Molly Neptune Parker
The matriarch of four generations of Passamaquoddy basketweavers
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Antoinette de Saint-Étienne
First Nations nun who sang for a queen
Mary Louise Defender Wilson
Dakotah Sioux/Hidatsa storyteller, historian and educator
Margaret Tafoya
As a child, she learned the art of making pottery from her mother, who was herself an heir to the pottery tradition that had been passed on from one generation to the next for centuries by the speakers of the Tewa language in the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico.
Lila Greengrass Blackdeer
Lila Greengrass Blackdeer first learned black ash basketmaking to help supply her family’s roadside basket stand on Highway 12 near her hometown.
Lilian Snooks
Lillian Bernice Snooks was at the forefront of the late-twentieth century campaign to preserve Atsugewi culture and traditions.
Namahoyke Curtis
Namahyoke Curtis, known as Namah, was a prominent African American nurse in late-19th-century Washington, D.C. During the Spanish-American War (1898), the Surgeon General assigned her to recruit other Black women to serve as U.S. Army contract nurses.
Julia Parker
Julia Parker spent most of her years living and working in Yosemite Village in California.
Karen Ann Hoffman
Karen Ann Hoffman has been beading peace, beauty, and meaning through her Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork since the 1990s.
Kelly Church
Native American basketmaker