List of honorary Native Americans
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| Name | Tribe | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lou Diamond Phillips | Sioux | 1990 | |
| Johnny Depp | Comanche | 2012 | His Comanche name is "Mah Woo May", which means shape shifter.[1] |
| Nipo Tach Num Strongheart | Yakama | 1946[2] | Born in White Swan, WA within the Yakama Indian Reservation of a Yakima mother,[3] he was a native right's activist, traveling performer and was a technical advisor on Native American themes in movies and occasional actor all in the first half of the 20th century. |
| Lucullus Virgil McWhorter | Yakama | ? | Given another name, Hemene Ka-Wan (Old Wolf).[4] |
References[edit]
- ↑ Child, Ben (23 May 2012). "Johnny Depp made honorary member of Comanche nation". London: Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
- ↑ Lori Lynn Muntz (May 2006). Representing Indians: The Melodrama of Native Citizenship in United States Popular Culture of the 1920s (Thesis). Department of English, University of Iowa. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-542-79588-6. UMI3225654. Retrieved August 26, 2014.
- ↑ Fisher, Andrew H. (Winter 2013). "Speaking for the First Americans: Nipo Strongheart and the campaign for American Indian citizenship". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 114 (4): 441–452. ISSN 0030-4727. Retrieved 22 Aug 2014.
- ↑ Letter, Louis Mann to Lucullus Virgil McWhorter, December 16, 1916. Box 33, in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC), Washington State University.
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