Clyde Merton Warrior (1939–1968) was a Native American activist and leader, orator and one of the founders of the National Indian Youth Council.
He spoke the Ponca language,[2] learned a wide range of tribal songs and was a champion fancy dancer in his teens.
[3] Newspapers classed him as a world champion dancer by 1957 and in 1958, he won an award in a state-level high school art competition.
[5] In the spring of 1961, Warrior attended a regional planning meeting at the University of Oklahoma in preparation for a conference to be held in June in Chicago.
[1] Warrior worked to help Washington State tribes secure their fishing rights, utilizing publicists from New York City and Marlon Brando to create visibility, using guidance from his studies of Martin Luther King Jr.'s human and civil rights strategies at the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
: Five Types of Young Indians"[8] and "We Are Not Free"[5] and was invited to speak in Washington, DC on how the War on Poverty could help Native people.