American Indian Hall of Fame


Sports
	Athletic Administration Archery Baseball Basketball Bowling Boxing Cross Country Distance Runner Dog Musher Football Hockey Honorary Judo Marathon Olympic Rodeo Swimming Table Tennis Tennis Track Weightlifting
Tribes
	Athabascan Arapaho Assiniboin Bannock Blackfeet Caddo Cahuilla Cherokee Chickasaw Chippewa Chirrirchua Apache Choctaw Colville Creek Delaware Euchee Gros Ventre Hopi Kiowa Laguna Mackanutunne Menominee Modoc Mohawk Munsee Narrangasett Navajo Nez Perce Oglala Lakota Sioux Omaha Oneida Ottawa Osage Paiute Pascua Yaqui Pawnee Penobscot Pima Pomo Quapaw Quechan Rogue River Sac and Fox San Juan Santee Sioux Seneca Siletz Sioux Stockbridge Tuscarora Tutuni Tonkawa Walatowa Pueblo of Jemez Yakima

Hall of Fame Inductees
(Name/Tribe/Sport)

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1972

Alexander Arcasa - Colville - Football

Charles "Chief" Bender - Chippewa - Baseball

Wilson "Buster" Charles - Oneida - Olympic Decathlon

Albert A. Exendine - Delaware - Football

Joseph N. Guyon - Chippewa - Football

Jimmie Johnson - Stockbridge/Munsee - Football

John Levi - Arapaho - Football

John "Chief" Meyers - Cahuilla - Baseball

Allie P. Reynolds - Creek - Baseball

Theodore "Tiny" Roebuck - Choctaw - Football

Reuben Sanders - Tutanti/Rogue River - Football

Louis Tewanima - Hopi - Track and Field

Jim Thorpe - Sac and Fox - Football/Baseball/Track

Louis "Rabbit" Weller - Caddo - Football

1973

Ellison Brown - Narraqansett - Marathon

Wallace Little Finger - Sioux - Track/Field

Elmer Busch - Pomo - Football

Albert Hawley - Gros Ventre/Assiniboine - Football

Frank Hudson - Laguna - Football

Frank Mt. Pleasant - Tuscarora - Football

Walter Johnson - Paiute - Football

Jessie Renich - Choctaw - Basketball

Gus Welch - Chippewa - Football

Jimmie Wolfe Jr. - Kiowa - Football

Angelita Rosel - Sioux - Table Tennis

Bemus Pierce - Seneca - Football

Ed Rogers - Chippewa - Football

Louis R. Bruce - Mohawk/Sioux - Honorary

1977

Chester "Chet" Ellis - Seneca - Boxing

Stacy S. Howell - Pawnee - Basketball

Jack Jacobs - Creek - Football

Clyde "Chief" James - Modoc - Basketball

Rollie Munsell Jr. - Chickasaw - Boxing

Phillip Osif - Pima - Track/Cross Country

Robert L. Bennett - Oneida - Honorary

1978

Harold "Chuck" Foster - Navajo - Track/Cross Country

William "Billy" Mills - Sioux - 10K Olympic Champion

Dr. Joseph "Bud" Sahmaunt - Kiowa - Basketball

Joe Tindell Thornton - Cherokee - Archery

Egbert "Eg" Ward - Yakima - Football/Baseball/Basketball

Frank W. McDonald - Honorary -

1980

Robert Gawboy - Chippewa - Swimming

Elijah "Eli" Smith - Oneida - Football/Baseball/Track

Martin F. Wheelock - Oneida - Football

1981

David W. Bray - Seneca - Lacross/Track

Nelson B. Levering - Omaha/Bannock - Boxing

Austin B. Tincup - Cherokee - Baseball

George P. Lavatta - Shoshone/Bannock - Honorary

1982

Amos Aitson - Kiowa - Football/Boxing

George Levi - Arapaho - Football

Thomas "Wahoo" Yarr - Snohomish - Football

Turner A. Cochran - Caddo/Chickasaw - Honorary

1985

Sampson "Sam" Bird - Blackfeet - Football

Virgil R. Franklin - Arapaho/Kiowa - Boxing

Robert "Bobby" Holmes - Ottawa - Football/Track and Field

Gordon A. House - Navajo/Oneida - Boxing

Sid Carney - Creek/Choctaw - Honorary

1987

Peter Hauser - Cheyenne - Football

Mayes McLain - Cherokee - Football

Arthur S. Bensell - Mackanutunne/Siletz - Football

Alex "Sonny" Sixkiller - Cherokee - Football

Wallace "Wally" Galluzzi - Honorary -

1989

Clarence "Taffy" Abel - Chippewa - Hockey

James Aron Ingram - Cherokee - Baseball

Eual "Monk" Moore - Chickasaw - Baseball

Alvin L. Williams - Caddo - Boxing

1991

John "Johnny" Allen - Tonkawa/Sac & Fox - Football

Edwin "Ed" Moore - Creek - Football

Andrew "Andy" Payne - Cherokee - Cross Country/Football

1994

Moses Yellow Horse - Pawnee - Baseball

Jackson Sundown - Nex Perce - Rodeo

Sammy Jack Claphan - Cherokee - Football

1995

Dawn Kelly Allen - Euchee/Quapaw/Cherokee - Tennis

Karen Mackey - Santee Sioux - Judo

Thomas Stidham - Creek - Football

1996

Ryneldi Becenti - Navajo - Basketball

George Blue Spruce - Laguna/San Juan - Tennis

John Seller - Cherokee - Baseball

1997

James L. Johnson - Menominee - Football

Jimmie Earl Keel - Chickasaw - Boxing

Mike Edwards - Cherokee/Choctaw/Chickasaw - Bowling

2000

R. Perry Beaver - Creek - Football

Robert J. Cannon - Osage - Track

Andrew Sockalexis - Penobscot - Marathon Runner

Louis F. Sockalexis - Penobscot - Baseball

2004

Howard Gayle Hatch - Delaware - Weightlifting Coach, Basketball

Larry Joe Ramirez - Pascua Yaqui/Chirrirchua Apache - Baseball

Jim E. Warne, Jr - Oglala Lakota Sioux - Football

2006

Stephen Gachupin - Walatowa Pueblo of Jemez - Marathon, Distance Runner

Emmitt Peters - Athabascan - Dog Musher

Aloysuis "Al" Waquie - Walatowa Pueblo of Jemez - Cross Country, Distance Runner

2007

Dr. Noah Allen - Euchee/Creek - Coaching and Athletic Administration

William "Bill" Breddé; - Quechan/Pawnee - Football

Pete Shepherd - Santee Sioux - Football

Edward "Eddie" Burgess - Creek/Cherokee - Rodeo

Michael Gregory - Euchee/Creek - All-American Track and Field - Long Jump

2008

William Abrams Sr. - Seneca Nation of Indians - Lacrosse

Nelson (Bally) Huff - Seneca Nation of Indians - Lacrosse

Oren Lyons - Onondaga Nation - Lacrosse

Dave Powles - Oneida Nation - Football

2009

WARNER A. "TONY" COFFIN JR. - Potawatomi - Athletic Administration, Coaching

JOSEPH T. "JOE" HIPP - Blackfeet - Boxer

MELVIN ARTHUR PETERSON "PETE" - Cherokee - Tennis

GERALD L. "JERRY" TUCKWIN - Prairie Band Potawatomi - Track - Cross Country Coaching

2013

Yawna Daye Allen - Quapaw, Cherokee, Euchee - Tennis

Sid Jamieson - Upper Cayuga - Lacrosse Coach

Roy L. Old Person - Blackfeet - Distance Runner

Kenneth Osceola "John" Tiger - Seminole Nation of Oklahoma - Football

Herman Agoyo - Ohkay Owingeh - Baseball/Civic Service

Brad James Tanner - Cherokee - Bench and Dead Lifter