Keakealani’wahine
Sovereign queen of Hawaii
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Kalanikauleleiaiwi
Kalanikauleleiaiwi was co-ruler of Hawai’i, alongside her brother King Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku, in the late 17th and early 18th century.
Tāmairangi
Tāmairangi was a high-ranking woman of strong character and great beauty, who lived in the area around Cook Strait in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe
Queen Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe was crowned as Queen Consort of Tonga on 4th July 1967.
Annie Dodge Wauneka
Navajo leader and activist
Emily Pauline Johnson
Native American author and poet
Litia Samanunu
Wife of the Fijian Ratu (chief) Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Adi (female chief) Litia was the daughter of Turaga na Roko Tui Bau, the leader of the Kubuna Confederacy on the Fijian island of Bau.
La Malinche
Translator for Hernan Cortes
Juana Inés de la Cruz
Mexican writer and poet
Zitkala-Ša
Zitkála-Šá (“Red Bird”), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Native American musician, writer and activist who fought for women’s suffrage and Indigenous voting rights in the early 20th century. Her writings and activism led to citizenship and voting rights for not only women, but all Indigenous people.