Rosy Simas
American dancer and choreographer
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Harriet Nahanee
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.
Lillian Moyer
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.
Dolores Batista
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
Marguerite-Madgelaine La Framboise
1800s Canadian fur trader
Demasduwit
One of the last of the Beothuks in 1800s Canada
Oionhaton
1600s Huron woman
Nancy McKenzie
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 Hubbs
Flora Ross spent 25 years as matron of women patients in British Columbia’s Asylum for the Insane.
Gandeacteua
Erie woman responsible for the founding of the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine in 1600s Canada