Indian Americans renowned for their achievements after the pre-Columbian period (and after 1600) include Squanto (a man who was an essential interpreter for Captain John Smith starting in 1614), Pocahontas (a woman who married the English settler John Rolfe in 1614 at the Jamestown settlement), Sacagawea (a female guide hired for the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804), Tecumseh (a man who organized an Indian confederacy in the Ohio territory in the early 1800s and fought on the losing side of the British in the War of 1812), Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse (male warriors defeated and massacred Colonel George Custer’s army at the Battle of Little Bighorn in what is now South Dakota), Geronimo (an Apache warrior in what is now Arizona), Jim Thorpe (a phenomenal Olympic and professional athlete in the early 1900s), and Maria Tallchief (a tremendous ballerina). | Indian Americans renowned for their achievements after the pre-Columbian period (and after 1600) include Squanto (a man who was an essential interpreter for Captain John Smith starting in 1614), Pocahontas (a woman who married the English settler John Rolfe in 1614 at the Jamestown settlement), Sacagawea (a female guide hired for the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804), Tecumseh (a man who organized an Indian confederacy in the Ohio territory in the early 1800s and fought on the losing side of the British in the War of 1812), Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse (male warriors defeated and massacred Colonel George Custer’s army at the Battle of Little Bighorn in what is now South Dakota), Geronimo (an Apache warrior in what is now Arizona), Jim Thorpe (a phenomenal Olympic and professional athlete in the early 1900s), and Maria Tallchief (a tremendous ballerina). |