Nalani Kanaka’ole
Guardian of the ancient style of hula that predates commercial forms of the dance that emerged in the twentieth century
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Pualani Kanaka’ole Kanahel
Guardian of the ancient style of hula that predates commercial forms of the dance that emerged in the twentieth century
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.
Kudnarto
Kaurna woman who made South Australian legal history
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