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Delores Elizabeth Churchill

Delores Churchill is a Haida master weaver of baskets, hats, robes, and other regalia.

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.

In her artwork, Anita Fields comfortably helms the intersection of duality, a deeply held philosophical concept of her Osage culture, where notions of earth and sky and male and female inform many of her designs.

Floy Agnes Lee

Lee’s biology research at the university led her to be recruited to work in the hematology lab for the Manhattan Project in 1945.

Alberta Daisy Schenck Adams

Alberta Schenck is most notably remembered for her role in the advancement of native rights during a time when segregation against Indigenous people ran rampant in her hometown of Nome, Alaska. Her advocacy for equality for Indigenous peoples played a role in the passing of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945.