- In Canada
- Gary Farmer, actor and filmmaker
- Graham Greene, actor
- Tomson Highway, playwright, novelist, and children's author.
- Louis Riel
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Matthew Coon Come, Grand Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
- Stephen Kakfwi, premier of the Northwest Territories
- Paul Okalik, premier of Nunavut
- Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha
- In Guatemala
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, activist
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, activist
- In the Caribbean
- In Mexico
- Benito Juarez, President
- La Malinche, Translator
- Moctezuma II (Aztec) ruler
- Commandante Ramona, EZLN leader
- In the United States
- Big Foot
- Black Elk
- Black Hawk
- Billy Bowlegs (Seminole)
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Cheyenne), senator
- Captain Jack (Modoc)
- Cochise
- Crazy Horse (founder of the Ghost Dance)
- Charles Curtis
- Deganawida
- Louise Erdrich, author
- Geronimo
- Ira Hayes (Pima), World War II hero
- Hayowentha
- Ishi
- Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)
- Winona LaDuke, political activist
- Chief Logan (Mingo)
- Wilma Mankiller
- Billy Mills, Olympic gold medalist at 10,000 meters in 1964
- Osceola
- Eli Parker
- Quanah Parker
- Leonard Peltier
- King Philip (Metacom)
- Pocahontas
- Pontiac
- The Prophet (Tenskwatawa) (Shawnee)
- Rain in the Face
- Red Cloud
- Red Jacket
- Robbie Robertson
- Will Rogers
- Sacagawea
- Kelvin Sampson, head basketball coach at University of Oklahoma
- Chief Seattle
- Sequoyah (Cherokee)
- Leslie Marmon Silko
- Sitting Bull (Sioux)
- Squanto
- Maria Tallchief
- Gladys Tantaquidgeon
- Tecumseh (Shawnee)
- Jim Thorpe
- Gerald Vizenor, writer and academic
- Stand Watie
- James Welch
- Wovoka
- Ray Young Bear
- Zitkala-Ša
- Joseph Brant Later years in Canada