| HIAWATHA | Native American leader and founder of the Iroquois confederacy immortalised by an 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| MINNEHAHA | "Handsomest of all the women," in an 1855 epic |
| THESONGOF | 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow telling the story of an Ojibwe warrior chief and his lover Minnehaha (3,4,2,8) |
| SITTINGBULL | Native American leader and victor at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (7,4) |
| PENN | William, English Quaker leader and founder of a colony that later became a U.S. state (4) |
| NANAK | Indian religious leader and founder of Sikhism (5) |
| GURUNANAK | Religious leader and founder of Sikhism (4,5) |
| SYRACUSE | City of central New York State at the south end of Lake Onondaga; site of the capital of the Iroquois Confederacy (8) |
| ONEIDA | Native American tribe, one of the original five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy (6) |
| TUSCARORAS | Members of a North American tribe, part of the Iroquois confederacy (10) |
| SENECA | Tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy |
| ERIES | Victims of the Iroquois Confederacy |
| PONTIAC | Native American leader of the Ottawa people - General Motors first gave his name to one of its vehic |
| AFTON | Tributary of the River Nith in the Scottish Borders, immortalised by Robert Burns |
| HAUDENOSAUNEE | Native name for the Iroquois Confederacy |
| HORSE | Native American leader (c. 1842-1877) who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux name, Ta-Sunko-Witko (5,5) |
| CRAZY | Native American leader (c. 1842-1877) who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn; Sioux name, Ta-Sunko-Witko (5,5) |
| OFFAME | Hollywood Walk - -; segment of a street in the US where celebrities are immortalised by star-shaped |
| MAUD | Title poem in an 1855 volume by Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| SEPTIMUS | The Warden in an 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope (8) |
