Tarereenore
Aboriginal leader from the nineteenth century that organised an armed resistance against white colonists in now-Tasmania, Australia.
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Gudït
Ethiopian queen who brought down the ruling house of Aksum in the tenth century, a dynasty which was not to rise again until c. 1270.
Ahebi Ugbabe
Igbo queen of Enugu-Ezike
Adélina Lévêque
Empress of Haiti in the 1800s
Ana Hamu
Ana Hamu was a leading member of the Ngāpuhi iwi people in Paihia, Aotearoa.
Zaynab al-Nafzawiyya
Moroccan queen
Quaiapen
She became saunkskwa, or female sachem, of the Narangasset and Niantic peoples in 1657
Alliquippa
Alliquippa was a prominent leader of the Seneca nation for at least a decade before her death in December 1754.
Awashonks
Awashonks was a sachem, or chief, of the Sakonnet people in present-day Rhode Island, North America. She was not born into this royal role but had proved herself as a powerful leader.
Putahaie
Putahaie, likely born in the mid eighteenth century, was the wife of Temotei’i of Taiohae Bay, Nukuhiva, in the Marquesas and was a significant landholder in the western part of the island’s bay.