This is a list of Native American actors in the United States, including Alaskan Natives and American Indians. Native American identity is a complex and contested issue rooted in political sovereignty that pre-dates the creation of colonial nation states like the U.S. and Canada and persists into the 21st century recognized under international law by treaty.
 The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines Native American as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry.
 Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe or Alaskan village.
 Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American identity.
 All individuals on this list should have Native American ancestry.
 Historical figures might predate tribal enrollment practices and would be included based on ethnological tribal membership, while any contemporary individuals should either be enrolled members of federally recognized tribes or have cited Native American ancestry and be recognized as being Native American by their respective tribes(s).
 Contemporary unenrolled individuals are listed as being of descent from a tribe.
Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.
 Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita.
 Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area.
 The tribe's name (natively "kką:ze ") is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning.
 For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes.
 Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys.
 Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Juan José Barrón Medina (born September 22, 1952) is a retired Mexican "Luchador", or professional wrestler, under the ring name Gran Cochisse.
 Barrón is currently working as one of the head trainers at the "Gimnasio del Diablo Velazco" wrestling school in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
 The school is one of the wrestling schools for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL).
 While wrestling he used the ring character Gran Cochisse, a Native American character that incorporated traditional Native American imagery including the feathered headdresses and facepaint.
 He was nicknamed "El Indio Bravo" ("The brave Indian") and is named after the Apache chief Cochise.
 Early in his career he often teamed with "Águila India" (Indian Eagle) to form a successful tag team.
 During his wrestling career Barrón held the UWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship one time and the NWA World Middleweight Championship three times.
Impacts of Native American gaming can be positive or negative, depending on the tribe and its location.
 In the 1970s, various Native American tribes took unprecedented action to initiate Native gaming enterprises.
 In doing so, they created not only a series of legal struggles between the federal, state, and tribal governments but also a groundbreaking way to revitalize the Native American economy.
 Native American gaming has grown from bingo parlors to high-stakes gaming and is surrounded by controversy on many different levels.
 There are disputes concerning tribal sovereignty, negative effects of gaming, and a loss of Native American culture.
 In the United States the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was passed in 1988 in order to secure collaboration between the states and tribes and also in order for the federal government to oversee gaming operations.
 Native American gaming has proven to be extremely lucrative for several tribes, but it has also been unsuccessful in some instances.
 Native American gaming is contingent upon and only beneficial to its respective reservation.
Porcupine hair roaches are a traditional male headdress of a number of Native American tribes in what is now New England, the Great Lakes and Missouri River regions, including the Potawatomi who lived where Chicago now stands.
 They were and still are most often worn by dancers at pow wows as regalia.
William Wells Bent (1809—1869) was primarily known as a trader, and rancher in the American West, with forts in Colorado.
 He also acted as a mediator among the Cheyenne Nation, other Native American tribes and the expanding United States.
 With his brothers, Bent established a trade business along the Santa Fe Trail.
 In the early 1830s Bent built an adobe fort, called Bent's Fort, along the Arkansas River in present-day Colorado.
 Furs, horses and other goods were traded for food and other household goods by travelers along the Santa Fe trail, fur-trappers, and local Mexican and Native American people.
 Bent negotiated a peace among the many Plains tribes north and south of the Arkansas River, as well as between the Native American and the United States government.
Native American religions are the spiritual practices of the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
 This article focuses on Native North Americans.
 Traditional Native American ceremonial ways can vary widely, and are based on the differing histories and beliefs of individual tribes, clans and bands.
 Early European explorers describe individual Native American tribes and even small bands as each having their own religious practices.
 Theology may be monotheistic, polytheistic, henotheistic, animistic, or some combination thereof.
 Traditional beliefs are usually passed down in the forms of oral histories, stories, allegories and principles, and rely on face to face teaching in one's family and community.
The Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), also known as the Ohio War, Little Turtle's War, and by other names, was a war between the United States and a confederation of numerous Native American tribes, with support from the British, for control of the Northwest Territory.
 It followed centuries of conflict over this territory, first among Native American tribes, and then with the added shifting alliances among the tribes and the European powers of France and Great Britain, and their colonials.
Porcupines are rodentian mammals with a coat of sharp spines, or quills, that protect against predators.
 The term covers two families of animals, the Old World porcupines of family Hystricidae, and the New World porcupines of family Erethizontidae.
 Both families belong to the infraorder Hystricognathi within the profoundly diverse order Rodentia and display superficially similar coats of quills: despite this, the two groups are distinct from each other and are not closely related to each other within the Hystricognathi.
Native American jewelry refers to items of personal adornment, whether for personal use, sale or as art; examples of which might include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and pins, as well as ketohs, wampum, and labrets, made by one of the Indigenous peoples of the United States.
 Native American jewelry normally reflects the cultural diversity and history of its makers, but tribal groups have often borrowed and copied designs and methods from other, neighboring tribes or nations with which they had trade, and this practice continues today.
 Native American tribes continue to develop distinct aesthetics rooted in their personal artistic visions and cultural traditions.
 Artists may create jewelry for adornment, ceremonies, and display, or for sale or trade.
 Lois Sherr Dubin writes, "[i]n the absence of written languages, adornment became an important element of Indian communication, conveying many levels of information."
 Later, jewelry and personal adornment "...signaled resistance to assimilation.
 It remains a major statement of tribal and individual identity."

Question: Roaches are traditional male headdresses of Native American tribes featuring the quills of rodentian mammals that have a coat of what?
Answer: sharp spines