Indigenous Archives - Page 16 of 56

Kelly Church

Native American basketmaker

Eva Mirabal

Entitled G.I. Gertie, her comic strips appeared in a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) publication and featured the hijinks of a young woman soldier.

Pablita Velarde

Prominent Native American painter

Norma Jean Serena

Serena, a Native American woman, filed a civil lawsuit in 1974 seeking damages for violations of her constitutional rights to procreate and bear children

Minnie Spotted Wolf

One of the first Native American women to enlist in the U.S. military, who joined the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve.

Georgia Harris

Over the course of her life, Harris worked to preserve the Catawba pottery tradition that originated centuries ago.

Gladys Kukana Grace

Gladys Kukana Grace learned the art of weaving lauhala (lau = leaf, hala = pandanus tree) from her maternal grandmother, Kukana, through a longstanding oral tradition.

Grace Henderson Nez lived her entire life in a hogan at the base of Ganado Mesa on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. For more than seven decades, she raised and sheared sheep, carded and dyed the wool, and wove intricate and distinctive Navajo rugs.