Tribal Delegates at Congressional Cemetery

The Congressional Cemetery, founded in 1807, is the resting site of 36 Native American delegates, dignitaries, and advocates, and their families, who passed on while working on behalf of their people in the nation's capital. These individuals came to Washington as representatives of twelve tribal nations.

In alphabetical order by tribe:

Arapaho: Taza (chief)

Cherokee: Charlotte J. Coodey, Henrietta Jane Coodey, William Shorey Coodey (legislator), Judge Richard Fields (judge and administrator), Joseph V. Hitchcock, Captain John Looney, Captain James McDaniel (delegate and senator), Susan Agnes Paschal, Captain Thomas Pegg (senator and associate judge), Child Rogers, Captain John Rogers (principal chief), Johnson K. Rogers (attorney), Ezekial Starr (delegate), Bluford West (judge)

Chippewa: A Moose or Little Bee (head chief), Osk Kaw Bu Wis (chief and delegate), St. Germain (chief and delegate)

Choctaw: Emmett Kennedy, Lee Pitchlynn, Peter P. Pitchlynn (delegate), Sophia Pitchlynn (princess), Thomas Pitchlynn, Samson Pitchlynn, Push-Ma-Ta-Ha (chief and diplomat)

Creek: Daniel S. Aspberry (delegate), Efar Emarthlar (delegate)

Dakota: Kan Ya Tu Duta (US Army scout, delegate)

Kiowa: O Com O Cost (delegate), Waub-O-Jeag (delegate)

Lakota: Frederick D. Broken Rope

Nez Perce: Ut Sin Malikan (delegate)

Pawnee: Tuk A Lix Tah (delegate), Oscar Carey (performer)

Sac and Fox: QuahQuahMahPeQuah (delegate)

Winnebago: Prophet (delegate)

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Explore Sources:

https://www.capitolhillhistory.org/lectures/native-americans-who-never-left-capitol-hill

https://www.congressionalcemetery.org/pdf/Walking-Tours/American%20Indian.pdf

https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/most-prominent-headstone-of-nez-perce-leader-replaced-yOwHXpKG4ku5A-D1TeqF4g/

https://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2013/01/introducing-buried-history-edition-1-foul-play.html

https://blog.nmai.si.edu/main/2013/04/buried-history-hear-me-my-chiefs.html