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.
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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.
Kahupāke Rongonui
Te Wai-o-Hua leader
Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Te Whāiti
Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana
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
Ramona Bennett
American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.
Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
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.