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Native American Stories About Chiefs

Here is our collection of Native American legends and traditional stories about chiefs.

Legendary Native American Chiefs and Leaders

The Great Peacemaker (Iroquois)

Hiawatha (Iroquois)

Woman Chief (Seneca)

Why Blackfeet Never Kill Mice:
How Mouse helped man become chief of the animals.

Race Among the Animals

How The Buffalo Hunt Began:
Cheyenne legends about the birds helping humans to become chief of all the animals.

Tauquitch (Tahquitz)

The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot

The Legend of Tahquitz, Demon of the Cahuilla:
Luiseno and Cahuilla legends about an evil chief and his heroic son.

Godasiyo the Woman Chief:
Legends about a female Iroquois chief.

Katlian and the Iron People:
Early 19th-century legend of a brave Tlingit chief's encounters with the Russians.

Chief Mountain:
Legend about a Piegan chief's widow who went mad with grief.

The Creation And Early Migrations:
Caddo myths about the origin of the world and the first chief, Moon.

Yonder Mountain:
Children's book based on a Cherokee Indian myth about a boy learning to become a true chief.