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The only known female chief of the Hocąk or Winnebago nation

Neris Uriana was appointed the first female chief of the Wayuu tribe in La Guajira, Colombia, in 2005.

Two-spirited Gros Ventres leader of the 1800s

Diplomat and a Native Americans rights advocate, she is the only known woman to ever be allowed to sit on a Ute tribal council.

Queen of Tikal in the early 500s

Ruler of Palenque from 612-615

Tlapalizquixochtzin was an Aztec queen regnant and empress in the sixteenth century before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.

Queen consort of the Mayan city of Copán, in present-day Honduras

Yohl Ik’nal – meaning Lady Heart Wind Place – was the first recorded Mayan queen, ruling from late 583 until late 604.

Chuqui Huipa was a sixteenth-century princess and later coya (queen or empress consort) of the Incan Empire