Archie Sam (June 30, 1914 – May 23, 1986) was a Natchez-Cherokee-Muscogee Creek traditionalist, stomp dance leader, scholar, enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and the Sun Chief of the Natchez Nation.

Archie Sam was born in the Greenleaf Mountain community near Braggs, Oklahoma, on June 30, 1914.

He then enlisted in the 45th Infantry Division and in 1940 he served overseas in World War II, participating in special missions at Thule Air Base in northern Greenland where he met and hunted with the Inughuit.

[4] After the war he transferred to the United States Air Force where he remained in the Air Force for 21 years before working for the United States Postal Service.

[3][4] He was a practitioner of native Natchez religion (Four Mothers Society),[2] and in 1969 he revived the Medicine Springs ceremonial ground,[6] located near Gore, Oklahoma.