Claudia Kauffman
Claudia Kauffman was the first woman Native American elected to the Washington State Senate.
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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.
Marie LeFevre Bailly
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.
Angelina Noble
Aboriginal Australian translator and missionary
Alyce Dixon
Member of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Vi Hilbert
Vi Hilbert, a member of the Upper Skagit tribe, had as her life’s work to preserve the Lushootseed (Puget Salish) language and culture.