Abigail (Abbie) Gardner was thirteen years old when the Wahpekute leader Inkpaduta led his band in a raid against her community in Spirit Lake, Iowa. Her captors took her across the tallgrass prairie and through the Pipestone Quarry before releasing her for a ransom in the Dakota Territory.
1700s Inuk woman who travelled to England against her will and became an key figure in diplomatic relations between European traders and Indigenous peoples.
Tagish First Nation woman who was one of the party that first found gold in the Klondike River in 1896, and is sometimes credited with being the person who made the actual discovery.
A Native American woman, possibly Wintu, known as Kate Camden lived and worked in the Camden household in Whiskeytown, California, during the Gold Rush.
Piu-uina exemplifies the ways Indigenous women navigated the mission system as they lived their lives.
The story of Kilakotah is not just the story of one woman, but the story of three sisters.
1000s Moorish princess
Annie and Henry Chaffey were voluntary exiles from ordinary New Zealand society. They became legendary figures to the trampers, geologists, packmen, hunters and miners who encountered them in the mountains of north-west Nelson.
Irish girl who died as a child and was later seen as a ghost
Member of the O’Donnell dynasty in Ireland who took part in the 1607 Flight of the Earls