Dr Evelyn Scott
In 1991, Dr Evelyn Scott became the first female chair of Australia’s Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
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Nora Thompson Dean
Nora Dean Thompson was one of the last fluent speakers of the Unami dialect in the Lenape language. She grew up a traditionalist learning the culture of her people and began to spread the knowledge to the younger generations.
Nettie Kuneki Jackson
Yakama basket weaver
Nicole Aunapu Mann
Colonel Nicole Mann launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, Endurance, on October 5, 2022. The Crew-5 astronauts lived and worked aboard the ISS for nearly six months as part of Expedition 68.
Dr Esme Bamblett
Aunty Esme is a Bangerang, Wiradjuri and Taungurung woman, community advocate, educator, researcher and writer.
Nalani Kanaka’ole
Guardian of the ancient style of hula that predates commercial forms of the dance that emerged in the twentieth century
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.