White Cloud

White Cloud may refer to:

People

• Buck Jones (American football), also called "White Cloud", a Seneca Native American football player active in 1922
• Chief Mahaska (1784–1843), or Mewhushekaw, also known as White Cloud I, Iowa chief
• Wabanquot (Chippewa chief) (translated as "White Cloud"), an Ojibwa chief
• Wabokieshiek (translated as "White Cloud"), 19th-century Ho-Chunk chief from Illinois
• James White Cloud (1840–1940), also known as Chief White Cloud, Iowa chief from Kansas
• Francis White Cloud, also called White Cloud II, principal chief of the Iowa who traveled to England and France in 1844–5, son of Mahaska

Place names

In the United States:

• White Cloud, California, in Nevada County
• White Cloud, Indiana, in Harrison County
• White Cloud, Iowa, in Mills County
• White Cloud, Kansas, in Doniphan County
• White Cloud, Michigan, in Newaygo County
• White Cloud, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Whitecloud, Nodaway County, Missouri, an unincorporated community

Other uses

• Mahpiya Ska, a sacred albino female White Buffalo living in Jamestown, North Dakota
• White Cloud Mountain minnow, a type of fish commonly kept in cold-water aquariums
• White Cloud Naval Ocean Surveillance System, a spaceborne military system launched in 1986 and 1987 which was used primarily by the US Navy
• White Cloud Tradition of Buddhism in China, founded by the Northern Song preacher Qingjue 清覺 (1043-1121), widespread since Yuan (1279-1368), criticized for being used as a tax evasion device by the powerful families of the time.
• White Cloud, a Gaff rigged Yawl built, in the style of a Falmouth Quay Punt, in 1912 by Gann & Palmer in Teignmouth, Devon, UK.

See also

• Aotearoa
• Japanese destroyer Shirakumo