| Hawk Feathers | SuperMansion | A character in the series. | Wes Studi |
| Little Bear | The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't | An Indigenous boy and a main character. | Kevin Cooper |
| Indian | A Town Called Panic | A toy figurine of a stereotypical Native American chief. | Bruce Ellison (original French) Alan Marriott (English dub) |
| Brock Sampson | The Venture Bros. | Described as "half-Swedish, quarter-Polish, and quarter-Winnebago." | Patrick Warburton |
| Princess Tinyfeet | A stereotypical Native American girl. | Suzanne Gilad (briefly) | |
| Kahhori | What If...? | A young Mohawk woman who gains powers and saves her people. | Devery Jacobs |
| J.R. | Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa | A Native American bison who helps the C.O.W.-Boys. | Michael Horse |
| Ellen Crow | Wildfire | An Indigenous girl who provides moral support. | Lilly Moon |
Fictional Characters in Video Games
| Native American Character | Game Title | Console(s) | Notes |
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| Desmond Miles | Assassin's Creed | A main character and descendant of Ratonhnhaké:ton. | |
| Kahionhaténion | Assassin's Creed III | A Kanien'kehá:ka warrior and hunter. | |
| Kanenʼtó꞉kon | A close friend of Ratonhnhaké꞉ton. | ||
| Kaniehtí꞉io ("Ziio") | A Kanien'keha:ka clan woman and mother of Ratonhnhaké:ton. | ||
| Ratonhnhaké:ton/Connor | The main character, who is half English and half Mohawk Indigenous. | ||
| Teiowí:sonte | A Kanien'keha:ka warrior and brother of Kahionhaténion. | ||
| William Miles | Father of Desmond Miles, related to Ratonhnhaké:ton. | ||
| Kesegowaase | Assassin's Creed Rogue | A minor enemy who is an Abenaki assassin. | |
| Humba Wumba | Banjo-Tooie | An Indigenous woman and a major character. | |
| Condor Heads | Breakers | A Native American fighter. | |
| Colton White | Gun | Known as Cole, an Apache marksman adopted by Ned White. | |
| Fights-At-Dawn | A Blackfoot chief and proud warrior. | ||
| Many Wounds | An Apache chief who becomes an ally to Colton. | ||
| Delsin Rowe | Infamous Second Son | PlayStation 4 | A member of a fictional Akomish tribe and the main character. |
| Reggie Rowe | The brother of Delsin. | ||
| Pakawa | Kasumi Ninja | Atari Jaguar | Chief of a fictional Tu-Wee-Kah Comanche fighting tribe. |
| Chief Thunder | Killer Instinct (1994) | A Native American chief with tomahawks. | |
| Eagle | Killer Instinct (2013) | An Indigenous warrior and younger brother of Chief Thunder. | |
| Nightwolf | Mortal Kombat | Arcade | A Native American shaman. |
| Nuna | Never Alone (Kisima Inŋitchuŋa) | An Iñupiaq girl who searches for the source of an eternal blizzard. | |
| Fareeha Amari ("Pharah") | Overwatch | Her father is from an unknown First Nations tribe. | |
| Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi | Prey | A Cherokee mechanic and the main character. | |
| Enisi | The grandfather of Tommy. | ||
| Jen | The girlfriend of Tommy. | ||
| Nastas | Red Dead Redemption | A minor character who helps John Marston. | |
| Enepay | A minor enemy who rides with Dutch van der Linde. | ||
| Charles Smith | Red Dead Redemption 2 |
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A supporting character who is half Native American. |
| Rains Fall | Chief of a fictional Wapiti Tribe. | ||
| Eagle Flies | Son of Rains Falls, who leads his tribe in rebellion. | ||
| Paytah | A minor character and friend of Eagle Flies. | ||
| Falling Star | Red Dead Revolver | The mother of Red Harlow. | |
| Red Harlow | The main character, who is half Native American. | ||
| Shadow Wolf | The Native American cousin of Red Harlow. | ||
| Natan | Shadow Hearts: From the New World | PlayStation 2 | A bounty hunting bodyguard. |
| Shania | A Native American priestess. | ||
| Noembelu | Street Fighter Alpha 3 | A Native Mexican woman brainwashed by an evil organization. | |
| Thunder Hawk ("T. Hawk") | Street Fighter II |
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A Native Mexican warrior. |
| Chief Scalpem | Sunset Riders | One of the game's bosses. | |
| Nahova | Ta•o Taido | Arcade | A character in the game. |
| Michelle Chang | Tekken |
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A young woman of Native American and Chinese descent. |
| Julia Chang | The adopted daughter of Michelle. | ||
| Red Bear | Tengai Makyō: Daiyon no Mokushiroku | An American Indian elder who raised the main character. | |
| Yūnō | A teenage Indigenous warrior girl. | ||
| Turok | Turok games | various | The main character of the video game series. |
| Joshua Fireseed | Turok 2: Seeds of Evil | One of the main characters. | |
| Danielle Fireseed | Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion | Nintendo 64 | The sister of Joshua. |
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