Possible Clues:

• Native American's desperate act, spearing food
• Tribe used as code talkers in World War I
• Brave dog to seize wild cat
• Sort of ice volunteers welcomed initially for skating move
• Native American — skating movement — cat chow (anag)
• Hot month in California with native of SE USA?
• American native
• Native people originally occupying what is now the southeastern United States
• Temple erected in support of sweet native American
• Member of a North American people now living mainly in Mississippi