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Kicking Bear: (1846-1904 Oglala Sioux) was in charge of his own group of fighters in the War for the Black Hills, also known as the Great Sioux War, fighting with his brother, Flying Hawk, and his first cousin, Crazy Horse. After the war, Kicking Bear put down arms and began non-violent methods to resist efforts by the U.S. government to take their land and herd them into reservations.

Kicking Bear became active in the Ghost Dance religious movement of 1890. Along with fellow Lakota Short Bull and the Paiute holy man Wovoka, he brought the movement to the reservations in South Dakota. Kicking Bear staged the first Lakota Ghost Dance and soon developed a reputation as a distinguished holy man.

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Young Native-American woman and child train station 1930: As the 20th century wore on and Native Americans were further displaced in their own country, families had no choice but to stay on the move or agree to live on reservations that were never as god as the homes they had before they were forcibly removed from their land. Native mothers and children like this were locked into a cycle of poverty and illness that continued to perpetuate a negative connotation for people when thinking about tribal societies. This era of “forced assimilation” was one of the worst periods for the rights of Native Americans. Many of the humiliations of this era have yet to be mended.

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Crow King: also known as Medicine Bag was a Hunkpapa Sioux war chief at the time of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Crow King was one of Sitting Bull's war chiefs at the battle, he led eighty warriors against Custer's men on Calhoun Hill and Finley Ridge. Died 1884

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Quanah Parker was a war leader of the Kwahadi band of the Comanche Nation. He was likely born into the Nokoni band of Tabby-nocca and grew up among the Kwahadis, the son of Kwahadi Comanche chief Peta. 1845-1911

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Cochise was leader of the Chihuicahui local group of the Chokonen and principal nantan of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache. A key war leader during the Apache Wars, he led an uprising that began in 1861 and persisted until a peace treaty was negotiated in 1872.