Alida Montiel
Native American activist and dancer
Native American activist and dancer
Aunty Fay is a highly respected Aboriginal Australian Elder who has served the Victorian community for over 40 years.
Laux is the author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990), What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke (2000). She is also co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997).
Innovative Jazz Age vocalist
Aunty Fay Carter worked for more than 30 years to support and improve living conditions for Aboriginal Australians.
The last known living member of the Beothuk people, indigenous inhabitants of Newfoundland, Canada.
In 1937, Pearl Gibbs co-founded the Aborigines’ Progressive Association in Australia.
Ida Blackeagle was a Cultural Demonstrator at the Nez Perce National Historical Park who was instrumental to the revitalization of Nimíipuu cornhusk weaving in the mid-twentieth century.
Native Hawaiian Roen Halley Kahalewai McDonald Hufford carries on the art of ka hana kapa (making barkcloth) and is a leading figure in the reclaiming of this nearly lost art.
For more than 30 years, Aunty Dr Geraldine Atkinson AO has helped to increase Aboriginal Australians’ access to education services.