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Mary Golda Ross

First known Native American female engineer and pioneering female engineer at Lockheed.

Dolores Cacuango

Pioneering advocate for indigenous and farmer rights in Ecuador, who played a key role in the early Ecuadorian feminist movement from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Katarina Kuini Wharerauaruhe Te Tau

Ngāi Tahu leader, welfare worker, community leader

Maata Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu

Tūhourangi and Ngāti Awa woman of mana

Maraea Mōrete

Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki woman of mana, writer

Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Te Whāiti

Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana

Ramona Bennett

American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.

Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.