12th or 13th century -
Deganawide - Traditional founder of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) & the Law of the Great Peace. Called The Great Peacemaker. 
c1484-1566 - Bartolome de las Casas - Historian, social reformer & Dominican friar. First officially appointed "Protector of the Indians." 
1500
1576-1628 - Roque González de Santa Cruz - Jesuit priest, doctor, engineer, architect, farmer & pastor. Protected indigenous Indians from the slave trade. 
c1581-1661 - Massasoit - Sachem or leader of the Wampanoag. Established peace with Plymouth Colony ("Pilgrims") on March 22, 1621.
c1595-1617 - Pocahontas - Daughter of paramount chief Powhatan. Saved John Smith in 1607. Married John Rolfe in 1614 (1st interracial marriage in American history). 
1600
1607-1646 - Isaac Jogues, SJ - Jesuit priest & missionary. Traveled & worked among Native Americans. Martyred by Mohawks near present day Auriesville, NY. 
1637-1675 - Jacques Marquette, SJ - Jesuit priest & missionary. Founded Sault Ste. Marie & St. Ignace, Michigan. With Louis Jolliet, first European to explore upper Mississippi River.
1644-1718 - William Penn - Quaker. Champion of democracy & religious freedom. Founded Pennsylvania. Signed peace with Indians. 
1700
1715-1779 - Israel Pemberton, Jr. - A founder of Friendly Association for Regaining & Preserving Peace with the Indians in 1756.
c1738-c1822 -
Nancy Ward - Nanyehi in Cherokee. Sat in councils & made decisions, along with chiefs & other "Beloved Women." Helped her people as peace negotiator & ambassador.
c1740-1831 - Black Hoof - Shawnee chief. Keep majority of the Shawnee from joining "Tecumseh's War." Opposed Indian removal.
c1747-1812 - Little Turtle - Miami chief. Signed Greenville peace treaty in 1795 ending 40 years of conflict in Ohio River valley.
c1767-1843 - Sequoyah - Cherokee silversmith. His 1821 syllabary pioneered reading & writing a Native American language.
See Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore, TN.
1786-1866 - Chief Seattle (Si'ahl) - Reputed for speech c.1854 advocating Native American rights & environmental values.
1788-1812 - Sacagawea - Also Sakakawea or Sacajawea. Lemhi Shoshone woman. Interpreter & guide for Lewis & Clark Expedition 1804-1806.
1800
1802-1880 -
Lydia Maria Child - Abolitionist, women's & Indian rights activist, novelist & journalist.
Opposed male dominance & white supremacy. Wrote "Over the River and Through the Wood." 
c1803-1868 -
Black Kettle - Leader of the Southern Cheyenne after 1854. A peacemaker who accepted treaties to protect his people. Survived the Sand Creek Massacre in 1964.
1811-1984 - Wendell Phillips - Abolitionist & advocate for Native Americans. Namesake of William Lloyd Garrison's son. WEB DuBois spoke about Phillips at his HS graduation. 
c1815-1904 - Chief Tecopa "Peacemaker of the Paiutes." State memorial at his gravesite in Pahrump Valley, Nevada.
1822-1909 - Mahpíya Luta (Red Coud) - A chief of the Oglala Lakota 1868-1909. Led Red Cloud's War. Signed Treaty of Fort Laramie & led his people in transition to reservation life.
1823-1905or09 - Chief Loco A Copper Mines Mimbreño Apache chief. Advocated peace. Went to Washington, DC, to negotiate; however, like Geronimo, he was made prisoner & sent to Florida. 
1824-1894 - Ranald MacDonald - Métis (mixed blood). Adventurer. First person to teach English in Japan. Click here for Japanese-American monuments. 
1830-1885 - Helen Hunt Jackson - Poet & activist on behalf of Native Americans by the U.S. Wrote "A Century of Dishonor" (1881).
1840-1904 -
Chief Joseph - Nez Perce leader. Renowned as a humanitarian & peacemaker for his principled resistance to Indian removal. Said "I will fight no more forever."
1863-1950 -
Black Elk - Oglala Lakota religious leader. Became a Christian & shared his faith with other tribes. Published his visions & tribal lore.
1900
1919-1997 - Joe Kieyoomia - Navajo Indian & soldier in NM's 200th Coast Artillery. Captured in the Philippines. POW in Nagasaki. Survived BOTH Bataan death march AND the A-bomb.
1931-Alive - Billy Frank, Jr. - Environmental leader & advocate of Native American treaty rights. 
1992
1932-Alive - Dennis Banks - Cofounded American Indian Movement (AIM) in 1968. Depicted on peace mural in St. Paul, Minnesota (USA).
1939-2012 - Russell Means - Oglala Sioux activist. Leader of American Indian Movement (AIM). Helped lead uprising at Wounded Knee in 1973.
c1940-Alive -
Lawrence Hart - A traditional Cheyenne peace chief. An authority on Cheyenne history & culture.
1944-Alive - Leonard Peltier - American Indian Movement. In prison for deaths at Pine Ridge IR. A political prisoner according to many.
1945-1975 - Anna Mae Aquash - Mi'kmaq from Nova Scotia. Highest-ranking woman in American Indian Movement (AIM). Killed on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. 
1946-2010 - Chief Jack Swamp - Mohawk. Founded Tree of Peace Society "to promote universal peace through the planting of trees throughout the world."
1947-Alive - Peter Wolf Toth - Wood carver. Sculpted a "Whispering Giant" statue of an Indian in every US state.
