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1800s Native American war chief of the Blackfeet tribe.

Queen of Hawai’i in the 1800s

Chiefess of Hawaii in the 1800s

Teha‘apapa was queen regnant of Huahine, in what is now French Polynesia.

Queen regnant of Raiatea and Tahaa in the 1800s

Tehaapapa III was queen of Huahine, an island in the Pacific Ocean which was annexed by France in 1895.

In July 1860, at the age of 19, Teri’i-maeva-rua became queen of Bora Bora after her step-father, King Tapoa II, died.

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

Elsie Knott was the first Anishinaabe Kwe O’gimaa (first woman to serve as chief of a First Nation in Canada).

The only known female chief of the Hocąk or Winnebago nation