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 the United States, ones that are historical and others that are modern.

Literature

See also: Native Americans in children's literature

The Indian princess Tiger Lily from Barrie's Peter Pan, drawn by Oliver Herford in 1907.

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

Native American	Work	Notes	Author
Agnes Adams	The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	The Spokane Indian who lives on the Spokane Indian reservation in her life. She is the mother of Arnold Spirit Jr.	Sherman Alexie
Arnold Spirit Jr. (Junior)		A 14-year-old boy who lives on the reservation with his parents.
Arnold Spirit Sr.		Junior's father who could have been a jazz musician.
Zits (Michael)	Flight	A 15-year-old boy who is the foster child and the main character of the story.
Thomas Builds-the-Fire	The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven	The character who appears in "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona".
Victor Joseph		One of the main characters of the short story collection.
Coyote Springs	Reservation Blues	An all-Indian rock and blues band of the Spokane tribe.
Esselen Girl	The Lariat	She was the first Esselen Indian to be converted by Spanish Franciscan friar Fray Luis.	Jaime de Angulo
Hualala		The medicine man and the husband of the Esselen Girl.
White Bull	Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse	A 12-year-old Dakota Sioux boy who kindly treats the legendary Comanche whom his cousin Yellow Bull treats badly.	David Appel
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
Great Big Little Panther	Peter and Wendy	The big chief of the Native Americans, known as the "Redskins", of the Pickaninny tribe in the fictional island of Neverland.	J. M. Barrie
Tiger Lily		The tribal princess of the Redskins and the daughter of Great Big Little Panther.
Shining Pearl	Peter and the Secret of Rundoon	The daughter of Chief Fighting Prawn and the analog of Tiger Lily.	Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Fighting Prawn	Peter and the Starcatchers	The chieftain of the fictional Mollusk Tribe.
Cheyenne people	Little Big Man	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
Kicking Bird	Dances with Wolves	The Sioux medicine man.	Michael Blake
Stands-With-A-Fist		She is the adoptive daughter of Kicking Bird and the wife of Lieutenant John Dunbar (aka Dances-with-Wolves).
Chief Ten Bears
Winds-In-His-Hair		A Sioux warrior.
Wolf	Tiger Eyes	A mysterious native climber.	Judy Blume
Running Dog	Black Fox		Matt Braun
Zack Banning	Comanche Moon	The son of the Comanche chief.	Virginia Brown
Toriano	Adobe Walls	The son of the Apache Chief.	W. R. Burnett
Corby	Children of the Dust	The Cheyenne boy.	Clancy Carlile
Chingachgook	Leatherstocking Tales	The Mohican chief and the companion of Natty Bumppo.	James Fenimore Cooper
Magua		Huron warrior in the novel The Last of the Mohicans.
Uncas		Chingachgook's son who was killed by Magua.
Hard Heart	The Prairie	A brave, trustworthy Pawnee warrior.
Chief Mahtoree		A crafty Teton Sioux chief.
Tachechana		The wife of Mahtoree.
Soft Rain	Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears	A young Cherokee girl who lives in the Tsalagi community of North Carolina with her parents and her younger brother, Hawk Boy.	Cornelia Cornelissen
Salamanca Tree Hiddle	Walk Two Moons		Sharon Creech
She-Who-Is-Alone	The Legend of the Bluebonnet	A Comanche girl who has lost her parents. Based on the original Native American folklore, retold and illustrated by Tomie dePaola. (This was later adapted as the 2nd story of "Tales of the First People, Vol I: Spirit Tales" in 2016)	Tomie dePaola
Morning Girl and Star Boy	Morning Girl	The two Taíno siblings who recreate a life on the Bahamian island.	Michael Dorris
Walnut/Sees-Behind-Trees	Sees Behind Trees
Christine George Taylor	A Yellow Raft in Blue Water	She has been separated from her husband, Elgin Taylor.
Aunt Ida George		She is a legal mother of Christine.
Rayona Diane Taylor		The half-Native American daughter of Christine and Elgin.
Cogewea	Cogewea, the Half-Blood: A Depiction of the Great Montana Cattle Range	The protagonist who is both Indigenous and Euro-American.	Mourning Dove
Blue Back	Drums Along the Mohawk	A friendly Oneida man.	Walter D. Edmonds
Celestine James	The Beet Queen	The half-Native American who would become a best friend of Mary Adare.	Louise Erdrich
Omakayas (aka Little Frog)	The Birchbark House	She is the main character of the story. She also appeared in the following sequels, The Game of Silence and The Porcupine Year. Omakayas has her family included in the story: 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.
Fleur Pillager	Four Souls	An Ojibwe woman.
LaRose Iron	LaRose	A Native American boy and the titular character of the story.
Landreaux and Emmaline Iron		The parents of LaRose Iron.
Dusty Ravich		The son of Peter and Nola Ravich and the best friend of LaRose Iron. He was only five years old when he was shot and killed accidentally by Landreaux Iron.
Father Damien Modeste	Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse	The priest of the Ojibwe people.
Marie Lazarre Kashpaw	Love Medicine	She is the wife of Nector Kashpaw.
Nector Kashpaw		He is the son of Rushes Bear and Kashpaw; the husband of Marie Lazarre Kashpaw.
Evelina Harp	The Plaque of Doves	The girl who is part Ojibwe and part white.
Mooshum		The grandfather of Evelina Harp.
Antone "Joe" Coutts	The Round House	The 13-year-old Ojibwe son of Geraldine and Bazil Coutts.
Laughing Boy	Laughing Boy		Oliver La Farge
Slim Girl
Lotus	Mountain Man	A lone woman who is left alive after an Indian massacre. The historical novel that is a largely fictionalized retelling of the experiences of Liver-Eating Johnson, a real-life mountain man.	Vardis Fisher
Tess	Soldier Sister, Fly Home	A 13-year-old girl who is having a hard time understanding what it means to be part Navajo and part white; a sister of Gaby. A story that is inspired by the death of Lori Piestewa, illustrated by Shonto Begay.	Nancy Bo Flood
Chief Bear	Thirteen Moons	The local chief of the Cherokee Nation.	Charles Frazier
Featherstone
Billie Wind	The Talking Earth	A girl of the Seminole tribe who has to find the answers to believe the legends about the earth spirits and talking animals.	Jean Craighead George
Apaches and Comanches	Savage Sam	A group of Indians who can abduct Travis and Arliss Coates and Lisbeth Searcy.	Fred Gipson
Dark Water	An Undisturbed Peace	The daughter of the powerful Cherokee chief and one of the main characters of the story.	Mary Glickman
Crow Chief	Crow Chief: A Plains Indian Story		Paul Goble
Falling Star		The savior.
Brave Indian Boy	The Gift of the Sacred Dog
Indian Girl	The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses
Iktomi	Iktomi series	The Plains Indian trickster.
Chief's Daughter	Star Boy	Retold and illustrated by Paul Goble.
Star Boy		The son of Morning Star and Evening Star and the titular character of the story.
Morning Plume	The Storm Maker's Tipi	One of the two Blackfoot hunters.
Sacred Otter		The father of Morning Plume and one of the two Blackfoot hunters.
Nophaie	The Vanishing American	A young Navajo and the main character of the story.	Zane Grey
Blackfoot Chief	The Big Sky	The tribal chief of the Blackfeet and the late father of Teal Eye.	A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Teal Eye		The Blackfoot princess and the wife of Boone Caudill.
Chief Heavy Runner	Fair Land, Fair Land	The Blackfoot chief.
Little Wing		The granddaughter of the Shoshone chief and the wife of Hezekiah Higgins.
Bernadette Manuelito	Leaphorn & Chee series	The wife of Officer Jim Chee. She was formerly a federal Customs Patrol Officer and is now a Navajo Tribal Police Officer.	Tony Hillerman and Anne Hillerman
Jim Chee		One of the two Navajo Tribal Police Officers.
Joe Leaphorn		One of the two Navajo Tribal Police Officers and the "Legendary Lieutenant".
Wusamequin	Spirited	A young medicine man who alerts his warriors to capture Isabella Sevens and her father. A retelling of Beauty and the Beast and an homage to The Last of the Mohicans.	Nancy Holder
Ezol Day	Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story	A postal clerk in the Indian Territory.	LeAnne Howe
Hope Little Leader		A Choctaw pitcher for the fictitious team of the Miko Kings.
Buffalo Horn	Flaming Star	He was a native hunter.	Clair Huffaker
Pacer Burton		He is a half-breed, half Native American and half white.
Soldat du Chene	Little House on the Prairie	He is the French-speaking chief of the Osage Nation in Kansas, loosely based on the real-life Osage chief.	Laura Ingalls Wilder
Alessandro Assis	Ramona	A young native sheepherder.	Helen Hunt Jackson
Ramona		The title character who is a Scottish-Native American orphan girl, raised by Señora Gonzaga Moreno.
Fish Hawk	Old Fish Hawk	The last of the Osage Indians.	Mitchell F. Jayne
Melissa Little Brid	The Cold Dish	A local Indian girl.	Craig Johnson
Henry Standing Bear	Walt Longmire series	A Cheyenne man who is a friend of Sheriff Walt Longmire.
John Morgan/Shunkawakan	A Man Called Horse	Although John Morgan was not born to the Sioux natives but to be a Boston aristocrat, he was at first being held captive by those people until he later became a member of their tribe. His Native-American name Shunkawakan means "Horse" in the Sioux language for he was treated as a horse.	Dorothy M. Johnson
Chief Yellow Hand		He is the chief of the Sioux tribe.
Inuit Girl	Mama, Do You Love Me?	Illustrated by Barbara Lavallee.	Barbara M. Joosse
Mama		The mother of an Inuit girl.
Bromden	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	A large yet docile half-Native American "chief" who is mute and deaf; the first person narrator of the story.	Ken Kesey
Lum	Truth and Bright Water	The cousin of Tecumseh and the son of tribal leader Franklin.	Thomas King
Tecumseh		A 15-year-old Blackfoot boy of the Truth town in rural Montana and the first person narrator of the story; the son of Helen and Elvin and the nephew of Auntie Cassie. He is named after the famous Shawnee chief.
Turtle	The Bean Trees; Pigs in Heaven	A three-year-old Cherokee girl who was adopted by Taylor Greer.	Barbara Kingsolver
Chief Scar	The Searchers	The tribal leader of the band of Comanches, known as Nawyecka.	Alan Le May
A Frog Girl	Frog Girl		Paul Owen Lewis
The Yeehats	The Call of the Wild	The Native American group.	Jack London
Grey Beaver	White Fang	A Native American chief who is the first master of a wolfdog, White Fang.
Hiawatha	The Song of Hiawatha	An Ojibwe warrior in the 1855 epic poem.	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Minnehaha		She was a Dakota woman who was the lover of Hiawatha.
Mudjekeewis		Loosely based on the Ojibwe mythological spirit of the same name.
Nokomis		Hiawatha's grandmother who fell from the Moon.
Ruby and Mogie Yellow Lodge	Skins	The Lakota Sioux brothers of the fictional Beaver Creek Indian Reservation.	Adrian C. Louis
Pearce	Breakheart Pass	The Indian agent and lawman.	Alistair MacLean
Rough-Faced Girl	The Rough-faced Girl	An Algonquin girl who is disfigured but has to win over a mysterious man, the Invisible Being, to be his bride. A retelling folklore inspired by Cinderella, illustrated by David Shannon.	Rafe Martin
Nscho-tschi	Old Firehand	She was the daughter of the late Chief Intschu-tschuna and the sister of Chief Winnetou.	Karl May
Winnetou		He is the Native American hero who succeeds his father Intschu-tschuna as the chief of the Mescalero Apache. He is a friend and blood brother of German cowboy Old Shatterhand.
Kimmy	Grandmother's Dreamcatcher	Illustrated by Stacey Schuett.	Becky Ray McCain
Chippewa Grandmother		The grandmother of Kimmy.
Blue Duck	Lonesome Dove series	The leader of a band of renegade Indians and Caucasian bandits; the son of Chief Buffalo Hump.	Larry McMurtry
Chief Buffalo Hump		The Comanche war-chief and the father of Blue Duck. Based on the real-life Buffalo Hump.
Kicking Wolf		The Comanche warrior and accomplished horse thief.
Catherine LaLoup Leon	The Surrounded	The daughter of the Salish chief, wife of Max Leon, and the mother of Archilde Leon.	D'Arcy McNickle
Taha Aki	Twilight	He was one of the last spirit chiefs and the first shape-shifter of the Quileute tribe in La Push, Washington.	Stephenie Meyer
Billy Black		The elder of the Quileute tribe.
Ephraim Black		He was the last chief of the Quileute tribe and the great-grandfather of Jacob Black.
Jacob Black		An attractive protector of the Quileute tribe and the son of Billy Black.
Harry Clearwater		He was the elder of the Quileute tribe who died of a heart attack in New Moon.
Leah Clearwater		She is the daughter of Harry and Sue Clearwater, who is the only known female shape-shifting wolf in the history of the Quileute tribe.
Seth Clearwater		Leah's younger brother who transforms into a wolf around the same time as his sister.
Sam Uley		He is the Alpha, or the leader, and the oldest member of the La Push pack; the ex-boyfriend of Leah Clearwater. When he was young, Sam and his mother Allison had been abandoned by his father Joshua.
Lame Beaver	Centennial	The Arapaho warrior and chieftain and one of the main characters of the story.	James A. Michener
Abel	House Made of Dawn	The main character of the story.	N. Scott Momaday
Moyo	Runaway Papoose	A young Navajo shepherd boy. Illustrated by Carl Moon.	Grace Moon
Nah-tee		A four-year-old Indian girl.
Azákia	Ouabi; Or the Virtues of Nature: An Indian Tale in Four Cantos	A woman of the Illinois Indian tribe.	Sarah Wentworth Morton
Ouábi		The husband of Azákia.
Karana/Won-a-pa-lei	Island of the Blue Dolphins	Based upon a true story of Juana Maria. Karana is a sister of Ramo and Ulape and the main character of the story.	Scott O'Dell
Bright Morning	Sing Down the Moon	The girl of the Navajo tribe and the main character of the story.
Zia	Zia	The older sister of Mando and the niece of the late Karana; the mother of Rontu, Karana and young Mando.
Chief Spotted Wolf	Arrow in the Sun	The legendary Cheyenne chieftain.	T. V. Olsen
Blue	There There	The girl who lives in the area of Oakland, California.	Tommy Orange
Calvin Johnson		A young native man who owes drug money to his brother, Charles Johnson.
Jacquie Red Feather		A substance abuse counselor.
Octavio Gomez		A drug dealer and a cousin of Daniel Gonzales.
Orvil Red Feather		A Cheyenne teenage grandson of Jacquie Red Feather.
Thomas Frank		A Cheyenne drummer who worked formerly as a custodian at the Indian Center.
Chief Showcase	Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down	The last surviving native in the fictional Yellow Back Radio region.	Ishmael Reed
Me’ma	Me’ma and the Great Mountain	The indigenous girl of an oppressed village called Sunken Creek.	Lorin Morgan Richards
Kimi	Blue Birds	A girl from the Roanoke tribe who befriends with the English girl named Alis.	Caroline Starr Rose
Elk	The Horsecatcher	An adolescent Cheyenne and the main character who wants to be a wild horse tamer; the son of Elk River, nephew of Owl Friend, and younger brother of Two Wolves.	Mari Sandoz
Elk River		The headman of the band of Southern Cheyenne people and the father of Two Wolves and Elk.
Buddy Red Bird	The Powwow Highway	The member of the Cheyenne tribe in Lame Deer, Montana.	David Seals
Moki	The Biography of a Grizzly	A Cree Indian and one of the main characters of the story.	Ernest Thompson Seton
Kwani	Kwani series	An eponymous character who was born into the long extinct fictional Anasazi tribe.	Linda Lay Shuler
Tayo	Ceremony	The Laguna Pueblo man and the central character of the story who is half-Pueblo and half-white.	Leslie Marmon Silko
Attean	The Sign of the Beaver	He is the grandson of the Indian chief.	Elizabeth George Speare
Rick	The Culled	The main protagonist who belongs to the Haudenosaunee people.	Simon Spurrier
Martha Tom	Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom	A young Choctaw girl who befriends with a slave and his son, Little Mo.	Tim Tingle
Danny Blackgoat	Danny Blackgoat series	A Navajo teenage boy.
Rose Goode	House of Purple Cedar	A Choctaw girl who escapes as twenty other native girls have died when the Choctaw community, Skullyville, has been destroyed; the granddaughter of Amafo and Pokoni.
Isaac	How I Became a Ghost; When a Ghost Talks, Listen	A Choctaw boy who did not survived the Trail of Tears and ended up becoming a ghost.
Sarah Nita	The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow	A Navajo girl, in part of the Dear America book series.	Ann Turner
Injun Joe	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	The arch nemesis of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.	Mark Twain
Shining Lighttower	Battle Cry	A Navajo Indian who is a member of the radio squad.	Leon Uris
Fast Horse	Fools Crow	The son of Boss Ribs and a friend of Fools Crows.	James Welch
Fools Crow/White Man's Dog		The son of Chief Rides-at-the-Door and Double Strike Woman.
Red Paint		She is the wife of Fools Crow and the daughter of Heavy Shield Woman and Yellow Kidney, leader of the horse raid.
Running Fisher		The brother of Fools Crow.
Charging Elk	The Heartsong of Charging Elk	The Oglala Sioux man.
Virgil First Raise	Winter in the Blood	The main character and the first person narrator of the story.
Massai	Broncho Apache	The last Apache warrior, based on the real-life Massai.	Paul Wellman

Comics

See also: List of Native American superheroes

Native American	Comic title	Notes
Big Chief Keen-eyed-Mole	The Adventures of Tintin	The sachem of the Blackfoot Indians.
Akwas	Akwas	The titular character of the comic strip.
Super-Chief Flying Stag	All-Star Western	The 15th-century Iroquois.
Thomas Fireheart ("Puma")	The Amazing Spider-Man	He is a werecat of Native American descent.
William Talltrees	Avengers	A man who is known as "Red Wolf" and is born in modern times in Wolf Point, Montana; the son of the Cheyenne tribal leader, Thomas Talltrees.
Little Plum	The Beano	Little Plum-Stealing-Varmint
Chini	Blueberry	Daughter of Chief Cochise.
Chief Cochise		The chief of the Navajo tribe.
Chinook	Buddy Longway	A young Sioux Native American woman who is married to a trapper, Buddy Longway.
Jesse Black Crow	Captain America
Chief Medicine Crow	Cowboys & Aliens	The leader of the Apache Indians.
Warhawk		The Apache warrior.
Geronimo Jr. ("G-Junior")	Cyborg 009	Also known as Cyborg 005, he is a Native American who becomes the strongman of the 00 Cyborgs. A Japanese manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori.
Echo	Daredevil
Wyatt Wingfoot	Fantastic Four	The member of the fictional Keewazi Indian reservation in Oklahoma and the supporting character.
Wildrun	Fantastic Four Annual	He is known as the Red Wolf of the 19th century in the Wild West.
Black Condor	Freedom Fighters	The team member of the Freedom Fighters.
Charlie Iron-Knife ("Spirit")	G.I. Joe	He is the member and original tracker of the G.I. Joe Team who was born to the poor Native American family in the Taos Pueblo Reservation.
John Proudstar ("Thunderbird")	Giant-Size X-Men	An Apache Indian and a Human Mutant who was a short-lived member of the X-Men.
Young Raven	High Moon	The granddaughter of a legendary Native American character, Raven the Trickster; she is a Red Indian mystic and the lover of the African American outlaw, Eddie Conroy.
Manitou Dawn and Manitou Raven	Justice League	The team members; Raven is a variant of the television character Apache Chief.
Super-Chief Jon Standing Bear		The team member of the Justice League of America.
Equinox	Justice League United	The team member.
Dawnstar	Legion of Super-Heroes	Her home planet of Starhaven was colonized by the Native Americans.
Lonesome Polecat	Li'l Abner
Johnny Wakely	Marvel Spotlight	He was adopted by the white couple in the late 19th century.
Jason Strongbow ("American Eagle")	Marvel Two-in-One	He is a member of the Navajo Nation who attempted to seize a mining company from excavating a mountain sacred to his tribe.
James Jonathan Proudstar ("Warpath")	New Mutants	Also known as "Thunderbird", he is the younger brother of the late John Proudstar and the member of the New Mutants.
Ompa-pa	Oumpah-pah	The native of the fictional Flatfeet tribe.
Bunnokees	Popol Out West	The Native American rabbits.
Wildstar	R.E.B.E.L.S.	The ancestor of Dawnstar.
Little Beaver	Red Ryder	He is the juvenile Indian sidekick of Red Ryder.
Thomas Thunderhead	Red Wolf
Chief Redeye	Redeye	An overweight chief of the fictional Chickiepan tribe and the father of Tawnee and Pokey.
Tanglefoot		A cowardly and stupid warrior of the Chickiepan tribe.
Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse	Scalped	Also known as Dashiell Bradford, he is a full-blooded Oglala Lakota who left the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation at age fifteen before his return with a vengeance.
Dino Poor Bear		A young man who struggles to make a living on the reservation and encounters Dash at a meth lab.
Gina Bad Horse		The estranged mother of Dash and a longtime activist who pushes for the rights of the Indians.
Chief Lincoln Red Crow (aka John Rayfield Bustill)		A bullish Lakota elder who is the President of the Oglala Tribal Council and the Sheriff of the Tribal Police.
Minnie Ha-Cha	Steve Roper and Mike Nomad	She is the girlfriend of Chief Wahoo.
Chief Wahoo		He is one of the main characters of the comic strip.
Super-Chief Saganowahna	Superman	The member of Supermen of America.
Lilyth	Tex	She was the daughter of the Navajo Chief and the wife of Tex Willer. She saved Tex from getting killed by her people (similar to Pocahontas) but later died of smallpox.
Red Cloud		The Navajo shaman.
Tex Willer (aka Eagle of the Night)		Besides being a Texas ranger, he becomes the tribal chief of the Navajo as well as the Bureau of Indian Affairs agent when he is married to the late Lilyth.
Tiger Jack		The Navajo warrior.
Moon Fawn	Tomahawk	She was the daughter of Chief Grey Elk of the Apaches, sister of Wise Owl and the wife of Tom Haukins.
Little Pigeon	Tumbleweeds	The daughter of the Poohawk Chief who is a "flower among the weeds". She has five suitors: Limpid Lizard, Green Gills, Lotsa Luck, Bucolic Buffalo, and Hulking Hawk.
Turok	Turok, Son of Stone	A Native American warrior who first appeared in Four Color Comics.
Ukala	Ukala	Protagonist of the comic strip.
Forge	Uncanny X-Men	He is from the Cheyenne nation and the member of the X-Men.
Bright-Sky-After-Storm ("Arak")	The Warlord	The son of Star-of-Dawn of the fictional Quontauka tribe.
Ohiyesa "Pow Wow" Smith	Western Comics	The character who started in Detective Comics.
Buffalo Seed	Yakari	A Sioux boy who dreams of becoming the greatest hunter.
Rainbow		A Sioux girl and a friend of Yakari.
The-One-Who-Knows		The chief and shaman of the Sioux tribe.
Yakari		The main title character who has the ability to talk to animals.
Chief Zilverpijl/Silver Arrow	Zilverpijl	The eponymous character who is a resourceful and wise chief of the Kiowa; the blood brother of Falcon and Moonbeam.

Theatre

Native American	Title	Notes
Lonesome Polecat	Li'l Abner	1956 Broadway musical based on the comic trip of the same name.
Metamora	Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags	The member of the Wampanoags and the protagonist of the 1829 play by John Augustus Stone.
Nehmeokee		The wife of Metamora.
"Chief" Bromden	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1963 play by Dale Wasserman, based on Ken Kesey's novel of the same name.
Chief Fighting Prawn	Peter and the Starcatcher	2009 play based on the children's novel of the same name.
Great Big Little Panther	Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up	The 1904 theatre play by J. M. Barrie prior to his novel Peter and Wendy in 1911.
Tiger Lily

Film

See also: Native Americans in film

Live action

Native American	Film title	Notes	Portrayed by
Galasko	Alone yet Not Alone	A strong Indian warrior. Based on the novel of the same name by Tracy Leininger Craven.	Ozzie Torres
Hannawoa		The brother of Galasko.	Tony Wade
Sam Birdwater	Americathon	A billionaire leader of the natives.	Chief Dan George
Massai	Apache	1954 film that was based on the novel Broncho Apache by Paul Wellman.	Burt Lancaster
Chief Victorio	Apache Drums	The tribal leader of the Mescalero Apaches. Based on the unpublished story Stand at Spanish Boot by Harry Brown.	N/A
Chato	Apache Warrior		George Keymas
Chikisin			Dehl Berti
Katawan		Better known as "Apache Kid", he is the protagonist of the film.	Keith Larsen
Marteen			Rodolfo Acosta
Chief Nantan			John Miljan
Native American Chief	The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again		Nick Ramus
Chief Chattez	Arrowhead	The Apache chief. Based on the novel Adobe Walls by W. R. Burnett.	Frank de Kova
Toriana		The son of Chief Chattez and one of the main characters of the film.	Jack Palance
Chief Tahlequah	Badman's Territory		Chief Thundercloud
Pvt. Shining Lighttower	Battle Cry	The Navajo phonetalkers. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Leon Uris.	Jonas Applegarth
Pvt. Crazy Horse			Felix Noriego
Pike Dexter	Big Eden	A shy and quiet Native American who owns the local general store and has a crush on gay artist Henry Hart (Arye Gross).	Eric Schweig
Chief Red Horse	The Big Sky	Based on the novel of the same name by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.	Theodore Last Star (uncredited)
Teal Eye		The daughter of the Blackfoot chief.	Elizabeth Threatt
Black Cloud	Black Cloud	A Navajo man and the titular character of the film.	Eddie Spears
Sammi		The girlfriend of Black Cloud.	Julia Jones
Black Buffalo	The Black Dakotas	The son of Chief War Cloud, who desires the extermination of all of the white people.	Jay Silverheels
Chief War Cloud		Black Buffalo's father and the chief of the Sioux tribe.	John War Eagle
Indian Chief	Blazing Saddles	The Yiddish-speaking Native American chief.	Mel Brooks (also the director of the film)
Johnny Black Hawk	Bone Eater	A Native American who agitates for violence.	Adoni Maropis
Sheriff Steve Evans		He is the local sheriff who is half Native American.	Bruce Boxleitner
Chief Storm Cloud		The local Indian chief.	Michael Horse
Tall Trees	Bone Tomahawk	An educated Native American who is called "the professor".	Zahn McClarnon
Chief White Hand	Breakheart Pass	The tribal chief of the natives. Based on the novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean.	Eddie Little Sky
Black Hawk	Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory		Chief Thundercloud
Running Deer			Rodd Redwing
Chief White Cloud			Chief Yowlachie
Aristotle Joseph	The Business of Fancydancing	The Spokane man of the Spokane Reservation in eastern Washington state.	Gene Tagaban
Seymour Polatkin		A gay Spokane poet and the main character.	Evan Adams
Blackfoot People	Cattle Queen of Montana	Colorados Natchakoa Powhani Starfire	Lance Fuller Anthony Caruso Rodd Redwing Yvette Dugay
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
Blue Eagle	The Cowboy and the Indians		Frank Lackteen
Lakoma			Jay Silverheels
Chief Long Arrow			Chief Yowlachie
Lucy Broken Arm			Claudia Drake
Black Knife	Cowboys & Aliens	The Chiricahua Apache chief. Based on the graphic novel of the same name.	Raoul Trujillo
Ben Logan	Crooked Arrows	The traditionalist Tribal Chairman and the father of Joe Logan.	Gil Birmingham
Joe Logan		The mixed-blood Native American who is also known as "Logan the Legend".	Brandon Routh
Nadie Logan			Chelsea Ricketts
Black Shawl	Dances with Wolves	1990 film based on the famous novel of the same name by Michael Blake.	Tantoo Cardinal
Kicking Bird		The Sioux medicine man.	Graham Greene
Otter			Michael Spears
Smiles-A-Lot		A Sioux youth.	Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse
Stands-With-A-Fist		The adoptive daughter of Kicking Bird.	Mary McDonnell
Stone Calf			Jimmy Herman
Chief Ten Bears			Floyd Westerman
Wind-In-His-Hair		A Sioux warrior.	Rodney A. Grant
Worm			Jason R. Lone Hill
Jim Chee	The Dark Wind	Based on the novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman.	Lou Diamond Phillips
Joe Leaphorn			Fred Ward
Black Wolf	Daughter of Dawn	An 83-minute-long silent film.	Jack Sankadota
Dawn		The daughter of the chief of Kiowa and the main character.	Esther LeBarre
Kiowa Chief			Hunting Horse
Red Wing		These characters are portrayed by the children of Comanche leader Quanah Parker.	Wanada Parker
White Eagle			White Parker
High Tree	Davy Crockett, Indian Scout		William Wilkerson
Red Hawk		The innocent partner of Davy Crockett (George Montgomery).	Phillip Reed
Sleeping Fox			Chief Thundercloud
Brother Wolf	The Dead and the Damned	He is an Apache warrior who is accused of rape and joins bounty hunter Mortimer (David Lockhart) to survive the zombie hordes.	Rick Mora
Nobody	Dead Man	A Native American who was forcibly raised by whites.	Gary Farmer
Hunter	The Doe Boy	A young Cherokee man who is a haemophiliac.	James Duval (adult) Andrew J. Ferchland (child)
Marvin Fishinghawk			Gordon Tootoosis
Pete Chasing Horse	Dreamkeeper	A Lakota elder and a storyteller.	August Schellenberg
Sam Chasing Horse		The father of Shane Chasing Horse.	Gil Birmingham
Shane Chasing Horse		The 17-years-old Lakota grandson of Pete Chasing Horse.	Eddie Spears
Blue Back	Drums Along the Mohawk	Based on the novel of the same name by Walter D. Edmonds.	Chief John Big Tree
Santana	El Condor	The Apache chief.	Iron Eyes Cody
Chief Grey Bear	End of the Trail		Basil F. Heath
Nurse St. Cloud	Ernest Goes to Camp	The granddaughter of Chief St. Cloud.	Victoria Racimo
Old Indian 'Chief St. Cloud'		The Indian owner of Kamp Kikakee.	Iron Eyes Cody
Chief Black Hawk	Fighting Pioneers		Chief Standing Bear
Eagle Feathers			Chief Thundercloud
Wa-No-Na		The daughter of Chief Black Hawk.	Ruth Mix
Tall Eagle	Firewalker		Will Sampson
Fish Hawk	Fish Hawk	1979 film based on the novel Old Fish Hawk by Mitchell F. Jayne.	Will Sampson
Buffalo Horn	Flaming Star	Based on the novel of the same name by Clair Huffaker.	Rodolfo Acosta
Pacer Burton		He is a mixed-blood, son of the Kiowa woman and the Texan man.	Elvis Presley
Yaqui	Four Guns to the Border		Jay Silverheels
Cora Smallhill	Four Sheets to the Wind	The mother of Cufe and Miri Smallhill.	Jeri Arredondo
Cufe Smallhill		One of the main characters of the film.	Cody Lightning
Frankie Smallhill			Richard Ray Whitman
Miri Smallhill		The sister of Cufe Smallhill.	Tamara Podemski
Grey Bear	Frontier Fury		Stanley Brown (uncredited)
Aranjo	The Ghost Dance	The local Indian shaman.	Henry Bal
Nahalla		The evil spirit of a long-dead warrior who possesses Aranjo.
Grayeagle	Grayeagle	The man of the Cheyenne nation and the title character of the film.	Alex Cord
Running Wolf		The Cheyenne chief.	Paul Fix
Scar		A Shoshone warrior.	Jacob Daniels
Standing Bear		One of the main characters of the film.	Iron Eyes Cody
Crow Chief	The Hallelujah Trail	The tribal chief of the Crow people.	Eddie Little Sky
Chief Five Barrels		One of the tribal Sioux chiefs.	Robert J. Wilke
Chief Walks-Stooped-Over		The second chief of the Sioux.	Martin Landau
Sam Two Feathers	Harry and Tonto		Chief Dan George
Acacia	Hex	The two daughters of the recently-deceased Native American shaman.	Hillarie Thompson
Oriole			Tina Herazo
Hiawatha	Hiawatha	Hiawatha, 1913 silent film Hiawatha (1952) Hiawatha, 1984 television film Song of Hiawatha (1997) Based on the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.	Jesse Cornplanter (1913) Vince Edwards (1952) Frederick Warder (1984) Gary "Litefoot" Davis (1997)
Minnehaha		Hiawatha, (1913) Hiawatha (1952) Hiawatha (1984) Song of Hiawatha (1997)	Soon-Goot (1913) Yvette Dugay (1952) Terry Diab (1984) Irene Bedard (1997)
Mudjekeewis		Hiawatha (1952) Song of Hiawatha (1997)	Stuart Randall (1952) Russell Means (1997)
Nokomis		Hiawatha (1952) Hiawatha (1984) Song of Hiawatha (1997)	Katherine Emery (1952) Yvonne Bryceland (1984) Sheila Tousey (1997)
Chief Megissogwon	Hiawatha	The leader of the Dakotah tribe and the father of Hiawatha.	Ian MacDonald
Black Hawk	Hostiles	He is the son of the Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk.	Adam Beach
Elk Woman		The wife of Black Hawk and the sister-in-law of Living Woman.	Q'orianka Kilcher
Little Bear		He is the son of Black Hawk and Elk Woman.	Xavier Horsechief
Living Woman		She is the sister of Black Hawk and the daughter of Yellow Hawk.	Tanaya Beatty
Yellow Hawk		Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk, the sickly and imprisoned war-chief and one of the main characters of the film; the father of Black Hawk and Living Woman and the grandfather of Little Bear.	Wes Studi
Chief Little Pain-in-the-Neck	Hurry, Charlie, Hurry		Janette Fern
Moaning Low			Connie Montoya
Chief Poison Arrow			Noble Johnson
Little Bear	The Indian in the Cupboard	1995 film based on the children's novel of the same name.	Gary "Litefoot" Davis
Chief Yellow Snake	The Indians Are Coming	1930 serial film based on the book The Great West That Was by William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.	Chief Thunderbird (uncredited)
Karana	Island of the Blue Dolphins	Based on the novel of the same name by Scott O'Dell.	Celia Kaye
Ramo		Karana's six-year-old brother.	Larry Domasin
Chief Paint-His-shirt-Red	Jeremiah Johnson	The chief of the Crow tribe.	Joaquín Martínez
Chief Two-Tongues Lebreaux		1972 film partly based on the life of the legendary mountain man John Jeremiah Johnson, recounted in the books Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker and Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher.	Richard Angarola
Johnny Firecloud	Johnny Firecloud	The Vietnam War native.	Victor Mohica
Nenya		The teacher on the reservation.	Sacheen Littlefeather
Chatow	Jonathan of the Bears		Knifewing Segura
Shaya		An Indian squaw.	Melody Robertson
Chief Tawanka			Floyd Westerman
Stanley Pike	Journey Through Rosebud		Eddie Little Sky
Attean	Keeping the Promise	The television film based on the children's novel The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare.	William Lightning
Chief Saknis		The grandfather of Attean.	Gordon Tootoosis
Moki	King of the Grizzlies	1970 film based on the novel The Biography of a Grizzly.	John Yesno
Chingachgook	The Last of the Mohicans	The Last of the Mohicans (1920) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) The Last of the Mohicans (1977) The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Based on the novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper.	Theodore Lorch (1920) Robert Barrat (1936) Ned Romero (1977) Russell Means (1992)
Magua			Wallace Beery (1920) Bruce Cabot (1936) Robert Tessier (1977) Wes Studi (1992)
Uncas			Alan Roscoe (1920) Phillip Reed (1936) Don Shanks (1977) Eric Schweig (1992)
Laughing Boy	Laughing Boy	The titular character of the film based on the novel of the same name by Oliver La Farge.	Ramon Novarro
Slim Girl/Lily		The Indian maiden who was raised by whites.	Lupe Vélez
The Eagle Boy	The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle	A Hopi boy who defies tribal law and frees a sacrificial, sacred eagle.	Stanford Lomakema
Lonesome Polecat	Li'l Abner	1940 film based on the comic strip of the same name by Al Capp.	Buster Keaton
Burns-Red-in-the-Sun	Little Big Man	1970 film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Thomas Berger.	Steve Shemayne
Little Horse			Robert Little Star
Old Lodge Skins		The good-hearted tribal leader of the Cheyenne nation.	Chief Dan George
Shadow-That-Comes-in-Sight		A Cheyenne brave.	Ruben Moreno
Sunshine		The daughter of Shadow-That-Comes-in-Sight.	Aimée Eccles
Younger Bear			Cal Bellini (adult) Steve Miranda (young)
Tonto	The Lone Ranger	The Lone Ranger, the 1938 serial film The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1952) The Lone Ranger (1956) The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958) The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) The Lone Ranger (2013) Based on the WXYZ radio and the television series of the same name.	Chief Thundercloud (1938) Jay Silverheels (1952–58) Michael Horse (1981) Johnny Depp (2013)
Angry Horse	The Lone Ranger (1956)		Michael Ansara
Chief Red Hawk			Frank de Kova
Chief Big Bear	The Lone Ranger (2013)	The tribal leader of Comanche.	Saginaw Grant
Chief Wannatoka	Love at Stake		Nick Ramus
Denali	The Magnificent Seven	An exiled Comanche warrior.	Jonathan Joss
Red Harvest		The Comanche warrior who is the youngest of the Seven.	Martin Sensmeier
John Morgan/Shunkawakan	A Man Called Horse; The Return of a Man Called Horse; Triumphs of a Man Called Horse	He was originally an English aristocrat until he became the chieftain of the Sioux tribe. Based on the short story of the same name by Dorothy M. Johnson.	Richard Harris
Batise	A Man Called Horse	He is a half-breed native whose mother was Sioux and father was French.	Jean Gascon
Buffalo Cow Head		An old squaw.	Judith Anderson
Running Deer		The lovely young sister of Chief Yellow Hand.	Corinna Tsopei
Yellow Hand		Chief Yellow Hand of the Sioux tribe.	Manu Tupou
Chief Yellowstone	Massacre River		Iron Eyes Cody
Yellow Hawk	Masterson of Kansas	The peace-seeking Indian chief.	Jay Silverheels
Chief Dan	Missionary Man		Richard Ray Whitman
J.J.		The local Native American carpenter who is dead. Mention only.	N/A
Junior		The teenage nephew of the late J.J.	John D. Montoya
Kiowa		The 15-year-old sister of Junior.	Chelsea Ricketts
Assistant Chief Lance			Titos Menchaca
Nancy		The mother of Kiowa and Junior and the sister of J.J.	Kateri Walker
White Deer		The father of J.J. and Nancy and the grandfather of Kiowa and Junior.	August Schellenberg
Nightwolf	Mortal Kombat: Annihilation	Based on the Mortal Kombat video game series.	Gary "Litefoot" Davis
Cross Otter	The Mountain Men		Cal Bellini
Heavy Eagle		The ruthless Blackfoot warrior.	Stephen Macht
Chief Iron Belly			Victor Jory
Medicine Wolf			David Ackroyd
Running Moon		The wife of Heavy Eagle.	Victoria Racimo
Black Cloud	My Pal, the King		Jim Thorpe
Ahbleza	The Mystic Warrior	The young brave of Mahto, the fictional Lakota-speaking tribe.	Robert Beltran (adult) Doug Toby (young)
Heyatawin			Devon Ericson
Chief Olepi		The chief of the Mahto tribe and the father of Anbleza.	Nick Ramus
Pesla			James Remar
Tonweya			Rion Hunter (adult) David Yanez (young)
Wanagi		The ancient seer of Mahto.	Ron Soble
Navajo Joe	Navajo Joe	He is the solitary Navajo rider who opposes the group of bandits responsible for murdering his tribe.	Burt Reynolds
Spotted Bear	The Nebraskan		Jay Silverheels
Wingfoot		One of the main characters of the film.	Maurice Jara
Yellow Knife			Pat Hogan
Mike	Never Cry Wolf	He was adopted by Ootek and Woman. Based on the autobiography of the same name by Farley Mowat.	Samson Jorah
Ootek		A traveling Inuit.	Zachary Ittimangnaq
Aivaaq	On the Ice	The two survived Iñupiat teenagers.	Frank Qutuq Irelan
Qalli			Josiah Patkotak
"Chief" Bromden	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975 film based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey.	Will Sampson
Blue Feather	One Little Indian		Lois Red Elk
Jimmy Wolf			Jay Silverheels
Mark		A young boy who was raised by an Indian and is on the run with his camel companion, Rosie, trying to find his tribe.	Clay O'Brien
Old Indian			Richard Hale
Little Moonlight	The Outlaw Josey Wales	A young Navajo woman. Based on the Western novel The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales by Forrest Carter.	Geraldine Keams
Lone Watie		An elder Cherokee.	Chief Dan George
Chief Iron Eyes	The Paleface		Iron Eyes Cody
Wapato		The medicine man.	Henry Brandon
Chief Yellow Feather			Chief Yowlachie
Pathfinder	Pathfinder	The elder chief of the native tribe and the title character of the film.	Russell Means
Starfire		The daughter of the Pathfinder.	Moon Bloodgood
Chief Great Big Little Panther	Peter Pan	Peter Pan, 1924 American silent film. Pan, 2015 American film. Based on the 1904 play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and the 1911 novel Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie.	Jack Charles (2015)
Tiger Lily		Peter Pan (1924) Peter Pan, 2003 American film. Neverland, 2003 indie film. Pan (2015)	Anna May Wong (1924) Carson Gray (2003, USA) Ray Garcia (2003, Indie) Rooney Mara (2015)
Blue Feather	The Phantom Rider	The native sidekick of the Phantom Rider.	George J. Lewis
Phantom Rider		He is a masquerade of the main protagonist, Dr. Jim Sterling.	Robert Kent
Chief Yellow Wolf			Chief Thundercloud
Taylor	Poltergeist II: The Other Side	The Native American shaman.	Will Sampson
Buddy Red Bow	Powwow Highway	Based on the novel of the same name by David Seals.	A Martinez
Eagle Feather	The Prairie	Based on the novel of the same name by James Fenimore Cooper.	Chief Thundercloud
Running Deer			Jay Silverheels
Running Wolf	The Quick and the Dead	1987 television film based on the novel of the same name by Louis L'Amour.	Larry Sellers
Little Beaver	Red Ryder	Several film adaptions of the Western comic strip Red Ryder have been made throughout the 1940s. Here are some examples: The Adventures of Red Ryder, the 1940 film serial Tucson Raiders (1944) Great Stagecoach Robbery (1945) California Gold Rush (1946) Vigilantes of Boomtown (1947) Cowboy and the Prizefighter (1949)	Tommy Cook (1940) Robert Blake (1944–47) Don Reynolds (1949)
Corn Blossom	Redskin	The sweetheart of Wing Foot.	Julie Carter (young woman) Lorraine Rivero (child)
Navajo Jim			Tully Marshall (adult) George Walker (teenager)
Wing Foot		A young Navajo man and the main character of the film.	Richard Dix (adult) Philip Anderson (child)
Chief White Cloud	Renegade Girl		Chief Thundercloud
Hank Storm	Renegades		Lou Diamond Phillips
Red Crow		The father of Hank Storm.	Floyd Westerman
Chief Red Cloud	Revolt at Fort Laramie	The tribal leader of the Great Sioux Nation.	Eddie Little Sky
Honchwah	Revolution		Larry Sellers
Ongwata			Graham Greene
Chief Eagle Feather	Romance of the West		Chief Thundercloud
Little Brown Jug			Don Reynolds
Chief Grey Wolf	Rustlers of Red Dog	1935 serial remake of The Indians Are Coming, based on the book The Great West That Was by William "Buffalo Bill" Cody.	Chief Thundercloud
Chief Scarface			Jim Thorpe
Chief Longfeather	Santa Fe		Chief Thundercloud
Cajou	Saskatchewan	The Cree half-brother of Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd).	Jay Silverheels
Chief Dark Cloud			Anton Moreno
Spotted Eagle			Anthony Caruso
Jim Aherne Jr./Warbonnet	The Savage	He was raised by the Sioux natives.	Charlton Heston (adult) Orly Lindgren (child)
Running Dog			Don Porter
Chief Yellow Eagle		The tribal chief of the Great Sioux Nation.	Ian MacDonald
Apaches	Savage Sam	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
Chief Cicatriz (Scar)	The Searchers	The tribal chief of the Nawyecka band of the Comanches. Based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Alan Le May.	Henry Brandon
Matuwir	Seven Cities of Gold	The son of the local chief. Based on the novel The Nine Days of Father Serra by Isabelle Gibson Ziegler.	Jeffrey Hunter
Ula		The sister of Matuwir and the daughter of the local chief.	Rita Moreno
Falling Leaves	Shanghai Noon	Also referred to as the Indian Wife, she is the daughter of the Sioux chief, who has been accidentally engaged to Chon Wang (Jackie Chan).	Brandon Merrill
Chief Pony-That-Walks	She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	One of the main characters of the film.	Chief John Big Tree
Red Shirt			Noble Johnson
Chief Sky Eagle			Basil F. Heath
Chief Cyclone	Silly Billies		Chief Thunderbird
Trigger			Ethan Laidlaw
Clifford Rainfather	Sioux City	The grandfather of Jesse Goldman.	Apesanahkwat
Dawn Rainfeather		The biological mother of Jesse.	Tantoo Cardinal
Jesse Rainfeather Goldman		A young Lakota Sioux who was adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple, Douglas (Adam Roarke) and Leah Goldman (Melinda Dillon).	Lou Diamond Phillips (also a director of the film) Ronny Quintanar, Jr. (young)
Russell White			Gary Farmer
Mogie Yellow Lodge	Skins	Based on the novel of the same name by Adrian C. Louis.	Graham Greene
Ruby Yellow Lodge			Eric Schweig
Gabriel Jimmyboy	Smith!	One of the main characters of the film.	Frank Ramírez
Suzy Song	Smoke Signals	She is a friend of Thomas' late father. Based on the short story collection The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.	Irene Bedard
Thomas Builds-the-Fire		One of the main characters of the film.	Evan Adams
Victor Joseph			Adam Beach
Running Fox	Soldier Blue	Based on the novel Arrow in the Sun by T. V. Olsen.	Jorge Russek
Spotted Wolf		The Cheyenne chief.	Jorge Rivero
Mattotaupa	The Sons of Great Bear	The chief of the Bears clan of Oglala Lakotas.	Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Tokei-ihto		The war chieftain of the Bear Band and the main character of the film; the son of Mattotaupa.	Gojko Mitić
Bloody Knife	Stolen Women: Captured Hearts	1997 television film loosely based on the life of Anna Morgan who was captured by the Cheyenne Indians.	Apesanahkwat
Cetan		A young native who is half white from his father the soldier.	William Lightning
Chief Luta			Saginaw Grant
Tokalah		The tribal leader of the band of Lakota Indians.	Michael Greyeyes
T. Hawk	Street Fighter	1994 film based on the video game series of the same name.	Gregg Rainwater
Grandma Maisy Blue Legs	Thunderheart	One of the tribal elders.	Sarah Brave
Grandpa Sam Reaches		One of the tribal elders.	Ted Thin Elk
Leo Fast Elk		The tribal council of the Native Americans in South Dakota who was murdered.	Allan R. J. Joseph
Maggie Eagle Bear		The Indian schoolteacher and political activist.	Sheila Tousey
Walter Crow Horse		The Indian tribal police officer.	Graham Greene
Wolf Ortiz	Tiger Eyes	A mysterious native climber. Based on the novel of the same name by Judy Blume.	Tatanka Means
Injun Joe	Tom Sawyer	Huck and Tom (1918) Tom Sawyer (1930) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Tom Sawyer (1973) Tom and Huck (1995) Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014) Band of Robbers (2015) Based on the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.	Frank Lanning (1918) Charles Stevens (1930) Victor Jory (1938) Kunu Hank (1973) Eric Schweig (1995) Kaloian Vodenicharov (2014) Stephen Lang (2015)
Prairie Flower	Tonka	1958 film based on the book Comanche: Story of America's Most Heroic Horse by David Appel.	Joy Page
Chief Sitting Bull			John War Eagle
Spotted Tail			Eddie Little Sky
Strong Bear			Rafael Campos
White Bull		A young Sioux and the main character of the film.	Sal Mineo
Yellow Bear		The Sioux cousin of White Bull.	H. M. Wynant
Taha Aki	The Twilight Saga	He was one of the last spirit chiefs and the first shape-shifter of the Quileute tribe. Based on the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer.	Byron Chief-Moon
Billy Black		The elder of the Quileute tribe.	Gil Birmingham
Jacob Black		An attractive protector of the Quileute tribe and the main character of the film series.	Taylor Lautner
Harry Clearwater		He was the elder of the Quileute tribe who died of a heart attack in New Moon.	Graham Greene
Leah Clearwater		She is the daughter of Harry and Sue Clearwater, who is the only known female shape-shifting wolf in the history of the Quileute tribe.	Julia Jones
Seth Clearwater		Leah's younger brother who transforms into a wolf around the same time as his sister.	Boo Boo Stewart
Sam Uley		He is the Alpha, or the leader, and the oldest member of the La Push pack; the ex-boyfriend of Leah Clearwater. When he was young, Sam and his mother Allison had been abandoned by his father Joshua.	Chaske Spencer
Guyasuta	Unconquered	Chief Guyasuta of the Senecas. Based on the real-life Guyasuta.	Boris Karloff
Hannah		The daughter of Chief Guyasuta and the wife of Martin Garth (Howard Da Silva).	Katherine DeMille
Pontiac		Based on the real-life Pontiac.	Robert Warwick (uncredited)
Red Corn			Iron Eyes Cody
Sioto		The tribal medicine man.	Marc Lawrence
Blandy	The Vanishing American	He was raised by the Navajos. Based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Zane Grey.	Scott Brady
The Navajos		Chief Etenia Yashi Beeteia Quah-Tan Coshanta	Julian Rivero Gloria Castillo Jay Silverheels Charles Stevens George Keymas
Chief	Wagons East	The unnamed tribal leader of the Sioux territory.	Russell Means
Little Feather			Rodney A. Grant
Chief Maygro	War Arrow	The tribal chief of the Seminole tribe.	Henry Brandon
Pino			Dennis Weaver
Santanta			Jay Silverheels
Ben Crowkiller/Dead Crow Wolf	War Party	The Blackfeet Indians.	Dennis Banks
Freddie Man Wolf			Saginaw Grant
The Crow			Rodney A. Grant
Hannoc	When the Redskins Rode	The Indian prince of the Delaware tribe.	Jon Hall
Morna		The intended bride of Hannoc.	Sherry Moreland
Chief Shingiss		The leader of the Delaware tribe and the father of Hannoc.	Pedro de Cordoba
Grey Beaver	White Fang	1991 film based on the novel of the same name.	Pius Savage
Katrin Joseph	White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf	The aunt of Lily Joseph and the wife of Chief Moses. A 1994 sequel to the White Fang film.	Victoria Racimo
Lily Joseph		The Haida princess and one of the main characters of the film.	Charmaine Craig
Moses Joseph		The chief of the Haidas and the uncle of Lily.	Al Harrington
Peter Joseph		The son of Chief Moses and Katrin; the cousin of Lily.	Anthony Ruivivar
American Horse	White Feather	The Cheyenne tribesman. Based on the story My Great-Aunt Appearing Day in Lilliput magazine by John Prebble.	Hugh O'Brian
Appearing Day		The fiancée of American Horse and the love interest of Josh Tanner (Robert Wagner).	Debra Paget
Chief Broken Hand		The chief of Cheyenne.	Eduard Franz
Little Dog		The brother of Appearing Day.	Jeffrey Hunter
Buckskin Frank	Wild West Days	The Indian who is one of the henchmen of Matt Keeler (Russell Simpson). The film serial based on the novel by W. R. Burnett.	Charles Stevens
Chief Red Hatchet		The tribal chief who is one of Matt Keeler's henchmen.	Chief Thunderbird
Jim Thorpe	Windrunner	A native football star who is a ghost.	Russell Means
Crow Brother	Windwalker		Nick Ramus
Smiling Wolf		One of the main characters of the film.	Nick Ramus
Tashina		The wife of Windwalker and the mother of Smiling Wolf and the Crow Warrior.	Serene Hedin
Windwalker		The titular character who is the father of Smiling Wolf and the Crow Warrior.	Trevor Howard (adult) James Remar (young)
Agnes First Raise	Winter in the Blood	2013 film produced by author Sherman Alexie, based on the 1974 novel of the same name by James Welch.	Julia Jones
Lame Bull			Gary Farmer
Virgil First Raise		The main character of the film.	Chaske Spencer
Yellow Calf			Saginaw Grant
Pale Flower	Winterhawk	The Indian wife of the trapper, Guthrie (Leif Erickson).	Sacheen Littlefeather
Winterhawk		The Blackfoot chief and the title character of the film.	Michael Dante

Animation

Native American	Film title	Notes	Voiced by
Indian Mice	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	The people of the Native American mice tribe.	various
Cholena	An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island	The Lenape princess and the daughter of Chief Wulisso; the main character of the film. She is a parody of Pocahontas.	Elaine Bilstad (speaking) Leeza Miller (singing)
Tankho		The buxom handmaiden of Cholena and a minor character of the film.
Chief Wulisso		The leader of the underground Lenape Native American mice village.	David Carradine
Hunter	Anima	An unnamed Native American hunter and warrior who searches for his prey.	José Vicente
Chief	Asterix Conquers America		Sylvain Lemarie
Medicine Man			Thomas Piper
Minihooha/Ha-Tschi		The daughter of the chief.	Kristiane Backer
Chakashi	Atlantis: Milo's Return	A Native American wind spirit.	Floyd Westerman
Dr. Joshua Strongbear Sweet	Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Atlantis: Milo's Return	He is the medic of Native American and African American descent.	Phil Morris
Denahi	Brother Bear	He is the middle brother of Kenai and the late Sitka and the narrator of the film.	Jason Raize (young) Harold Gould (older)
Kenai	Brother Bear; Brother Bear 2	The main character who gets turned into a bear as punishment.	Joaquin Phoenix (original) Patrick Dempsey (sequel)
Sitka	Brother Bear	Denahi and Kenai's older brother who got killed by a bear but has become one of the spirits of the animals.	D. B. Sweeney
Tanana		The shaman-woman of Kenai's tribe.	Joan Copeland
Atka	Brother Bear 2	A man who lives in the neighboring Inuit village and the former fiancé of Nita.	Jeff Bennett
Chief Chilkoot		He is the chief of the Inuit tribe.	Jim Cummings
Nita		She is the daughter of Chief Chilkoot and the niece of Siqniq and Taqqiq; the wife of Kenai.	Mandy Moore
Siqniq and Taqqig		Nita's two aunts and Chilkoot's sisters or sisters-in-law.	Wendie Malick and Kathy Najimy
Redskin Indians	Californy 'er Bust	They are a group of the Native American dogs who bear the striking resemblance of Goofy in the 1945 Disney short film.	N/A
Daisy June	The Daffy Duckaroo	An Indian girl who is actually a New Yorker. The 1942 Looney Tunes short film starring Daffy Duck.	Sara Berner
Little Beaver		A hulking Indian boyfriend of Daisy June.	Mel Blanc
Chief	The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound	The tribal leaders of the Native American yellow coonhounds.	Frank Welker
Chieftess			B. J. Ward
Desert Flower		She is the daughter of the Chief and Chieftess and the love interest, and later wife, of Huckleberry Hound.	B. J. Ward
Indian Fleas	A Horse Fly Fleas	A group of the Native American fleas that inhabit the dog. The 1947 Looney Tunes short film featuring A. Flea.	Mel Blanc
Watuna	The Legend of the North Wind	The descendant of the Mi'kmaq Indians and one of the main characters.	Luz Enparanza (Basque) Daniel Brochu (English)
Hiawatha	Little Hiawatha	An animated short film produced by Walt Disney, inspired by The Song of Hiawatha poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.	N/A
Indian Cats	Peter-No-Tail in Americat	They are a group of Native American cats who use magic to give Peter-No-Tail a long, golden tail, earning him the alias "Peter Gold-Tail".	various
Big Chief	Peter Pan	The Disney animated film based on J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan; or, the Boy who Wouldn't Grow Up.	Candy Candido
Squaw			June Foray
Tiger Lily		The daughter of the Big Chief and the Redskin princess.	N/A
Indian Wolves	Pioneers Days	The wolf-type Injuns who plan for war against settlers. The 1930 Disney short film starring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.	N/A
Kekata	Pocahontas	The shaman of the Powhatan tribe.	Gordon Tootoosis (speaking) Jim Cummings (singing)
Kocoum		He was a strong and brave warrior of the Powhatan tribe and the fiancé of Pocahontas. Loosely based on the real-life Kocoum.	James Apaumut Fall
Nakoma	Pocahontas; Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World	She is the best friend of Pocahontas.	Michelle St. John
Pocahontas		Loosely based on the real-life Pocahontas, she serves as an adventurous Indian princess of the Powhatan tribe, which is why she is officially included for the Disney Princess franchise to the English.	Irene Bedard (speaking) Judy Kuhn (singing)
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)
Uttamatomakkin ("Uti")	Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World	Pocahontas's bodyguard. Based upon the real-life Uttamatomakkin (Tomocomo).	Brad Garrett (briefly)
Little Creek	Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	A young Lakota man and one of the main characters of the film.	Daniel Studi
Injurin' Joe	Tom Sawyer	An American black bear and the antagonist of the direct-to-video film based on the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.	Hank Williams Jr. Kevin Michael Richardson
Chief Rain-In-The-P-P-Puss	Tom Tom Tomcat	The leader of the Native American bicolor cats. The 1953 short film starring Tweety and Sylvester.	Mel Blanc
Andar	Turok: Son of Stone	2008 animated film based on the comic books of the same name by Western Publishing and Dell Comics.	Adam Gifford
Catori		She is the mother of Ander and the sister-of-law of Turok.	Irene Bedard (adult) Iyari Limon (teenager)
Chichak		The main antagonist of the film.	Robert Knepper
Nashoba		He is the brother Turok, the father of Ander and the husband of Catori.	Gil Birmingham (adult) Matthew Yang King (teenager)
Turok		The main protagonist of the film.	Adam Beach (adult) Rick Mora (teenager)
Injun Joe	Wagon Heels	The Native American "Super Chief" whose name is a play on the Santa Fe train run of the same name and shares the same name with the main antagonist from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The 1945 Merrie Melodies short film starring Porky Pig.	Mel Blanc
Says Nothing	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	A Native American toon bullet who has been used for Eddie Valiant's (Bob Hoskins) revolver gun. 1988 animated/live-action hybrid film based on the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf.	N/A

Television

Live action series

Native American	Series title	Notes	Portrayed by
Alexander "Alex" Longshadow	Banshee	He is the tribal chief and the rival of Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen).	Anthony Ruivivar
Deputy Bill Raven		He was formerly the officer of the fictional Kinaho Reservastion Police Department who becomes a deputy of Banshee.	Chaske Spencer
Running Dog	Black Fox	Three-part miniseries that aired on CBS, based on the novel of the same name by Matt Braun.	Raoul Trujillo
Black Thunder	By Way of the Stars	1992 miniseries based on the German children's novel The Long Journey of Lukas B. by Willi Fährmann.	Eric Schweig
Cree Chief		The unnamed chief of the Cree tribe.	Gordon Tootoosis
Blue Leaf	Centennial	1978 miniseries with 12 episodes that aired on NBC. Based on the novel of the same name by James A. Michener.	Maria Potts Monika Ramirez (teenager) Maria Yolanda Aguayo (child)
Clay Basket		The beautiful daughter of Lame Beaver and the wife of Pasquinel; the mother of Jacques and Marcel Pasquinel and Lucinda McKeag.	Barbara Carrera
Lame Beaver		The Arapaho man and the main character of the miniseries.	Michael Ansara David Yanez (child)
Chief Lost Eagle		The tribal chief of the Arapaho.	Nick Ramus
Chief Walks-The-Clouds	Children of the Dust	The 1995 miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Clancy Carlile.	Byron Chief-Moon
White Wolf/Corby White		A young man who was raised by whites.	Billy Wirth
Mingo	Daniel Boone	An Oxford-educated half-British Native American and the companion of Daniel Boone (Fess Parker).	Ed Ames
Black Wing	Death Valley Days	The chief of the Ute tribe, in the episode "A Key for the Fort".	George Keymas
Grace Cardinal	Degrassi: The Next Generation and Degrassi: Next Class	Appeared in 75 episodes.	Na'ku'set Gould
Chief Black Kettle	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	Based on the real-life Black Kettle.	Nick Ramus
Byron Sully		A Cheyenne man and the main character of the series.	Joe Lando
Cloud Dancing			Larry Sellers
Crazy Cat	F Troop	The heir apparent of the fictional Hekawi tribe.	Don Diamond
Chief Wild Eagle		The leader of the Hekawi tribe.	Frank de Kova
Ohanzee "Hanzee" Dent	Fargo	The mysterious Native American tracker and hitman for the Gerhardt crime family.	Mark Acheson (Season 1) Zahn McClarnon (Season 2)
Sasappis	Ghosts	The ghost of a cynical Lenape Native American.	Román Zaragoza
Danny Lightfoot	Hey Dude	A Hopi Native American and one of the main characters of the series.	Joe Torres
Satangkai	How the West Was Won	The chief of the Sioux Nation.	Ricardo Montalban (guest)
Chief Featherman	Howdy Doody		marionette
Princess SummerFallWinterSpring		She is a member of the fictional Tinka Tonka tribe.	marionette Judy Tyler Linda Marsh (briefly)
Chief Thunderthud		The head of the fictional Ooragnak ("Kangaroo" spelled backwards) tribe.	Bill Le Cornec marionette
Dr. Gabrielle Whitecloud	The Incredible Hulk	She helps Dr. David Banner (Bill Bixby) research a possible Hulk from the distant past. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits	Kim Cattrall (guest)
Lone Wolf		Elder of Native American tribe. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits	Chief Dan George (guest)
Rick		Native American who tries to stop Dr. Banner and Dr. Whitecloud from taking ruins. Season 2, Episode 19: Kindred Spirits	A Martinez (guest)
Thomas Logan		Dr. David Banner contacts Logan who created an herbal medicine with a calming effect in an attempt to control the Hulk transformation. Season 2, Episode 4: Rainbow's End	Ned Romero (guest)
Dog Star	Into the West	The older brother of Loved-by-the-Buffalo and Thunder Heart Woman.	Pony Boy Osuniga Michael Spears Gil Birmingham
Growling Bear		The elder Lakota medicine man.	Gordon Tootoosis
Loved-by-the-Buffalo/White Feather		One of the main characters of the miniseries.	Chevez Ezaneh Simon R. Baker George Leach Steve Reevis Joseph M. Marshall III
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
Prairie Fire		A Cheyenne chief.	Jay Tavare
Running Fox		The older brother of Loved-by-the-Buffalo and Thunder Heart Woman.	Mathew Strongeagle Zahn McClarnon Russell Means
Red Lance		Running Fox's grandson.	Malachi Tsoodle-Nelson Eddie Spears
Sleeping Bear		The surviving son of Dog Star and nephew of Loved-by-the-Buffalo, Thunder Heart Woman and Running Fox.	Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse
Thunder Heart Woman		The sister of Loved-by-the-Buffalo, Running Fox and Dog Star; the wife of the trapper, Thomas Lebeck (Scott Heindl), and Jacob Wheeler (John Terry).	Sarah Weston Tonantzin Carmelo Sheila Tousey
Voices That Carry		Red Lance's younger brother and the second grandson of Running Fox.	Nakotah LaRance Chaske Spencer
Chacrow	Jamestown	He is the Native American go-between the settlers and the Pamunkey tribespeople.	Kalani Queypo
Opchanacanough		The chief, or king, of the Pamunkey Tribe. Based on the real-life Opchanacanough.	Raoul Trujillo
Winganuske		Chacrow's sister who is married to Henry Sharrow (Max Beesley) as a gift.	Rachel Colwell
Nakoma	The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams	Native American friend of Adams (Dan Haggerty) and Mad Jack (Denver Pyle).	Don Shanks (series regular)
Chief Jack Lame Horse	Little House on the Prairie	A Native American who saves Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) from freezing to death. Season 1, Episode 22: Survival Based on the children's novel series of the same name by Laura Ingalls Wilder.	Robert Tessier (guest)
Tonto	The Lone Ranger	He is the Native American companion of the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) himself.	Jay Silverheels
Blue Duck	Lonesome Dove miniseries	Lonesome Dove Comanche Moon Based on the novel series of the same name by Larry McMurtry.	Frederic Forrest (1989) Adam Beach (2008)
Chief Buffalo Hump		Dead Man's Walk Comanche Moon	Eric Schweig (1996) Wes Studi (2008)
Famous Shoes		The Kickapoo tracker. Streets of Laredo Comanche Moon	Wes Studi (1995) David Midthunder (2008)
Kicking Wolf		Dead Man's Walk Comanche Moon	Jonathan Joss
Hector	Longmire	An Cheyenne ex-boxer. Based on the Walt Longmire mystery novels by Craig Johnson.	Jeffrey De Serrano
Henry Standing Bear		The main character of the series.	Lou Diamond Phillips
Jacob Nighthorse		A local Cheyenne businessman and the antagonist of the series.	A Martinez
Mandy		A young Cheyenne woman who is hired to assist in the legal-aid office on the Cheyenne reservation.	Tamara Duarte
Chief Mathias		The head of the Cheyenne reservation's tribal police.	Zahn McClarnon
May Still Water		A Cheyenne woman.	Irene Bedard
Sam Poteet		A Cheyenne White warrior and sage.	Hank Cheyne
Aaya	Neverland	The daughter of the Kaw Chief. The 2011 Syfy/Sky Movies miniseries that serves as a prequal story of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.	Q'orianka Kilcher
Kaw Chief		The leader of the Kaw tribe.	George Aguilar
Dave the Cook	Northern Exposure	He is the cheerful Native American cook of the Brick who has been replaced by Eugene as a new cook.	William J. White
Ed Chigliak		A mild-mannered half-Native Alaskan who was raised by the Tlingits when he was a foundling child.	Darren E. Burrows
Leonard Quinhagak		The cousin of Marilyn Whirlwind and the mentor of Ed Chigliak; a native medicine man.	Graham Greene
Lester Haines		As a Haida, Lester is the first native to crack top five wealthiest men in the interior; he is also the fourth wealthiest.	Apesanahkwat
Marilyn Whirlwind		The Native Alaskan receptionist of the series' central character, Dr. Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow).	Elaine Miles
One-Who-Waits		The ghost of a long-dead chief from the Native American Bear clan and the spirit guide of Ed Chigliak.	Floyd Westerman
Tiger Lily	Once Upon a Time	Presented in Season 6, Tiger Lily is originally a fairy who has to remove her status and relocate in Neverland after being tricked by the Black Fairy (aka Fiona) into banishing all children to the Land Without Magic.	Sara Tomko
Chief Black Cloud	Paradise	The tribal chief in the episode "The Burial Ground".	Nick Ramus
John Taylor		The Native American medicine man and a close friend of Ethan Allen Cord (Lee Horsley).	Dehl Berti
Chief Ken Hotate	Parks and Recreation	The leader of the fictitious, local Wamapoke tribe in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.	Jonathan Joss
Skye Nakaiye	The Puzzle Place	He is a White Mountain Apache boy from Indian reservation in Arizona and one of the main characters of the show.	Peter Linz (Seasons 1–2) Matt Vogel (Season 3)
William "Billy" Twofeathers	Shining Time Station	He is the Native American railroad engineer on the fictitious Indian Valley Railroad. Billy also appeared in the film Thomas and the Magic Railroad, portrayed by Russell Means.	Tom Jackson
Charges the Enemy	The Son		Tatanka Means
Prairie Flower			Elizabeth Frances
Toshaway		The Comanche tribal chief.	Zahn McClarnon
Anthwara	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Leader of Native American colony on Cardassian owned planet of Dorvan V. Season 7, Episode 20: Journey's End	Ned Romero (Guest)
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)
Goro	Star Trek: The Original Series	He is the chief of the indigenous tribe (modeled on Native Americans) on the fictional planet Amerind, half a galaxy away from Earth, in the episode "The Paradise Syndrome".	Richard Hale
Miramanee		She is the tribal priestess of the planet Amerind and the daughter of Chief Goro. In the episode "The Paradise Syndrome", Miramanee was under influence of the belief that Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), who had a suffered amnesia, was a god by the name of "Kirok" whom her tribespeople hailed as. She was also married to Kirk, who said that he would stay at the tribe with her until her death.	Sabrina Scharf
Salish		He is the medicine chief among the tribe of his people, in the episode "The Paradise Syndrome". After when 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
Commander Chakotay	Star Trek: Voyager	First Officer aboard the starship USS Voyager. He was formerly a member of the Maquis resistance.	Robert Beltran
Cherokee Lawshe	True Women	She is half Creek. The CBS miniseries based on the novel by Janice Woods Windle.	Julie Carmen
Tarantula		The Comanche warrior.	Michael Greyeyes
Deputy Tommy "Hawk" Hill	Twin Peaks	The Native American who works at the Twin Peaks sheriff's department under Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean).	Michael Horse
Raymond Firewalker	Walker, Texas Ranger	The paternal uncle of Cordell Walker (Chuck Norris) whom he raised after parents were killed.	Floyd Westerman (Season 1) Apesanahkwat (Season 2)
Akecheta	Westworld	The host and elder of the Ghost Nation and a recurring character of the series based on the 1973 film of the same name.	Zahn McClarnon
Etu		One of the members of the Ghost Nation.	Booboo Stewart
Kohana		The wife of Akecheta.	Julia Jones
Wichapi		One of the members of the Ghost Nation.	Irene Bedard
Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah	Yancy Derringer	He is the silent shotgun-toting Pawnee Indian who communicates only by sign language; the sidekick of Yancy Derringer (Jock Mahoney).	X Brands
Buck Cross/Running Buck	The Young Riders	The half-Kiowa who is a close friend of Ike McSwain (Travis Fine).	Gregg Rainwater

Animated series

Native American	Series title	Notes	Voiced by
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
Glen Smith	American Dad!	He is the seldom-speaking son of Rusty and Sooleawa'Uha Smith and the nephew of Stan and Francine Smith.	Danny Cistone
Rusty Smith		He is the Native American half-brother of Stan Smith and brother-in-law of Francine Smith; the son of Jack Smith and a Cherokee woman.	Lou Diamond Phillips
Sooleawa'Uha Smith		Rusty's Native American wife who lives in Arizona with him and their son Glen.	Tonantzin Carmelo
Kai Green	Ben 10; Ben 10: Omniverse	She is a Navajo girl who is one of the first love interests of Ben Tennyson.	Bettina Bush
Wes Green		The grandfather of Kai Green and the retired Plumber operative.	Miguel Nájera
Marshall BraveStarr	BraveStarr	He is the main character of the series. Marshall also appeared in an animated film BraveStarr: The Movie.	Pat Fraley
Great Big Little Panther	Fox's Peter Pan & the Pirates	An animated television series that aired on Fox, based on the Peter Pan story by J. M. Barrie.	Michael Wise
Hard-to-Hit		The younger brother of Tiger Lily and the son of Great Big Little Panther; the prince of the Native American tribe.	Aaron Lohr
Tiger Lily			Cree Summer
Broken Feather	The Funny Company		Tom Thomas
Super Chief		Named after the crack passenger train in the Santa Fe Railroad.	N/A
Spirit	G.I. Joe	Spirit, the native from the Taos Pueblo Reservation in Taos, New Mexico, appears in the following animated series: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1985) G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1989) G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 (2005)	Gregg Berger (1985) Maurice LaMarche (1989) Marc Thompson (2005)
Coyote	Gargoyles	A Native American trickster spirit. Based on the mythology of the same name.	Gregg Rainwater
Elisa Maza		Elisa, the NYPD detective, is half Native American on her father's side.	Salli Richardson
Natsilane ("Nick")		A Native American young man of the Pacific Northwest. Inspired by the Haida and Tlingit mythological hero of the same name.	Gregg Rainwater
Peter Maza		A Native American who was formerly an NYPD officer and is the father of Elisa Maza.	Michael Horse
Ruffled Feathers	Go Go Gophers	The last two surviving Indian gophers.	Sandy Becker
Chief Running Board			George S. Irving
Chief Crazy Coyote	The Huckleberry Hound Show	The regular Indian nemesis of Huckleberry Hound.	Don Messick
Jesse Cosay	Infinity Train	An Apache teen from Arizona.	Robbie Daymond
Sheriff Ohiyesa Smith	Justice League Unlimited	He appeared in a time travel episode "The Once and Future Thing" as a sheriff of Elkhorn in the 1880s.	Jonathan Joss
John Redcorn III	King of the Hill	The Native American former "healer" and adulterous lover of Nancy Gribble.	Victor Aaron (Season 1) Jonathan Joss (Seasons 2–13)
Joseph Gribble		The biological son of John Redcorn III.	Brittany Murphy (1997–2000) Breckin Meyer (2000–2009)
BW	Long Gone Gulch	A bounty hunter and Native American woman who hangs around the saloon and likes to mess with Rawhide and Snag. According to series creator Zach Bellissimo, the "BW" in her name doesn't mean anything.	Amber Midthunder
Layla Mabray	Molly of Denali	An Alaska Native woman of the fictional Qyah village who runs the Denali Trading Post; the mother of Molly Mabray.	Jules Arita Koostachin
Molly Mabray		An Alaska Native girl of the Qyah village and the main character of the show.	Sovereign Bill
Nat Mabray		Also often referred to as "Grandpa Nat". He is Molly's maternal grandfather and Layla's father.	Lorne Cardinal
Walter Mabray		Molly's father who owns the Denali Trading Post with Layla.	Ronnie Dean Harris
Tooey Ookami		A young boy who is half Alaska Native and half Japanese and one of Molly's best friends.	Sequoia Janvier
Brave Paw	Paw Paws	He is the close friend of Princess Paw Paws.	Thom Pinto
Laughing Paw			Alexandra Stoddart
Meanos		The Meanos are a group of villainous Indians. 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.	Susan Blu
Trembly Paw		The coward of the Paw Paws.	Howard Morris
Wise Paw		The tribal chief of the Paw Paws.	John Ingle
Principal Cutler	The Replacements	The Inuit principal of the fictional George Stapler Middle School.	Jeff Bennett
Apache Chief	Super Friends	A Native American superhero whose Manitou Raven is his variant.	Regis Cordic (debut) Michael Rye Al Fann (one episode)
Little Bear	The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't	An Indian boy and one of the main characters of the Thanksgiving television special produced by Hanna-Barbera.	Kevin Cooper
Brock Sampson	The Venture Bros.	He is described as "half-Swedish, quarter-Polish, and quarter-Winnebago" from Nebraska.	Patrick Warburton
Chief Justice		An Indian crimefighter who owns a titanium teepee. Mentioned only.	N/A
Princess Tinyfeet		A Native American girl who bears a striking resemblance to Mia on the Land O'Lakes logo and was also the wife of Sergeant Hatred; the daughter of Chief Justice.	Suzanne Gilad (briefly)
J.R.	Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa	A Native American bison who tends to ramble about the scientific principles of his inventions and occasionally aids the trio of the C.O.W.-Boys whenever the situation needs it.	Michael Horse
Ellen Crow	Wildfire	An Indian girl who provides moral support on Earth.	Lilly Moon

Radio

Native American	Radio title	Notes	Played by
Tonto	The Lone Ranger	1933 WXYZ radio show prior to the television series of the same name.	John Todd
Little Beaver	Red Ryder	1942 radio series based on the Western comic strip of the same name.	Tommy Cook (1942) Frank Bresee (1942-46) Henry Blair (1944–47) Johnny McGovern (1947–50) Anne Whitfield (1950–51) Sammy Ogg (1950–51)

Video games

Native American	Game title	Console(s)	Notes
Desmond Miles	Assassin's Creed	PS3 Xbox 360 Windows	A main protagonist of the series' early games who is a descendant of Ratonhnhaké:ton.
William Miles	Assassin's Creed III	PS3 Xbox 360 Wii U Windows PS4 Xbox One Switch	Father of Desmond Miles from which he is related to Ratonhnhaké:ton.
Kahionhaténion			The Kanien'kehá:ka warrior and hunter.
Kanenʼtó꞉kon			He was a close friend of Ratonhnhaké꞉ton.
Kaniehtí꞉io ("Ziio")			She was a Kanien'keha:ka clan woman and the mother of Ratonhnhaké:ton.
Ratonhnhaké:ton			The protagonist who is half English and half Mohawk Indian.
Teiowí:sonte			The Kanien'keha:ka warrior and the brother of Kahionhaténion.
Kesegowaase	Assassin's Creed Rogue	PS3 Xbox 360 Windows PS4 Xbox One	The minor antagonist who is an Abenaki Assassin.
Humba Wumba	Banjo-Tooie	Nintendo 64 Xbox 360	The Indian woman and one of the main characters of the game.
Condor Heads	Breakers	Arcade Neo Geo Neo-Geo CD	The Native American fighter.
Colton White	Gun	Windows PS2 Xbox GameCube Xbox 360 PSP	Also known simply as Cole, he is the Apache marksman who has been adopted by well-trained outdoorsman Ned White.
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.
Many Wounds			An Apache chief who becomes a trusted ally to Colton to fight against the villainous Tom Magruder.
Delsin Rowe	Infamous Second Son	PlayStation 4	The member of the fictional Akomish tribe and the protagonist of the game.
Reggie Rowe			He is the brother of Delsin.
Pakawa	Kasumi Ninja	Atari Jaguar	Chief of the fictional Tu-Wee-Kah Comanche fighting tribe.
Chief Thunder	Killer Instinct (1994)	Arcade SNES Game Boy Xbox One	The Native American chief who is armed with a pair of tomahawks.
Eagle	Killer Instinct (2013)	Xbox One Windows	An Indian warrior and the younger brother of Chief Thunder.
Nightwolf	Mortal Kombat	Arcade	He is a Native American shaman.
Pharah	Overwatch	Windows PS4 Xbox One Switch	Her father Sam is from unknown First Nations tribe.
Domasi "Tommy" Tawodi	Prey	Linux Mac OS X Windows Xbox 360 Symbian Zeebo	A Cherokee mechanic and the main protagonist of the game.
Enisi			The grandfather of Tommy.
Jen			She is the girlfriend of Tommy.
Nastas	Red Dead Redemption	PlayStation 3 Xbox 360	A minor character who aids John Marston in stopping the gang of the most Native Americans led by antagonist Dutch Van Der Linde.
Falling Star	Red Dead Revolver	PlayStation 2 Xbox	She was the mother of Red Harlow and the daughter of Chief Running Moon.
Red Harlow			The main protagonist who is half Native American on his mother's side.
Shadow Wolf			He is the Native American cousin of Red Harlow.
Natan	Shadow Hearts: From the New World	PlayStation 2	He is the bounty hunter bodyguard of Shania.
Shania			She is the Native American priestess and the love interest of Johnny Garland.
T. Hawk	Street Fighter II	Arcade SNES Mega Drive/Genesis Amiga Fujitsu FM Towns PC DOS Sharp X68000 PlayStation Sega Saturn	He is the Native American warrior and the member of the fictional Thunderfoot indigenous American clan.
Noembelu	Street Fighter V	PlayStation 4 Windows Arcade	She is a Native American woman who has been brainwashed by the evil organization, Shadaloo, to become one of M. Bison's female elite guards called the Dolls.
Chief Scalpem	Sunset Riders	Arcade Mega Drive/Genesis SNES	One of the eight bosses of the game.
Nahova	Ta•o Taido	Arcade
Michelle Chang	Tekken	Arcade PlayStation	She is a young woman of Native American and Chinese descent.
Julia Chang	Tekken 3	Arcade PlayStation	The adoptive daughter of Michelle.
Turok	Turok games	various	He is the protagonist of the video game series based on the comic books of the same name.
Joshua Fireseed	Turok 2: Seeds of Evil	Nintendo 64 Microsoft Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch	One of the main characters of the game.
Danielle Fireseed	Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion	Nintendo 64	The sister of Joshua.

Mascots and others

See also: Native American mascot controversy and List of trademarks featuring Native Americans

Native American	Use	Notes
Chief Noc-A-Homa	Atlanta Braves	He was the original mascot for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves from 1966 until by 1986.
Princess Win-A-Lotta		She was joining Chief Noc-A-Homa in 1983 until the following year.
Chief Wahoo	Cleveland Indians	The retired logo icon of the MLB franchise, the Cleveland Indians.
Osceola	Florida State Seminoles	The current mascot of the athletic teams representing Florida State University. He is frequently portrayed riding his horse, Renegade, and represents the historical figure of Osceola, the Seminole war-chief. There were the previous mascots of the Seminoles back then, long before Osceola took over: Sammy Seminole Chief Wampumstompum/Fullabull Yahola, also known as the "spirit chief"
Yellow Feather	Great Wolf Resorts	An audio-animatronic figure of an Indian girl for the Great Clock Tower Show at the Great Wolf Lodge resorts.
Mia	Land O'Lakes	The depiction of a young, kneeling, Native American woman was the logo for the butter packaging from 1928 until she was removed from all their products in April 2020.
Chief Illiniwek	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign	The former symbol and mascot of UIUC from 1926 to 2007.

See also

• Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States
• How (greeting)

References

Sources

• Native American Fiction on Goodreads
• Multicultural Fiction - Books | A Mighty Girl
• Native/Indigenous on Internet Movie Database