Kahupāke Rongonui
Te Wai-o-Hua leader
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Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Te Whāiti
Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana
Katarina Kuini Wharerauaruhe Te Tau
Ngāi Tahu leader, welfare worker, community leader
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.
Hine-i-tūrama Ngātiki
Ngāti Whakaue woman of mana
Hīria Kokoro-Barrett
Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe woman of mana, craftswoman, mutton-birder
Ethel Pritchard
New Zealand nurse who served in WWI
Bertha Parker Pallan
Pioneering Native American archaeologist known for her work at the Southwest Museum
Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi
Māori Te Āti Awa leader, trader, innkeeper