Indigenous Leaders and Resistance Figures

Leaders of Indigenous nations and peoples, chiefly in the Americas, whose primary historical significance is leading their people, often in resistance to colonization, dispossession or an invading power, through their own people's own traditions of leadership rather than a crown or elected office recognized in this scheme's other categories. Belongs here: Indigenous war and political leaders of a nation, confederacy or band not tracked elsewhere in this atlas as a recognized kingdom or empire with its own dynastic succession. Does not belong here: Indigenous rulers whose polity is itself tracked as a recognized empire with its own succession, such as the Inca or Aztec emperors, grouped under Monarchs and Rulers, or Indigenous figures whose primary historical role in this atlas's holdings is a sustained military campaign against a peer state, grouped under Military Leaders and Commanders.