Shawnadithit
The last known living member of the Beothuk people, indigenous inhabitants of Newfoundland, Canada.
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Marie LeFevre Bailly
Part Odawa and part French, the highly respected and traditionally skilled Marie “Mo-nee” Bailly experienced shifting control over the Northwest Territory and the detrimental effects of manifest destiny on Indigenous American peoples.
Pelagie Faribault
Pelagie Faribault was a métis (Native and European) woman who received Wita Tanka (Big Island, also called Pike Island) from her Dakota kin as part of an 1820 treaty with the United States. The Faribault family had influence among their Dakota relatives, and Pelagie in particular was known for her acts of generosity.
Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin
Native Amerian lawyer and activist
Marie-Rose Piwapiskus
Plains Cree catechist and educator
Mikak
1700s Inuk woman who travelled to England against her will and became an key figure in diplomatic relations between European traders and Indigenous peoples.
Nonhelema
Shawnee warrior and leader
Elsie Knott
Elsie Knott was the first Anishinaabe Kwe O’gimaa (first woman to serve as chief of a First Nation in Canada).
RoseAnne Archibald
National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, which represents 634 First Nations with 900,000 members. She was elected on 8 July 2021 and is the first woman to hold the position.
Rebecca Belmore
Canadian Rebecca Belmore has contributed to the international contemporary art world by developing a performance vocabulary for the representation of a (distinctly female) First Nations identity in art.