Nettie Kuneki Jackson
Yakama basket weaver
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Nicole Aunapu Mann
Colonel Nicole Mann launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, Endurance, on October 5, 2022. The Crew-5 astronauts lived and worked aboard the ISS for nearly six months as part of Expedition 68.
Nellie Star Boy Menard
In Sioux culture, an accomplished traditional quiltmaker is measured not only by a mastery of needlework techniques, of the creative use of the star motif, and of traditional aesthetic principles, but also by her dedication to the community in the practice of her art. Over her lifetime, Menard produced scores of quilts for traditional family and community purposes.
Mary Holiday Black
A member of the Bitter Water Clan, she was raised in a community of traditional Navajo artists and religious practitioners. In the 1970s, encouraged by a burgeoning Native American art market and local traders, Black focused her creative work on basketweaving and introduced several innovations that proved critical to the tradition’s survival.
Mary Mitchell Gabriel
Passamaquoddy basketmaker
Mary Olympic
Mary Olympic’s life at Katmai represents a subsistence lifestyle in Alaska that has endured for thousands of years and continues today. Her recollections illuminate the practice of reindeer herding from a time when very few other first-hand accounts exist.
Molly Neptune Parker
The matriarch of four generations of Passamaquoddy basketweavers
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.