Home›Religious Founders, Prophets & Reformers›In Group›Native American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersGroupNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersFounders 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.Native American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Native American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersFilter Results16 entriesGenderAllFemale (1)Male (10)TraditionAllAztec Religion (1)Christianity (3)Tengrism (1)HistoricityAllHistorically attested (16)Revered InAllChristianity (1)Manner Of DeathAllDied of natural causes (1)Executed (1)Office HeldAllMaster navigator, initiated in the pwo ceremony of Satawal (1)NationalityAllAustralia (1)Colombia (1)Mexico (1)Micronesia (1)New Zealand (3)Papua New Guinea (1)United Kingdom (1)United States (5)BrowseCompareSelect all 16Black ElkNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersDavid UnaiponNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersHandsome LakeNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersKa'ahumanuNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersKenekukNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersKokochuNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersMartín OcelotlNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersMau PiailugNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersSmohallaNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersTahupotiki Wiremu RatanaNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersTe Kooti Arikirangi Te TurukiNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersTe Whiti o RongomaiNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersVenancio KamikoNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersWodziwobNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersWovokaNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersYali SinginaNative American and Indigenous Tradition FoundersComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.