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Suzanne Connolly

1800s Cree woman whose relationship with her white husband led to a legal case establishing the validity of such inter-racial marriages

Rachel Perkins

Australian film and television director, producer and writer

Angela Tafoya Baca

Santa Clara Pueblo artist known for her redware and blackware pottery

Lola James

Yorta Yorta elder and community worker

Leanne Miller

Leanne Miller has made significant contributions to the welfare of Aboriginal communities in Victoria, Australia.

Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist Clara González became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922, the same year she established the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women’s rights and suffrage.

Dr Gladys Tantaquidgeon

Mohegan medicine woman, anthropologist, author, elder and tribal council member Gladys Tantaquidgeon co-founded the Tantaquidgeon Indian Museum, the oldest to be owned and operated by Native Americans, in 1931.

Gisèle Rabesahala

Malagasy politician and activist Gisèle Rabesahala was the first woman to hold a ministerial position in Madagascar’s federal government in 1977, as well as the country’s first woman municipal councilor and the first Malagasy woman to establish and lead a political party.