Ellen Hope Lang Hays
On July 9th, 1974, she became the first Alaska Native woman to become a National Park Superintendent (Sitka National Historical Park). In all, she was the third woman ever to become the Superintendent of a National Park.
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Clara Neptune Keezer
Although basketweaving was experiencing a decline in Maine in the 1950s, Keezer became involved in the revitalization of the basketweaving tradition. Not content to replicate old forms exclusively, she began building on the tradition of the strawberry basket.
Clarissa Rizal
Member of the Raven T’akDein Taan (black-legged kittiwake) Clan of Hoonah/Glacier Bay, Alaska, highly respected cultural leader and multitalented artist who has contributed to the revival and perpetuation of the Chilkat blanket weaving.
Della Keats
Iñupiaq healer and teacher
Delores Elizabeth Churchill
Delores Churchill is a Haida master weaver of baskets, hats, robes, and other regalia.
Dolly Spencer
Inupiat dollmaker
Elena Charles
Yup’ik maskmaker
Anna Brown Ehlers
Ehlers is a master artisan of Chilkat weaving, an ancient art form indigenous to the Native people of Southeast Alaska.
Belle Deacon
Athabascan traditional basket weaver
Agnes Kenmille
Although Kenmille has spent most of her life on the Flathead Reservation in northwestern Montana, she is now known worldwide for her skills in beadwork, hide tanning, and leatherwork.