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• Famous Native American Teyana Taylor

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Teyana Taylor Is Teyana Taylor Native American? Teyana Taylor (born December 10, 1990) is an American, Singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and actress. Her debut single “Google Me” was released in 2008. Peaking at No. 90 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. She is part Trinidadian and part Blackfoot ...
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• Famous Native American Solé

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Solé (right) Is Solé Native American? Tonya M. Lumpkin (born Tonya M. Johnston on July 17, 1973) is an American rapper from Kansas City, Missouri, better known by her stage name, Solé. Solé was born in 1973 in Kansas City, Missouri to Phyllis Poke and James Johnston. Her siblings are Sean, Chuck, Siera, and ...
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• Harley Frank

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Shield of the Kainai Nation Harley Frank is a member of the Kainai Nation in southern Alberta, Canada. Frank has held a number of notable positions within the Kainai Nation’s administration, including being elected Chief, in 1992. Frank v. Bottle Frank was elected Chief of the Kainai Nation in 1992. Although he ...
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• Earl Old Person

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Earl Old Person Earl Old Person (born 1929), also named Cold Wind or Changing Home, is an American Indian political leader and the chief of the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, United States. Old Person became a member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council in 1954 and served as tribal chairman from 1964 to 2008. He ...
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• Kiri Davis

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Kiri Davis Kiri Laurelle Davis is an African-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her first documentary, done while enrolled at Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, A Girl Like Me (2005) has received significant news coverage. Kiri Davis’ mother, an education consultant, raised her daughter to be proud of her race ...
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• Famous Native American Blackie Lawless

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Blackie Lawless Is Blackie Lawless Native American? Blackie Lawless (born Steven Edward Duren on September 4, 1956, in Staten Island, New York), is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, bassist and actor, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist (former bassist) for heavy metal band W.A.S.P. In an ...
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• Staying Alive: A Love Story

  
  Reader Views — Authority: 110
  Article first published as Book Review: Staying Alive: A Love Story by Laura B. Hayden on Blogcritics. While any loss of somebody dear to us is a horrible thing to endure, there are some that are simply even more difficult than the others.  Losing a spouse is certainly right there at the top, particularly when the ...
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• Hate Woman

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Weasel Tail – Hate Woman’s Husband Hate Woman was a Kainai woman. When she married Weasel Tail, she loved him so much that she refused to let him go into battle without her, so that they would never die apart. She went on five raids armed with a six-shooter. On one raid, she stole a saddle, an ammunition bag, ...
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• Famous Native American Max Wolf Valerio

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Max Wolf Valerio Is Max Wolf Valerio Native American? Max Wolf Valerio (born February 16, 1957) is an American poet, memoir writer, essayist and actor. He lives in San Francisco, California. He is ethnically Blackfoot Indian, Sephardic Jewish, and Northern European. Valerio’s 2006 memoir “The Testosterone ...
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• Famous Native American Stephen Graham Jones

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Stephen Graham Jones Is Stephen Graham Jones Native American? Stephen Graham Jones is a Blackfeet Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. He shares a fan base with fellow authors Will Christopher Baer and Craig Clevenger known as The Velvet. November 16, ...
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• Ananda Lewis and Her Career

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Lewis Early career Throughout college Lewis had volunteered as a mentor with the group Youth at Risk and at the Youth Leadership Institute. She was considering attending graduate school to pursue a master’s degree in education when she learned that auditions were going to be held for the job of on-screen host of ...
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• Famous Native American Byron Chief-Moon

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Byron Chief-Moon Is Byron Chief-Moon Native American? Byron Chief-Moon is an American actor, choreographer, dancer, playwright, and founder of the Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association, a dance theatre company. He was born in Carlsbad, California, United States and is a member of the Kainai First Nation ...
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• Ananda Lewis’ Biography

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Ananda Lewis Ananda Lewis (born March 21, 1973) is an American television personality, social activist, and model. She appeared on Maxim and AskMen.com’s Hottest Celebrity Lists in 2001. She was an MTV veejay from the late 1990s until 2001, when she left the network to host her own talk show, The Ananda Lewis ...
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• Running Eagle

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Blackfoot Woman, 1900 Running Eagle, aka Brown Weasel Woman, was a Blackfoot woman who rescued her father after his horse was shot by an enemy tribe. The name Running Eagle was bestowed upon her for her bravery, and she was invited to join a warrior society, and acted as a female war chief. She was eventually ...
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• Milton Born With A Tooth

  
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  Milton Born With A Tooth Milton Born With A Tooth is a Canadian political activist for First Nations rights. He first came to widespread notoriety in 1990, when the Alberta government sought to dam the Oldman River, which would have flooded Peigan burial grounds. Born With A Tooth led the Blackfoot warrior society ...
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• Giveaway of & Thoughts on: Wine to Water by Doc Hendley

  
  Man of La Book - Book Reviews — Authority: 108
  About: Wine to Water by Doc Hendley is a non-fiction memoir of the author starting the Wine to Water non-profit . The charity brings clean water to many parts of the world. The pub­lisher is giv­ing away one copy of this book—  enter at the end of the post . 288 pages Publisher:  Avery ISBN: ...
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• Aatsista-Mahkan

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Aatsista-Mahkan Aatsista-Mahkan or Running rabbit (c. 1833 – probably 24 January 1911) was a chief of the Siksika First Nation. He was the son of Akamukai (Many Swans), chief of the Biters band, and following the death of his father in 1871, Aatsista-Mahkan took control of the band. He was known for his ...
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• A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Teepees at the First Nation Blackfoot Indian Siksika Pow Wow in Alberta A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye (died 1859 or 1860), aka Feathers or Old Swan, was a chief of the Blackfoot First Nation with a reputation as a peacemaker. In 1822, HBC’s Chesterfield House journal described Feathers as “much attached to the whites”. ...
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• Famous Native American Leslie Carter

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Leslie Carter Is Leslie Carter Native American? Leslie Barbara Carter (born June 6, 1986) is an American singer. Carter was born in Tampa, Florida, the daughter of Jane Elizabeth (née Spaulding) and Robert Gene Carter. She is the older sister of Aaron Carter and younger sister of Nick Carter. Aside from her ...
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• Jerry Potts and His Adulthood

  
  Native American Encyclopedia — Authority: 131
  Jerry Potts (center) and family. The woman seated immediately to his left was his wife When he became an adult, Potts was employed for several years by the American Fur Company, and from 1869 to 1874 he worked as a hunter for various whiskey traders. Much of this period of his life was shadowed by violence. He ...
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