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Marya D Moses

Pioneering female commercial fisherwoman working from the Tulalip Indian Reservation in Snohomish County

Claudia Kauffman

Claudia Kauffman was the first woman Native American elected to the Washington State Senate.

Kate Borst

Kate Kanim Borst was a Native American woman who witnessed the transformation of Snoqualmie Valley from prairies and Indian encampments to the beginnings of suburbia.

Part Odawa and part French, the highly respected and traditionally skilled Marie “Mo-nee” Bailly experienced shifting control over the Northwest Territory and the detrimental effects of manifest destiny on Indigenous American peoples.

Harriette Shelton Williams Dover

Native American activist who helped revive traditional dances, the Lushootseed language, and tribal appreciation for a proud past and was the second female elected to the Tulalip Tribes’ Board of Directors and first Tribal Council Chairwoman

Lyn Henderson-Yates

The first Aboriginal person to be appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor of an Australian university.

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Aboriginal Australian painter and educator

Dr Margaret Williams Weir

The first Aboriginal person to matriculate to an Australian university. In January 1957 the University of Queensland offered her a scholarship and she commenced an arts degree.