List of fictional Native Americans

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 North America: the United States, Canada and Mexico, ones that are the historical figures and others that are modern.

Literature

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See also: Native Americans in children's literature

This section contains examples of the writing of both Native and non-Native authors.

Native American Work Notes Author Ref(s)
Arnold Spirit Jr. (Junior) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian A 14-year-old Spokane boy who lives on the Indian reservation with his parents Arnold Spirit Sr. and Agnes Adams. Sherman Alexie [citation needed]
Arnold Spirit Sr. Junior's father who could have been a jazz musician. [citation needed]
Zits (Michael) Flight A 15-year-old boy who is the foster child and the main character of the story. [citation needed]
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". [citation needed]
Victor Joseph One of the main characters of the short story collection. [citation needed]
Coyote Springs Reservation Blues An all-Indian rock and blues band of the Spokane tribe. [citation needed]
Esselen Girl The Lariat She was the first Esselen Indian to be converted by Spanish Franciscan friar Fray Luis. Jaime de Angulo [citation needed]
Hualala The medicine man and the husband of the Esselen Girl. [citation needed]
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:
  • The Return of the Indian
  • The Secret of the Indian
  • The Mystery of the Cupboard
  • The Key to the Indian
 Lynne Reid Banks [citation needed]
Great Big Little Panther Peter and Wendy There is controversy over the stereotypes of Native Americans in both Barrie's 1904 stage play and 1911 novel, depicting them as the "Piccaninny" tribe of the "redskin savages" on the fictional island of Neverland, with Tiger Lily being called an "Indian princess".

Tiger Lily, the daughter of Chief Great Big Little Panther, is frequently portrayed as an obstinate Native girl who is taken captive to drown by Captain Hook and his pirate crew until she is rescued by Peter Pan, naming him the "Great White Father".

J. M. Barrie [1][2]
Tiger Lily
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 [citation needed]
Fighting Prawn Peter and the Starcatchers The chieftain of the fictional Mollusk Tribe. [citation needed]
Cheyenne people Little Big Man
  • Old Lodge Skins, the tribal chief
  • Younger Bear
  • Shadow-That-Comes-in-Sight (or Shadow for short), the Cheyenne brave
  • Sunshine, daughter of Shadow
  • Burns-Red-in-the-Sun
  • Little Horse
  • Buffalo Wallow Woman
  • Digging Bear, Little Elk and Corn Woman
 Thomas Berger [citation needed]
Kicking Bird Dances with Wolves The Sioux medicine man. Michael Blake [citation needed]
Stands-With-A-Fist She is the adoptive daughter of Kicking Bird and the wife of Lieutenant John Dunbar (aka Dances-with-Wolves). [citation needed]
Chief Ten Bears [citation needed]
Winds-In-His-Hair A Sioux warrior. [citation needed]
Wolf Tiger Eyes A mysterious Native climber. Judy Blume [citation needed]
Running Dog Black Fox Matt Braun [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Zack Banning Comanche Moon The son of the Comanche chief. Virginia Brown [citation needed]
Waukewa Waukewa's Eagle A young Indian boy who befriends a broken-winged eagle. James Buckham [citation needed]
Toriano Adobe Walls The son of the Apache Chief. W. R. Burnett [citation needed]
Corby Children of the Dust The Cheyenne boy. Clancy Carlile [citation needed]
Chingachgook Leatherstocking Tales The Mohican chief and the companion of Natty Bumppo. James Fenimore Cooper [citation needed]
Magua The antagonistic Huron warrior in the novel The Last of the Mohicans. [citation needed]
Uncas Chingachgook's son who was killed by Magua. [citation needed]
Hard Heart The Prairie A brave, trustworthy Pawnee warrior. [citation needed]
Chief Mahtoree A crafty Teton Sioux chief. [citation needed]
Tachechana The wife of Mahtoree. [citation needed]
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 [3]
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 [citation needed]
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 [4][5]
Morning Girl and Star Boy Morning Girl The two Taíno siblings who recreate a life on the Bahamian island. Michael Dorris [6]
Walnut/Sees-Behind-Trees Sees Behind Trees [citation needed]
Christine George Taylor A Yellow Raft in Blue Water She has been separated from her husband, Elgin Taylor. [citation needed]
Aunt Ida George She is a legal mother of Christine. [citation needed]
Rayona Diane Taylor The half-Native American daughter of Christine and Elgin. [citation needed]
Cogewea Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range The protagonist who is both Indigenous and Euro-American. Mourning Dove [citation needed]
Blue Back Drums Along the Mohawk A friendly Oneida man. Walter D. Edmonds [citation needed]
Celestine James The Beet Queen The half-Native American who would become a best friend of Mary Adare. Louise Erdrich [citation needed]
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:
  • Nokomis, Omakayas's maternal grandmother.
  • Yellow Kettle, Omakayas's strong mother.
  • Deydey, Omakayas's father who is half white and half Ojibwe.
  • Angeline, a sister whom Omakayas sees and loves as a role model.
  • Pinch and Neewo, Omakayas's younger brothers whom she loves very much.
 [7][8][9][10][11]
Fleur Pillager Four Souls An Ojibwe woman. [citation needed]
LaRose Iron LaRose A Native American boy and the titular character of the story. [citation needed]
Landreaux and Emmaline Iron The parents of LaRose Iron. [citation needed]
Dusty Ravich The son of Peter and Nola Ravich and the best friend of LaRose Iron. He was only five years old when he was shot and killed accidentally by Landreaux Iron. [citation needed]
Father Damien Modeste Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse The priest of the Ojibwe people. [citation needed]
Marie Lazarre Kashpaw Love Medicine She is the wife of Nector Kashpaw. [citation needed]
Nector Kashpaw He is the son of Rushes Bear and Kashpaw; the husband of Marie Lazarre Kashpaw. [citation needed]
Evelina Harp The Plaque of Doves The girl who is part Ojibwe and part white. [citation needed]
Mooshum The grandfather of Evelina Harp. [citation needed]
Antone "Joe" Coutts The Round House The 13-year-old Ojibwe son of Geraldine and Bazil Coutts. [citation needed]
Laughing Boy Laughing Boy Oliver La Farge [citation needed]
Slim Girl [citation needed]
Roger Two Hawks The Gate of Time He is the Iroquois combat pilot in World War II whose ancestors of the various Native Americans had wandered westward into Europe, rather than to cross the non-existent Bering Strait after the continent of America was drowned for the whole of humanity's tenure on Earth. Philip José Farmer [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [12]
Chief Bear Thirteen Moons The local chief of the Cherokee Nation. Charles Frazier [citation needed]
Featherstone [citation needed]
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 [13]
Apaches and Comanches Savage Sam A group of Indians who can abduct Travis and Arliss Coates and Lisbeth Searcy. Fred Gipson [citation needed]
Dark Water An Undisturbed Peace The daughter of the powerful Cherokee chief and one of the main characters of the story. Mary Glickman [citation needed]
Crow Chief Crow Chief: A Plains Indian Story Paul Goble [citation needed]
Falling Star The savior. [citation needed]
Brave Indian Boy The Gift of the Sacred Dog [citation needed]
Indian Girl The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses [citation needed]
Iktomi Iktomi series The Plains Indian trickster. [citation needed]
Chief's Daughter Star Boy Retold and illustrated by Paul Goble. [citation needed]
Star Boy The son of Morning Star and Evening Star and the titular character of the story. [citation needed]
Morning Plume The Storm Maker's Tipi One of the two Blackfoot hunters. [citation needed]
Sacred Otter The father of Morning Plume and one of the two Blackfoot hunters. [citation needed]
Nophaie The Vanishing American A young Navajo and the main character of the story. Zane Grey [citation needed]
Teal Eye The Big Sky The daughter of the late Blackfoot chief and the wife of Boone Caudill. A. B. Guthrie, Jr. [citation needed]
Chief Heavy Runner Fair Land, Fair Land The Blackfoot chief. [14]
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 [citation needed]
Jim Chee One of the two Navajo Tribal Police Officers. [citation needed]
Joe Leaphorn One of the two Navajo Tribal Police Officers and the "Legendary Lieutenant". [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Ezol Day Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story A postal clerk in the Indian Territory. LeAnne Howe [citation needed]
Hope Little Leader A Choctaw pitcher for the fictitious team of the Miko Kings. [citation needed]
Buffalo Horn Flaming Star He was a native hunter. Clair Huffaker [citation needed]
Pacer Burton He is a half-breed, half Native American and half white. [citation needed]
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 [15]
Alessandro Assis Ramona A young Native sheepherder. Helen Hunt Jackson [citation needed]
Ramona The title character who is a Scottish-Native American orphan girl, raised by Señora Gonzaga Moreno. [citation needed]
Fish Hawk Old Fish Hawk The last of the Osage Indians. Mitchell F. Jayne [citation needed]
Melissa Little Brid The Cold Dish A local Indian girl. Craig Johnson [citation needed]
Henry Standing Bear Walt Longmire series A Cheyenne man who is a friend of Sheriff Walt Longmire. [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Chief Yellow Hand He is the chief of the Sioux tribe. [citation needed]
Inuit Girl Mama, Do You Love Me? Illustrated by Barbara Lavallee. Barbara M. Joosse [16]
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 [citation needed]
Lum Truth and Bright Water The cousin of Tecumseh and the son of tribal leader Franklin. Thomas King [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Turtle The Bean Trees;
Pigs in Heaven 		A three-year-old Cherokee girl who was adopted by Taylor Greer. Barbara Kingsolver [citation needed]
Uglik Night of the White Bear The main character, a 16-year-old Inuit boy who is stalked by a lone polar bear in the Canadian Arctic. Alexander Knox [citation needed]
John Russell Hombre He was raised by the Apaches and led the passengers of the attacked stagecoach through the desert to safety. Elmore Leonard [17]
A Frog Girl Frog Girl Girl travels through underground of frogs, saves her town, and sets free frogs that were captured. Paul Owen Lewis [18]
The Yeehats The Call of the Wild The Native American group. Jack London [citation needed]
Grey Beaver White Fang A Native American chief who is the first master of a wolfdog, White Fang. [citation needed]
Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha An Ojibwe warrior in the 1855 epic poem. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [citation needed]
Minnehaha She was a Dakota woman who was the lover of Hiawatha. [citation needed]
Mudjekeewis Loosely based on the Ojibwe mythological spirit of the same name. [citation needed]
Nokomis Hiawatha's grandmother who fell from the Moon. [citation needed]
Ruby and Mogie Yellow Lodge Skins The Lakota Sioux brothers of the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation. Adrian C. Louis [citation needed]
Renee LaRoche Along the Journey River Renee is the first "openly out Indigenous lesbian" in a detective novel. Carole LaFavor [19]
Pearce Breakheart Pass The Indian agent and lawman. Alistair MacLean [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Nscho-tschi Old Firehand She was the daughter of the late Chief Intschu-tschuna and the sister of Chief Winnetou. Karl May [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Kimmy Grandmother's Dreamcatcher Illustrated by Stacey Schuett. Becky Ray McCain [20]
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 [citation needed]
Chief Buffalo Hump The Comanche war-chief and the father of Blue Duck. Based on the real-life Buffalo Hump. [citation needed]
Kicking Wolf The Comanche warrior and accomplished horse thief. [citation needed]
Catherine LaLoup Leon The Surrounded The daughter of the Salish chief, wife of Max Leon, and the mother of Archilde Leon. D'Arcy McNickle [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Billy Black The elder of the Quileute tribe. [citation needed]
Ephraim Black He was the last chief of the Quileute tribe and the great-grandfather of Jacob Black. [citation needed]
Jacob Black An attractive protector of the Quileute tribe and the son of Billy Black. [citation needed]
Harry Clearwater He was the elder of the Quileute tribe who died of a heart attack in New Moon. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Seth Clearwater Leah's younger brother who transforms into a wolf around the same time as his sister. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Lame Beaver Centennial The Arapaho warrior and chieftain and one of the main characters of the story. James A. Michener [citation needed]
Abel House Made of Dawn The main character of the story. N. Scott Momaday [citation needed]
Moyo Runaway Papoose A young Navajo shepherd boy. Illustrated by Carl Moon. Grace Moon [citation needed]
Nah-tee A four-year-old Indian girl. [citation needed]
Chomina Black Robe He is an elder Algonkin traveler who helps guide Jesuit priest Father Paul LaForgue and his young French assistant Daniel Davost to the fictional Huron tribe of Ihonatiria. Brian Moore [citation needed]
Azákia Ouabi; Or the Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos A woman of the Illinois Indian tribe. Sarah Wentworth Morton [citation needed]
Ouábi The husband of Azákia. [citation needed]
Bald Eagle Brother Jonathan: or, the New Englanders Friend of the protagonist, Walter Harwood. John Neal [21]
Logan Logan Based on Logan the Orator. [22]
Tituba Rachel Dyer Based on Tituba. [23]
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 [24][25]
Bright Morning Sing Down the Moon The girl of the Navajo tribe and the main character of the story. [26]
Zia Zia The older sister of Mando and the niece of the late Karana; the mother of Rontu, Karana and young Mando. [citation needed]
Chief Spotted Wolf Arrow in the Sun The legendary Cheyenne chieftain. T. V. Olsen [citation needed]
Blue There There The girl who lives in the area of Oakland, California. Tommy Orange [citation needed]
Calvin Johnson A young Native man who owes drug money to his brother, Charles Johnson. [citation needed]
Jacquie Red Feather A substance abuse counselor. [citation needed]
Octavio Gomez A drug dealer and a cousin of Daniel Gonzales. [citation needed]
Orvil Red Feather A Cheyenne teenage grandson of Jacquie Red Feather. [citation needed]
Thomas Frank A Cheyenne drummer who worked formerly as a custodian at the Indian Center. [citation needed]
Chief Showcase Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down The last surviving Native in the fictional Yellow Back Radio region. Ishmael Reed [citation needed]
Me’ma Me’ma and the Great Mountain The indigenous girl of an oppressed village called Sunken Creek. Lorin Morgan Richards [citation needed]
Cuyloga The Light in the Forest He is the chief of the Lenni Lenape village in Ohio who adopts John Butler after taking him as captive in the raid, renaming him "True Son". Conrad Richter [citation needed]
Half Arrow He is the Lenape cousin of John Butler/True Son, who accompanies him to Fort Pitt in Pennsylvania. [citation needed]
Piper McLean The Heroes of Olympus A demigod daughter of Aphrodite who is half Cherokee. Rick Riordan
Kimi Blue Birds A girl from the Roanoke tribe who befriends with the English girl named Alis. Caroline Starr Rose [27]
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 [citation needed]
Elk River The headman of the band of Southern Cheyenne people and the father of Two Wolves and Elk. [citation needed]
Buddy Red Bird The Powwow Highway The member of the Cheyenne tribe in Lame Deer, Montana. David Seals [citation needed]
Moki The Biography of a Grizzly A Cree Indian and one of the main characters of the story. Ernest Thompson Seton [citation needed]
Kwani Kwani series An eponymous character who was born into the long extinct fictional Anasazi tribe. Linda Lay Shuler [citation needed]
Tayo Ceremony The Laguna Pueblo man and the central character of the story who is half-Pueblo and half-white. Leslie Marmon Silko [citation needed]
Attean The Sign of the Beaver He is the grandson of the Indian chief. Elizabeth George Speare [citation needed]
Rick The Culled The main protagonist who belongs to the Haudenosaunee people. Simon Spurrier [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Danny Blackgoat Danny Blackgoat series A Navajo teenage boy. [citation needed]
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. [28]
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. [citation needed]
Sarah Nita The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow A Navajo girl, in part of the Dear America book series. Ann Turner [citation needed]
Injun Joe The Adventures of Tom Sawyer The arch nemesis of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, described as a "half-breed" Native American. He subsequently kills Dr. Robinson at the town cemetery and frames the friendly fisherman, Muff Potter, for the crime. Mark Twain [citation needed]
Shining Lighttower Battle Cry A Navajo Indian who is a member of the radio squad. Leon Uris [citation needed]
Fast Horse Fools Crow The son of Boss Ribs and a friend of Fools Crows. James Welch [citation needed]
Fools Crow/White Man's Dog The son of Chief Rides-at-the-Door and Double Strike Woman. [citation needed]
Red Paint She is the wife of Fools Crow and the daughter of Heavy Shield Woman and Yellow Kidney, leader of the horse raid. [citation needed]
Running Fisher The brother of Fools Crow. [citation needed]
Charging Elk The Heartsong of Charging Elk The Oglala Sioux man. [citation needed]
Virgil First Raise Winter in the Blood The main character and the first person narrator of the story. [citation needed]
Massai Broncho Apache The last Apache warrior, based on the real-life Massai. Paul Wellman [29][30]

Comics

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See also: List of Native American superheroes
Native American Comic title Notes Ref(s)
Big Chief Keen-eyed-Mole The Adventures of Tintin The sachem of the Blackfoot Indians. [citation needed]
Akwas Akwas The titular character of the comic strip. [citation needed]
Super-Chief Flying Stag All-Star Western The 15th-century Iroquois. [citation needed]
Elizabeth Twoyoungmen ("Talisman") Alpha Flight She is the daughter of Michael Twoyoungmen/Shaman of the First Nations, who has some wide-ranging magical abilities. [citation needed]
Thomas Fireheart ("Puma") The Amazing Spider-Man He is a werecat of Native American descent. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Lone Eagle/Quanah The cruel Apache Indian determined to defeat the white people who does his best to urge the Navajos to wage war. [citation needed]
Chinook Buddy Longway A young Sioux woman who is married to a trapper, Buddy Longway, with whom she has two children Jeremy and Kathleen. [citation needed]
Jesse Black Crow Captain America [citation needed]
Chief Medicine Crow Cowboys & Aliens The leader of the Apache Indians. [citation needed]
Warhawk The Apache warrior. [citation needed]
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. [31][32]
Maya Lopez ("Echo") Daredevil A Native American superheroine who has been raised by the evil Kingpin after killing her father Crazy Horse, leaving a bloody handprint on her face. [citation needed]
Juan Diego de la Muerte ("El Muerto") El Muerto: The Aztec Zombie He is a young Native Mexican man from Magdalena de Kino who while on his way to the local Day of the Dead festival in Whittier, California has been sacrificed by the Aztec gods, only to return to earth one year later with supernatural powers. His superhero alias, El Muerto, is Spanish for "The Dead One". [citation needed]
Wyatt Wingfoot Fantastic Four The member of the fictional Keewazi Indian reservation in Oklahoma and the supporting character. [citation needed]
Wildrun Fantastic Four Annual He is known as the Red Wolf of the 19th century in the Wild West. [citation needed]
Black Condor Freedom Fighters The team member of the Freedom Fighters. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
John Proudstar ("Thunderbird") Giant-Size X-Men An Apache Native and a Human Mutant who was a short-lived member of the X-Men. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Jenny Everywhere Jenny Everywhere A superheroine who exists in all universes at once. [citation needed]
Sandman/Soundman JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run A Native American from the Arizona desert who enters the Steel Ball Run race in an attempt to buy back his tribe's land with the prize money. He uses a fictional running style that allows him to keep up with the other competitors' horses. Later, his name is revealed to have been mistranslated into English. His real name is Soundman due to his Stand, dubbed "In A Silent Way", being able to control sound. [citation needed]
Manitou Dawn and Manitou Raven Justice League The team members; Raven is a variant of the television character Apache Chief. [citation needed]
Super-Chief Jon Standing Bear The team member of the Justice League of America. [citation needed]
Nayeli Constant ("Aztek") Justice League of America A Native Mexican superheroine who is formerly a software engineer in Austin, Texas but has been chosen to become Aztek to fight against the Aztec dark god, Tezcatlipoca. She is a successor of Curtis "Uno" Falconer [citation needed].
Miiyahbin Marten ("Equinox") Justice League United The teenage Cree superheroine who is a team member of the Justice League United. [citation needed]
Dawnstar Legion of Super-Heroes Her home planet of Starhaven was colonized by the Native Americans. [citation needed]
Lonesome Polecat Li'l Abner [citation needed]
Johnny Wakely Marvel Spotlight He was adopted by the white couple in the late 19th century. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Alani Ryan ("Loa") A surfing mutant superheroine and a student of the Xavier Institute from Maui, Hawaii, who is half-Native Hawaiian on her mother's side. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Ompa-pa Oumpah-pah The Native of the fictional Flatfeet tribe. [citation needed]
Bunnokees Popol Out West A group of the Native American rabbits. [citation needed]
Wildstar R.E.B.E.L.S. The ancestor of Dawnstar. [citation needed]
Jake Red Cloud Red Cloud Comics He is a Native American of Quechua and Lakota ancestry who possesses mutant superhuman strength and speed. [citation needed]
Little Beaver Red Ryder He is the juvenile Indian sidekick of Red Ryder. [citation needed]
Thomas Thunderhead Red Wolf [citation needed]
Chief Redeye Redeye An overweight chief of the fictional Chickiepan tribe and the father of Tawnee and Pokey. [citation needed]
Tanglefoot A cowardly and stupid warrior of the Chickiepan tribe. [citation needed]
Asta Twelvetrees Resident Alien She is one of the nurses of alien Hah Re (aka Harry Vanderspeigle), and the daughter of the Mohawk shaman, who is able to partially see through his human alter-ego. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Dino Poor Bear A young man who struggles to make a living on the reservation and encounters Dash at a meth lab. [citation needed]
Gina Bad Horse The estranged mother of Dash and a longtime activist who pushes for the rights of the Indians. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Minnie Ha-Cha Steve Roper and Mike Nomad She is the girlfriend of Chief Wahoo. [citation needed]
Chief Wahoo He is one of the main characters of the comic strip. [citation needed]
Super-Chief Saganowahna Superman The member of Supermen of America. [citation needed]
Lilyth Tex She was the daughter of the Navajo Chief and the wife of Tex Willer. She saved Tex from getting killed by her people (similar to Pocahontas) but later died of smallpox. [citation needed]
Red Cloud The Navajo shaman. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Tiger Jack The Navajo warrior. [citation needed]
Moon Fawn Tomahawk She was the daughter of Chief Grey Elk of the Apaches, sister of Wise Owl and the wife of Tom Haukins. [citation needed]
Nelvana of the Northern Lights Triumph-Adventure Comics Nelvana is the Inuit mythical being whose father Koliak the Mighty is the King of the Northern Lights. She is the first Canadian female superhero distinctly in Canada who has the ability to turn invisible, transmit people's minds and travel at light speed. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Turok Turok, Son of Stone A Native American warrior who first appeared in Four Color Comics. [citation needed]
Ukala Ukala Protagonist of the comic strip. [citation needed]
Forge Uncanny X-Men He is from the Cheyenne nation and the member of the X-Men. [citation needed]
Michael Twoyoungmen ("Shaman") He is a member of the First Nations in the city of Calgary (specifically the Tsuu Tʼina) and a team member of Alpha Flight. [citation needed]
Bright-Sky-After-Storm ("Arak") The Warlord The son of Star-of-Dawn of the fictional Quontauka tribe. [citation needed]
Ohiyesa "Pow Wow" Smith Western Comics The character who started in Detective Comics. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Buffalo Seed Yakari A Sioux boy who dreams of becoming the greatest hunter. [citation needed]
Rainbow A Sioux girl and a friend of Yakari. [citation needed]
The-One-Who-Knows The chief and shaman of the Sioux tribe. [citation needed]
Yakari The main title character who has the ability to talk to animals. [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]

Theatre

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Native American Title Notes Ref(s)
Lonesome Polecat Li'l Abner 1956 Broadway musical based on Al Capp's comic strip of the same name. There is also the 1959 musical film adaptation. [citation needed]
Metamora Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags The member of the Wampanoags and the protagonist of the 1829 play by John Augustus Stone. [citation needed]
Nehmeokee The wife of Metamora. [citation needed]
"Chief" Bromden One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1963 play by Dale Wasserman, based on Ken Kesey's novel of the same name. [citation needed]
Chief Fighting Prawn Peter and the Starcatcher 2009 play based on the children's novel of the same name. [citation needed]
Tiger Lily Peter Pan 1954 musical based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 theatre play, Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. The musical featured a racist song "Ugg-a-Wugg", which was ultimately cut from the NBC special adaptation, Peter Pan Live! [1][33]
Nat-u-Ritch The Squaw Man She was the daughter of Chief Taby-Wana of the Ute people, who saved Captain James Wynnegate (aka Jim Carson) from villainous outlaw Cash Hawkins. She married James, with whom she had a son Little Hal, but later sacrificed herself upon hearing that she would be arrested by the Marshals for killing Hawkins. [citation needed]

Film

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See also: Native Americans in film

Live action

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Native American Film title Notes Actor(s) Ref(s)
Galasko Alone yet Not Alone A strong Indian warrior. Based on the novel of the same name by Tracy Leininger Craven. Ozzie Torres [citation needed]
Hannawoa The brother of Galasko. Tony Wade [citation needed]
Sam Birdwater Americathon A billionaire leader of the Natives. Chief Dan George [citation needed]
Massai Apache 1954 film that was based on the novel Broncho Apache by Paul Wellman. Burt Lancaster [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Chato Apache Warrior George Keymas [citation needed]
Chikisin Dehl Berti [citation needed]
Katawan Better known as "Apache Kid", he is the protagonist of the film. Keith Larsen [citation needed]
Marteen Rodolfo Acosta [citation needed]
Chief Nantan John Miljan [citation needed]
Native American Chief The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again Nick Ramus [citation needed]
Chief Chattez Arrowhead The Apache chief. Based on the novel Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett. Frank de Kova [citation needed]
Toriana The son of Chief Chattez and one of the main characters of the film. Jack Palance [citation needed]
Atanarjuat Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner He is the "fast runner" in the prehistoric Nunavut who lives in Igloolik with his family, including his brother Amaqjuaq the "strong one" (Pakak Innuksuk). He also rivals with Oki (Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq) to even seek Atuat (Sylvia Ivalu) as a wife. Natar Ungalaaq [34]
Chief Tahlequah Badman's Territory Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Pvt. Shining Lighttower Battle Cry The Navajo phonetalkers. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Leon Uris. Jonas Applegarth [citation needed]
Pvt. Crazy Horse Felix Noriego [citation needed]
Tekehentahkhwa Beans Better known simply as "Beans", she is a Mohawk preteen girl who lives in the Kahnawake reserve and encounters the 1990 Oka Crisis at the settlement of Kanesatake. Kiawentiio [35]
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 [citation needed]
Teal Eye The Big Sky Based on the novel of the same name by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Elizabeth Threatt [citation needed]
Black Cloud Black Cloud A Navajo man and the titular character of the film. Eddie Spears [citation needed]
Sammi The girlfriend of Black Cloud. Julia Jones [citation needed]
Black Buffalo The Black Dakotas The son of Chief War Cloud, who desires the extermination of all of the white people. Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Chief War Cloud Black Buffalo's father and the chief of the Sioux tribe. John War Eagle [citation needed]
Annuka Black Robe She is the daughter of Algonquin traveler Chomina, who falls in love with Daniel Davost (Aden Young) along their journey to a distant Huron village. Based on Brian Moore's novel of the same name. Sandrine Holt [citation needed]
Chomina He is the Algonquin guide, and Annuka's father, who takes Daniel and Father Paul LaForgue (Lothaire Bluteau) to the Huron mission. August Schellenberg [citation needed]
Indian Chief Blazing Saddles The stereotypical Yiddish-speaking Native American chief. Mel Brooks (also the director of the film) [36]
Johnny Black Hawk Bone Eater A Native American who agitates for violence. Adoni Maropis [citation needed]
Sheriff Steve Evans He is the local sheriff who is half Native American. Bruce Boxleitner [citation needed]
Chief Storm Cloud The local Indian chief. Michael Horse [citation needed]
Tall Trees Bone Tomahawk An educated Native American who is called "the professor". Zahn McClarnon [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Black Hawk Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Running Deer Rodd Redwing [citation needed]
Chief White Cloud Chief Yowlachie [citation needed]
Aristotle Joseph The Business of Fancydancing The Spokane man of the reservation in eastern Washington state. Gene Tagaban [citation needed]
Seymour Polatkin A gay Spokane poet and the main character. Evan Adams [citation needed]
Blackfoot People Cattle Queen of Montana
  • Colorados
  • Natchakoa
  • Powhani
  • Starfire
 Lance Fuller
Anthony Caruso
Rodd Redwing
Yvette Dugay 		[citation needed]
White Bull Legrew Cold Pursuit A Ute drug lord and the rival of Trevor "Viking" Calcote (Tom Bateman). The 2019 remake of the 2014 Norwegian film In Order of Disappearance. Tom Jackson [citation needed]
Blue Eagle The Cowboy and the Indians Frank Lackteen [citation needed]
Lakoma Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Chief Long Arrow Chief Yowlachie [citation needed]
Lucy Broken Arm Claudia Drake [citation needed]
Black Knife Cowboys & Aliens The Chiricahua Apache chief. Based on the graphic novel of the same name. Raoul Trujillo [citation needed]
Ben Logan Crooked Arrows The traditionalist Tribal Chairman and the father of Joe Logan. Gil Birmingham [citation needed]
Joe Logan The mixed-blood Native American who is also known as "Logan the Legend". Brandon Routh [citation needed]
Nadie Logan Chelsea Ricketts [citation needed]
Black Shawl Dances with Wolves 1990 film based on the famous novel of the same name by Michael Blake. Tantoo Cardinal [citation needed]
Kicking Bird The Sioux medicine man. Graham Greene [citation needed]
Otter Michael Spears [citation needed]
Smiles-A-Lot A Sioux youth. Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse [citation needed]
Stands-With-A-Fist The adoptive daughter of Kicking Bird. Mary McDonnell [citation needed]
Stone Calf Jimmy Herman [citation needed]
Chief Ten Bears Floyd Westerman [citation needed]
Wind-In-His-Hair A Sioux warrior. Rodney A. Grant [citation needed]
Worm Jason R. Lone Hill [citation needed]
Jim Chee The Dark Wind Based on the novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman. Lou Diamond Phillips [citation needed]
Joe Leaphorn Fred Ward [citation needed]
Black Wolf Daughter of Dawn An 83-minute-long silent film. Jack Sankadota [citation needed]
Dawn The daughter of the chief of Kiowa and the main character. Esther LeBarre [citation needed]
Kiowa Chief Hunting Horse [citation needed]
Red Wing These characters are portrayed by the children of Comanche leader Quanah Parker. Wanada Parker [citation needed]
White Eagle White Parker [citation needed]
High Tree Davy Crockett, Indian Scout William Wilkerson [citation needed]
Red Hawk The innocent partner of Davy Crockett (George Montgomery). Phillip Reed [citation needed]
Sleeping Fox Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Brother Wolf The Dead and the Damned He is an Apache warrior who is accused of rape and joins bounty hunter Mortimer (David Lockhart) to survive the zombie hordes. Rick Mora [citation needed]
Nobody Dead Man A Native American who was forcibly raised by whites. Gary Farmer [citation needed]
Anna Hot Water Dirty Dingus Magee She is a lithe Indian companion of Dingus Magee (Frank Sinatra) and the daughter of Chief Crazy Blanket (Paul Fix). Based on the novel The Ballad of Dingus Magee by David Markson. Michele Carey [37]
Hunter The Doe Boy A young Cherokee man who is a haemophiliac. James Duval (adult)
Andrew J. Ferchland (child) 		[citation needed]
Marvin Fishinghawk Gordon Tootoosis [citation needed]
Pete Chasing Horse Dreamkeeper A Lakota elder and a storyteller. August Schellenberg [citation needed]
Sam Chasing Horse The father of Shane Chasing Horse. Gil Birmingham [citation needed]
Shane Chasing Horse The 17-years-old Lakota grandson of Pete Chasing Horse. Eddie Spears [citation needed]
Blue Back Drums Along the Mohawk Based on the novel of the same name by Walter D. Edmonds. Chief John Big Tree [citation needed]
Santana El Condor The Apache chief. Iron Eyes Cody [citation needed]
Chief Grey Bear End of the Trail Basil F. Heath [citation needed]
Nurse St. Cloud Ernest Goes to Camp The granddaughter of Chief St. Cloud. Victoria Racimo [citation needed]
Old Indian 'Chief St. Cloud' The Indian owner of Kamp Kikakee. Iron Eyes Cody [citation needed]
Chief Black Hawk Fighting Pioneers Chief Standing Bear [citation needed]
Eagle Feathers Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Wa-No-Na The daughter of Chief Black Hawk. Ruth Mix [citation needed]
Tall Eagle Firewalker Will Sampson [citation needed]
Fish Hawk Fish Hawk 1979 film based on the novel Old Fish Hawk by Mitchell F. Jayne. Will Sampson [citation needed]
Buffalo Horn Flaming Star Based on the novel of the same name by Clair Huffaker. Rodolfo Acosta [citation needed]
Pacer Burton He is a mixed-blood, son of the Kiowa woman and the Texan man. Elvis Presley [citation needed]
María Nicolasa Cruz Foolish, Foolish, But Not so Much Better known as "La India María", she is an indigenous Mexican woman who appears in 16 films from 1972 to 2014. She is also the main character of the spin-off television series, María, What an Aim! María Elena Velasco [citation needed]
Yaqui Four Guns to the Border Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Cora Smallhill Four Sheets to the Wind The mother of Cufe and Miri Smallhill. Jeri Arredondo [citation needed]
Cufe Smallhill One of the main characters of the film. Cody Lightning [citation needed]
Frankie Smallhill Richard Ray Whitman [citation needed]
Miri Smallhill The sister of Cufe Smallhill. Tamara Podemski [citation needed]
Grey Bear Frontier Fury Stanley Brown (uncredited) [citation needed]
Nahalla The Ghost Dance The evil spirit of a long-dead warrior who possesses Aranjo, the local Indian shaman. Henry Bal [citation needed]
Grayeagle Grayeagle The man of the Cheyenne nation and the title character of the film. Alex Cord [citation needed]
Running Wolf The Cheyenne chief. Paul Fix [citation needed]
Scar A Shoshone warrior. Jacob Daniels
Standing Bear One of the main characters of the film. Iron Eyes Cody [citation needed]
Crow Chief The Hallelujah Trail The tribal chief of the Crow people. Eddie Little Sky [citation needed]
Chief Five Barrels One of the tribal Sioux chiefs. Robert J. Wilke [citation needed]
Chief Walks-Stooped-Over The second chief of the Sioux. Martin Landau [citation needed]
Sam Two Feathers Harry and Tonto Chief Dan George [citation needed]
Acacia Hex The two daughters of the recently deceased Native American shaman. Hillarie Thompson [citation needed]
Oriole Tina Herazo [citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
Minnehaha Soon-Goot (1913)
Yvette Dugay (1952)
Terry Diab (1984)
Irene Bedard (1997) 		[citation needed]
Mudjekeewis Stuart Randall (1952)
Russell Means (1997) 		[citation needed]
Nokomis
  • Hiawatha (1952)
  • Hiawatha (1984)
  • Song of Hiawatha (1997)
 Katherine Emery (1952)
Yvonne Bryceland (1984)
Sheila Tousey (1997) 		[citation needed]
Chief Megissogwon Hiawatha The leader of the Dakotah tribe and the father of Hiawatha. Ian MacDonald [citation needed]
John Russell Hombre 1967 film based on Elmore Leonard's novel of the same name. Paul Newman [17]
Black Hawk Hostiles He is the son of the Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk. Adam Beach [citation needed]
Elk Woman The wife of Black Hawk and the sister-in-law of Living Woman. Q'orianka Kilcher [citation needed]
Little Bear He is the son of Black Hawk and Elk Woman. Xavier Horsechief [citation needed]
Living Woman She is the sister of Black Hawk and the daughter of Yellow Hawk. Tanaya Beatty [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Chief Little Pain-in-the-Neck Hurry, Charlie, Hurry Janette Fern [citation needed]
Moaning Low Connie Montoya [citation needed]
Chief Poison Arrow Noble Johnson [citation needed]
Little Bear The Indian in the Cupboard 1995 film based on the children's novel of the same name. Litefoot [citation needed]
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) [citation needed]
Karana Island of the Blue Dolphins Based on the novel of the same name by Scott O'Dell. Celia Kaye [citation needed]
Ramo Karana's six-year-old brother. Larry Domasin
Paint-His-shirt-Red Jeremiah Johnson The chief of the Crow tribe. 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. Joaquín Martínez [citation needed]
Swan She is the daughter of Chief Two-Tongues Lebreaux (Richard Angarola) of the Christianized Flathead tribe, who has been given as a bride to Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford). Delle Bolton [citation needed]
Johnny Firecloud Johnny Firecloud The Vietnam War Native. Victor Mohica [citation needed]
Nenya The teacher on the reservation. Sacheen Littlefeather [citation needed]
Chatow Jonathan of the Bears Knifewing Segura [citation needed]
Shaya An Indian squaw. Melody Robertson [citation needed]
Chief Tawanka Floyd Westerman [citation needed]
Stanley Pike Journey Through Rosebud Eddie Little Sky [citation needed]
Attean Keeping the Promise The television film based on the children's novel The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare. William Lightning [citation needed]
Chief Saknis The grandfather of Attean. Gordon Tootoosis [citation needed]
Moki King of the Grizzlies 1970 film based on the novel The Biography of a Grizzly. John Yesno [citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
Magua Wallace Beery (1920)
Bruce Cabot (1936)
Robert Tessier (1977)
Wes Studi (1992) 		[citation needed]
Uncas Alan Roscoe (1920)
Phillip Reed (1936)
Don Shanks (1977)
Eric Schweig (1992) 		[citation needed]
Laughing Boy Laughing Boy The titular character of the film based on the novel of the same name by Oliver La Farge. Ramon Novarro [citation needed]
Slim Girl/Lily The Indian maiden who was raised by whites. Lupe Vélez [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Lonesome Polecat Li'l Abner 1940 film based on the comic strips of the same name by Al Capp. Buster Keaton [citation needed]
Chief Cuyloga The Light in the Forest The Indian chief in Pennsylvania who adopts Johnny Butler (James MacArthur), renaming him "True-Son". 1958 Disney film based on Conrad Richter's novel of the same name. Joseph Calleia [citation needed]
Half Arrow True-Son's Indian cousin who accompanies him to the white society. Rafael Campos [citation needed]
Burns-Red-in-the-Sun Little Big Man 1970 film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Thomas Berger. Steve Shemayne [citation needed]
Little Horse Robert Little Star [citation needed]
Old Lodge Skins The good-hearted tribal leader of the Cheyenne nation. Chief Dan George [citation needed]
Shadow-That-Comes-in-Sight A Cheyenne brave. Ruben Moreno [citation needed]
Sunshine The daughter of Shadow-That-Comes-in-Sight. Aimée Eccles [citation needed]
Younger Bear Cal Bellini (adult)
Steve Miranda (young) 		[citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
Angry Horse The Lone Ranger (1956) Michael Ansara [citation needed]
Chief Red Hawk Frank de Kova [citation needed]
Chief Big Bear The Lone Ranger (2013) The elderly tribal leader of Comanche. Saginaw Grant [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Chief Wannatoka Love at Stake Nick Ramus [citation needed]
Denali The Magnificent Seven An exiled Comanche warrior. Jonathan Joss [citation needed]
Red Harvest The Comanche warrior who is the youngest of the Seven. Martin Sensmeier [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Yellow Hand Chief Yellow Hand of the Sioux tribe. Manu Tupou [citation needed]
Chief Yellowstone Massacre River Iron Eyes Cody [citation needed]
Yellow Hawk Masterson of Kansas The peace-seeking Indian chief. Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Chief Dan Missionary Man Richard Ray Whitman [citation needed]
J.J. The local Native American carpenter who is dead. Mention only. N/A [citation needed]
Junior The teenage nephew of the late J.J. John D. Montoya [citation needed]
Kiowa The 15-year-old sister of Junior. Chelsea Ricketts [citation needed]
Assistant Chief Lance Titos Menchaca [citation needed]
Nancy The mother of Kiowa and Junior and the sister of J.J. Kateri Walker [citation needed]
White Deer The father of J.J. and Nancy and the grandfather of Kiowa and Junior. August Schellenberg [citation needed]
Nightwolf Mortal Kombat Annihilation Based on the Mortal Kombat video game series. Litefoot [citation needed]
Cross Otter The Mountain Men Cal Bellini [citation needed]
Heavy Eagle The ruthless Blackfoot warrior. Stephen Macht [citation needed]
Chief Iron Belly Victor Jory [citation needed]
Medicine Wolf David Ackroyd [citation needed]
Running Moon The wife of Heavy Eagle. Victoria Racimo [citation needed]
Black Cloud My Pal, the King Jim Thorpe [citation needed]
Ahbleza The Mystic Warrior The young brave of Mahto, the fictional Lakota-speaking tribe. Robert Beltran (adult)
Doug Toby (young) 		[citation needed]
Heyatawin Devon Ericson [citation needed]
Chief Olepi The chief of the Mahto tribe and the father of Anbleza. Nick Ramus [citation needed]
Pesla James Remar [citation needed]
Tonweya Rion Hunter (adult)
David Yanez (young) 		[citation needed]
Wanagi The ancient seer of Mahto. Ron Soble [citation needed]
Navajo Joe Navajo Joe He is the solitary Navajo rider who opposes the group of bandits responsible for murdering his tribe. Burt Reynolds [citation needed]
Spotted Bear The Nebraskan Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Wingfoot One of the main characters of the film. Maurice Jara [citation needed]
Yellow Knife Pat Hogan [citation needed]
Mike Never Cry Wolf He was adopted by Ootek and Woman. Based on the autobiography of the same name by Farley Mowat. Samson Jorah [citation needed]
Ootek A traveling Inuit. Zachary Ittimangnaq [citation needed]
John Goodfeather Older than America
(American Evil) 		He is the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation police officer, the son of medicine man Pete Goodfeather (Dennis Banks), and the fiancé of Rain. Adam Beach [citation needed]
Rain Many Lightnings O'Rourke She is an Ojibwe elementary school teacher and John's fiancée. Her maternal aunt, Barbara "Auntie Apple" O'Rourke (Tantoo Cardinal), is a devout Catholic who turns to local priest Father Dimitri Bartoli (Stephen Yoakam) for any guidance. Georgina Lightning (also the director and writer of the film) [citation needed]
Richard Two Rivers He is the Indian Reservation radio DJ and talk show host. Wes Studi [citation needed]
Steve Klamath He is a Native American mayoral candidate who Richard Two Rivers outwardly gives his campaign airtime. Glen Gould [citation needed]
Aivaaq On the Ice The two survived Iñupiat teenagers. Frank Qutuq Irelan [citation needed]
Qalli Josiah Patkotak [citation needed]
"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 [citation needed]
Blue Feather One Little Indian Lois Red Elk [citation needed]
Jimmy Wolf Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Old Indian Richard Hale [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Lone Watie An elder Cherokee. Chief Dan George [citation needed]
Chief Iron Eyes The Paleface Iron Eyes Cody [citation needed]
Wapato The medicine man. Henry Brandon [citation needed]
Chief Yellow Feather Chief Yowlachie [citation needed]
Pathfinder Pathfinder The elder chief of the Native tribe and the title character of the film. Russell Means [citation needed]
Starfire The daughter of the Pathfinder. Moon Bloodgood [citation needed]
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) [citation needed]
Tiger Lily Anna May Wong (1924)
Carson Gray (2003, USA)
Ray Garcia (2003, Indie)
Rooney Mara (2015)
Alyssa Wapanatahk (2023) 		[1][2]
Blue Feather The Phantom Rider The Native sidekick of the Phantom Rider. George J. Lewis [citation needed]
Phantom Rider He is a masquerade of the main protagonist, Dr. Jim Sterling. Robert Kent [citation needed]
Chief Yellow Wolf Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Taylor Poltergeist II: The Other Side The Native American shaman. Will Sampson [citation needed]
Buddy Red Bow Powwow Highway The two Northern Cheyenne men from Lame Deer, Montana who embark on an open road journey of self-discovery. Based on the 1979 novel of the same name by David Seals. A Martinez [38]
Philbert Bono Gary Farmer
Eagle Feather The Prairie Based on the novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper. Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Running Deer Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Naru Prey She is the fierce warrior of the Comanche tribe, and the sister of Taabe (Dakota Beaver), 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 [39]
Wasape He is a Comanche hunter who looks down on Naru. Stormee Kipp
Running Wolf The Quick and the Dead 1987 television film based on the novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour. Larry Sellers [citation needed]
Little Beaver Red Ryder Several film adaptions of the Western comic strip Red Ryder have been made throughout the 1940s. Here are some examples: Tommy Cook (1940)
Robert Blake (1944–47)
Don Reynolds (1949) 		[citation needed]
Corn Blossom Redskin The sweetheart of Wing Foot. Julie Carter (young woman)
Lorraine Rivero (child) 		[citation needed]
Navajo Jim Tully Marshall (adult)
George Walker (teenager) 		[citation needed]
Wing Foot A young Navajo man and the main character of the film. Richard Dix (adult)
Philip Anderson (child) 		[citation needed]
Chief White Cloud Renegade Girl Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Hank Storm Renegades Lou Diamond Phillips [citation needed]
Red Crow The father of Hank Storm. Floyd Westerman [citation needed]
Chief Red Cloud Revolt at Fort Laramie The tribal leader of the Great Sioux Nation. Eddie Little Sky [citation needed]
Honchwah Revolution Larry Sellers [citation needed]
Ongwata Graham Greene [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Smoking Fox A Native American woman who has been arranged to marry Tommy Stockburn. Julia Jones [citation needed]
Chief Eagle Feather Romance of the West Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Little Brown Jug Don Reynolds [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Chief Scarface Jim Thorpe [citation needed]
Chief Longfeather Santa Fe Chief Thundercloud [citation needed]
Cajou Saskatchewan The Cree half-brother of Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd). Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Chief Dark Cloud Anton Moreno [citation needed]
Spotted Eagle Anthony Caruso [citation needed]
Jim Aherne Jr./Warbonnet The Savage He was raised by the Sioux Natives. Charlton Heston (adult)
Orly Lindgren (child) 		[citation needed]
Running Dog Don Porter [citation needed]
Chief Yellow Eagle The tribal chief of the Great Sioux Nation. Ian MacDonald [citation needed]
Apaches Savage Sam
  • Comanche Chief
  • Broken Nose
  • Bandy Legs
  • Young Warrior

Based on the children's novel of the same name.

Dean Fredericks
Pat Hogan
Rodolfo Acosta
Rafael Campos 		[citation needed]
Chief Cicatriz (Scar) The Searchers The villainous chief of the Nawyecka Comanches who seeks revenge on the white people for killing his sons by kidnapping Debbie Edwards (Natalie Wood). Based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alan Le May. Henry Brandon [40][41]
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 [citation needed]
Ula The sister of Matuwir and the local chief's daughter. Rita Moreno [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Chief Pony-That-Walks She Wore a Yellow Ribbon One of the main characters of the film. Chief John Big Tree [citation needed]
Red Shirt Noble Johnson [citation needed]
Chief Sky Eagle Basil F. Heath [citation needed]
Chief Cyclone Silly Billies Chief Thunderbird [citation needed]
Trigger Ethan Laidlaw [citation needed]
Clifford Rainfather Sioux City The grandfather of Jesse Goldman. Apesanahkwat [citation needed]
Dawn Rainfeather The biological mother of Jesse. Tantoo Cardinal [citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
Russell White Gary Farmer [citation needed]
Mogie Yellow Lodge Skins Based on the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis. Graham Greene [citation needed]
Ruby Yellow Lodge Eric Schweig [citation needed]
Gabriel Jimmyboy Smith! One of the main characters of the film. Frank Ramírez [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Thomas Builds-the-Fire One of the main characters of the film. Evan Adams [citation needed]
Victor Joseph Adam Beach [citation needed]
Running Fox Soldier Blue Based on the novel Arrow in the Sun by T. V. Olsen. Jorge Russek [citation needed]
Spotted Wolf The Cheyenne chief. Jorge Rivero [citation needed]
Mattotaupa The Sons of Great Bear The chief of the Bears clan of Oglala Lakotas. Adolf Peter Hoffmann [citation needed]
Tokei-ihto The war chieftain of the Bear Band and the main character of the film; the son of Mattotaupa. Gojko Mitić [citation needed]
Nat-u-Ritch The Squaw Man (1914)
The Squaw Man (1918)
The Squaw Man (1931) 		The film adaptations based on the 1905 play of the same name. Red Wing (1914)
Ann Little (1918)
Lupe Vélez (1931) 		[citation needed]
Chief Taby-Wana Joseph Singleton (1914)
Noah Beery (1918)
Mitchell Lewis (1931)
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 [citation needed]
Cetan A young Native who is half white from his father the soldier. William Lightning [citation needed]
Chief Luta Saginaw Grant [citation needed]
Tokalah The tribal leader of the band of Lakota Indians. Michael Greyeyes [citation needed]
T. Hawk Street Fighter He is depicted as a Native American military sergeant of the Allied Nations Peacekeeping Force under Colonel Guile, in the 1994 film based on the video game series of the same name. Gregg Rainwater [citation needed]
Grandma Maisy Blue Legs Thunderheart Two of the tribal elders. Sarah Brave [citation needed]
Grandpa Sam Reaches Ted Thin Elk [citation needed]
Leo Fast Elk The tribal council of the Native Americans in South Dakota who was murdered. Allan R. J. Joseph [citation needed]
Maggie Eagle Bear The Indian schoolteacher and political activist. Sheila Tousey [citation needed]
Walter Crow Horse The Indian tribal police officer. Graham Greene [citation needed]
Wolf Ortiz Tiger Eyes A mysterious Native climber. Based on the novel of the same name by Judy Blume. Tatanka Means [citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
Prairie Flower Tonka 1958 film based on the book Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse by David Appel. Joy Page [citation needed]
Chief Sitting Bull John War Eagle [citation needed]
Spotted Tail Eddie Little Sky [citation needed]
Strong Bear Rafael Campos [citation needed]
White Bull A young Sioux and the main character of the film. Sal Mineo [citation needed]
Yellow Bear The Sioux cousin of White Bull. H. M. Wynant [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Billy Black The elder of the Quileute tribe. Gil Birmingham [citation needed]
Jacob Black An attractive protector of the Quileute tribe and the main character of the film series. Taylor Lautner [citation needed]
Harry Clearwater He was the elder of the Quileute tribe who died of a heart attack in New Moon. Graham Greene [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Seth Clearwater Leah's younger brother who transforms into a wolf around the same time as his sister. Boo Boo Stewart [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Guyasuta Unconquered Chief Guyasuta of the Senecas. Based on the real-life Guyasuta. Boris Karloff [citation needed]
Hannah The daughter of Chief Guyasuta and the wife of Martin Garth (Howard Da Silva). Katherine DeMille [citation needed]
Pontiac Based on the real-life Pontiac. Robert Warwick (uncredited) [citation needed]
Red Corn Iron Eyes Cody [citation needed]
Sioto The tribal medicine man. Marc Lawrence [citation needed]
Blandy The Vanishing American He was raised by the Navajos. Based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Zane Grey. Scott Brady [citation needed]
The Navajos
  • Chief Etenia
  • Yashi
  • Beeteia
  • Quah-Tan
  • Coshanta
 Julian Rivero
Gloria Castillo
Jay Silverheels
Charles Stevens
George Keymas 		[citation needed]
Chief Wagons East The unnamed tribal leader of the Sioux territory. Russell Means [citation needed]
Little Feather Rodney A. Grant [citation needed]
Chief Maygro War Arrow The tribal chief of the Seminole tribe. Henry Brandon [citation needed]
Pino Dennis Weaver [citation needed]
Santanta Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Ben Crowkiller/Dead Crow Wolf War Party The Blackfeet Indians. Dennis Banks [citation needed]
Freddie Man Wolf Saginaw Grant [citation needed]
The Crow Rodney A. Grant [citation needed]
Sonny Crowkiller They are three young Blackfeet men who fight for freedom during the battle between Blackfeet Indians and U.S. Cavalry. Billy Wirth [citation needed]
Skitty Harris Kevin Dillon [citation needed]
Warren Cutfoot Tim Sampson [citation needed]
Hannoc When the Redskins Rode The Indian prince of the Delaware tribe. Jon Hall [citation needed]
Morna The intended bride of Hannoc. Sherry Moreland [citation needed]
Chief Shingiss The leader of the Delaware tribe and the father of Hannoc. Pedro de Cordoba [citation needed]
Grey Beaver White Fang 1991 film based on the novel of the same name. Pius Savage [citation needed]
Lily Joseph White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf The Haida girl and one of the main characters of the film sequel to White Fang. Charmaine Craig [citation needed]
Moses Joseph The chief of the Haida tribe in Alaska and the uncle of Lily. Al Harrington [citation needed]
Peter Joseph The son of Chief Moses and Katrin Joseph, and the cousin of Lily, who was shot and killed while distracting the gunman. Anthony Ruivivar [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Appearing Day The fiancée of American Horse and the love interest of Josh Tanner (Robert Wagner). Debra Paget [citation needed]
Chief Broken Hand The chief of Cheyenne. Eduard Franz [citation needed]
Little Dog The brother of Appearing Day. Jeffrey Hunter [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Chief Red Hatchet The tribal chief who is one of Matt Keeler's henchmen. Chief Thunderbird [citation needed]
Ben Shoyo Wind River The tirbal police chief who assists agents Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) and Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) to solve the possible homicide of a young Arapaho woman, Natalie Hanson (Kelsey Asbille). Graham Greene [citation needed]
Martin Hanson The resident of the Wind River Indian Reservation whose daughter Natalie has died from inhaling subzero air in the winter. He lives with his wife Annie (Althea Sam) and son Chip (Martin Sensmeier). Gil Birmingham [citation needed]
Jim Thorpe Windrunner A Native football star who is a ghost. Russell Means [citation needed]
Crow Brother Windwalker Nick Ramus [citation needed]
Smiling Wolf One of the main characters of the film. Nick Ramus [citation needed]
Tashina The wife of Windwalker and the mother of Smiling Wolf and the Crow Warrior. Serene Hedin [citation needed]
Windwalker The titular character who is the father of Smiling Wolf and the Crow Warrior. Trevor Howard (adult)
James Remar (young) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Lame Bull Gary Farmer [citation needed]
Virgil First Raise The main character of the film. Chaske Spencer [citation needed]
Yellow Calf Saginaw Grant [citation needed]
Pale Flower Winterhawk The Indian wife of the trapper, Guthrie (Leif Erickson). Sacheen Littlefeather [citation needed]
Winterhawk The Blackfoot chief and the title character of the film. Michael Dante [citation needed]

Animation

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Native American Film title Notes Voice actor(s) Ref(s)
Indian Mice An American Tail: Fievel Goes West The tribe of the Native American mice who mistake Tiger for a god. various [citation needed]
Cholena An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island The Lenape girl mouse and the daughter of Chief Wulisso; the main character of the film. She is a parody of Pocahontas. Elaine Bilstad (speaking)
Leeza Miller (singing) 		[citation needed]
Chief Wulisso The leader of the underground Lenape Native American mice village. David Carradine [citation needed]
Hunter Anima An unnamed Native American hunter and warrior who searches for his prey. José Vicente [citation needed]
Chief Asterix Conquers America Sylvain Lemarie [citation needed]
Medicine Man Thomas Piper [citation needed]
Minihooha/Ha-Tschi The daughter of the chief. Kristiane Backer [citation needed]
Chakashi Atlantis: Milo's Return A Native American wind spirit. Floyd Westerman [citation needed]
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 [42]
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) 		[citation needed]
Kenai Brother Bear;
Brother Bear 2 		The main character who gets turned into a bear as punishment. Joaquin Phoenix (original)
Patrick Dempsey (sequel) 		[citation needed]
Sitka Brother Bear Denahi and Kenai's older brother who got killed by a bear but has become one of the spirits of the animals. D. B. Sweeney [citation needed]
Tanana The shaman-woman of Kenai's tribe. Joan Copeland [citation needed]
Atka Brother Bear 2 A man who lives in the neighboring Inuit village and the former fiancé of Nita. Jeff Bennett [citation needed]
Chief Chilkoot He is the chief of the Inuit tribe. Jim Cummings [citation needed]
Nita She is the daughter of Chief Chilkoot and the niece of Siqniq and Taqqiq; the wife of Kenai. Mandy Moore [citation needed]
Siqniq and Taqqig Nita's two aunts and Chilkoot's sisters or sisters-in-law. Wendie Malick and
Kathy Najimy 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Little Beaver A hulking Indian boyfriend of Daisy June. Mel Blanc [citation needed]
Thunder Flood An animated short film about a young Native Canadian woman who combats the flood of lies and threats to other indigenous peoples spawned by European colonization of North America. N/A [43]
Chief The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound The tribal leaders of the Native American yellow coonhounds, who in which bear the striking resemblance to Huckleberry Hound. Frank Welker [citation needed]
Chieftess B. J. Ward [citation needed]
Desert Flower She is the daughter of the Chief and Chieftess and the love interest, and later wife, of Huckleberry Hound. B. J. Ward [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Watuna The Legend of the North Wind The descendant of the Mi'kmaq Indians and one of the main characters. Luz Enparanza (Basque)
Chelo Vivares (Spanish)
Daniel Brochu (English) 		[citation needed]
David Kawena
David is a Native Hawaiian professional surfer and fire performer in the island of Kaua'i. He is the boyfriend of Nani Pelekai and a good friend to Lilo Pelekai. Jason Scott Lee (original and Stitch Has a Glitch)
Dee Bradley Baker (Stitch! The Movie and Lilo & Stitch: The Series 		[44]
Lilo Pelekai Lilo is a lonely young Native Hawaiian orphan girl who lives in the fictional Kokaua Town on Kaua'i with her older sister Nani Pelekai. She discovers, adopts, and makes friend with Stitch, a mischievous alien who she initially mistakes him for a dog. Daveigh Chase (most films and Lilo & Stitch: The Series)
Dakota Fanning (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch)
Nani Pelekai Nani is the older sister and legal guardian of Lilo Pelekai. She struggles to be a mother figure to her rambunctious sister after the deaths of their parents but works hard to prove that she is capable in the role. She allowed Lilo to adopt Stitch, unaware of his alien origin. Tia Carrere
Hiawatha Little Hiawatha A Silly Symphony animated short film produced by Walt Disney, inspired by The Song of Hiawatha poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. N/A [citation needed]
Manili The Little Polar Bear Also known as Lena in English dub, she is an Inuit girl who lives with her wise grandmother in a small village. She helps Lars the Polar Bear solving a mystery of the fish scarcity and saving the Artic from the Black Mouth submarine. Vanessa Petruo (original German)
Kimberly J. Brown (English dub) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Big Chief Peter Pan The Disney animated film based on J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or, the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up. The Native Americans in this film are utterly controversial for the depiction of their exaggerated stereotypical culture, as well as the most racist song "What Makes the Red Man Red?". Candy Candido [45][46]
Squaw June Foray
Tiger Lily The daughter of the Big Chief and the "princess" of the Redskins. In the Disney version, Tiger Lily is unable to speak but appears to be much more realistic look, compared to the literally red-skinned Indians. N/A [1]
Indian Wolves Pioneers Days The wolf-type Native Americans who plan for war against settlers, in the 1930 Disney short film starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. N/A [citation needed]
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 [47]
Kekata Pocahontas The shaman of the Powhatan tribe. Gordon Tootoosis (speaking)
Jim Cummings (singing) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Nakoma Pocahontas;
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World 		She is the best friend of Pocahontas. Michelle St. John [citation needed]
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) 		[48]
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) 		[citation needed]
Uttamatomakkin "Uti" Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World Pocahontas's bodyguard. Based upon the real-life Uttamatomakkin (Tomocomo). Brad Garrett (briefly) [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Little Creek Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron A young Lakota man and one of the main characters of the film. Daniel Studi [citation needed]
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 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Catori She is the mother of Ander and the sister-of-law of Turok. Irene Bedard (adult)
Iyari Limon (teenager) 		[citation needed]
Chichak The main antagonist of the film. Robert Knepper [citation needed]
Nashoba He is the brother Turok, the father of Ander and the husband of Catori. Gil Birmingham (adult)
Matthew Yang King (teenager) 		[citation needed]
Turok The main protagonist of the film. Adam Beach (adult)
Rick Mora (teenager) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]

Television

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Live action series

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Native American Series title Notes Actor(s) Ref(s)
Rosalind "Roz" Friendly Alaska Daily A Native Alaskan and star reporter for the Daily Alaskan in Anchorage, whose cousin Laura was a victim of an unsolved crime, leading her to report on the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis in the state of Alaska. Grace Dove [49]
Ka'kwet Anne with an E The Mi'kmaq girl who befriends Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty) in the third season of the series based on the children's novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Kiawentiio [citation needed]
Alexander "Alex" Longshadow Banshee He is the tribal chief and the rival of Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen). Anthony Ruivivar [citation needed]
Deputy Bill Raven He was formerly the officer of the fictional Kinaho Reservastion Police Department who becomes a deputy of Banshee. Chaske Spencer [citation needed]
Running Dog Black Fox Three-part miniseries that aired on CBS, based on the novel of the same name by Matt Braun. Raoul Trujillo [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Cree Chief The unnamed chief of the Cree tribe. Gordon Tootoosis [citation needed]
Matthew Tommy Cashing In The owner of an indigenous-owned casino in the fictional First Nations community of Stonewalker. Eric Schweig [citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Lame Beaver The Arapaho man and the main character of the miniseries. Michael Ansara
David Yanez (child) 		[citation needed]
Chief Lost Eagle The tribal chief of the Arapaho. Nick Ramus [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
White Wolf/Corby White A young man who was raised by whites. Billy Wirth [citation needed]
Mingo Daniel Boone An Oxford-educated half-British Native American and the companion of Daniel Boone (Fess Parker). Ed Ames [citation needed]
Black Wing Death Valley Days The chief of the Ute tribe, in the episode "A Key for the Fort". George Keymas [citation needed]
Grace Cardinal Degrassi: The Next Generation and Degrassi: Next Class Appeared in 75 episodes. Na'ku'set Gould [citation needed]
Chief Black Kettle Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman Based on the real-life Black Kettle. Nick Ramus [citation needed]
Byron Sully A Cheyenne man and the main character of the series. Joe Lando [citation needed]
Cloud Dancing Larry Sellers [citation needed]
Crazy Cat F Troop The heir apparent of the fictional Hekawi tribe. Don Diamond [citation needed]
Chief Wild Eagle The leader of the Hekawi tribe. Frank de Kova [citation needed]
Ohanzee "Hanzee" Dent Fargo The mysterious Native American tracker and hitman for the Gerhardt crime family. Mark Acheson (Season 1)
Zahn McClarnon (Season 2) 		[citation needed]
Declan Harp Frontier He is a half-Cree and half-Irish outlaw who campaigns to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the North American fur trade in Canada. He is also the brother-in-law of Sokanon (Jessica Matten) when he marries her sister Nuna. Jason Momoa [citation needed]
Kamenna She is an elder chief of the fictional Cree tribe of Lake Walkers, whose grandson Kitchi (Kiowa Gordon) has been kidnapped and killed by the alcoholic Cedric Brown (Stephen Lord). Tantoo Cardinal [citation needed]
Sasappis Ghosts The ghost of a cynical Lenape Native American. Román Zaragoza [50][51]
Chief Redwood H.R. Pufnstuf An anthropomorphic tree that dons a feathered headdress and speaks in a fashion of stereotypical melodramatic Native American. Walker Edmiston (voice) [citation needed]
John Hawk Hawk He is an Iroquois special detective working for New York City's district attorney office. Burt Reynolds [citation needed]
Joseph Black Moon Hell on Wheels A Cheyenne Christian convert preacher. Eddie Spears [citation needed]
Chief Many Horses Father of Joseph Black Moon and Cheyenne chieftain. Wes Studi [citation needed]
Pawnee Killer Son of Chief Many Horses and brother to Joseph Black Moon. Gerald Auger [citation needed]
Danny Lightfoot Hey Dude A Hopi Native American and one of the main characters of the series. Joe Torres [citation needed]
Satangkai How the West Was Won The chief of the Sioux Nation. Ricardo Montalbán (guest) [citation needed]
Chief Featherman Howdy Doody A marionette. [citation needed]
Princess SummerFallWinterSpring She is a member of the fictional Tinka Tonka tribe. marionette
Judy Tyler
Linda Marsh (briefly) 		[citation needed]
Chief Thunderthud The head of the fictional Ooragnak ("Kangaroo" spelled backwards) tribe. Bill Le Cornec
marionette 		[citation needed]
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) [citation needed]
Lone Wolf Elder of Native American tribe. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits Chief Dan George (guest) [citation needed]
Rick Native American who tries to stop Dr. Banner and Dr. Whitecloud from taking ruins. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits A Martinez (guest) [citation needed]
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) [citation needed]
Dog Star Into the West The older brother of Loved-by-the-Buffalo and Thunder Heart Woman. Pony Boy Osuniga
Michael Spears
Gil Birmingham 		[citation needed]
Growling Bear The elder Lakota medicine man. Gordon Tootoosis [citation needed]
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 		[citation needed]
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 		[citation needed]
Prairie Fire A Cheyenne chief. Jay Tavare [citation needed]
Running Fox The older brother of Loved-by-the-Buffalo and Thunder Heart Woman. Mathew Strongeagle
Zahn McClarnon
Russell Means 		[citation needed]
Red Lance Running Fox's grandson. Malachi Tsoodle-Nelson
Eddie Spears 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 		[citation needed]
Voices That Carry Red Lance's younger brother and the second grandson of Running Fox. Nakotah LaRance
Chaske Spencer 		[citation needed]
Chacrow Jamestown He is the Native American go-between the settlers and the Pamunkey tribespeople. Kalani Queypo [citation needed]
Opchanacanough The chief, or king, of the Pamunkey Tribe. Based on the real-life Opchanacanough. Raoul Trujillo [citation needed]
Winganuske Chacrow's sister who is married to Henry Sharrow (Max Beesley) as a gift. Rachel Colwell [citation needed]
Chester Lake Law & Order: Special Victims Unit He is the first Native American detective on the Law & Order series. Adam Beach [citation needed]
Big Chief Sitting Duck Lidsville An anthropomorphic feathered hat resembling the Indian chief's headdress. His body is covered by a thick Indian blanket. Walker Edmiston (voice) [citation needed]
Nakoma The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams Native American friend of Adams (Dan Haggerty) and Mad Jack (Denver Pyle). Don Shanks
(series regular) 		[citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
Tonto The Lone Ranger He is the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) himself. Jay Silverheels [citation needed]
Blue Duck Lonesome Dove miniseries

Based on the novel series of the same name by Larry McMurtry.

Frederic Forrest (1989)
Adam Beach (2008) 		[citation needed]
Chief Buffalo Hump Eric Schweig (1996)
Wes Studi (2008) 		[citation needed]
Famous Shoes The Kickapoo tracker. Wes Studi (1995)
David Midthunder (2008) 		[citation needed]
Kicking Wolf Jonathan Joss [citation needed]
Hector Longmire A Cheyenne ex-boxer. Based on the Walt Longmire mystery novels by Craig Johnson. Jeffrey De Serrano [citation needed]
Henry Standing Bear The main character of the series. Lou Diamond Phillips [citation needed]
Jacob Nighthorse A local Cheyenne businessman and the antagonist of the series. A Martinez [citation needed]
Mandy A young Cheyenne woman who is hired to assist in the legal-aid office on the Cheyenne reservation. Tamara Duarte [citation needed]
Chief Mathias The head of the Cheyenne reservation's tribal police. Zahn McClarnon [citation needed]
May Still Water A Cheyenne woman. Irene Bedard [citation needed]
Sam Poteet A Cheyenne White warrior and sage. Hank Cheyne [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Kaw Chief The leader of the Kaw tribe. George Aguilar [citation needed]
Injun Joe The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Injun Joe appeared in the pilot of this series based on Mark Twain's classic novel, where he chases Huck Finn (Michael Shea), Tom Sawyer (Kevin Schultz) and Becky Thatcher (LuAnn Haslam) into McDougal's Cave. In an attempt to outrun Injun Joe, the three youngsters whisk away into the world of animation where they interact with each of the different cartoon characters. Ted Cassidy [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Ed Chigliak A mild-mannered half-Native Alaskan who was raised by the Tlingits when he was a foundling child. Darren E. Burrows [citation needed]
Leonard Quinhagak The cousin of Marilyn Whirlwind and the mentor of Ed Chigliak; a Native medicine man. Graham Greene [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Marilyn Whirlwind The Native Alaskan receptionist of the series' central character, Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow). Elaine Miles [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Tiger Lily Once Upon a Time Debuted 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 [citation needed]
Chief Black Cloud Paradise The tribal chief in the episode "The Burial Ground". Nick Ramus [citation needed]
John Taylor The Native American medicine man and a close friend of Ethan Allen Cord (Lee Horsley). Dehl Berti [citation needed]
Chief Ken Hotate Parks and Recreation The leader of the local Wamapoke tribe in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, who appears in the Season 3 episode "Harvest Festival". Jonathan Joss [52][53]
Dr. Thomas "Tommy" Oliver Power Rangers Born as Thomas Marshall, he has been adopted by the Oliver family and is a transfer student at the fictional Angel Grove High School, where he has been brainwashed by the evil witch Rita Repulsa (Machiko Soga) to become the Green Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers five-part miniseries, "Green with Evil". In Power Rangers Zeo, Tommy becomes the Red Zeo Ranger and meets up with his long-lost brother David Trueheart (Erik Frank). In Power Rangers Dino Thunder, he is hired to be a teacher at Reefside High School where he becomes the Black Dino Ranger. Jason David Frank [54][55]
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) 		[citation needed]
Phillip Kopus The Red Road A dangerous Ramapough Lenape Indian whose tribe resides in the Ramapo Mountains in the fictional small town of Walpole, New Jersey. Jason Momoa [56]
Elora Danan Postoak Reservation Dogs The four Native teenagers in rural Oklahoma who spend their days committing crimes and fighting it. Elora Danan is named for the Willow character. Devery Jacobs [57]
Bear Smallhill D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai [citation needed]
Chester "Cheese" Williams Lane Factor [citation needed]
Wilhelmina "Willie Jack" Jacqueline Sampson Paulina Alexis [citation needed]
Asta Twelvetrees Resident Alien She is an Ute assistant to the town doctor at the Patience health clinic. Based on the comic books of the same name. Sara Tomko [citation needed]
Deputy Marshal Sam Buckhart The Rifleman;
Law of the Plainsman 		Sam Buckhart appears in two episodes ("The Indian" and "The Raid") of The Rifleman and is a main character of its spin-off Law of the Plainsman. Michael Ansara [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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). Michael Greyeyes [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Charges the Enemy The Son Tatanka Means [citation needed]
Prairie Flower Elizabeth Frances [citation needed]
Toshaway The Comanche tribal chief. Zahn McClarnon [citation needed]
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) [citation needed]
Commander Chakotay First Officer aboard the starship USS Voyager. He was formerly a member of the Maquis resistance. Robert Beltran [citation needed]
Goro He is the elder 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 [58]
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) [citation needed]
Miramanee She is the tribal priestess of the planet Amerind and the daughter of 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 [58]
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
Elizabeth Tipi Tales The four Ojibway cousins who learn various wisdoms of life during their visit to their great-grandfather's woodland cottage. Rebecca Gibson (voice) [59]
Eugene "Junior" Ryan Rajendra Black (voice)
Russell Herbie Barnes (voice)
Samantha "Sam" Jan Skene (voice)
Samantha "Sam" Woodburn Tribal The newly appointed chief of the indigenous police force in the Nêhiyawak First Nation in Alberta. Jessica Matten [citation needed]
Cherokee Lawshe True Women She is half Creek. The CBS miniseries based on the novel by Janice Woods Windle. Julie Carmen [citation needed]
Tarantula The Comanche warrior. Michael Greyeyes [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Raymond Firewalker Walker, Texas Ranger The paternal uncle of Cordell Walker (Chuck Norris) whom he raised after his parents were killed. Floyd Westerman (season 1)
Apesanahkwat (season 2) 		[citation needed]
Jack Lone Feather The West Wing Jack and Maggie are the Native Americans who encamp in the West Wing lobby where they make a deal with C. J. Cregg (Allison Janney). They appear in the Season 3 Thanksgiving episode "The Indians in the Lobby". Gary Farmer [citation needed]
Maggie Morningstar-Charles Georgina Lightning [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Etu One of the members of the Ghost Nation. Booboo Stewart [citation needed]
Kohana The wife of Akecheta. Julia Jones [citation needed]
Wichapi One of the members of the Ghost Nation. Irene Bedard [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Buck Cross/Running Buck The Young Riders The half-Kiowa who is a close friend of Ike McSwain (Travis Fine). Gregg Rainwater [citation needed]

Animated series

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Native American Series title Notes Voice actor(s) Ref(s)
Annie Redfeather Adventures from the Book of Virtues She is a 10-year-old girl of 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) 		[citation needed]
Pow Wow Adventures of Pow Wow The pre-adolescent Native American boy who discovers animals, hurt or otherwise, and attempts to protect the forest and wildlife from various threats. The animated series that was broadcast on the children's show Captain Kangaroo. N/A [60]
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) 		[citation needed]
Apache Chief The All-New Super Friends Hour A Native American superhero who Manitou Raven is his variant. Regis Cordic (debut)
Michael Rye
Al Fann (one episode) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Kai Green Ben 10 She is a Navajo girl who is one of the first love interests of Ben Tennyson. Bettina Bush [citation needed]
Wes Green The grandfather of Kai Green and the retired Plumber operative. Miguel Nájera [citation needed]
Bizou Bizou An Aboriginal Canadian princess and central character who explores the world of animals. Paula Davis [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Thrasher Captain Flamingo He is an Inuit kid who calls Captain Flamingo for help finding his missing electric guitar in "Flamingopalooza". Noam Zylberman [citation needed]
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 [61]
Laughing Bull Cowboy Bebop He is an old shaman of Native American descent who lives on Mars. Takehiro Koyama (Japanese)
Michael Gregory (English) 		[citation needed]
Upa Dragon Ball Also known in English dub as Littlefoot or Little Feather, he is the son of the warrior-chief Bora, whose Native American-based Karinga Tribe 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) 		[62]
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:
  • Sees-You-Coming
  • Deals-With-His-Wrist
  • Change-For-a-Buck, voiced by Bill Fagerbakke
  • Watches-You-Pee
 Bobby Slayton [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Tiger Lily Cree Summer [citation needed]
Broken Feather The Funny Company Tom Thomas [citation needed]
Super Chief Named after the crack passenger train in the Santa Fe Railroad. N/A [citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
Coyote Gargoyles A Native American trickster spirit. Based on the mythology of the same name. Gregg Rainwater [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Peter Maza A Native American who was formerly an NYPD officer and is the father of Elisa Maza. Michael Horse [citation needed]
Ruffled Feathers Go Go Gophers The last two surviving Native American gophers who often foil the plans of Colonel Kit Coyote and Sgt. Okey Homa, the leaders of the coyote U.S. Army fort, to secure the town of Gopher Gulch by wiping them out. Sandy Becker [citation needed]
Chief Running Board George S. Irving [citation needed]
Chief Jirukoma How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom Jirukoma and his sister Komain are the tribal leaders of the refugee camp who Kazuya Souma, king of Friedonia, offers them to move into the city of Venetinova and help finish its construction in the Part Two episode "Away from My Hometown for So Many Years". The refugees in this show look reminiscent of the Native American heritage. Kenta Miyake (Japanese)
Ray Hurd (English) 		[63]
Komain Yuuki Hirose (Japanese)
Jalitza Delago (English)
Chief Crazy Coyote The Huckleberry Hound Show The regular Indian nemesis of Huckleberry Hound. Don Messick [citation needed]
Jesse Cosay Infinity Train An Apache teen from Arizona. Robbie Daymond [citation needed]
White Feather Jonny Quest He is a Native American living in the woods of Quebec, Canada who has the ability to talk to animals, including his pet wolf Grey One, and move around unnoticed in the episode, "Werewolf of the Timberland". Mike Road [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Matthew Carver ("Kagagi") Kagagi A teenage Native Canadian who transforms into his titular Raven-type superhero alter-ego. Eric Wilson [citation needed]
John Redcorn III King of the Hill The Native American former "healer" and adulterous lover of Nancy Gribble. Victor Aaron (season 1)
Jonathan Joss (seasons 2–13) 		[citation needed]
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) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
BW Long Gone Gulch A 21-year-old sardonic bounty hunter and Native American human who hangs around the saloon. She likes to mess with Rawhide and Snag. According to series creator Zach Bellissimo, the "BW" in her name does not mean anything. Amber Midthunder [64][65]
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 [citation needed]
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 [66]
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) 		[citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Brave Paw Paw Paw Bears He is Princess Paw Paws' closest friend and possible lover who is most courageous and strong-willed of the Paw Paws. His companion is a magical flying horse, Golden Thunder. Thom Pinto [67]
Laughing Paw Alexandra Stoddart
Meanos The Meanos are a group of villainous Indians who are after the Paw Paws' three large wooden totems, Eagle, Bear, and Tortoise.
  • Dark Paw, the sorcerer chief of the Meanos
  • Slippery Paw
  • Bumble Paw
 Stanley Ralph Ross
Frank Welker
Mighty Paw The strongest and biggest of the Paw Paws. Robert Ridgely
Princess Paw Paws She is the daughter of Wise Paw, who carries the Mystic Moonstone worn around her neck which has the power to bring Totem Eagle, Bear and Tortoise to life. Her companion is a flying horse, Flying Cloud. Susan Blu
Trembly Paw The coward of the Paw Paws. Howard Morris
Wise Paw The aging chief of the Paw Paws, the oldest and wisest of the tribe, who serves as tribal advisor. John Ingle
Principal Cutler The Replacements The Inuit principal of the fictional George Stapler Middle School. Jeff Bennett [citation needed]
Grey Fox The Scooby-Doo Show He is a greedy, ruthless Chippewa mastermind who operates an owl-like monster called the Willawaw in the Season 3 episode "Watch Out! The Willawaw!" He and his henchmen dressed as the Owl Men attempt to scare away the people, including the Mystery Inc. gang, from his smuggling operation into Canada. Lennie Weinrib [68]
Red Herron He is the Chippewa chief who in the episode "Watch Out! The Willawaw!" suspects about the Willawaw legend. He also has to rescue his friend and Velma Dinkley's uncle, Dave Walton, who has been kidnapped by Grey Fox and the Owl Men after discovering their crimewave. His name is a play on red herring. John Stephenson
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 [69]
Dr. Paul Williams Sealab 2020 He is the Chinook oceanographer and the leader of the Sealab research team. Ross Martin [70]
Patch Tribe Shaman King The Patch Tribe are a group of Native American shamans whose purpose, while overseeing the Shaman Fight tournaments, is to guard the selected Shaman King during their purification and gradual merge with the Great Spirits, in both the original 2001 anime series and its 2021 reboot. The members of the Patch Tribe include:
  • Chieftess Goldva, the elder leader and organizer of the Shaman Fight who is mistaken for a man due to her androgynous appearance and deeper voice. Her guardian spirit is a totem bird called "Big Chief", the first chief of the Patch Tribe.
  • Silva, the member of the Shaman Fight Selection Committee who oversees the Glacier Plant. He travels from the U.S. to Japan to test Yoh Asakura's worth to be in the Shaman Fight, hinting him on the means to manifest his Over Soul. His spirit allies are the Silver Arms.
  • Kalim, one of Silva's best friends who oversees the Highland Plant and Horohoro's test in the Shaman Fight along with Team Icemen. His guardian spirit is a black bull named "Black Sickle".
  • Nichrom, the young priest of the Patch Tribe and overseer of the Cave Plant who inherits his position after his older brother Chrom was killed by the hands of Tao Ren. His guardian spirits are a scorpion called "Yellow Whip" and a locust called "Purple Kick", Chrom's spirit.
  • Magna, the officiant of the Patch Tribe and overseer of the Volcano Plant who takes Nichrom under his wing when Nichrom himself becomes an official. His guardian spirit is a great horned owl named "Magnescope".
  • Radim, the overseer of the Lake Plant and official who is selected as a moderator of the tournament. His guardian spirit is an Australian pelican called "Platinum Sword".
  • Namari, the overseer of the Desert Plant and officiant in charge of the three Gandhara teams. His guardian spirit is a cobra named "Red Rope".
  • Bron, the official who oversees the Valley Plant and Lyserg Diethel's progress in the Shaman Fight. His guardian spirit is a spider named "Blue Net".
  • Renim, the overseer of the Jungle Plant who helps Bron in re-educating those who stray from the way of the Patch Tribe. His guardian spirit is a chameleon called "Clear Coat".
  • Thalim, the officiant and overseer of the Beach Plant who is responsible on Team Kabbalahers amongst other teams. His versatile spirit is the Green Seeds, which has access to the different properties and abilities of every kind of Plant on the planet.
  • Rutherfor, the priestess of the Patch Tribe who oversees the Space Plant and escorts Hao Asakura to the King's shrine, serving as his last line of defense while he merges with the Great Spirit. Her spirit ally, called "Grey Saucer", created an armored Over Soul for her to wear.
  • Zinc, the shaman of the Patch Tribe who along with Nichrom fights Silva and Kalim when they attempt to help Yoh Asakura. His guardian spirit is a vulture or a buzzard.
 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) 		[71]
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 [72]
Chief Running Water He is the chief of the Ute tribe who has been claimed to be a true father of Eric Cartman in the Season 1 episode "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut". Matt Stone [citation needed]
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. [citation needed]
Motorcycle Apaches Speed Racer A group of the tribal motorcycle gang who attack the convey of trucks in the American West in Episode 46. The leader of the motorcycle Apaches is Geronimo, the son of the chief who admires Speed Racer and his Mach 5 car and attempts to protect his tribe from the uraniumtane. Jack Grimes
Jack Curtis 		[citation needed]
Eddy Skycedar Spirit Rangers The three Chumash-Cowlitz siblings who have the power to teleport into a magical spirit dimension at the fictional Xus National Park in California while also transforming into a turtle, a grizzly bear cub and a red-tailed hawk respectively to complete missions. Talon Proc Alford [73]
Kodi Skycedar Wačíŋyeya Iwáš'aka Yracheta
Summer Skycedar Isis Celilo Rogers
Hawk Feathers SuperMansion Appeared in Season 1 Episode 5 "Puss in Books". Wes Studi [citation needed]
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 [citation needed]
Indian A Town Called Panic The toy figurine of a stereotypical Native American chief or elder who is a little more mature than Cowboy but pursues foolhardy quests almost as much as his counterpart. There is also a spinoff feature film of the same name. Bruce Ellison (original French)
Alan Marriott (English dub) 		[74]
Brock Samson The Venture Bros. He is described as "half-Swedish, quarter-Polish, and quarter-Winnebago" from Nebraska. Patrick Warburton [citation needed]
Princess Tinyfeet A stereotypical Native American girl who bears a striking resemblance to Mia on the Land O'Lakes logo and was also the wife of Sergeant Hatred. She is the daughter of Indian crimefighter Chief Justice. Suzanne Gilad (briefly) [citation needed]
Kahhori What If...? A young Mohawk woman, living in pre-colonial America, gains the power of the Tesseract and convinces those in Sky World to join her to save her people from ravenous conquistadors, who she drives away with her help. The episode was created in collaboration with the Mohawk Nation, with the episode's dialogue in the Mohawk language. Devery Jacobs [75][76]
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 [citation needed]
Ellen Crow Wildfire An Indian girl who provides moral support on Earth. Lilly Moon [citation needed]

Radio

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Native American Radio title Notes Voice actor(s) Ref(s)
Tonto The Lone Ranger 1933 WXYZ radio show prior to the television series of the same name. John Todd [77]
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) 		[78]

Video games

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Native American Game title Console(s) Notes Ref(s)
Desmond Miles Assassin's Creed
A main protagonist of the series' early games who is a descendant of Ratonhnhaké:ton. [citation needed]
Kahionhaténion Assassin's Creed III
The Kanien'kehá:ka warrior and hunter. [citation needed]
Kanenʼtó꞉kon He was a close friend of Ratonhnhaké꞉ton. [citation needed]
Kaniehtí꞉io ("Ziio") She was a Kanien'keha:ka clan woman and the mother of Ratonhnhaké:ton. [citation needed]
Ratonhnhaké:ton/Connor The protagonist who is half English and half Mohawk Indian. [citation needed]
Teiowí:sonte The Kanien'keha:ka warrior and the brother of Kahionhaténion. [citation needed]
William Miles Father of Desmond Miles from which he is related to Ratonhnhaké:ton. [citation needed]
Kesegowaase Assassin's Creed Rogue
The minor antagonist who is an Abenaki assassin. [citation needed]
Humba Wumba Banjo-Tooie
The Indian woman and one of the major characters of the game. [citation needed]
Condor Heads Breakers
The Native American fighter. [citation needed]
Colton White Gun
Also known simply as Cole, he is the Apache marksman who has been adopted by well-trained outdoorsman Ned White. [citation needed]
Fights-At-Dawn The Blackfoot chief and a proud warrior who is concerned deeply for the future of his tribe and befriends Colton when he was attacked by a cougar. [citation needed]
Many Wounds An Apache chief who becomes a trusted ally to Colton to fight against the villainous Tom Magruder. [citation needed]
Delsin Rowe Infamous Second Son PlayStation 4 The member of the fictional Akomish tribe and the protagonist of the game. [citation needed]
Reggie Rowe He is the brother of Delsin. [citation needed]
Pakawa Kasumi Ninja Atari Jaguar Chief of the fictional Tu-Wee-Kah Comanche fighting tribe. [citation needed]
Chief Thunder Killer Instinct (1994)
The Native American chief who is armed with a pair of tomahawks. [citation needed]
Eagle Killer Instinct (2013)
An Indian warrior and the younger brother of Chief Thunder. [citation needed]
Nightwolf Mortal Kombat Arcade He is a Native American shaman. [citation needed]
Nuna Never Alone (Kisima Inŋitchuŋa)
She is an Iñupiaq girl who along with her Arctic fox companion searches out the source of an eternal blizzard that threatens her village. Based on the traditional Iñupiat mythology Kunuuksaayuka. [citation needed]
Fareeha Amari ("Pharah") Overwatch