Marya D Moses
Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County
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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.
Claudia Kauffman
Claudia Kauffman was the first woman Native American elected to the Washington State Senate.
Kate Borst
Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who witnessed the transformation of Snoqualmie Valley from prairies and Indian encampments to the beginnings of suburbia.
Harriette Shelton Williams Dover
Native American activist who helped revive traditional dances, the Lushootseed language, and tribal appreciation for a proud past and was the second female elected to the Tulalip Tribes’ Board of Directors and first Tribal Council Chairwoman
Alyce Dixon
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Vi Hilbert
Vi Hilbert, a member of the Upper Skagit tribe, had as her life’s work to preserve the Lushootseed (Puget Salish) language and culture.
Dorothy Almonjuela
Oral history: Growing Up Squamish
Cecile Hansen
Elected chair of the Duwamish since 1975
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.