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Kiti Karaka Rīwai

New Zealand Maori leader

American poet, writer, and teacher who played a pivotal role in the Black Arts Movement and authored more than a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children’s books.

Marcella LeBeau

Prominent Lakota woman celebrated for her service as a nurse and military veteran.

Marie Wilcox

The last native speaker of Wukchumni, a dialect of Tule-Kaweah, an indigenous language spoken by the Tule-Kaweah Yokuts of California. Her life’s work focused on preserving this endangered language.

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.