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.
Lee’s biology research at the university led her to be recruited to work in the hematology lab for the Manhattan Project in 1945.
Ann was a Pamunkey chief in the 1600s and 1700s
Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution.
Collage artist and master printer Kathy Caraccio opened her own thriving New York printing studio in 1977, where she has collaborated with such artists as Emma Amos, Robert Kipniss, Louise Nevelson, and Adam Pitt.
New York-based artist and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
American poet
While residing at the Three Cranes Tavern from 1757 to 1775, Zipporah an enslaved Indigenous woman, would have cooked, cleaned and served the patrons at the Tavern.
June Townsend Gentry (Yuchi/Choctaw) served in the US Coast Guard during World War II, one of the 800 Native American women to join the US military.
American businesswoman and translator