Elizabeth Kelso
New Zealand journalist, editor, community leader
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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Ngingali Cullen
Aboriginal Australian activist and nurse
Vai Stanton
Aboriginal Australian welfare worker and elder of Kungarakany and Gurindji descent
Dr LaNada War Jack
LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.
Pat Turner
Aboriginal Australian feminist and indigenous rights activist
Nanye-hi
Cherokee Beloved Woman and political leader
Chipeta
Diplomat and a Native Americans rights advocate, she is the only known woman to ever be allowed to sit on a Ute tribal council.
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Navajo leader and activist
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.