Big Elk (1770--1846)

• Big Elk was the last of the full-blooded Omaha Tribe chiefs and is best known for his address at the grave of Black Buffalo in 1813, when he said, "Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives -- they grow everywhere." Black Elk passed along the leadership of the Omaha to Iron Eye and the LaFlesche family.
  
  

Susan LaFlesche Picotte (1865-1915)

• Susan La Flesche Picotte was the granddaughter of Big Elk and one of the seven children of Iron Eye. In 1889, she became the first female American Indian doctor in the country. She studied in Pennsylvania, but returned to the Omaha Tribe to provide health care. She spearheaded the campaign to build a hospital on the Omaha Reservation.
  
  

Rodney Grant (1959-present)

• Actor Rodney Grant was raised on the Omaha Reservation and went on to play some important American Indian roles in film and television. According to his filmography on Fandango.com, Grant portrayed "Wind In His Hair" in the 1990 Academy-Award winning film "Dances With Wolves." He also played the critical role of Crazy Horse in the television movie "Son of the Morning Star," which retold the story of George Custer and the Battle at Little Big Horn. Grant also played Chingachgook in the series Hawkeye, based on the stories of James Fenimore Cooper.
  
  

Logan Fontenelle (1825-1855)

• Logan Fontenelle was recognized as the chief of the Omaha Tribe by the U.S. Government in 1853 and became known for signing treaties that gave most of the Omaha Tribe's territory away.
  
  He signed a treaty on March 16, 1854, selling tribal land to the federal government and moving his people to the reservation in northeast Nebraska where some of them now live. It was an important piece of Nebraska history, as the treaty opened the territory up to white settlement.