Native American and Indigenous Tradition Founders

Founders and prophetic leaders of Native American, Pacific Islander, Australian Aboriginal, Mesoamerican and Central Asian indigenous religious movements, including Ghost Dance prophets among Great Basin peoples, Handsome Lake's Iroquois Longhouse religious revival, Black Elk as a Lakota holy man, Kenekuk's Kickapoo prophetic movement, Smohalla's Columbia Plateau Dreamer religion, Maori prophetic movements in Aotearoa New Zealand, a Hawaiian queen central to the abolition of the old religious taboo system, a master Pacific wayfinding navigator who revived a near-lost indigenous knowledge tradition, an Australian Aboriginal inventor and preacher, a Mongol shaman who advised Genghis Khan, and colonial-era Mesoamerican and Amazonian indigenous religious resistance leaders.