Barbara Weir
Aboriginal Australian artist
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Bernice Akamine
Hawaiian sculptor, glassblower, and installation artist
Dolores Batista
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
Marguerite-Madgelaine La Framboise
1800s Canadian fur trader
Demasduwit
One of the last of the Beothuks in 1800s Canada
Gladys Dorothy O’Shane
Australian political activist for the rights of Indigenous people
Oionhaton
1600s Huron woman
Nancy McKenzie
Nancy McKenzie’s life serves to illustrate the way in which native women were increasingly victimized by the changing mores of fur-trade society in 1800s Canada
Flora Hubbs
Flora Ross spent 25 years as matron of women patients in British Columbia’s Asylum for the Insane.
Gandeacteua
Erie woman responsible for the founding of the Saint-François-Xavier mission at Prairie-de-la-Magdelaine in 1600s Canada