Donna Hutchinson was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives from 2007 until 2013. A member of an active political family, she also became involved in public affairs beyond her House service. She is a voting member of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana.
American dancer and choreographer
Pacheedaht activist Harriet Nahanee made headlines in 2006 when the septuagenarian was arrested by Vancouver police protesting a highway expansion that would damage Eagleridge Bluffs land and ecosystems, in preparation for the 2010 Olympics.
Tahltan elder Lillian Moyer was 67 when she was arrested in 2006 in northern British Columbia and a First Nations blockade that had been preventing a mining company from exploring the Todagin Plateau for copper and gold.
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
1800s Canadian fur trader
One of the last of the Beothuks in 1800s Canada
1600s Huron woman
Nancy McKenzie’s life serves to illustrate the way in which native women were increasingly victimized by the changing mores of fur-trade society in 1800s Canada
Flora Ross spent 25 years as matron of women patients in British Columbia’s Asylum for the Insane.